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Giya Kancheli: The Legacy Box Set by Tbilisi Symphony Orchestra / Djansug Kakhidze (Digital Album)
CUGATE CLASSICS is pleased to release the complete symphonic works of the Georgian composer GIYA KANCHELI plus “Light Sorrow” and “Mourned By The Wind”, all in newly remastered versions. Conducted by DJANSUG KAKHIDZE. GIYA KANCHELI (1935 – 2019) was and still is the best-known Georgian composer, celebrated for his mastery of silence and his (deceptive) simplicity. KANCHELI’s career as classical composer started in the 1960s after first attempts with chansons and popular songs, his first symphony was accomplished and premiered in 1967 in Tbilisi, conducted by DJANSUG KAKHIDZE.
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Giya Kancheli: Symphonies 3 / 4 / 5 by Tbilisi Symphony Orchestra / Djansug Kakhidze (CD)
CUGATE CLASSICS is pleased to release the complete symphonic works of the Georgian composer GIYA KANCHELI plus “Light Sorrow” and “Mourned By The Wind”, all in newly remastered versions. Conducted by DJANSUG KAKHIDZE. GIYA KANCHELI (1935 – 2019) was and still is the best-known Georgian composer, celebrated for his mastery of silence and his (deceptive) simplicity. KANCHELI’s career as classical composer started in the 1960s after first attempts with chansons and popular songs, his first symphony was accomplished and premiered in 1967 in Tbilisi, conducted by DJANSUG KAKHIDZE.
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Djansug Kakhidze The Legacy Vol. 1 by Djansug Kakhidze (Conductor) / Tbilisi Symphony Orchestra (CD)
Reminiscence of the famous Georgian conductor Djansug Kakhidze on the occasion of his 80th anniversary. He belonged to the small but highly prestigious group of East European conductors who set up a cultural counterdraft to the political conflicts in the times of cold war. He conducted almost every A class symphony orchestra of his hemisphere and became a much-vaunted advocate of late romantic orchestral repertoire.
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Djansug Kakhidze The Legacy Vol. 2 by Djansug Kakhidze / Tbilisi Symphony Orchestra (CD)
Reminiscence of the famous Georgian conductor Djansug Kakhidze on the occasion of his 80th anniversary. He belonged to the small but highly prestigious group of East European conductors who set up a cultural counterdraft to the political conflicts in the times of cold war. He conducted almost every A class symphony orchestra of his hemisphere and became a much-vaunted advocate of late romantic orchestral repertoire.
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Djansug Kakhidze The Legacy Vol. 3 by Djansug Kakhidze / Tbilisi Symphony Orchestra (CD)
Reminiscence of the famous Georgian conductor Djansug Kakhidze on the occasion of his 80th anniversary. He belonged to the small but highly prestigious group of East European conductors who set up a cultural counterdraft to the political conflicts in the times of cold war. He conducted almost every A class symphony orchestra of his hemisphere and became a much-vaunted advocate of late romantic orchestral repertoire. Mvravinsky adored him for his Tchaikovsky interpretations and the Neue Zürcher Zeitung called him respectfully „the Georgian Karajan“.
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Djansug Kakhidze The Legacy Vol. 5 by Djansug Kakhidze / Tbilisi Symphony Orchestra (CD)
Reminiscence of the famous Georgian conductor Djansug Kakhidze on the occasion of his 80th anniversary. He belonged to the small but highly prestigious group of East European conductors who set up a cultural counterdraft to the political conflicts in the times of cold war. He conducted almost every A class symphony orchestra of his hemisphere and became a much-vaunted advocate of late romantic orchestral repertoire.
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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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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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Barber: Adagio for Strings, Op. 11 I Bruckner: String Quintet in F major by Konzerthaus Kammerorchester Berlin / Sayako Kusaka & Michael Erxleben (Digital Album)
The slow movement in classical music has many names: adagio, andante, largo, and marcia funèbre are just some of the best known. What they all have in common is their function in the composition scheme – as a centre of calm in a dynamic environment of allegros, scherzi and prestos which forces the listener to pause for a while and to allow a moment of introspection and contemplation.
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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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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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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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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: 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: 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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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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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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Mikhail Glinka: Waltz Fantasy I Kamarinskaya I Divertimenti on a theme by Bellini I Grand Sextet by St. Petersburg Camerata / Saulius Sondeckis / Igor Uryash, Piano (CD)
This album presents four magnificent orchestral works by Mikahil Glinka, allowing an insight into his workshop at an early stage of his creative development. It reflects the encounter of Russian music tradition by form and genre – songs and dances – with the Italian art of singing – the belcanto – which Glinka became acquainted with during his years of travel. As of 1830 he spent three years in Italy to enhance his knowledge of the Italian opera. In this time he met in Milan Vincenzo Bellini and Gaetano Donizetti, getting familiar with the art of belcanto, which he later combined with the Russian vocal tradition thus creating the personal Glinka style.
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