Hallé Orchestra, Delyana Lazarova, Guy Johnston & Maxim Rysanov – Dobrinka Tabakova (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:19:56 minutes | 700 MB | Genre: Classical
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This album marks the culmination of two special Hallé collaborations and includes four major pieces from one of the most distinctive of current British compositional voices.
Delyana Lazarova (Hallé Assistant Conductor 2020-23) and composer Dobrinka Tabakova (Hallé Artist in Residence 2022-23) were both born in the historic city of Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Working together for the first time during their time with the orchestra they formed a strong musical connection in which the Hallé musicians displayed a close understanding of the intricacies and dialect of Tabakova’s musical language.
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Sinfonietta Riga, Maxim Rysanov – Pēteris Vasks: Viola Concerto & Symphony No. 1 “Voices” (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:44 minutes | 1,32 GB | Genre: Classical
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Originally a double bass player, Pēteris Vasks has a special fondness for the string family, and has composed numerous works for string ensembles of various sizes. Some of his most widely performed works are for string orchestra, among them Musica dolorosa and the violin concertos Distant Light and Lonely Angel. Another one is his Symphony for Strings ‘Voices’, composed in 1991, as his native Latvia, along with Estonia and Lithuania, was breaking free from the crumbling Soviet Union. In a note on the work, Vasks has written: ‘… the new beginning was difficult. The symphony speaks of my essential, most meaningful themes. About life. About eternity. About conscience’.
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Maxim Rysanov, Riga Sinfonietta – In Schubert’s Company (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:55:40 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Classical
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‘I am not superstitious… Nevertheless, when I started collecting repertoire for this album, which is dedicated to Schubert’s 220th anniversary, some works on the disc accidentally appeared to be connected. Schubert’s 5th symphony was recorded in Riga just about 200 years after it was composed. Franz was 20 years old when he wrote it. Leonid Desyatnikov’s ‘Wie der alte Leiermann’, for violin and orchestra, which I decided to arrange for the viola especially for this project, was composed 20 years ago for Schubert’s 200th anniversary. Spooky… On a more serious note, Schubert touches me deeply. Not only with his music and his sensitive soul, but also his life story is fascinating to me. Composer, elementary school teacher, poet, philosopher, pianist, singer, violinist, violist! With this album, I present myself as a commissioner of new music, arranger, solo performer and conductor. I would like to believe I am 0.22% closer to understanding Schubert’ Maxim Rysanov. Schubert s sunny 5th Symphony, 3rd Violin Sonata and ‘Polonaise’ for violin & orchestra, are joined by three contemporary composers who each draw on Schubert s music for their compositions. A darker, tormented Schubert from his final years is the source for their works ‘Winterreise’, ‘Erlknig’ and the late ‘Fantasy for violin & piano’ providing the inspiration. The haunting beauty of Schubert s music continues to exert a powerful influence on performers, composers and music lovers alike.
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Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra & Maxim Rysanov – Dobrinka Tabakova: String Paths (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:12:18 minutes | 716 MB | Genre: Classical
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ECM New Series presents the first full album devoted to the music of Dobrinka Tabakova, a composer born in Bulgaria in 1980 but raised from a young age in London. In Tabakova’s music – richly melodic, texturally sensuous, often emotionally radiant – there resides the new and the familiar, or rather the familiar within the new, and vice versa; there are the spirits of East and West coursing through the pieces, usually hand in hand; and just as the composer’s technical virtuosity is apparent, she possesses a desire, and a gift, for direct communication that can be heard in virtually every measure. The recording features Tabakova’s Concerto for Cello and Strings and the Rameau-inspired Suite in Old Style for viola and chamber orchestra, as well as three chamber works: the string trio Insight, the string septet Such Different Paths and a trio for violin, accordion and double-bass, Frozen River Flows. The performers include star violinist Janine Jansen and several of Tabakova’s former conservatory colleagues: violinist Roman Mints, violist-conductor Max Rysanov and cellist Kristina Blaumane, principal with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Maxim Rysanov – Bach: Suites Nos. 2, 3 & 6 (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:49 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Classical
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It was with three of Bach’s cello suites, transcribed for the viola, that Maxim Rysanov made his début on BIS in 2010 – a disc which was greeted with critical acclaim: in The Strad it earned the magazine’s prestigious recommendation, and to the reviewer on the German web site Klassik.com it ‘clearly demonstrated that Rysanov knows how to decipher Bach’s musical language with the assurance of a master’. His colleague in Sunday Times agreed, but had one reservation: ‘Rysanov’s recording of Bach’s suites is near perfection; the only flaw being that he did not perform all six.’ With the present disc that flaw is now being rectified, and the set is complete. During the time that passed between the two discs, and also between the two sessions in which Suites Nos 2, 3 and 6 were recorded, Rysanov’s conception of how to perform and record Bach has not remained static – as he commented in connection with the first disc: ‘it shows my approach to Bach playing at this point in time, with its mix of different backgrounds, schools and experiences from working with other musicians’. Four years later, the same can be said about its sequel – a testament to the infinite possibilities that these works hold in terms of interpretation and performance. For the sixth suite, which is usually transposed a fifth down, to G major when performed by violists, Rysanov has opted to remain faithful to the original key: ‘the purity of D major reminds me of being on top of a mountain, that clear air and a silence so powerful that it makes the ears start to buzz…’ The suite was originally written for a five-stringed instrument, but is heard here on Rysanov’s own four-stringed viola built by Giuseppe Guadagnini in 1780.
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