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ERNEST BLOCH
Bloch: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2 'Poème mystique' Spectrum Concerts Berlin, Boris Brovtsyn (violin), Dian Ketler (piano) [ Naxos / CD - due 11/Sep/2026 ] The full range of Ernest Bloch's music for violin and piano can be heard on this album, which journeys from his fiery early works to one of his last compositions. Both violin sonatas explore personal themes: the First, in its barbarism, alludes to... |
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DAVE LISIK
Machaut Man and A Superman Hat Alex Sipiagin / Donny McCaslin / Dave Kikoski / Boris Kozlov / Donald Edwards [ Rattle Jazz / CD - released 6/Mar/2015 ] Recorded with some of New York's greatest jazz musicians, Dave Lisik's Machaut Man and a Superman Hat is contemporary jazz at its most assured. This masterful album is exceptional on every level, a strong, fully focused statement from one of Rattle's... |
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MOZART / GLUCK / BOITO / BELLINI / VERDI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Boris Christoff - Italian Opera Arias Boris Christoff (bass) with various orchestras and accompanists [ EMI References / CD - released 2/Feb/1995 ] Bass Boris Christoff was born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria on 18 May 1914 of a Bulgarian father and a Russian mother. The family was very well to do and Boris received the best education available, including a period of study at the University of Sofia. |
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SERGEY RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Morceaux de Fantaisie Boris Giltburg (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Feb/2026 ] Composed at the age of 19, Rachmaninov's earliest published cycle of piano pieces, the Morceaux de Fantaisie, contains the Prélude in C sharp minor, destined to become his signature work, and the Mélodie in E major, much loved by Tchaikovsky. The... |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 / Rondo, WoO 6 Boris Giltburg (piano) / Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2019 ] "Here's a very promising start to what I assume will be a new Beethoven piano concerto cycle...Fine playing, fine conducting, fine engineering-in short, a really fine release generally." ClassicsToday |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos 3 & 4 Boris Giltburg (piano) / Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Feb/2023 ] For 19th-century audiences Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 was the most loved of all his piano concertos, a work in which the balancing of high drama, tenderness, lyricism and humour is most pronounced and in which a coda resolves inner tensions... |
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Boris
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JOHANNES BRAHMS / RICHARD STRAYSS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Brahms / R. Strauss: Violin Concertos Boris Belkin (violin) / London Symphony Orxchestra, Ivan Fischer / Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Vladimir Ashkenazy [ Decca Eclipse / CD - released 24/Mar/1996 ] Boris Belkin was hailed as a wonderful violinist after he won the 1976 Tchaikovsky Competition. He was quickly snapped up under contract to Decca. He then recorded a few discs, notable among these being the Brahms Concerto with Fischer and the LSO. |
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SERGEI RACHMANINOV
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rachmaninov: Symphony No.2, Vocalise, Piano Concertos Nos.2 & 3 Boris Berezovsky, Alexei Sultanov (piano) / Bolshoi Symphony, Alexander Lazarev, London Symphony, Maxim Shostakovich, Philharmonia Orchestra, Eliahu I [ Warner Ultima / 2 CD - released 15/Oct/1997 ] In October 1995, Sultanov won second prize at the XIII International Chopin Piano Competition; the first prize was not awarded. Sultanov, considered the favorite by the public, boycotted the winners' concert. (Wiki) |
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PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No 1 in B falt minor Op 23 / Violin Concerto in D major Op 35 Boris Berezovsky (piano) Akiko Suwanai (violin) / Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra / Dmitri Kitaenko [ Teldec Basic Edition / CD - released 1/Apr/2001 ] "Berezovsky, born in 1969, is the 1990 winner of the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. Ever since then he has been in demand with leading orchestras. He is, to say the least, a virtuoso of the keyboard, able easily to dazzle the ear... |