Tchaikovsky: Dumka (Russian Rustic Scene), Op. 59

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Russian Piano Encores

Russian Piano Encores


Borodin:

Scherzo in A flat

Liadov:

A Musical Snuffbox, Op. 32

Prokofiev:

Romeo & Juliet before parting

Masks from ‘Romeo and Juliet'

Rachmaninov:

Prelude Op. 3 No. 2 in C sharp minor

Étude-Tableau, Op. 39 No. 1 in C minor

Étude-Tableau, Op. 39 No. 2 in A minor

Étude-Tableau, Op. 39 No. 5 in E flat minor

Lilacs, Op. 21 No. 5

Daisies, Op. 38 No. 3

Vocalise, Op. 34 No. 14

arr. Kocsis

Shostakovich:

Lyric Waltz (from Dances of the Dolls)

Short Piece from The Gadfly, Op. 97

Spanish Dance from The Gadfly, Op. 97

Nocturne (The Limpid Stream)

Polka from The Golden Age, Op. 22

Taneyev:

Prelude and Fugue in G sharp minor, Op. 29

Tchaikovsky:

The Seasons, Op. 37b: June (Barcarolle)

Dumka (Russian Rustic Scene), Op. 59


Many European countries have vied with one another in claiming the largest number of piano virtuosos. No one would dispute, though, that Russia has generated more than its share. The so-called ‘Russian piano school’, which originated in the 1800s with brilliant performers such as Alexander Siloti and brothers Anton and Nikolai Rubinstein, continues to produce first-class pianists, and to influence performance styles and keyboard virtuosity all around the world.

Given Russia’s richness in superstar pianists, it is not surprising that Russian composers have composed extensively for the piano. Some of the composers represented in this collection were impressive pianists in their own right, and they composed music designed to display their own technique and artistry. Others were more modestly gifted as performers, but still composed idiomatically for the piano.

This collection brings together recordings by Vladimir Ashkenazy spanning some 40 years, from November 1963 (the three Rachmaninov Études-Tableaux) to March 2004 (the Kocsis transcription of Vocalise). Some of them appeared as fillers for bigger works – for instance, the Études-Tableaux were coupled with the 1964 recording of Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with Kyril Kondrashin, one of Ashkenazy’s earliest recording for Decca, and his first solo recording for the label. Tchaikovsky’s Dumka and the pieces by Taneyev, Liadov and Borodin were recorded in January 1983 and issued on LP as a coupling for his digital recording of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. The two pieces from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet were taped in 1968 as couplings for the composer’s Eighth Piano Sonata.

“This wide-ranging conspectus of Russian piano miniatures spans Ashkenazy's career from 1963 to 2004. Fine playing, occasionally short on charm.” BBC Music Magazine, December 2012 ****

Australian Eloquence - 4803607

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Stephen Hough's New Piano Album

Stephen Hough's New Piano Album


Chaminade:

Pierrette - Air de ballet, Op. 41

Autrefois, Op. 87 No. 4

Godowsky:

Triakontameron No. 11 'Alt Wien'

Hough:

Musical Jewellery Box

Étude de Concert

Kalman:

Was weiss ein nie geküsster Rosenmund

(arr. Hough)

Liszt:

Soirées de Vienne: valse-caprice No. 6 (after Schubert), D427 No. 6

Moszkowski:

Étincelles, Op. 36 No. 6

Paderewski:

Mélodie in G flat major, Op. 16 No. 2

Rachmaninov:

Humoresque in G major, Op. 10 No. 5

Melodie in E Major, Op. 3 No. 3

(revised 1940 version)

Rodgers, R:

Hello young lovers (from The King and I)

(arr. Hough)

The Carousel Waltz

(arr. Hough)

Schubert:

Moments Musicaux, D780: No. 3 in F minor

(arr. Godowsky)

Morgengruss (No. 8 from Die schöne Müllerin, D795)

(arr. Godowsky)

Tchaikovsky:

Humoresque, Op. 10 No. 2

Dumka (Russian Rustic Scene), Op. 59

Pas de quatre

(arr. Wild)

Music from Sleeping Beauty

(arr. Pabst & Hough)

trad.:

Londonderry Air

(arr. Hough)


“Stephen Hough fashions a viable programme culled from a bottomless piano bench of transcriptions, encores and other sundry ear-ticklers.
Indeed, Hough proves that one can make a well-balanced meal using only desserts. Modern pianists, to be sure, are more calorie conscious than their forebears, and Hough is no exception.
It's not his way to emphasise inner voices or linger over juicy modulatory patterns, à la Hofmann, Moiseiwitsch, Horowitz, Cortot or Cherkassky. If Hough prefers to bind Godowsky's garish counterpoints with skimmed milk rather than double cream, he's cheeky (and smart!) enough to insert his own ossias into Moskowski's Etincelles, or to retool the Tchaikovsky/ Pabst Sleeping Beauty Paraphrase to more brilliant pianistic effect. As in his previous 'Piano Albums', Hough serves up his own Rodgers & Hammerstein transcriptions. If the decorative note-spinning in 'Hello, Young Lovers' distracts from rather than enhances the eloquent original, the pianist's giddy romp through 'The Carousel Waltz' is a tour de force that brilliantly recaptures both the tender and tough-minded qualities inherent in the musical's book. Hough's own Etude de Concert gets plenty of finger-twisting mileage out of a rather un-memorable theme, harmonised, however, with clever Gershwinisms.
The unadorned Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky selections are played with heartfelt simplicity and a lean yet singing sonority.”
Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010

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Dvorak: Piano Concerto

Dvorak: Piano Concerto


Chopin:

Impromptus Nos. 1-4

Dvorak:

Piano Concerto in G minor, Op. 33

Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Jonathan Darlington

Tchaikovsky:

Dumka (Russian Rustic Scene), Op. 59

Waltz Op. 51 No. 4

The Snow Maiden, Op. 12: Nocturne


Boris Bloch (piano)

Acousence Living Concert Series - ACO21108

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Petites fleurs

Petites fleurs

Musical jewels of the piano


Falla:

Ritual Fire Dance (from El amor brujo)

Janacek:

In the Mists: excerpts

Liszt:

DEUX MELODIES RUSSES - ARABESQUES S250 (1842): Die Nachtigall

Prokofiev:

Three Pieces Op. 96: Mephisto-Walzer aus 'Lermontov'

Ten Pieces from Romeo and Juliet, Op. 75: Juliet as a Young Girl

Ten Pieces from Romeo and Juliet, Op. 75: The Montagues and the Capulets

Rachmaninov:

Polka de V.R.

Schubert:

Moments Musicaux, D780: No. 2 in A flat

Moments Musicaux, D780: No. 3 in F minor

Shchedrin:

Balalaika

Smetana:

Am Seegestade - Eine Erinnerung

Tchaikovsky:

Dumka (Russian Rustic Scene), Op. 59

Lullaby, Op. 16 No. 1


Susanne Lang (piano)

Susanne Lang’s debut album includes musical miniatures from romantic, late romantic and 20th century composers. It ranges from two of Franz Schubert’s six Moments musicaux to Smetana, Liszt and de Falla and then to Prokofiev and Shchedrin. Many of these works are popular encores. Susanne Lang is an international performer and is on the jury for a number of piano competitions.

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Cyprien Katsaris Archives Volume 21: Live at International Tchaikovsky Competition

Cyprien Katsaris Archives Volume 21: Live at International Tchaikovsky Competition

Moscow 1970


Bach, J S:

Prelude & Fugue Book 1 No. 4 in C sharp minor, BWV849

Chopin:

Étude Op. 25 No. 10 in B minor

Haydn:

Piano Sonata No. 48 in C major, Hob.XVI:35

Liszt:

Transcendental Study, S139 No. 5 'Feux Follets'

Rääts:

Toccata

Rachmaninov:

Étude-Tableau, Op. 39 No. 1 in C minor

Shostakovich:

Prelude & Fugue for piano, Op. 87 No. 24 in D minor

Tchaikovsky:

The Seasons, Op. 37b: October ('Autumn Song')

Dumka (Russian Rustic Scene), Op. 59


The next on Cyprien’s own label, Piano 21, this time featuring his performances from the International Piano Competition in Moscow from 1970.

Piano 21 Cyprien Katsaris Archives - P21029

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Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 6

Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 6


Tchaikovsky:

Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 'Pathétique'

Dumka (Russian Rustic Scene), Op. 59


Written in the last year of his life, this most melancholic of symphonies is forever associated with the tragedy of Tchaikovsky's sudden death in 1893. As an additional special bonus, Christoph Eschenbach performs on piano the seldom performed Dumka (Scenes from a Russian Village), making this unusual coupling a unique release.

“Eschenbach conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra in a vivid, deeply passionate performance of Tchaikovsky’s final work, the Pathetique Symphony. The opening explodes with a mighty punch, and the brasses sound as if hurrying a convict to the scaffold. The composer is clearly in turmoil – the stuttering phrases are queasy, while there is more than a hint of sour wedding bells in the falling pizzicato. The truncated waltz of the second movement is a little treacly, but this is the only blemish. The naughty gaiety and climactic end of the third is good for premature applause, while the exhausted finale welcomes serene oblivion. The final ten minutes are filled with a mourning piano solo, Dumka Op 59.” The Times, 27th June 2008 ****

“Here, [Eschenbach's] performance of Dumka continues the trend: the piece itself kicks off as a Lisztian rhapsody on Ukrainian folk themes, before suddenly plunging into sombre uncertainty, while Eschenbach's searching yet flamboyant interpretation leaves you open-mouthed. The symphony, ravishingly played by the Philadelphia Orchestra, is more equivocal. Eschenbach is among the conductors moving away from the idea of the Pathétique as being primarily neurotic, though the tone remains predominantly elegiac.” The Guardian, 11th July 2008 ****

“Do we really need yet another Pathétique? In this case, the answer is "yes". The sheen of the Philadelphia strings and the orchestra's mellow wind bring their own qualities to a performance that, under Christoph Eschenbach, has real fire and passion. It is a top-heavy sound that lacks the darker timbre of performances under Gergiev (Philips) and Ashkenazy (Decca), but there is certainly room for this sleeker view, warmly recorded.” The Telegraph, 26th July 2008

“Tchaikovsky's mighty last work... is played with thrilling ferocity, grace and poignancy in this live recording by the Philadelphia under Christoph Eschenbach. This must be one of the finest performances on disc - and one of the most unusual - as Eschenbach has the nerve to follow its unfollowable coda (after a decent pause) with the 10-minute piano piece 'Dumka'. The effect is to remind us yet further of this heart-on-sleeve composer's lifelong sense of isolation.” The Observer, 3rd August 2008

“I find this orchestra's response is wanting in the real atmospheric depths so effortlessly encompassed in an all-Russian performance like any of Mravinsky's or Gergiev's with the Kirov Orchestra.” BBC Music Magazine, August 2008 ****

“One of music's great tragic masterpieces is here reduced to an exercise in showmanship and flashy presentation which says little and conveys less.” Gramophone Magazine, September 2008

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The Great Pianists Volume 7 - Vladimir Horowitz

The Great Pianists Volume 7 - Vladimir Horowitz

Masters of the Piano Roll series


Chopin:

Étude Op. 10 No. 6 in E flat minor 'Lacrimosa'

Étude Op. 25 No. 12 in C minor

Horovitz:

Waltz in F minor

Moment Exotique

Horowitz:

Variations on a Theme from Bizet's Carmen

Liszt:

Fantasy on Themes from Mozart's Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni, S697

arranged Busoni

Rachmaninov:

Prelude Op. 32 No. 10 in B minor

Prelude Op. 32 No. 8 in A minor

Prelude Op. 23 No. 5 in G minor

Saint-Saëns:

Danse macabre, Op. 40

arranged Liszt

Schubert:

Liebesbotschaft, D957 No.1

arranged Liszt

Tchaikovsky:

Dumka (Russian Rustic Scene), Op. 59


These recordings contain some of the finest playing from the Great Pianists of the Early 20th Century. Some of the rolls from which these recordings originate, are nearly 100 years old and come from a collection owned by Denis Condon who is one of the worlds most respected authorities on the piano roll and has some 18,000 in his collection.

“The tour de force in this programme of piano rolls comes in the fast sections of Tchaikovsky's Dumka and the Bizet Carmen Variations, both of which Horowitz dispatches at superhuman speed.” BBC Music Magazine, November 2008 ****

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Tchaikovsky & Grieg - The Original Piano Roll Recordings

Tchaikovsky & Grieg - The Original Piano Roll Recordings


Grieg:

Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46

Percy Grainger (piano)

Lyric Pieces Op. 43: No. 5 - Erotikon

Percy Grainger (piano)

19 Norwegian Folksongs, Op. 66 (selections)

No.1 / No.2 / No.14 / No.10 / No.16 & No.18

Percy Grainger (piano)

Tchaikovsky:

Dumka (Russian Rustic Scene), Op. 59

Vladimir Horowitz (piano)

Souvenir de Hapsal, Op. 2: No. 3. Song without Words in F major

Shura Cherkassky (piano)

The Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a (excerpts)

March / Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy / Russian Dance / Arabian Dance / Chinese Dance / Dance of the Flutes & Waltz of the Flower

Percy Grainger (piano)

The Seasons, Op. 37b: October ('Autumn Song')

Ossip Gabrilowitsch (piano)


Grainger enjoyed a duo career as a concert pianist and composer. These recordings, taken from piano rolls, allow us to sample the uniqueness of Grainger’s musicianship and skill. For those who have not experienced these piano roll recordings, this is a highly recommended starting point.

“Insightful and affectionate performances of the rarely-heard Norwegian Folk Song arrangements of Grieg are a particular delight here. Grainger's Tchaikovsky is equally discerning.” BBC Music Magazine, November 2008 ****

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Tchaikovsky - Piano Music

Tchaikovsky - Piano Music


Tchaikovsky:

Polonaise (from Eugene Onegin, Op. 24)

Lullaby, Op. 16 No. 1

Oh! Chante Encore!, Op.16 No.4

Qu'importe op.16 No.5

Perpetuum mobile

The Seasons, Op. 37b

Dumka (Russian Rustic Scene), Op. 59


Lev Vinocour (piano)

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Tchaikovsky: Tranquillity

Tchaikovsky: Tranquillity


Tchaikovsky:

Romance in F minor, Op. 5

The Seasons, Op. 37b: October ('Autumn Song')

The Seasons, Op. 37b: June (Barcarolle)

The Seasons, Op. 37b: November (Troika)

Miniature March (The Nutcracker)

The Nutcracker: Waltz of the Flowers

Valse sentimentale, Op. 51 No. 6

Rêverie interrompue, Op. 40, No. 12 in A flat Major

Humoresque, Op. 10 No. 2

Dumka (Russian Rustic Scene), Op. 59


Daria Telizyn (piano)

Claudio - CR3809

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