PETER ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY / DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Tchaikovsky / Shostakovich: Violin Concertos Boris Belkin (violin) /New Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic, Vladimir Ashkenazy [ ABC Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 1/Sep/2018 ] Now, Eloquence release, for the first time, Belkin's sizzling accounts of the Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich Violin Concertos.. |
HINDEMITH
Ludus Tonalis / Suite 1922 Boris Berezovsky (piano) [ Warner Classics / CD - released 1/Jan/2007 ] "Ludus Tonalis" was conceived as a kind of 20th-century riposte to Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, it consists of 12 fugues - one for each note of the chromatic scale - framed by a prelude and postlude and separated by interludes, which guide the... |
BEETHOVEN / MEDTNER & OTHERS
Boris Berezovsky - Portrait - Concert - Interview (recorded in 2006) Boris Berezovsky (piano) [ Euroarts DVD / DVD - released 14/Oct/2007 ] G :- "Berezovsky takes the palm as a curious and magnetic personality. He has fun with the more outlandish of Beethoven's Dianelli Variations before probing the heart of the mystery." BBC Music Magazine Feb 2008 |
BRAHMS
Piano Concerto No 2 / Variations on a Theme of Paganini / 3 Hungarian Dances Boris Berezovsky (piano) / Orchestre Philharmonique de l’Oural, Dmitri Liss [ Mirare / CD - released 1/Mar/2011 ] Brahms's exhilarating Second Concerto is a sweeping epic combining Classical nobility and Romantic fire. With the same joy, the Variations on a Theme of Paganini and the Hungarian Dances demonstrate that Brahms was the last great master of the... |
RACHMANINOV
Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 3 Boris Berezovsky (piano) / orchestre Philharmonique de l'Oural, Dnitri Liss [ Mirare / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] "fresh, urgent, energetic, patina-free performances…it has been a long while since this music sounded quite so coherent, and for all his considerable virtuosity it is here that Berezovsky does Rachmaninov - and us! - a very great service indeed"... |
RICHARD STRAUSS
The Other Richard Strauss: Symphonic, Vocal and Chamber Music Boris Berezovsky, Renaud Capuçon, Jerôme Ducros, Eric Ericson, Michel Plasson & Vadim Repin / various conductors [ Warner Classics / 3 CD - released 1/May/2014 ] The lyric gift that makes Strauss's operatic writing so memorable still bathes these lesser-known works in a Romantic glow, whether impassioned (the early Violin Sonata), celebratory (Taillefer, the choral ballad on the battle of Hastings) or elegiac... |
DEBUSSY
Pour Le Piano, Images, Etc Boris Berman [ CHANDOS / CD ] |
PROKOFIEV
Complete Piano Sonatas (Nos 1 - 10) Boris Berman (piano) [ Chandos Classics / 3 CD - released 28/Nov/2004 ] "Boris Berman's survey of the complete Prokofiev piano music is proving the most satisfactory all-round set of the sonatas so far." (*** Three Stars Penguin Stereo Guide) |
John CAGE
Music for Prepared Piano Boris Berman (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Feb/2001 ] Engaging John Cage as performed by Berman |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Piano Music Vol 1 (Incls Piano Sonata No. 5 in C major & Ten Pieces from Romeo and Juliet Op.75) Boris Berman (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 12/Jun/2006 ] Boris Berman was born in Moscow, Russia in the former Soviet Union. He studied piano at the Tchaikowsky Conservatory in Moscow with the great Lev Oberin where he graduated with distinction in both piano and harpsichord. |
PROKOFIEV
Piano Music Vol 3 (Incls Piano Sonata No. 4 in C minor Op.29 & Music for Children Op.65) Boris Berman (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 12/Jun/2006 ] Boris Berman was born in Moscow, Russia in the former Soviet Union. He studied piano at the Tchaikowsky Conservatory in Moscow with the great Lev Oberin where he graduated with distinction in both piano and harpsichord. |
PROKOFIEV
Piano Music Vol 4 (Incls Piano Sonata No. 8 in B flat major, Op. 84 & Ten Pieces from Cinderella, Op. 97) Boris Berman (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 12/Jun/2006 ] Boris Berman was born in Moscow, Russia in the former Soviet Union. He studied piano at the Tchaikowsky Conservatory in Moscow with the great Lev Oberin where he graduated with distinction in both piano and harpsichord. |
PROKOFIEV
Piano Music Vol 5 (Incls Piano Sonata in F minor No. 1 Op. 1 & Sonatina in E minor Op.54 No.1) Boris Berman (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 12/Jun/2006 ] Boris Berman was born in Moscow, Russia in the former Soviet Union. He studied piano at the Tchaikowsky Conservatory in Moscow with the great Lev Oberin where he graduated with distinction in both piano and harpsichord. |
PROKOFIEV
Piano Music Vol 6 (Incls Piano Sonata No. 3 in A minor Op.28 & Ten Pieces Op.12) Boris Berman (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 12/Jun/2006 ] Boris Berman was born in Moscow, Russia in the former Soviet Union. He studied piano at the Tchaikowsky Conservatory in Moscow with the great Lev Oberin where he graduated with distinction in both piano and harpsichord. |
ARVO PART
Part: Collage and other orchestral works Boris Berman (piano) / Philharmonia Chorus / Philharmonia Orchestra / Neeme Jarvi [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 1/Jul/2007 ] "Festina lente, for string orchestra, is one of Part's most exquisitely bell-like scores, and the Philharmonia here play it beautifully...The short Summa is properly a setting of the Creed for four voices...Jarvi's new version is an arrangement for... |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: The Piano Concertos (2 CDs special price) Boris Berman (Nos 1, 4, 5), Horacio Gutierrez (Nos 2, 3) / Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra / Neeme Jarvi [ Chandos / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2009 ] "As a package, their claims are strong, both artistically and in terms of recording quality," awarded three stars by Penguin Guide. The Guardian wrote, "No one is more warmly dramatic in Prokofiev than Jarvi, making his issues consistently... |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH / ALFRED SCHNITTKE
Shostakovich/Schnittke: Piano Quintets Boris Berman (piano) / Vermeer Quartet. [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Jan/2003 ] "Boris Berman and the Vermeer Quartet prove to be extremely sensitive to the emotional demands of each work, giving highly accomplished and committed performances in adequate, if somewhat studio-bound sound." - Erik Levi, BBC Music Magazine,... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Russian Romances and Folksongs Boris Christoff (bass) / Balalaika Orchester / Dima Liakhoff [ Deutsche Grammophon Spotlight / CD - released 19/Mar/2007 ] Famed for his commanding performances of the great bass opera roles like Boris Godunov, the incomparable singing actor Boris Christoff (1914 – 1993) reveals here a more intimate side of his genius. |
MUSSORGSKY
Boris Godunov (Complete Opera - 1952 recording) Boris Christoff, Eugenia Zareska, Ludmilla Lebedeva / Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Francaise / Issay Dobrowen [ Brilliant Classics Opera Collection / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Apr/2009 ] '..the digital transfers bring out the excellence of the original engineering. So this version really is essential listening for admirers of the work.' Gramophone |
Boris Gardiner
Every Nigger is a Star [ Jazzman / CD - released 6/Sep/2010 ] |