Vladimir Nikitič Kašperov Vidéos
compositeur russe
Commémorations 2024 (Décès: Vladimir Nikitič Kašperov)
- opéra
- Empire russe
- compositeur ou compositrice, pédagogue, professeur
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2024-05-02
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Balakirev Leokadiya Kashperova Dyer Kaschperow Glazunov Anton Rubinstein Rubinstein Stravinsky Griffiths 1872 1896 1899 1901 1902 1907 1908 1910 1912 1916 1917 1940 2021
About the recording (notes by Julian Dyer) The Welte Company transported their Welte-Mignon recording device by rail from Freiburg to Moscow and St Petersburg in February 1910, to make piano rolls of major Russian pianists of the day. Many of the resulting rolls are notably hard to locate, including the three here - the only known complete 3-roll set of the Balakirev Sonata recording by Leokadia Kashperova. Kashperova recorded seven rolls for Welte: of these, five are held in the huge +••.••(...) roll) library of the Musical Museum in Brentford, London, which has made them available for recording. This sound recording of the roll performance was made by Denis Hall of the Pianola Institute, on his finely-restored Steinway-Welte model O grand piano, in June 2021. The first minute of the second movement has some warping of the paper (caused by damp storage), so some spurious extra notes sound adjacent to the notes in the performance. The rolls are otherwise in good condition, and were manufactured in about 1912. Note that the sonata is, in English terms, in B flat minor. The rolls were made in Freiburg i.B., Germany, and use the German form for this, 'B minor'. The roll labels carry a facsmile of the artist's signature made at the time of the recording, 'Léocadie Kaschperow': current transliteration is Leokadiya Kashperova. Kashperova recorded the following rolls for Welte, all in February 1910: 2034 Toccata [Balakirev] 2035 Waltz No. 6, F# [Balakirev] 2036 Gondellied (Boat Song), b [Balakirev] 2038 Au sein de la nature: Deux roses. Deux feuilles d'automne. Le murmure des blés. Le battage du blé. [Kashperova] 2162 Piano Sonata, B flat minor, 1st mvt [Balakirev] 2163 Piano Sonata, B flat minor, 2nd mvt. 2164 Piano Sonata, B flat minor, 3rd & 4th mvts. About the pianist: Leokakiya Kashperova was closely associated with Balakirev in his final years so it is most likely that he personally guided her preparations towards the Welte recording of his B flat minor Sonata, described by Nicholas Walker as being 'the summit of [Balakirev's] ambition to create a work that expresses the entire history of Russia... this highly original and most moving of all Russian Sonatas'. Balakirev died just three months later on 29 May 1910. Kashperova’s recording, therefore, may be regarded as closely representing the composer’s final thoughts on how he wished this great work to be performed. In subsequent years Kashperova would perform the work in St Petersburg and, after the 1917 Revolution, as a member of the Moscow Chamber Music Association often pairing Balakirev’s sonata with Glazunov’s Piano Sonata no. 2 in E minor which she had premiered in 1902. Leokadiya Kashperova +••.••(...)) was a prominent figure in pre-Revolution St Petersburg as a pianist, teacher and a prolific composer. She had graduated from the Conservatoire as a member of Anton Rubinstein’s final group of ‘elite’ piano students and was soon engaged by Stravinsky’s father to teach Igor between 1899-1901. In 1907 she toured outside Russia, giving recitals in Leipzig, Berlin and London (twice), always including her own compositions in her concerts. By 1908 she was a member of Balakirev’s and Cui’s musical circle; Cui, an admirer of her musicality and technique, while Balakirev praised her economic use of the sustaining pedal. This was also commented upon favourably by Stravinsky in his autobiography. Between 1896-1916 all of Kashperova’s early compositions were published and performed; including a symphony, a piano concerto, art-songs, chamber music and piano solos. Later works, in manuscript, have since been discovered, restored and published in a historic collaboration between the Russian National Museum of Music, Moscow, and Boosey & Hawkes, London: (http•••) After a century of neglect, this long-forgotten pianist-composer awaits re-discovery. Text: Graham Griffiths (City, University of London). Author, Leokadiya Kashperova: Biography, ‘Memoirs’ & ‘Recollections of Anton Rubinstein’ (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021). Editor, Stravinsky in Context (CUP, 2021): cf. ‘Leokadiya Kashperova and Stravinsky: The Making of a Concert Pianist’, pp.24-33. Editor, Kashperova Edition (Boosey & Hawkes, London). Loan of the rolls, production of this recording and video organised by Julian Dyer, who has also supplied the photographs of the rolls and labels. Historical image credits as shown in the video.
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