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Schubert: String Quartet No.14 in D minor, D.810 I Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony, Op.110A (CD)
„A quartet for string orchestra! This will sound strange to you. I already know all objections that will be raised: the destruction of intimacy, of individuality. But this would be mistaken. What I intend is nothing but an ideal representation of the quartet.“ (Gustav Mahler, 1899)
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Bedřich Smetana – Má Vlast by St. Petersburg Radio and TV Symphony OrchestraSt. Petersburg Radio and TV Symphony Orchestra / Stanislav Gorkovenko:
Smetana’s Má Vlast (My Country) is a resounding proof of
this type of music. And it occupies an exceptional position:
designed as a cycle and consisting of six individual
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Sergei Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 2 in E minor, op. 27 I The Rock, Symphonic Poem op. 7 by Academic Symphony Orchestra of the St. Petersburg Philharmonia / Alexander Dmitriev (CD)
Made in Germany“. Maybe it sounds strange at first glance to headline a symphony of the Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninov like this. However, if one looks closer to the genesis of his Second Symphony there is some good reason for it since he wrote it during his stay in Dresden.
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repose by jasmin seidl (Vinyl)
Includes unlimited streaming of repose via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Peter Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rokoko Theme, Op. 33 I Antonio Vivaldi: Cello Concerto in C major, RV 398, Cello Concerto in G major, RV 413, Cello Concerto in C minor, RV 401 by Sergej Roldugin (Digital Album)
Artists normally aim at success, they like to become famous and want to play a prominent role on the top pages of mass media of the widest circulation. In this actual case our artist is getting all this, however, the context is pretty mediocre: Sergei Ruldogin is hitting the headlines of worldwide publications because of his supposed involvement into doubtful business practice currrently well known as Panama Papers.
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Sulkhan Tsintsadze: Quartet No.10 (Poliphonical) I Miniatures for String Quartet I Nodar Gabunia: Quartet No.2 by Georgian State String Quartet (CD)
This release is the start of a new program line out of the CuGate Classics archives, the GOLDEN FLEECE CLASSICS. It is dedicated to the Georgian recordings the company made in the Nineties of the last century using already High Tech equipment for 24 bit /96 khz recordings. The Golden Fleece Logo with the galley refers to the saga of Jason and the Argonauts, which took place in the antique region of Kolchis, which is today’s Georgia. Our album comes on the occasion of the 50 years’ jubilee of the Georgian State String Quartet. It appears to be today’s oldest Quartet formation, whose members did not change.
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Edvard Grieg: From Holberg’s Time, op. 40 I Two Nordic Melodies for String Orchestra, op.63 I Two Melodies for String Orchestra, op. 53 I Two Lyric Pieces for String Orchestra, op. 68 I Two Elegiac Melodies, op.34 by Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra / Saulius Sondeckis (CD)
In this wholeness the album contains a rarely compiled collection of smaller masterpieces Edvard Grieg had composed for string orchestra. It is not a coincidence though that most of the pieces are transformations of initially different formats. Edvard Grieg was famous as a pianist and as a composer for the piano during his life. His studies at the Leipzig Conservatory with teachers such as Ignaz Moscheles and Carl Reinecke, who both were renowned as virtuoso players all over Europe, had shaped this part of his artistry. So many of his works were originally composed for the keyboard instrument which seemed to be the appropriate means of communicating the Nordic folk music idiom, which Grieg transferred perfectly well into art music.
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Dvorak: Cello Concerto in B minor, op.104 I From the Bohemian Forest, Silent Woods, op. 68/5 I Rondo in G minor, op.94 I Polonaise by Mark Drobinsky, Cello / Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra Saulius Sondeckis (CD)
Antonin Dvorak composed his Concerto in B minor between 1894 and 1895 during his obligation as professor at the New York Conservatory. Hanuš Wihan, cellist of the Bohemian String Quartet had already asked him some time before to compose a concerto for his instrument, but Dvořák initially was rather reluctant to this idea.
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Dmitri Shostakovich: The Gadfly Suite, Op. 97A I Georgy Sviridov: Snowstorm by Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra / Saulius Sondeckis / St. Petersburg Camerata / Alexander Titov (CD)
This album is dedicated to two masterpieces of Russian film music. It is also a reminiscence to Saulius Sondeckis, one of the figureheads of the former Soviet Union chamber music scene, who died last year, and to Georgy Sviridov, whose 20th anniversary of death is around the corner next year.
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Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13 in B flat minor I Op. 113 „Babi Yar“ by St. Petersburg Camerata / Lith. Chamber Orch. / Est. National Male-Voice Choir / Sondeckis: (CD)
In 1961 the then twenty-nine-year-old Yevgeny Yevtushenko published a poem entitled Babi Yar in the Literaturnaya gazeta. Babi Yar was the name of a ravine on the outskirts of Kiev which in 1941 had been the scene of a mass execution where, within the space of thirty-six hours, some 34.000 Jewish men, women and children were shot by a special unit of the German SS. In his poem Yevtushenko used the National Socialists‘ act of genocide as the starting-point of an attack on anti-Semitism in general, which he pilloried as a timeless evil that was widespread throughout the world, but which, he implied, was especially rife in Russia. Few Russian composers of the past were above reproach as far as anti-Semitism was concerned. Of these, the two that spring most immediately to mind are Rimsky-Korsakov and Shostakovich.
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Dmitri Shostakovich: String Quartets by St. Petersburg String Quartet (CD)
The three quartets on this album provide insight into the conflict Russian composers had with the doctrine of Socialist Realism. They display how a crisis due to political circumstances can achieve – per aspera ad astrum – new art forms on high levels.
$15.00$19.0021% offDmitri Shostakovich: String Quartets by St. Petersburg String Quartet (CD)
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Dmitri Shostakovich: Hamlet Suite, Op. 116A I Concerto for Trumpet, Piano, Orchestra, Op.35 I Quartett No. 8, Op.110 by Lith. Chamber Orch. / St. Petersburg Camerata Chamber Orch. / Dokshitser / Solodovnik / Sondeckis (CD)
This album comes In Memoriam of Saulius Sondeckis, who was one of the figureheads of the former Soviet Union chamber music scene. In commemoration of this great musician it gives a summary of his famous readings of Shostakovich’s chamber music, whereas at the same time it offers rarely played repertoire gems such as the film music to Hamlet and gives credit to another late outstanding soloist, the famous Bolshoi trumpet player Timofei Dokshitser. Last but not least it provides evidence on Sondecki’s capability as an arranger, transferring small ensemble music into the sonic language of a chamber orchestra.
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Bizet I Shchedrin I Ponomarenko: Rebirth of Bizet’s Carmen Suite by Double Duet MA.GR.IG.AL. Plus One (CD)
„I’m scared of Bizet“, was Dmitri Shostakovich’s answer, when prima ballerina Maya Plisetskaya turned for help with her lifelong dream: to create a CARMEN ballet. “You’ll be disappointed no matter what you write.”. The next composer to decline the nonsensical idea was Aram Khachaturyan. Composer no. 3 was found more accidentally: it was Rodion Shchedrin, who happened to be Plisetskaya’s husband. He wrote the entire score to the ballet’s movements and rhythms in only twenty days. Shchedrin called it “An arrangement of Bizet’s CARMEN for strings and percussion”.
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Bartok: Divertimento for String Orchestra, Sz. 113 I Romanian Folk Dances, SZ. 56 I Piazzolla: Las Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas by Konzerthaus Kammerorchester Berlin / Sayako Kusaka (CD)
In the 1920s, Bartók was at the height of his fame as a leading composer of the modern age. But this great international response had only set in after the First World War. After a period of initial, well-received successes, Bartók, whose style became increasingly uncompromising and advanced, had been more or less ignored by home audiences and performances of his works were also rejected by his fellow artists. Bartók for his part rejected the prevailing spirit of the times and waited several years in a kind of inner exile.
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A Spectre is Stalking Europe. Cantata on the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution, Op.74 I Prosper, Our Mighty Country, Op. 114. Cantata on the 30th Anniversary of the October Revolution I A Toast! Op.85 (In Honor of Stalin’s 60th Birthday) by New Philharmonia Orchestra / Alexander Titov (CD)
The three works on this album belong to a large group of masterpieces, which dispels the myth that Prokofiev – ‘shaker of foundations’ and ‘daring innovator’ – became, after his return to the USSR, an ‘acquiescent traditionalist’. But what message was the composer trying to convey? The texts Prokofiev set to music were „Party lyrics“ and in order to understand the reason behind, one must turn to the intriguing puzzle that is Prokofiev’s relationship with Soviet Russia.
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Vakhtang Kakhidze: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra I Amazons, Symphonic suite from the Ballet I Conjugations by CugateClassics (CD)
This album gives a perfect insight into a versatile musical fatherson relationship. Djansug Kakhidze, the nestor of the Georgian classical music scene is assisting his son Vakhtang, who long since is an autonomous musician in his own right: creative as a composer, masterly as a pianist and eventually a relentless perfectionist as a conductor. There are three talents in one – which are imperatively to be discovered.
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Vakhtang Kakhidze: Christmas Trilogy / Moon Dances by Rustavi Choir, Mdzlevari Boys’ Choir / A. Kniazev, Cello / Tbilisi Symphony Orchestra / V. Kakhidze (CD)
In 2000 Vakhtang Kakhidze, son of the legendary Georgian conductor Djansug Kakhidze and multi-talented as composer, conductor and pianist received a request from Switzerland to compose a musical praise on the occasion of the bimillenary of the birth of Jesus Christ. It came from the famous Swiss Army Brass Band, which needed something special for a tour across their country. So they actually commissioned the composer and in the same year Vakhtang Kakhidze accomplished ”Glory Alleluia”, “Elegy” and “Advent Suite“ for men‘s and boy‘s choirs and brass band.
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In Memory by Stahlhammer Klezmer Classic Trio (CD)
The Stahlhammer Klezmer Band, consisting of Semmy′s grandfather and uncles, was founded 1920 in the Lublin area in Poland. The orchestra gave concerts and played at parties until 1939. In the old picture the musicians are seen with mandolins, guitars and balalaikas, but they also played violin, cello, bass, harmonica, trumpet and drums. The ensemble played traditional Jewish Eastern European party music, what we today call klezmer, but they also played music that was popular at the time and whatever they liked.
$15.00$19.0021% offIn Memory by Stahlhammer Klezmer Classic Trio (CD)
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