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Kiryll Kondrashin in Concert

Fliyer/moscow Philharmonic Orchestra

Kiryll Kondrashin in Concert

Format: CD
Label: Globe
UPC: 8711525600607
Catnr: GLO 6006
Release date: 19 August 2002
1 CD
 
Label
Globe
UPC
8711525600607
Catalogue number
GLO 6006
Release date
19 August 2002
Album
Artist(s)
Composer(s)
NL

About the album

Een van de beste 20e-eeuwse dirigenten op zijn hoogtepunt
Kirill Kondrashin, wiens onverwachte en tragische dood door een hartaanval de wereld in 1981 van een van zijn beste dirigenten beroofde, was van 1960 tot 1975 chef-dirigent van het Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra. In deze vijftien jaar verhoogde hij de norm van het orkest tot een internationaal niveau. Hij genoot immens veel aanzien in de Sovjetunie en daarbuiten. Belangrijke componisten droegen werken aan hem op, en hij dirigeerde ook een groot aantal wereldpremières van componisten als Sjostakovitsj.

Dit album toont Kondrashin op zijn absolute hoogtepunt, met het haast ongeëvenaarde orkest dat hij vijftien jaar lang dirigeerde. Het programma bevat enkele van zijn specialiteiten, zoals de twee werken van Prokofiev, en ook een van zijn persoonlijke favorieten: Theme and 8 Variations van Boris Chaykovsky’s, een werk dat is opgedragen aan de vermaarde Dresder Staatskapelle, opgenomen tijdens Kondrashins laatste uitvoering met het Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, een week voor zijn vertrek naar het Westen.

De originele opnames zijn afkomstig uit de collectie van Pyotr Kondrashin, de oudste zoon van de dirigent, tegenwoordig een hooggewaardeerde producer en geluidstechnicus in Moskou, die de verfijnde opnames zelf digitaliseerde.

Bovendien bevat het album ook een verrukkelijke uitvoering van het Tweede Pianoconcert van Liszt, in een van de zeer weinige opnames met de fantastische solist Yakov Fliyer.

Composer(s)

Franz Liszt

If you would open any biography of Franz Liszt, you would probably mostly read about his disquiet life as a piano virtuoso, his passionate love life, and the return to his catholic roots at the end of his life. Although all of this might be true, it only scratches the surface of his comprehensive musical personality. Liszt was a pianist, conductor, teacher and organiser, but above all he was a composer of a voluminous, capricious body of work. Even though his piano works formed his core business, he gave rise to the symphonic poem, got rid of the organ's stuffy appearance, and reinvigorated the oratorio. Moreover, with his piano transciptions of Bach's organ works and Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, he was an...
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If you would open any biography of Franz Liszt, you would probably mostly read about his disquiet life as a piano virtuoso, his passionate love life, and the return to his catholic roots at the end of his life. Although all of this might be true, it only scratches the surface of his comprehensive musical personality. Liszt was a pianist, conductor, teacher and organiser, but above all he was a composer of a voluminous, capricious body of work. Even though his piano works formed his core business, he gave rise to the symphonic poem, got rid of the organ's stuffy appearance, and reinvigorated the oratorio. Moreover, with his piano transciptions of Bach's organ works and Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, he was an advocate of both old and new music.
Together with his son-in-law Richard Wagner, he was in the forefront of the Romantic movement and anticipated the musical revolutions of the early 20th century with his new composition techniques.


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Sergei Prokofiev

Sergei Prokofiev was born in the countryside of Ukraine. He studied from 1903 at the conservatory of St Petersburg, under Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Anatoli Liadov among others. He was educated as a composer, pianist and conductor. Initially, he made a name for himself as a pianist. In 1918, he left the Soviet Union for the USA, but wasn't able to succeed, and he decided to move to Paris in 1920. His concert tours brought him back to the Soviet Union in 1927, who lured him back for good in 1936. Prokofiev died in march 1953, on the same day as Joseph Stalin. Prokofiev is considered as one of the greatest Russian composers of the twentieth century, even though he wasn't a...
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Sergei Prokofiev was born in the countryside of Ukraine. He studied from 1903 at the conservatory of St Petersburg, under Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Anatoli Liadov among others. He was educated as a composer, pianist and conductor. Initially, he made a name for himself as a pianist. In 1918, he left the Soviet Union for the USA, but wasn't able to succeed, and he decided to move to Paris in 1920. His concert tours brought him back to the Soviet Union in 1927, who lured him back for good in 1936. Prokofiev died in march 1953, on the same day as Joseph Stalin.
Prokofiev is considered as one of the greatest Russian composers of the twentieth century, even though he wasn't a great innovator. He generally applied the strict classical forms and structures to his works and focused on a classical tonality, with a few exceptions of expressive dissonants and incidental bitonality. Yet, he is only explicitly neoclassicistic in his popular 'Classical Symphony', his first symphony composed in 1917. Many of his works show his humour, while his later works presented his darker, more serious side. One of his best known works is the musical fairytale Peter and the Wolf, which is popular among children all over the world.
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