Naxos Blog » Russian Music http://blog.naxos.com Insights on music from the world's leading classical music label Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:43:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 en hourly 1 Podcast: Shostakovich 24 Preludes and Fugues opus 87 (Extra) http://blog.naxos.com/2008/09/12/podcast-shostakovich-24-preludes-and-fugues-opus-87/ http://blog.naxos.com/2008/09/12/podcast-shostakovich-24-preludes-and-fugues-opus-87/#comments Fri, 12 Sep 2008 06:02:20 +0000 Raymond http://blog.naxos.com/?p=1007 SHOSTAKOVICH: 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87 album coverAn interview with pianist David Jalbert about his recording of the complete Shostakovich Preludes and Fugues, opus 87.

This remarkable piece presents, in concentrated form, everything Shostakovich understood about composition and piano playing

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Catalogue No.: ACD2 2555

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]]> http://blog.naxos.com/2008/09/12/podcast-shostakovich-24-preludes-and-fugues-opus-87/feed/ Podcast: Rachmaninov Vespers, Academy of Choral Arts, Moscow http://blog.naxos.com/2008/09/09/podcast-rachmaninov-vespers-academy-of-choral-arts-moscow/ http://blog.naxos.com/2008/09/09/podcast-rachmaninov-vespers-academy-of-choral-arts-moscow/#comments Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:00:05 +0000 Raymond http://blog.naxos.com/?p=948 RACHMANINOV, S.: All-night Vigil album coverAn introduction to a new recording of Rachmaninoff’s Vespers, one of his finest choral pieces.

Rachmaninoff composed this music in 1915, on the eve of the Russian Revolution, and political events that would lead to a decades-long ban on playing any kind of religious music in concert. This music was finally heard again in churches in the 1960’s and in concert halls in the 1970’s.

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Catalogue No.: Delos DE 3388

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]]> http://blog.naxos.com/2008/09/09/podcast-rachmaninov-vespers-academy-of-choral-arts-moscow/feed/ Podcast: Russian Guitar Music http://blog.naxos.com/2008/07/15/russian-guitar-music/ http://blog.naxos.com/2008/07/15/russian-guitar-music/#comments Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:00:17 +0000 Raymond http://blog.naxos.com/?p=564 Guitar Recital: Dervoed, Artyom - BIKTASHEV / OREKHOV / RUDNEV / KOSHKIN album coverAn introduction to this new CD of Russian Guitar Music, with soloist Atryom Dervoed, one of Russia’s finest young guitarists.

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Catalogue No.: Naxos 8.570447

]]> http://blog.naxos.com/2008/07/15/russian-guitar-music/feed/ Music From the Republic of Georgia http://blog.naxos.com/2007/08/27/music-from-the-republic-of-georgia/ http://blog.naxos.com/2007/08/27/music-from-the-republic-of-georgia/#comments Mon, 27 Aug 2007 07:52:08 +0000 Vinko http://blogtest.naxos.com/index.php/2007/08/27/music-from-the-republic-of-georgia/ GEORGIA Kavkasia Trio: Traditional Songs from GeorgiaRaymond Bisha discusses Georgian Guitar Music.

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