Ural Youth Symphony Orchestra & Alexander Rudin – Nikolai Myaskovsky: Symphonies No. 17 & 20 (2023)
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Alexander Rudin and the Ural Youth Symphony Orchestra here present two symphonies by Nikolai Myaskovsky — one of the most undiscovered composers of the 20th century. In his creative legacy, Myaskovsky equals his more famous contemporaries — Prokofiev and Shostakovich.
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Erich Höbarth, Alexander Rudin, Aapo Hakkinen – Schubert: Chamber Works (2021)
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Schubert’s Arpeggione Sonata may these days be firmly established in the cello repertoire, but the instrument for which Schubert originally intended it was of course its namesake – a curious and now-defunct six-stringed creation, played with a bow, that although fretted and tuned like a guitar, resembled a cello and was played vertically; and whose distinctive, feathery soft, stringy timbre sounds very much like a blend between those two instruments. Inevitably, actual arpeggione performances of this work are as rare as hens’ teeth, meaning the major draw of this particular offering from Russian cellist and historical performance expert Alexander Rudin is the fact that he’s on the actual instrument. So when you add the pretty delicacy of Aapo Häkkinen’s fortepiano, in timbre tones alone this is a very attractive recording; and for a moment where those already-ear-pricking timbres combine with the resonant acoustic to especially lovely effect, head to the first movement’s pizzicato writing.
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Alexander Rudin, Emin Martirosian, Academic Chamber Orchestra Musica Viva Moscow – Works for 2 Cellos (2022)
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The emergence of the cello as a solo instrument at the beginning of the 19th century encouraged composers to explore its melodic and sonorous potential, with compositions for two or more cellos becoming increasingly popular. Bernhard Romberg and Anton Kraft both had personal connections to Beethoven – their works offer inventive timbres, intimacy and substantial virtuosity. The world premiere recording of the sparkling Concertino by Kraft’s son Nikolaus completes an album of unique gems, influenced by Beethoven and Haydn, which helped to usher in the golden age of the cello.
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Ural Youth Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Rudin – Myaskovsky: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 13 (2019)
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It was after hearing Tchaikovsky’s “Pathétique” Symphony conducted by Arthur Nikisch at the age of fifteen that the young Nikolai Myaskovski turned his back on studying engineering whilst in a battalion of combat engineers in Moscow. Along with his good friend Prokofiev, he was a student of Reinhold Glière and went on to study composition with Rimsky-Korsakov and Liadov. Myaskovski was a prolific composer and although seldom recorded, he composed, among other things, some twenty-seven symphonies and directed the Moscow Conservatory for a large part of his life. He was a five-time recipient of the Stalin Prize and one of the leading composers in the Soviet regime, skilfully managing to skirt around the authorities without openly engaging in ideological confrontation. However, in 1947 he was denounced as one of the main writers of music with anti-Soviet, anti-proletarian and formalist intent along with Shostakovich, Khatchaturian and Prokofiev and his name was only cleared after he had died of cancer in 1950.
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