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Russian musician
- clarinet
- Soviet Union, Spain
- clarinetist, saxophonist
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2018-11-11 11:53:00
‘The Eternal Flame’: LPO/Jurowski - Debussy, Magnus Lindberg, Stravinsky, and Janáček, 10 November 2018
Royal Festival Hall Debussy: Berceuse héroïque Magnus Lindberg: Triumf att finnas till… (world premiere) Stravinsky: Requiem Canticles Janáček: The Eternal Gospel Andrea Danková (soprano) Angharad Lyddon (mezzo-soprano) Vsevolod Grivnov (tenor) Maxim Mikhailov (bass) London Philharmonic Choir (chorus master: Neville Creed) London Philharmonic Orchestra Vladimir Jurowski (conductor) If an armistice remembrance concert is to be held – and surely it is not unreasonable to do so, one hundred years on from 1918 – let it be programmed like this. Yes, official remembrance has, in the very worst sense, been politicised way beyond endurance for most of us in the United Kingdom. What once was more, if never entirely, a remembrance of lives lost, of the evil of war, has, especially since New Labour’s murderous forays into Afghanistan and Iraq, become a totalitarian exhortation to militaristic nationalism. The annual accusatory ordeal […]
2018-11-10 23:18:00
Vladimir Jurowski (photo: Vera Zhuraleva, IMG Artists) "The Eternal Flame", on the eve of Armistice Day with Vladimir Jurowski conducting Debussy Berceuse héroïque, Stravinsky Requiem Canticles and Janáček The Eternal Gospel with Magnus Lindberg Triumpf att finnas till with the London Philharmonic Orcehstra at the Royal Festival Hall, London. A hundred years ago the guns fell silent. The First World War was a trade war gone global, but now we are faced with an even worse scenario: demagogues so malevolent that they make the warmongers of 1914 -1918 look innocent. Today, the leaders of France and Germany embraced each other, signifying unity, not war. Yet all around, there's a whole new tide of extremist nationalism, anti-democratic hysteria fuelled by greed and racism. When populist movements armed with mind control technology suppress all opposition, so much for "Lest We Forget". Driving through the rainstorm on the way to […]
2018-03-18 17:07:09
"The Russian National Anthem," by Alexandar Alexandrov and Sergei Mikhailov, Sung by the Children’s Choir of Russia, Directed by Valery Gergiev
A stunning rendition of what is perhaps the world’s most beautiful anthem, in honor of that gr
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Faces of classical music
2018-03-16 18:44:00
Sergei Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No.2 in C minor – Ilia Papoian, St Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Titov (HD 1080p)
Russian pianist Ilia Papoian performs Sergei Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No.2 in C minor, Op.18, with St Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra under Alexander Titov. Recorded at St Petersburg Music House on January 24, 2018.✻Rachmaninov composed his Piano Concerto No.2 in C minor in 1900, and played the first complete performance on November 9, 1901, with Alexandre Siloti conducting the Moscow Philharmonic Society.He suffered a shattering career crisis in the 1897 massacre of his First Symphony in St Petersburg, by its first conductor, Glazunov, who was reportedly disablingly drunk – a fiasco the critics en masse, led by César Cui, laid at the composer's feet like an animal carcass. The audience – ever mindful that Rachmaninov had been expelled in 1885 from the local temple of musical instruction – listened stonily, glad for the failure of a young lion schooled elsewhere (in Moscow, he completed the Conservatory course in 1891, and graduated […]
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