Berliner Philarmoniker Russian Composers

Aleko (Serge Rachmaninoff); Le Sacre du Printemps / Pt 1: L'Adoration de la Terre (Igor Stravinsky); Le Sacre du Printemps / Pt 2: Le Sacrifice (Igor Stravinsky); The Nutcracker (Suite), Op. 71a, TH. 35 (Pyotr Illitch Tchaïkovski); Pictures at an Exhibition (Modeste Moussorgski); The Sleeping Beauty (Suite), Op. 66a, TH. 234 (Pyotr Illitch Tchaïkovski); Apollon Musagète (1947 Version) / Premier Tableau (Prologue) (Igor Stravinsky); Apollon Musagète (1947 Version) / Second Tableau (Igor Stravinsky); Apollon Musagète (1947 Version) / Second Tableau (Igor Stravinsky); Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30 (Serge Rachmaninoff); Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 27 (Serge Rachmaninoff); Swan Lake (Suite), Op. 20a (Pyotr Illitch Tchaïkovski); Violin Concerto in D Major, K075 (Igor Stravinsky); Symphonic Dances, Op. 45 (Serge Rachmaninoff); Serenade for String Orchestra in C Major, Op. 48, TH 48 (Pyotr Illitch Tchaïkovski); Serenade for String Orchestra in C Major, Op. 48, TH. 48 (Pyotr Illitch Tchaïkovski); Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64, TH. 29 (Pyotr Illitch Tchaïkovski); Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35, TH. 59 (Pyotr Illitch Tchaïkovski).

Magdalena Kozená's silken mezzo delivers definitive interpretations of this luscious and enchanting orchestral-song repertoire. Magdalena Kozená, Sir Simon Rattle, and the Berliner Philharmoniker seduce in Ravel's Shéhérazade, stir and awe in Dvořák's austere Biblische Lieder, and render to the fullest the bittersweet potency of Mahler's intricately orchestrated Rückert Lieder. Recorded live at the Berlin Philharmonie, these performances excite with the intense musical understanding shared by this husband and wife musical dream team. This release is destined to rival the popularity of Kozená and Rattle's enthralling Mozart collaboration. This is the first in a new series of recording projects reviving the legendary partnership between DG and the Berliner Philharmoniker.

The conducting of Simon Rattle is the most compelling element in this recording of Ravel's L'Enfant et les Sortilèges with the Berlin Philharmonic. Rattle draws playing of great delicacy and nuance from the orchestra, and the many sections that are scored as lightly as chamber music are played with especially loving attention to shaping the elegant and expressive phrases; the beginning of the second part of the opera is especially magical.

At the gala concert 2009, the Berliner Philharmoniker under its musical director Sir Simon Rattle and Lang Lang present works by two Russian composers. Sergei Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto, one of his most enduring popular pieces, demands a virtuoso pianist and a huge supple orchestral sound. Both it gets from the world famous Berliner Philharmoniker and the very gifted soloist Lang Lang. “The Nutcracker” by Piotr Ilych Tchaikovsky, perhaps the most popular of all ballets, completes the programme.

Firma Melodiya and the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory with support of the All-Russian Non-governmental Organization The Union of Russia’s Composers present the first release from the large-scale project Anthology of Contemporary Choral Music by Russian Composers performed by the Chamber Choir of the Moscow State Conservatory.

Sviatoslav Teofilovich Richter was born on March 20, 1915 (Julian: March 7) in Zhitomir in present-day Ukraine. His father Teofil (Theophilus) came from a German commercial family. The famous Russian piano teacher Heinrich Neuhaus (of German origin) recognized his huge talent and enrol led him in his piano master cl ass at the Moscow Conservatory in 1 937. Profil Edition Gunter Hanssl er is progressively releasing all the recordings that the great Soviet virtuoso made between 1945 and 1963. Most of them were largely unknown in the West during the Cold War, as Richter could only perform til I 1960 behind the ""Iron Curtain"", that is to say, in the Soviet Union and the sate I lite states of Eastern Europe.

This recording features the works of Russian composers who were outstanding personalities in the musical life of their country during their lifetime: The Violin Concerto in D major, op. 35, by Tchaikovsky and the Violin Concerto in A minor, op. 82, by Glazunov.