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| 5. Una Voz |
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Schnittke-Concerto Grosso No. 2/Viola Concerto
Alfred Schnittke , Oleg Kagan , Natalia Gutman , Gennadi Rozhdestvensky , and Yuri Bashmet Manufacturer: Moscow Studio ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0002IQMO8 Release Date: 2004-09-07 |
Tracks:
- I. Andantino. Allegro
- II. Pesante
- III. Allegro
- IV. Andantino
- I. Largo
- II. Allegro Molto
- III. Largo
Album Description
The term "authentic performance" is tossed around loosely these days, but here is a historic recording as "original" and "authentic" as has ever been produced. The Concerto Grosso No. 2 was composed by Alfred Schnittke expressly for violinist Oleg Kagan and his wife, cellist Natalia Gutman, who are the soloists here. The Viola Concerto was written by Schnittke for violist Yuri Bashment, who performs it here.These works are representative examples of Schnittke's "polystylism," scored for conventional orchestra augmented by electric guitar, drum kit, brake drum and other instruments not usually heard in "classical" music.
Customer Reviews:
Striking.......2006-12-10
Two 1980s "polystylism" pieces in truly definitive performance.......2005-08-20
The "Concerto Grosso No. 2" for violin, cello, and orchestra was written for the Soviet dynamic duo of violinist Oleg Kagan and his wife the cellist Natalie Gutman, a legendary partnership that ended with Kagan's untimely death. Schnittke's first concerto grosso was a stately and serious piece in which a distinctly modern tone was occasionally invaded by quotation from baroque works. This second concerto grosso, on the other hand, is comical. The violin begans by playing the well-known tune "Silent Night" before the orchestra brashly interrupts with a quotation from Bach's Sixth Brandenburg Concerto. The work then becomes positively zany as electric guitar and a rock drum kit join in the performance of the Handel quotation. Over the first movement, tension is built by pairing baroque writing and more Handel quotations against menacing modern moments. In the second movement, "Silent Night" returns, but it becomes ever more obvious that orchestral forces are out to stop the tune from reaching the listener. In the third movement, the Brandenburg quotation waltzes triumphantly over the scene, but eventually collapses under its own weight, letting "Silent Night" return at the end without impediment. This performance by the work's dedicatees is certainly much better than a recent one on Chandos with Gridenko and Ivashkin, which is unlistenable in comparison.
The "Viola Concerto" was written in 1985 especially for Yuri Bashmet, the most renown violist of the 1980s and 1990s, and one credited with the rebirth of writing for the instrument. The concerto is in a standard three movements, but is noteworthy for using no violins, which lends a poignant tone to the work, which must depend on low strings. The opening movement is sorrowful, with an opening motive based on Bashmet's name. The middle movement is quintessential Schnittke, a blend of colours and styles (waltzes, military marches, elegies, romantic tearjeakers) that are incongruent yet strangely complementary to each other. However, the viola is battered by the many orchestral forces, and in the long, drawn-out last movement he slowly expires as from a mortal wound.The Viola Concerto is a downer, a piece that charts Schnittke's fascination with pain and death as well as anything else he wrote in the last fifteen years of his life. This piece is not as immediately entertaining as the concerto grosso, but in the end is perhaps superior.
All in all this is an exceptional disc and a wonderfully economic purchase. It may also serve as an important document of art under Communism, as the soloists are continually beaten up by great impersonal forces. If you've never heard the work of Alfred Schnittke before, pick this up as a fine introduction, although the Deutsche Grammaphon disc (part of the "Echo 20/21" series) with Gidon Kremer playing in two other concerti grossi is a good buy as well.
fantastic performances of two Schnittke works for strings.......2005-06-12
Like the CG1, the CG2 is full of wild, polystylistic elements, including electric guitar and drums playing funk rock and a reference to Bach's Fifth Brandenburg Concerto. The core contrast is the violin and cello playing Silent Night (the sacred), interrupted again and again by a barrage of loud, grotesque and quite profane outbursts from orchestra and percussion, until the quiet, worshipful melody finally reasserts itself in the end. While certainly not Schnittke's finest composition, Kagan and Gutman in this performance best capture the sacred standpoint against which all the other mayhem surges. The more recent recording by Ivashkin and Polyansky (paired with Schnittke's Symphony No. 6 -- see my review) is more superficial, as it fails to establish the ground against which the dizzying array of parodic figures is contrasted.
The "Viola Concerto," written for Bashmet, is clearly one of Schnittke's finest works, lyrical melodrama at its best. Bashmet's performances from the beginning were wildly popular, and established his reputation as a world-class violist. He has recorded it again, as has Kim Kashkashian, and I haven't heard any of the alternative performances, but this one, the first, is powerful and moving.
This disc is absolutely superb, essential for Schnittke devotees and highly recommended to anyone coming to his music for the first time!
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Vyatcheslav Kagan-Paley (Slava) - Ave Maria
Giulio Caccini , Giuseppe Verdi , Camille Saint-Saens , Charles Gounod , Anton Bruckner , Francesco Paolo Tosti , Igor Stravinsky , Franz Schubert , Franz Liszt , Georges Bizet , Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , and Vyatcheslav Kagan-Paley Manufacturer: Justin Time Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0000206CE Release Date: 1999-10-26 |
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Beautiful & magistral interpretation.......2005-10-25
Great Concept-Excellent Synths -Needs more flavor.......2001-09-08
The Most Beautiful Human Voice!.......2000-07-17
This recording consists of 12 different versions of Ave Maria, from all the different composers, such as: Mozart, Verdi, Bruckner, Stravinsky, Schubert, and Liszt. Each version is different and unique in its own way. If you love the "Ave Maria" hymn, you will truly enjoy this recording. My favorite version was number 7 by Stravinsky. A one-time protégé of Leonard Bernstein, he studied violin and piano at first. I am grateful that he decided to share his "voice" with the world also.
I highly recommended this recording by Vyatcheslav. I would suggest you find your favorite chair, dim the lights, sit back and get ready to truly enjoy a wonderful experience by listening to his wonderful and beautiful voice singing these "Ave Marias."
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Shostakovich: Violin & Viola Sonatas
Manufacturer: Moscow Studio ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0000D1FEL Release Date: 2003-10-07 |
Album Description
Two remarkable chamber compositions by D. Shostakovich are presented in this album. Sonata for Viola and Piano is the composer's last work.Customer Reviews:
Dan in Oregon.......2006-09-22
stunning live recordings of late Shostakovich masterpieces.......2006-02-06
These are unmistakably works of the late Shostakovich, brooding and dark. Unlike the liner notes author, I do not believe that late Shostakovich in general is the best Shostakovich -- certainly that is not true of his symphonies or his string quartets. It seems obvious to me that his great works were mainly composed between the late 1930s and the late 1950s. However, these sonatas are truly great works, and deserve a wider audience in this centennial year of the birth of Dmitri Dmitrievich.
Both sonatas share a similar three-movement structure, and both are enlivened by a central Allegretto featuring memorable folk melodies. The Violin Sonata is notable for including the use of tone-rows in the first movement. Both finish with powerful slow movements, the Violin Sonata's 15-minute Largo and the Viola Sonata's 17-minute Adagio, which Yuri Bashmet conveys with total conviction.
The sound of the disc is not perfect. There are a few coughs here and there, but not so much as to ruin the listening experience. If you have heard Shostakovich's best symphonies (Nos. 4, 5, 8, and 10), and have sampled his string quartets (perhaps with the 2-disc Borodin Quartet set on Virgin -- see my review), and want to hear Shostakovich in other forms, by all means don't miss this!
See my SHOSTAKOVICH: A LISTENER'S GUIDE list for more reviews and recommendations.
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Very Best of Slava ~ Vyatcheslav Kagan-Paley
Vyatcheslav Kagan-Paley , and Slava Manufacturer: Universal/Polygram ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00005L94O Release Date: 2001-06-21 |
Tracks:
- Agnus
- He Was Despised And Rejected
- Laudate Dominum
- Prelude - Snow On The Trees
- I Part From A Friend On The Mountain Road
- When You Wish Upon A Star
- Smile
- Over The Rainbow
- Someone To Watch Over Me
- In A Sentimental Mood
- Hahanaru Taiga
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Rudolph: Variations In F For Violin And Piano/Sonata In F Minor
Manufacturer: Koch Int'l Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000001SED Release Date: 1993-01-05 |
Tracks:
- Variations In F For Violin And Piano (CA 1810): On A Theme By Prince Louis Ferdinand Of Prussia): Theme (Tempo di Menuetto)
- Variations In F For Violin And Piano (CA 1810): On A Theme By Prince Louis Ferdinand Of Prussia): Variation 1 (violin tacet)
- Variations In F For Violin And Piano (CA 1810): On A Theme By Prince Louis Ferdinand Of Prussia): Variation 2
- Variations In F For Violin And Piano (CA 1810): On A Theme By Prince Louis Ferdinand Of Prussia): Variation 3
- Variations In F For Violin And Piano (CA 1810): On A Theme By Prince Louis Ferdinand Of Prussia): Variation 4
- Variations In F For Violin And Piano (CA 1810): On A Theme By Prince Louis Ferdinand Of Prussia): Variation 5: Canone in ottava
- Variations In F For Violin And Piano (CA 1810): On A Theme By Prince Louis Ferdinand Of Prussia): Variation 6: Piu lento dolce e cantabile
- Variations In F For Violin And Piano (CA 1810): On A Theme By Prince Louis Ferdinand Of Prussia): Variation 7: Alla Polacca
- Variations In F For Violin And Piano (CA 1810): On A Theme By Prince Louis Ferdinand Of Prussia): (Variation 8): Adagio molto, Allegro: Tempo Primo
- Sonata In F Minor For Violin And Piano (CA 1812): Allegro
- Sonata In F Minor For Violin And Piano (CA 1812): Adagio
- Sonata In F Minor For Violin And Piano (CA 1812): Menuetto: Allegro molto
- Sonata In F Minor For Violin And Piano (CA 1812): Finale: Allegro assai quasi presto
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Shostakovich: Sonatas for Violin and Viola / Kagan, Richter, Bashmet
Manufacturer: Regis Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0000AMKAO Release Date: 2003-07-09 |
Album Description
Sonata for Violin and Piano, Op. 134Sonata for Viola and Piano Op. 147
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Oleg Kagan Plays Schnittke
Manufacturer: Live Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000060P8M Release Date: 2003-03-25 |
Customer Reviews:
Kagan: Schnittke's soul mate.......2003-05-23
Then another gem of this CD is the first performance of Schnittke's Violin Concerto no. 3 conducted by Maestro Yuri Nikolaevsky. Violist in the orchestra of Mravinsky, Nikoleavsky has been a friend of Schnittke and Gubaidulina and is very appreciated for his baroque and contemporary music interpretation in Russia. He has worked with Schnittke in Mosfilm studios and is still at 78 a sought after conductor. The clarity of Nikoleavsky reading is present and combined with Kagan's soul, delivers a poignant performance.
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Piano Trio in a Minor Op 50
Tchaikovsky , Richter , Kagan , and Gutman Manufacturer: Live Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00003A9LP Release Date: 1999-11-29 |
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Franck/Ravel: Piano Trios
Manufacturer: Live Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000003DKH Release Date: 1996-05-21 |
Tracks:
- Trio in f#, Op.1, Nr.1: Andante Con Moto
- Trio in f#, Op.1, Nr.1: Allegro Molto
- Trio in f#, Op.1, Nr.1: Finale. Allegro Maestoso
- Trio in a: I-Moderee
- Trio in a: II-Pantoum. Assez Vif
- Trio in a: III-Passacaille. Tres Large - Sviatoslav Richter/Oleg Kagan/Natalia Gutman S
- Trio in a: IV-Final. Anime
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Make room for this one on your desert isle..........2002-11-16
The Ravel is in many ways the opposite, small-scale and more about intricate textures than a singular rhythm. Again the three performers rise to the occasion. They are recorded a bit larger than life, which helps in the Franck but hinders the Ravel a little. For better balance one should seek out the Beaux Art Trio on Philips if one can find it. That recording is all about proportion and intimacy. Here the mikes are a bit close, probably to drown out audience coughing. (You have to put up with a certain amount of coughing on this CD, but it's worth it.) Still, the tempo contrasts here are greater than the Beaux Arts, or indeed most any other recording I've ever heard of the work, yet they always convice me and never distend or misshape the work. In this series of live recordings of Oleg Kagan, this is the best disc I've heard so far. Snap it up before the fools delete it!
Great performances, fine music.......2001-05-25
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Beethoven and His Pupils
Ludwig van Beethoven , Susan Kagan , Archduke Rudolph , and Ferdinand Ries Manufacturer: Koch Int'l Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000059LX0 Release Date: 2001-03-27 |
Tracks:
- Eleven Bagatelles, Op.119: Allegretto (3/4; g)
- Eleven Bagatelles, Op.119: Andante Con Moto (2/4; C)
- Eleven Bagatelles, Op.119: A L'Allemand (3/8; D)
- Eleven Bagatelles, Op.119: Andante Cantabile (C; A)
- Eleven Bagatelles, Op.119: Risoluto (6/8: c)
- Eleven Bagatelles, Op.119: Andante-Allegretto (3/4; G)
- Eleven Bagatelles, Op.119: Allegro, Ma Non Troppo (3/4; C)
- Eleven Bagatelles, Op.119: Moderato Cantabile (3/4; C)
- Eleven Bagatelles, Op.119: Vivace Moderato (3/4; a)
- Eleven Bagatelles, Op.119: Allegramente (2/4; A)
- Eleven Bagatelles, Op.119: Andante, Ma Non Troppo (C; B flat)
- Le Songe
- Forty Variations On A Theme By Beethoven
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