Balakirev: Islamey - Oriental Fantasy

This page lists all recordings of Islamey - Oriental Fantasy, by Mily Balakirev (1837-1910) on CD & DVD. Generally, more recent CDs and DVDs are listed first, but with priority given to items that are in stock.

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Vladimir Horowitz Vol. 2: Schumann, Chopin, Liszt & Balakirev

Vladimir Horowitz Vol. 2: Schumann, Chopin, Liszt & Balakirev


Balakirev:

Islamey - Oriental Fantasy

Chopin:

Barcarolle in F sharp major, Op. 60

Liszt:

Legende S.175 No. 2, St. Francis of Paola walking on the waves

Schumann:

Fantasie in C major, Op. 17


Vladimir Horowitz (piano)

Sony Masterworks expands the catalogue of its Carnegie Hall Presents series with a set of previously unreleased recordings by legendary pianist Vladimir Horowitz, one of the most important performers of classical music in the twentieth century. The Sony Masterworks release of the three albums in The Private Collection makes these dazzling performances, previously held in the archives of Yale University as part of Horowitz’s papers, available to the public for the first time.

In 1988, a year before his death, Horowitz donated to Yale University a treasure trove of original recordings composed of Carnegie Hall concerts and performances he gave during the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s. Horowitz had employed an engineer to make 78-rpm recordings of his Carnegie Hall concerts in this period, and he used them to review and judge his performances. Most of these mono recordings were originally contained on 12- and 16-inch acetate discs. They have been impeccably mastered, with the sound restored, from new transfers made in the Yale archives. Significant press accompanied the original announcement of the donation of these recordings to Yale, where Horowitz performed often through the years and was an assistant fellow of Silliman College.

Released or re-released in last 6 months

RCA Carnegie Hall Presents - 88697548122

(CD)

$17.49

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Mussorgsky & Balakirev - Solo Piano Music

Mussorgsky & Balakirev - Solo Piano Music


Balakirev:

Piano Sonata in B flat minor

Mazurka No. 6 in A Flat

Melodei Espagnole in D Flat

Scherzo No. 2 in B flat minor

Islamey - Oriental Fantasy

Mussorgsky:

Pictures at an Exhibition (piano version)

Scherzo in B flat major

Porte-en-seigne Polka

Deux souvenirs d'enfance

Souvenir d'enfance No. 3

Ein Kinderscherz

Intermezzo in modo classico

La Caprisieuse on a theme of Count L Heyden

Scherzo in C Sharp minor

Impromptu passionné

On the southern shore of the Crimea (Gurzuf)

Near the southern shore of the Crimea (Capriccio)

Meditation (Album Leaf)

Une Larme (A Tear)

Sorochintsy Fair: Gopak

The Seamstress

In the Village


Michel Béroff, Ronald Smith (pianos)

EMI Gemini - 3976952

(CD - 2 discs)

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Rachmaninov: Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 36, etc.

Balakirev:

Islamey - Oriental Fantasy

In the Garden

Liadov:

A Musical Snuffbox, Op. 32

Prelude Op. 57/1

Rachmaninov:

Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 36

Morceaux de Fantaisie, Op. 3

Polka de V.R.

Taneyev:

Prelude and Fugue in G sharp minor, Op. 29


Olga Kern (piano)

"Sheer talent does not come more transparently and, to top it all, harmonia mundi's sound is of demonstration refinement and quality." (The Gramophone)

Harmonia Mundi - HMU907399

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Rimsky Korsakov: Sheherazade, Op. 35, etc.

Balakirev:

Islamey - Oriental Fantasy

Borodin:

In the Steppes of Central Asia

Rimsky Korsakov:

Sheherazade, Op. 35


Sergei Levitin (violin)

Kirov Orchestra, Valery Gergiev

GGramophone Magazine

Editor's Choice - November 2002

Philips - 4708402

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$17.49

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Balakirev: Symphony No. 1 in C major, etc.

Balakirev:

Symphony No. 1 in C major

Islamey - Oriental Fantasy

Symphonic Poem 'Tamara'


Russian State Symphony Orchestra, Igor Golovschin

“Iindeed this is quite the finest orchestral account of Islamey I have ever heard.” CD Review

Naxos - 8550792

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Grigory Ginzburg - The Goldenweiser School

Grigory Ginzburg - The Goldenweiser School

His Early Recordings 1


Balakirev:

Islamey - Oriental Fantasy

rec. Moscow c.1942 (78: 015798/9)

Beethoven:

The Ruins of Athens -Turkish March

rec. Moscow c.1930 (78: 4172)

Liszt:

Hungarian Rhapsody, S244 No. 10 in E major 'Preludio'

rec. Moscow c.1940 (78: 12916/7)

Hungarian Rhapsody, S244 No. 11 in A minor

rec. Moscow c.1942 (78: 16967/8

Les cloches de Genève (Années de pèlerinage I, S. 160 No. 9)

rec. Moscow c.1942 (78: 015946/7)

Étude d'exécution transcendante d'après Paganini, S. 140 No. 3

rec. Moscow 1951 (78: 19784/5)

Étude d'exécution transcendante d'après Paganini, S. 140 No. 4

Étude d'exécution transcendante d'après Paganini, S. 140 No. 5

recorded Moscow 1951 (78: 18558/9)

Gondoliera, S. 162 No. 1 (from Venezia e Napoli)

Tarantella, S. 162 No. 3 (from Venezia e Napoli)

Concert Paraphrase on Rigoletto, S.434 after Verdi's opera

rec. Moscow 1951 (78: 20994/5)

Fantasia on two themes from Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro

(arranged Busoni) rec. Moscow 1948 (from 78 LP: 456/7)

Rossini:

Il barbiere di Siviglia: Largo al factotum

(arranged Ginzburg) rec. Moscow 1951 (78: 18269/70)


Grigory Ginzburg (piano)

Grigory Ginzburg (1904-1961) was perhaps the most astounding virtuoso to emerge in Soviet Russia and it is a tragedy that he was never allowed to travel to the west after the mid 1930’s. He focussed his repertoire very much on the 19th century Romantic period and, above all, in Liszt, and his prolific recordings include many of Liszt’s virtuosic opera paraphrases that had fallen into neglect. This CD is the first of two devoted to his earliest 78rpm recordings mainly dating from the 1940s. These discs are extremely rare and many of the performances included will be unknown to even the most ardent collectors. The disc finishes with the most astounding performance of the greatest virtuoso warhorse of the 19th century – Balakirev’s Islamey. Ginzburg’s supremely elegant performance shows total control in even the thorniest passages, for him it appears no more difficult than a Haydn sonata, and the result is that we hear so much more in the music than is normally the case.

“…Grigory Ginzburg's… legendary performance of the Mozart / Liszt Figaro Fantasy remains a marvel and stylised elegance and dazzling fluency.” Gramophone Magazine, 2008 Awards Issue

“Goldenweiser's greatest student, Grigory Ginzburg (1904-61), clearly resembles his teacher in some ways: his tone is solid, his technical craft everywhere apparent, and his identification with the music beyond reproach. …even when the going would be heavy for most pianists, Ginzburg has a musical or expressive purpose that cuts deeper than mere showmanship.” BBC Music Magazine, February 2009 *****

APR - The Russian Piano Tradition - APR5667

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Freddy Kempf plays Mussorgsky, Ravel & Balakirev

Freddy Kempf plays Mussorgsky, Ravel & Balakirev


Balakirev:

Islamey - Oriental Fantasy

Mussorgsky:

Pictures at an Exhibition (piano version)

Ravel:

Gaspard de la Nuit


Freddy Kempf (piano)

Two years since his last release on BIS, Freddy Kempf returns to present a programme featuring three central works in the great virtuoso repertoire for solo piano. Each piece has the qualities in terms of characterisation and timbre that have resulted in well-known orchestral arrangements. Pictures from an Exhibition was composed following the death of Mussorgsky’s friend, the painter and architect Viktor Hartmann. Balakirev’s Islamey was composed five years earlier and was long regarded as the most difficult work in the entire piano repertory, and in fact, when Ravel 1908 composed Scarbo, the third movement of Gaspard de la Nuit, he specifically wanted to write something that would be even more difficult.

“The pianist Freddy Kempf looks poetic and serious on the cover photo. He’s also straining for effect in these performances. In the Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition he settles too quickly for the brilliance that screams and thumps. There’s some of that, too, in the finale to Ravel’s Gaspard de la Nuit, though the hanged man in Le Gibet is barely sensed. Still, he can be subtle, and Balakirev’s Islamey, the virtuoso’s nightmare, comes off well” The Times, 20th June 2008 ***

“Freddy Kempf's forthright performances of all three [works] contain some impressive moments, and his mastery of the technical challenges in the works is formidable, but in each case individuality and character are in short supply. There's plenty of colour in Pictures, and a high degree of characterisation, but little of the physicality and teetering excitement that Richter's famous live recording has in bucketfuls, while the subtly shifting textures of Ravel's three fantasy portraits are too prosaic for music that should glimmer and glitter in an almost intangible and indefinable way.” The Guardian, 18th July 2008 ***

“Freddy Kempf here tackles three giants of the piano repertoire and conquers them with spirit and imagination. Armed with all the necessary technical resources, he is able to bring colour and well-defined character to Pictures from an Exhibition, revealing how ingeniously Mussorgsky exploited the piano's palette of sound without the aid of all those later arrangers who chose to embellish it with orchestral timbres. One of those was Ravel, whose Gaspard de la nuit here glows, ripples and, in "Scarbo", bristles with malevolence. The bravura of Balakirev's Islamey is brilliant.” The Telegraph, 12th July 2008

“For fans of the contemporary virtuoso, this disc is not only stupendously recorded, but a sign that standards these days are extraordinarily high in this area.” BBC Music Magazine, Proms 2008 ****

“…a formidable programme formidably played. This is "live" virtuosity with a vengeance, with absolutely no hint of a safety net, of playing within studio confines.” Gramophone Magazine, September 2008

GGramophone Magazine

Editor's Choice - September 2008

Super Audio CD

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Hybrid Multi-channel

BIS - BISSACD1580

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Alexander Gavryluk in Recital
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Alexander Gavryluk in Recital


Balakirev:

Islamey - Oriental Fantasy

Busoni:

Toccata and Fugue in D minor (after Bach BWV 565)

Moszkowski:

Etude in A flat major, Op. 72 No. 11

Mozart:

Piano Sonata No. 18 in D major, K576 'Hunt'

Rachmaninov:

Etudes-Tableaux, Op. 39

Prelude Op. 32 No. 12 in G sharp minor

Schubert:

Piano Sonata No. 13 in A major, D664

Volodos:

Concert Paraphrase on Mozart's Rondo alla Turca


Alexander Gavryluk (piano)

The first VAI DVD featuring this brilliant young Russian pianist won rave reviews from the world’s press. The headline in the Gramophone Magazine review cautioned, “Fasten your seatbelts” but went on to praise his Haydn as well as the more pyrotechnical aspects of his wide-ranging program. For his second DVD release, also captured live at the Miami International Piano Festival, Gavrylyuk offers elegant Mozart and lyrical Schubert along with thunderous Rachmaninoff and Balakirev, and ending with a group of encores

Recorded 8th May, 2007 at the Amaturo Theater Broward Center for the Performing Arts, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

DVD Video

Region: 0

Format:

VAI - DVDVAI4433

(DVD Video)

$28.99

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Sir Eugene Goossens conducts Mussorgsky & Rimsky Korsakov

Sir Eugene Goossens conducts Mussorgsky & Rimsky Korsakov


Balakirev:

Islamey - Oriental Fantasy

Mussorgsky:

Pictures at an Exhibition

Rimsky Korsakov:

Russian Easter Festival Overture, Op. 36

Scriabin:

Le Poème de l'extase, Op. 54


Philharmonia Orchestra & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Eugene Goossens

Recorded: 1956 & 1957

Medici Masters - MM0092

(CD)

$11.49

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Steinway Legends - Claudio Arrau

Steinway Legends - Claudio Arrau


Balakirev:

Islamey - Oriental Fantasy

Beethoven:

Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 2 ‘Moonlight'

Eroica Variations, Op. 35

Chopin:

Impromptus Nos. 1-4

Liszt:

Piano Sonata in B minor, S178

Mozart:

Rondo in A minor, K511

Schubert:

Allegretto in C minor, D915

Schumann:

Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Op. 26


Claudio Arrau (piano)

Philips Steinway Legends - E4758509

(CD - 2 discs)

$16.49

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