Seven Melodies for the Dial by Olga Domnina

Vladimir Genin

Olga Domnina

Seven Melodies for the Dial

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Format: CD
Label: Challenge Classics
UPC: 0608917256826
Catnr: CC 72568
Release date: 07 September 2012
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Label
Challenge Classics

UPC
0608917256826

Catalogue number
CC 72568

Release date
07 September 2012

""The whole range of colors, associations of sounds and musical reminiscences passed. The mighty chimes, soft but irrevocable course of a clock, the merciless blows of an alarm, the transparent Bachiaanse fugues and ecstatic danse macabre, - the Seven melodies of Genin provided enough for the thought, even for a non -philosophical listener""

russischemuziekinnederland.wordpress.com, 04-11-2013

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When the going gets tough, the tough turn to Shakespeare – or so, at least, did the Russian intelligentsia under totalitarianism. To them, Shakespeare personified timelessness “in a good sense,” in the sense of a cultural tablet whereby perennial values and their natural hierarchies were asserted and upheld. This was in stark contrast to the achronicity of their epoch, to timelessness “in the bad sense” of living without time. The notion of time- lessness – in this uniquely modern meaning of an achronic vacuum, rather than of an eternal value – belongs to Alexander Blok, rather as the mo- dern idea of time belongs to Marcel Proust, whose younger contemporary the Russian poet was.

In music, it was Blok’s other contemporary, Alexander Scriabin, who sensed that time,at least in Russia, was at an end. The composer died in 1915, and not for another twenty years, when Dmitry Shostakovich opened Pravda to read that he had been muddle in-stead of music, would the state of “timelessness” prophesied by Blok find an expression in thought or sound.

Georgy Sviridov became a pupil of Shostakovich at the Leningrad Conservatory. 1936 is the nexus of these events, and from there the chronicle of culture leads us on to the music premiered on this recording – if only because, some 30 year later, the composer of Seven Melodies for the Dial, Vladimir Genin, became in his turn a loyal pupil of Shostakovich’s loyal pupil. Thus the Russian intelligentsia’s fear of timelessness, a totalitarian society’s analogue of nature’s horror vacui, migrated from generation to generation.

Het solodebuut van een beroemde Russische pianiste bij Challenge Classics
Dit is niet alleen het solodebuut van de beroemde Russische pianiste Olga Domnina, maar ook de wereldpremière van de pianocyclus Seven Melodies for the Dial van Vladimir Genin, die aan Domina is opgedragen. Met de uitvoering van deze cyclus in oktober 2011 heeft Domnina internationale erkenning verkregen!

Vladimir Genin werd in de late jaren 70 van de 20e eeuw de leerling van Georgy Sviridov, die zelf ooit de leerling van Dmitri Sjostakovitsj was. Genin accepteerde het muzikale erfgoed dat Sjostakovitsj aan Rusland had gegeven. Zijn collega’s hadden hun blik echter op het westen gericht, met zijn politieke beloftes en muzikale avant-garde, en zochten daar naar spirituele verlossing. Genin bleef zijn inspiratie zoeken in de Russische muziek. Zijn Seven Melodies for the Dial, gebaseerd op een sonnet van Shakespeare, is dan ook een diepzinnig Russisch werk.

Olga Domnina is cum laude afgestudeerd aan het Gnessin Institute of Music in Moskou. Sinds haar verhuizing naar Londen en het begin van haar studie aan de Royal Academy of Music in 2007, verdeelt Domnina haar tijd tussen Engeland en Italië. Ze heeft samengewerkt met internationaal erkende artiesten, zoals de violisten Julian Rachlin en Viktor Tretyakov, de altviolist Paul Silverthorne en de cellist Thomas Carroll.

Moderner Klavierzyklus über Zeit und Zeitlosigkeit (2011).

Diese Aufnahme ist nicht nur die Welt-Ersteinspielung des Klavierzyklus "Seven Melodies for the Dial" des in München lebenden Komponisten Vladimir Genin (*1958), sondern auch das Debüt-Album der jungen russischen Pianistin Olga Domnina, der dieser Zyklus gewidmet ist.

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Olga Domnina

Olga Domnina is a Gold Medal graduate of the Gnesin Academy of Music in Moscow in the class of Mikhail Arkadiev, which followed her study at the Gnesin College in the class of Andrei Khitruk.In June 2009 she completed the two-year “Diploma in Performance” course of postgraduate study at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Prof Hamish Milne, for which the Academy had granted her a merit scholarship. At RAM she won the Macfarren Prize for Best Solo Recital, awarded previously to Sir Clifford Curzon and Dame Myra Hess.
A native of Moscow, Miss Domnina began her piano studies at the age of 7. Whilst still at the Gnesin, she parti- cipated in a number of international piano competitions, going on to win the San Bartolomeo competition in Italy and taking an honours diploma at the Maria Canals competition in Spain. She also performed numerous solo concerts, at such venues as the Rachmaninov Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, as well as with chamber and symphony orchestras, including Novaya Opera Orchestra in Moscow under the baton of Jan Latham-Koenig and Pacific Symphony in Vladivostok under the direction of Mikhail Arkadiev.
Since moving to London and entering the Royal Academy of Music in 2007, Miss Domnina has been dividing her time between England and Italy. She has collaborated with such internationally acclaimed artists as the violinists Julian Rachlin and Viktor Tretyakov, the violist Paul Silverthorne and the cellist Thomas Carroll.
In October 2011 she attained international acclaim with the world premiere performance of Vladmir Genin’s piano cycle “Seven Melodies for the Dial” at the Moscow House of Music.

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Tomaso Albinoni

Albinoni studied violin and voice, but in the art of composing he was completely self-taught. He was born to a rich family, and he didn't have to work for the church (unlike his contemporaries such as Vivaldi, Zani and Geminiani), which gave him a lot of time and finances to work on his compositions from an early age. His first opera Zenobia, regina de Palmireni was performed in Venice for the first time in 1694. Even though he quickly grew to fame as a composer, little is known of Albinoni's life. He married in 1705, and the Kapellmeister of the St Mark's Basilica, his friend Antonio Biffi, was his best man at the wedding. Otherwise it seems he had little contact with the musical establishment of Venice, even though his operas were quite popular in the Italian cities. In 1722, Maximilian II of Bavaria invitied him to perform two of his operas in Munich. Around 1740, a collection of violin sonatas by Albinoni was published posthumously by a French editor. For a long time, people thought he had already died by then, but in reality he was living a secluded life in Venice, where he died at the age of 80 from diabetes.

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Vladimir Genin

Vladimir Genin (composer, pianist & music pedagogue) is born in Moscow in 1958 to a family with ties to the arts. Among Vladimir Genin’s compositions are symphonic and chamber works, performed in Russia, Europe and USA, released on CDs and published by several German publishing companies such as Verlag Neue Musik Berlin, Sikorski Music Publishers Hamburg, Wolfgang G. Haas Classic Cologne, Ries & Erler Berlin, Jürgen Enninger Enter Media Publishing München. The instrumentations of Mussorgsky’s ‘Songs and Dances of Death’ and ‘Sunless’ vocal cycles, commissioned from Genin by the Russian baritone Dmitry Hvorostovsky, were performed under the baton of Valery Gergiev in St. Petersburg (1993, Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra), and in Rotterdam and Brussels (1998, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra). The film ‘Der...

Vladimir Genin (composer, pianist & music pedagogue) is born in Moscow in 1958 to a family with ties to the arts. Among Vladimir Genin’s compositions are symphonic and chamber works, performed in Russia, Europe and USA, released on CDs and published by several German publishing companies such as Verlag Neue Musik Berlin, Sikorski Music Publishers Hamburg, Wolfgang G. Haas Classic Cologne, Ries & Erler Berlin, Jürgen Enninger Enter Media Publishing München. The instrumentations of Mussorgsky’s ‘Songs and Dances of Death’ and ‘Sunless’ vocal cycles, commissioned from Genin by the Russian baritone Dmitry Hvorostovsky, were performed under the baton of Valery Gergiev in St. Petersburg (1993, Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra), and in Rotterdam and Brussels (1998, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra). The film ‘Der Brief des Kosmonauten’, directed by Vladimir Torbica (2002, Germany), with an original soundtrack by Genin recorded by the Budapest Symphony Orchestra enjoyed a successful release in Germany, and is available on DVD. The numerous music pieces commissioned by Sonoton Creative Sound Solutions Munich can be heard on many TV channels of Europe, the USA, Japan, South Africa, and Australia as documentary soundtracks. Since 1997 he lives in Munich.

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"The whole range of colors, associations of sounds and musical reminiscences passed. The mighty chimes, soft but irrevocable course of a clock, the merciless blows of an alarm, the transparent Bachiaanse fugues and ecstatic danse macabre, - the Seven melodies of Genin provided enough for the thought, even for a non -philosophical listener"
russischemuziekinnederland.wordpress.com, 04-11-2013

"For the play of Olga Domnina only one word fits: formidable"
www.opusklassiek.nl, 20-10-2013

Physically, technically and emotionally this is a very heavy piece. The first three months I thought it was impossible to learn it by heart and feel the freedom to really play.
Luister, 01-10-2013

Olga Domnina is the dedicatee of Seven Melodies for the Dial, and there it speaks for itseld that her performance is stunning. She not only tackles the music’s technical demands with apparent ease, but also infuses every moment with emphatic and unpretentious expressiveness - no matter how sparse or dense the texture, how soft or tumultuous the mood.
Musicweb-international.com, 17-7-2013

Olga Domnina about "Seven Melodies for the Dial": "When the music has convinced you, then you can also convince others with it. It is very energetical music, so the audience can catch the "meaning" of this piece immediately I think"
Mpodia, 08-7-2013

Olga Domnina, for whom the piece was written, gives a passionate and vigorous interpretation.
http://www.classical-cd-reviews.com, 28-5-2013

"One can hear that she knows exactly how to master the grand piano and enable the wide range of tonecolors."
Horeindruck, 16-4-2013

It's a suspense-packed new piano cycle in a terrific interpretation.
Piano News, 01-11-2012