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Assorted items / YouTube performances / Re: Zaborov Symphony No. 1
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on: September 08, 2020, 09:04:47 pm
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No, I tried to find out a while ago but with no success. Even the date of the recording gives no clue because it was made after Zaborov's death if I remember correctly. Likewise, it is difficult to compile even some basic facts about Zaborov's life and work. The liner notes of the Svetlanov box just mention "Grigory Zaborov, a composer, violinist and concertmaster of the USSR Bolshoi Theatre", and that's basically already all we know about him.
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Assorted items / YouTube performances / Re: Zaborov Symphony No. 1
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on: September 07, 2020, 07:04:19 am
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No, you are wrong, it's all completely right. I also have Parsadanian's Symphony No. 1 and it's a different work (including a solo soprano, for instance). Svetlanov did record Parsadanian's Symphonies Nos. 1&2 but they are not included in the Melodiya box. However, Parsadanian did write a piece called "David of Sassoun", Epic Poem for Orchestra (1949), which is the one recorded here. And the symphony is by Zaborov.
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Assorted items / Commercial recordings (vintage, new and forthcoming) / Re: Vladigerov Piano Concertos 1-5
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on: August 12, 2020, 06:29:29 pm
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I heard about this new release a while ago, and I think I read that the recordings which are ready for release should be the old Balkanton recordings from the 1970s (or so). If this is true then these are fine news, since these are performances of a high standard (in case of the Fifth Concerto, the pianist should be the composer himself) and probably much more than just a substitute for a newer recording.
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Assorted items / General musical discussion / Re: Many 'obscure' works uploaded onto archive.org
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on: August 07, 2020, 12:51:30 pm
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I should add that what you found on archive.org is a part of the huge collection of the legendary Miklos Pogonyi (more or less the stuff he had digitized – there was even more on tape). Miklos's collection was truly vast. In his last years, I exchanged a good deal of music with him, which was always fun. At that point, he was already very ill, and in March 2017, he passed away aged 71. In his last years, he was pretty much worried about what to do with his collection. Finally, donating it to archive.org has obviously been a very good idea.
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Assorted items / Commercial recordings (vintage, new and forthcoming) / Re: Stanislav Lyudkevych - Ukrainian Live CD
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on: July 31, 2020, 07:17:22 am
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I also bought my copy a while ago – you might remember that we already briefly mentioned (and discussed) this CD in April: http://artmusic.smfforfree.com/index.php/topic,7038.0.htmlAs for the music itself, I am happy to have these rarities (which had not been released before indeed), even if I would not call them a major find. It's music which is still very much rooted in 19th century and follows its idols pretty closely (without reaching them), even in the late A Minor symphony which strongly echoes Tchaikovsky's Symphonies Nos. 4&6, while the scherzo partly recalls Mussorgsky's Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks in Ravel's orchestration (look at the way Lyudkevych passes over to the trio).
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Assorted items / YouTube performances / Re: Lyudkevich Symphony No. 3 in A minor (1963)
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on: April 07, 2020, 09:08:20 pm
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What you say about Ukrainian music, Christopher, is true, though it applies to a large number of countries...
I think it applies particularly to Ukraine and Belarus. They sadly seem still to have a very Soviet attitude to material in their archives. If you ask about recordings they have, they react suspiciously and demand to know "the formal reason" that you are asking. I don't even know what that means. Saying "because I would like to hear the music" does not seem to be good enough. This is a shame. I compare that with, for example, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania who have made huge steps to make their music freely available. I believe the countries of Central Europe have been similarly open. (By contrast, I understand that getting archived music from the UK's BBC can be very painful...) And Ukraine, with a population of approx 45 million, is likely to have a proportionally higher number of hidden treasures. Sadly, however, you will encounter the same attitude in Germany. It is possible to get recordings from the radio archives of the former German Democratic Republic. However, a few years ago I also tried to get some recordings from other (Western German) radio stations, and the result was absolutely zero. I remember somebody phoned me to ask for which purpose I wanted the recordings, and when I replied that I wanted them just to listen to the music by myself the reply was that this was not possible. Whether the relationship of hidden treasures to the size of the population is really that strong is something I am not too sure about. Each of the Baltic states is really small in terms of population, but what a wealth of great composers there is! Or take Slovenia with just 2 million inhabitants but numerous great composers.
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Assorted items / YouTube performances / Re: Lyudkevich Symphony No. 3 in A minor (1963)
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on: April 06, 2020, 07:39:15 am
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Thank you very much for pointing out this recording indeed! My impression is that Lyudkevych's work list often causes confusion (at least when it comes to the lesser-known, not commercially recorded works). For instance, his F Sharp Minor Piano Concerto from 1957 is sometimes labeled No. 2, sometimes No. 3.
With respect to the symphonies, things are not clear either. If somebody counts three Lyudkevych symphonies then the first one could also be his "Caucasus" cantata, which is labeled Symphony-Cantata. The A Minor symphony you found seems to be listed nowhere else. One guess could be that it is the same work the Russian Wikipedia lists as "Suite in A Major" (the work does end in A Major) from 1962. Anyway we can only speculate...
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Assorted items / Commercial recordings (vintage, new and forthcoming) / Re: New Dutton CD releases - February/March 2020
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on: February 28, 2020, 08:24:10 am
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I am remotely interested in the cello CD, as I play the cello myself and the name Piatti is familiar to me. So, getting a chance of listening to his cello concertos will be nice even if I do not expect particularly much.
In general, however, I can only agree with Greg, it's a sad development, thinking of all the British releases from the past one or two decades, and also keeping in mind that still just a few years ago, they did release Steinberg's Turksib, just to pick out one example I was especially delighted to get.
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