Vissarion Shebalin: Complete Music for Violin and Piano

Catalogue No: TOCC0327
EAN/UPC: 5060113443274
Release Date: 2018-08-01
Composer: Vissarion Shebalin
Artists: Olga Solovieva, Sergey Kostylev

This first recording of the works for violin and piano by the Russian composer Vissarion Shebalin (1902–63) – a close friend and colleague of Shostakovich – reveals a surprisingly high number of unsuspected gems: music immediate in its melodic appeal but plumbing real depths of feeling. The integrity of the music reflects the integrity of its composer, as Shostakovich made clear: ‘His kindness, honesty and absolute adherence to principle always amazed me. His enormous talent and great mastery immediately earned him burning love and authority with friends and musical community’.

Sergey Kostylev, violin
Olga Solovieva, piano

Pure Sound International Award for best audio recording of Russian academic music
2nd Prize Chamber Instrumental Music

Listen To This Recording:

    Four Pieces for Violin and Piano Orientalia: Suite for Violin and Piano

  1. No. 1 Improvisation
  2. No. 2 Gavotte
  3. No. 3 Remembrance
  4. No. 4 Scherzo
  5. Orientalia: Suite for Violin and Piano (1946)

  6. I Moderato
  7. II Andante assai
  8. III Allegro molto
  9. Sonata for Violin and Piano, Op.51, No.1 (1957–58)

  10. I Allegro
  11. II Non troppo vivo. Scherzando
  12. III Andante
  13. IV Allegro
  14. Suite for Solo Violin (1933)

  15. I Vivo
  16. II Andante
  17. III Allegretto
  18. IV Presto possibile
  19. Four Light Pieces for Violin and Piano (1946)

  20. No. 1 Minuet
  21. No. 2 Berceuse
  22. No. 3 Minuet
  23. No. 4 Giga
  24. Concert Piece for Violin and Piano (1952)

  25. Concert Piece for Violin and Piano

FIRST RECORDINGS

1 review for Vissarion Shebalin: Complete Music for Violin and Piano

  1. :

    ‘ These include a first recording of the Myaskovsky and Nechaev sonatas. Toccata benefit from the concentration and singleness of purpose associated with a single composer’s output. They also deliver this in eminently engaged performances by Kostylev and Solovieva presented in very natural and downright honest recorded so’

    —Rob Barnett, MusicWeb International

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