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Boris Tchaikovsky (1925-96) – no relation to his better-known namesake – was one of the leading Russian composers of the twentieth century. A student of Shebalin, Shostakovich and Myaskovsky at the Moscow Conservatory, Tchaikovsky soon evolved an individual style that steered clear of ideology and fashion. Paradoxically, the apparent simplification of his musical language and growing refinement of its gestures sharpened its emotional impact. Tchaikovsky’s music has recently been attracting attention in the West; this CD closes some of the gapes in his growing discography.
Olga Filonova, soprano
Svetlana Nikolaeva, mezzo soprano
Olga Solovieva, piano
Kirill Ershov, Balalaika
Alexey Khutoriansky, violin
Lev Serov, viola
Marina Archakova, cello
Hans Gál (1890–1987) wrote extensively for the viola, first as a major composer in the German-speaking world in the 1920s and ’30s, and then as a leading cultural figure in post-War Edinburgh, where he had taken refuge after the Nazis seized power in his native Austria. This second volume of his music for viola spans four decades, with four trios from before and after that dislocation, each with its own background, sound-world and personality, although they are unified by Gál’s gift for melody, counterpoint and poised, elegant chamber writing.
Hanna Pakkala, viola
Reijo Tunkkari, violin
Lauri Pulakka, cello
Niamh McKenna, flute
Päivi Severeide, harp
Irina Zahharenkova, piano
Emile Naoumoff, born in Sofia in 1962, was a child prodigy as pianist and composer in his native Bulgaria but was soon taken under the wing of Nadia Boulanger in Paris – ‘the gift of my old age’, she said. Naoumoff himself has tended to record the music of other composers, and so this recital of his piano music has been recorded by Gregory Martin, who has worked with him in various capacities. It presents music from across Naoumoff’s career – from that gifted childhood to a piece inspired by the sight of Notre Dame Cathedral in flames in 2019 – absorbing influences from Slavic folk-dance to Gabriel Fauré, whose ‘grand-student’ he is.
Gregory Martin, piano
THE FINNISH COMPOSER TALKS TO MARTIN ANDERSON In the light of the death of the Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara, on 27 July 2016, in a…
Music: A Connected Art/Die Illusion der absoluten Musik: A Festschrift for Jürgen Thym on his 80th BirthdayVerlag Valentin Koerner, Baden-Baden, 2023Reviewed by Niall Hoskin Jürgen Thym…
News has come through of the death this morning, 23 February 2014, of Alice Herz-Sommer, at the age of 110. Alice had become an icon,…
The death of Zuzana Růžičková – peacefully, in her sleep, in the early afternoon on 27 September 2017 – brings to an end one of…
This Friday, 7 April, the Romanian Cultural Institute in London plays host to the first of two events paying homage to Pascal Bentoiu, one of…
With a Forward by Sir Adrian Boult
Extent: 72 pages
Composition: Crown octavo; no illus or exx. vi+66 pages
Foreward by Bernard Shore
Introduction by Vernon Handley
Edited by Martin Anderson
Extent: 197 pages
Composition: Demy octavo ~ Index
Illustrations: 6 music exx.
Extent: 359 pages
Composition: Demy octavo ~ Illustrations ~ Discography ~ Bibliography ~ Index
Illustrations: 9 b/w; 148 music exx.
Preface by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Extent: 310 pages
Composition: Demy octavo ~ Illustrations ~ Bibliography ~ Discography ~ List of Works ~ Index
Illustrations: 23 b/w; 89 music exx.
Extent: 352 pages
Composition: Royal octavo ~ Bibliography ~ Index of Vaughan Williams' Works ~ General Index
Illustrations: 143 music exx.
Extent: 317 pages
Composition: Demy octavo ~ Illustrated ~ numerous appendices ~ Bibliography ~ Index
Illustrations: 10 b/w; 101 music exx.
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