Anatoliy Brandukov News
cellist (1859-1930)
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- Russian Empire, Soviet Union
- cellist, music teacher, composer
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2020-06-12 09:01:31
Hee-Young Lim: the young Korean cellist in Prokofiev & Rachmaninov cello sonatas on Sony Classical
[…] two thirds of a trilogy of Russian sonatas by three great 20th century Russian composers. The third, of course, being Shostakovich, and fascinatingly all three composers only wrote one cello sonata. Through the sonatas we can detect a fascinating web of influence by major Russian cellists. The threads go back to the 19th century when Hector Berlioz visited Russia and conducted Beethoven's Symphony No. Five, in the audience was a nine-year old Anatoly Brandukov, who would study with the great German cellist Wilhelm Fitzenhagen. It was Fitzenhagen who premiered Tchaikovsky's Variations on a Rococco Theme (in his own arrangement of the work) as well as playing in the first performances of Tchaikovsky's quartets and piano trio. Brandukov's first solo concert was sponsored by composer and pianist Nikolay Rubinstein, a close friend of Tchaikovsky and younger brother of Anton Rubinstein, who founded the St Petersburg Conservatory; Brandukov would go […]
2018-08-06 16:00:09
American Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky Died On This Day in 1976 [ON-THIS-DAY]
Russian-born American cellist Gregor Piatigorsky died on this day in 1976 – aged 73. A student of Alfred von Glehn and Anatoliy Brandukov, Maestro Piatigorsky served coveted teaching positions at the Curtis Institute of Music and the University of Southern California – and was once labelled by legendary pedagogue Ivan Galamian as “the greatest string […] The post American Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky Died On This Day in 1976 [ON-THIS-DAY] appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
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2018-05-10 14:27:00
Gautier Capuçon and Yuja Wang play Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Rachmaninov and Astor Piazzolla – Verbier Festival 2013 (HD 1080p)
[…] performance with a score may be surprised, if not shocked, to hear us playing fortissimo at one point in the coda of the last movement, when the printed edition is clearly marked pianissimo. The justification – apart from the musical sense it so clearly makes, at least to us – comes from a piece of oral history: my grandfather, Julius Isserlis, used to play this sonata in Russia with the work's dedicatee, the cellist Anatoly Brandukov. Brandukov, when he wasn't busy flirting outrageously with my grandmother, apparently told my grandfather that Rachmaninov had decided, presumably after publication, that he preferred the fortissimo at this point. Since there has only been one edition of the sonata, this preference has never been documented. I heard about it only because my grandmother, also a pianist, learnt the sonata when she was around eighty, in order to play it with me when I was […]
2014-04-01 16:41:37
Happy Birthday, Rachmaninov!
Rachmaninov disliked calling this work a cello sonata because he thought the two instruments were equal. Because of this, it is often referred to as Sonata in G minor for Cello and Piano. Most of the themes are introduced by the piano, while they are embellished and expanded in the cello’s part. The piece has a remarkable similarity with regard to thematic material and figurations, to his 1st Piano Sonata. Rachmaninov dedicated it to Anatoliy Brandukov, who gave the first performance in Moscow with the composer at the piano, on 2 December 1901. Rachmaninov seems to have made some last-minute alterations after the premiere, as he wrote the date “12 December 1901″ on the score. The sonata was overshadowed by the huge success of his Piano Concerto No. 2, which premiered on 27 October 1901. Nonetheless, the Sonata is considered one of the most important works for cello in the 20th […]
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