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Composer: VOLKONSKY, Andrei ((1933-2008)) |
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Prince Andrei Mikhaylovich Volkonsky ( 1933 – 2008) was a Russian composer of classical music and harpsichordist. He was a key figure in Early Music Revival in Russia. A descendant of Volkonsky, Russian aristocratic princely family in exile, he was born in Geneva in 1933. As a child he played his improvisations to Sergei Rachmaninoff. Then he studied piano at the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève with Johnny Aubert and with the legendary Dinu Lipatti. The Volkonsky family resettled in Moscow in 1947. From 1950 to 1954 he studied at the Moscow Conservatory under Yuri Shaporin, but was expelled for breaking some minor disciplinary rules. In 1956 Volkonsky began the career of a harpsichord and organ player. He pioneered performing renaissance and baroque music, which had hitherto not been played in the USSR. He was among the first Soviet composers who began experimenting with twelve-tone and serial techniques. An early work in this style was his piano suite "Musica Stricta" (1956). His works greatly influenced his colleagues. Composing such music at that time was an act of courage: it was a protest against the suppression of freedom, and specifically against the requirement that the composers in Soviet Russia followed the narrowly prescribed doctrines of the Socialist Realism. It is not surprising that his music, attempting at a real renewal and enrichment of the musical language in Russia, was banned from performance. |
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ID: ART272
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Piano
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ID: RCD16303
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Russian Piano School
Subcollection: Piano and Orchestra
(1 - 6) - Live recordings 1996
(7) - Live recordings 1994
(8) - Live recordings 1972
(1 - 5) - Alexej Lubimov, piano / Natalia Gutman, cello
(6) - Alexej Lubimov, piano / BBC Symphony Orchestra - Martyn Brabbins, conductor
(7) - Lubimov, Alexej (piano) / Chamber ensemble "Studio for New Music" - Igor Dronov, conductor
(8) - Lubimov, Alexej (piano) / Estonian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus - Nathan Rakhlin, conductor |
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ID: SMCCD0118
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Quartet
"Studio For New Music" String Quartet:
Stanislav Malyshev, violin
Inna Zilberman, violin
Anna Burchik, viola
Olga Kalinova, cello
Elizaveta Miller piano (1, 3)
Ilya Hoffman viola (3)
Alexei Lubimov piano (4) |
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