Cello Sonatas by Dmitry Ferschtman, Mila Baslawskaya

Dmitry Ferschtman, Mila Baslawskaya

Cello Sonatas

Format: CD
Label: Globe
UPC: 8711525504103
Catnr: GLO 5041
Release date: 19 August 2002

1 CD

Label
Globe

UPC
8711525504103

Catalogue number
GLO 5041

Release date
19 August 2002

Album

Artist(s)

Composer(s)

About the album

An exciting programme with master pieces for cello and piano by some of the greatest Russian composers of this century with a rich and glorious recorded sound which will appeal to the still growing crowd of chamber music adherents.

Dmitry Ferschtman was born in Moscow and started his musical training at a verry early age at the Central School of Music. At the Moscow Conservatory he studied with, among others, Natalia Gutman. In July 1975, he took part in the last recording of a work by Shostakovich supervised by the composer himself and in 1978 he moved to Holland from where he started a highly successful career as solo cellist with numerous radio recordings and concert appearances all over the world.

Mila Baslawskaya also studied at the Central School of Music (a division of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory) in her city of birth, Moscow. She graduated 'cum laude' from the Moscow Conservatory in 1970 and emigrated with her husband Dmitry Ferschtman in 1978 to Holland, where she pursued her career as recitalist and chamber music player.

Opwindende Russische meesterwerken voor cello en piano
Dit album bevat een zeer opwindend programma met meesterwerken voor cello en piano door enkele van de beste Russische componisten uit de 20e eeuw. Voordat het officieel werd uitgebracht, werd het al uitgeroepen tot ‘album van de maand’ door de grootste en meest vooraanstaande klassieke muziekwinkel in Amsterdam, waar een speciaal introductieconcert georganiseerd werd om de komst van het album te vieren! De opnames met hun rijke en glorieuze klank zullen de groeiende massa kamermuziekaanhangers zeker aanspreken.

Dmitry Ferschtman werd geboren in Moskou en begon op vroege leeftijd aan zijn muzikale opleiding aan de Central School of Music. Hij studeerde onder andere onder Natalia Gutman aan het Conservatorium van Moskou. In juli 1975 nam hij deel aan de laatste opname van een werk van Shostakovich onder toezicht van de componist zelf. In 1978 verhuisde hij naar Nederland, waar hij aan een zeer succesvolle carrière als solocellist begon, met talloze radio-opnames en concerten over de hele wereld. Hij wond zowel pers als publiek op met zijn opnames van cellowerken van Prokofiev.

Artist(s)

Dmitry Ferschtman

The Russian-born cellist Dmitry Ferschtman received his musical education in the tradition of the Russian cello-school. Studying at the Central Music School with Melnikov and continuing his studies at the Moscow Conservatory were Galina Kozolupova and Natalia Gutman. During his studies Dmitry Ferschtman co-founded the Glinka String Quartet which toured the Soviet-Union, Europe and the United-States for twenty-three years extensively. All through his career Ferschtman has been an active chamber-music player, performing at many international festivals with artists such as Charles Neidich, Elizabeth Leonskaya, Philipp Hirshhorn, Gidon Kremer, Mark Kaplan, Leonidas Kavakos, Boris Berman and Nobuko Imai. Among the conductors with whom he worked are Frans Brüggen, Hans Vonk, Bernhard Klee, Kent Nagano, Lev Markiz, Oko Kamu and Edo de Waart. Dmitry Ferschtman...

The Russian-born cellist Dmitry Ferschtman received his musical education in the tradition of the Russian cello-school. Studying at the Central Music School with Melnikov and continuing his studies at the Moscow Conservatory were Galina Kozolupova and Natalia Gutman.
During his studies Dmitry Ferschtman co-founded the Glinka String Quartet which toured the Soviet-Union, Europe and the United-States for twenty-three years extensively. All through his career Ferschtman has been an active chamber-music player, performing at many international festivals with artists such as Charles Neidich, Elizabeth Leonskaya, Philipp Hirshhorn, Gidon Kremer, Mark Kaplan, Leonidas Kavakos, Boris Berman and Nobuko Imai.
Among the conductors with whom he worked are Frans Brüggen, Hans Vonk, Bernhard Klee, Kent Nagano, Lev Markiz, Oko Kamu and Edo de Waart.
Dmitry Ferschtman has performed in all important halls in the Netherlands and abroad, with most of the leading Dutch orchestra’s, including the Radio Philharmonic, The Radio Chamber orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Amsterdam Sinfonietta and The Residency Orchestra of The Hague and the Hallé Orchestra and the Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland Pfalz among others. He also gave recitals in all of Europe and Asia. Recordings of Dmitry Ferschtman can be found at the Etcetera, Globe and Cobra labels.
For years he has been teaching at prominent conservatories of the Netherlands, including The Royal Conservatory of The Hague and the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam. Many of his pupils have won prizes at Dutch and International competitions. And he has taught Master classes in Holland, Germany, Scandinavia, France, Greece, Japan and the United States (Boston NEC and Chicago).

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Mila Baslavskaya

Composer(s)

Alfred Schnittke

Alfred Schnittke was the son to German-Jewish father and Volga-German mother from Frankfurt am Main. His musical education started in 1946 in Vienna, where his father worked as a journalist and translator, and from 1948 he continued his studies in Moscow. From the 1970s, he would fully dedicate himself to composing. Schnittke's style was initially avant garde, strongly influenced by the Western composition techniques such as serialism and aleatorism. Like so many of his generation, Schnittke found these techniques to be unsatisfactory, and so he created his own style which he called polystylism, inspired by Charles Ives, Luciano Berio and Bernd Alois Zimmermann, but also Gustav Mahler,It is characterised by the parodic combinations of styles from different periods, by some recognised as postmodernism.

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