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« on: February 05, 2014, 02:05:39 am » |
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Here are some translated notes from the album:
Vasily Zolotaryov is a venerable Soviet composer and pedagogue whose creative personality was fashioned under a direct influence of the great Russian composers Rimsky-Korsakov, Balakirev and Liadov.
Zolotaryov was born in 1873 in Taganrog. In 1883, he entered the Choral Chapel in St. Petersburg headed by Balakirev and Rimsky-Korsakov; his teachers were Prof. P. Krasnokutsky (violin) and A. Liadov ( theory). It was in Liadov’s class that the boy’s gift for composition began to proclaim itself. For five years, Zolotaryov was Balakirev’s pupil in composition. In 1898, he entered the St. Petersburg Conservatoire, where he studied composition under Rimsky-Korsakov. He graduated from the Conservatoire two year later, receiving a Rubinstein Prize for his graduation thesis, the cantata “The Paradise and the Peri”. From 1906 to 1918 Zolotaryov was on the staff of the Moscow Conservatoire.
The composer’s creative and pedagogical activity in subsequent years was associated with different cities of the Soviet Union (Rostov, Krasnodar, Odessa, Kiev, Sverdlovsk, Minsk, and Moscow). The Minsk period (1932-1941)was especially fruitful. During these years, the talented composers L. Abelyovich, A. Bogatyryov, M. Kroshner, D. Lukas, V. Olovnikov, P. Podkovyrov and M. Weinberg to mention but a few, were all his pupils.
Zolotaryov’s big and varied output includes seven symphonies, three operas, a number of programme symphonic suites and overtures, the ballet “Knyaz-Ozero” (Prince-Lake), six string quartets, a piano trio and a great number of vocal and piano compositions. Notable works include Fête villageoise , Overture in F major, Rhapsodie hébraïque and Ouverture-fantaisie.
This Concerto features the cellist Alexander Stogorsky and Grigori Gamburg conducting the Moscow Regional Symphony Orchestra.
(ed. notes: as you recall the Germans invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, so this recording was probably manufactured in the late 1940s)
also found an item about the celloist
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