Russian

"Russian Roulette", the last project under the name Triumvirat is a very impressive pop effort, full of session musicians and featuring the comic relief and lyrics of Arno Steffen on vocals. It was again an enormous departure however, from the band’s trademark sound. Like its predecessor, it is more of a Jürgen Fritz solo album than a Triumvirat album.

A collection of the best loved melodies of Cabaret Tzigane and klezmer music, Sirba Orchestra ! is a collaboration between the Sirba Octet, a full symphony orchestra and one of the best balalaika players, Nicolas Kedroff.

Russian powerhouse Sergei Dukachev meets Russian legend Sergey Prokofiev in this stunning album of piano sonatas and smaller pieces, including selections from the well-known ballet Romeo and Juliet. The Piano Sonata No. 2 shows off the beautiful contrasts between the bass in the left hand and the shimmering higher register in the right hand and a complexity of concurrent rhythms in both hands. Everything is executed with great precision, for every ……… This recording is a fantastic musical experience that does Prokofiev full justice.

V. Vasan @ Allmusic.com

Early Russian All Night Vigil / S.Rachmaninov Choral Works - B.Tevlin & A.Sveshnikov (1991)
Melodiya | USSR | SUCD 10-00274 | 1991 | 1 CD | EAC Rip | FLAC (img + cue), LOG | Covers (jpg 300 dpi) | TT 68:49 | RAR 272 MB + 3% Recovery
Classical / Choir / Vocal

The artistic concept behind this disc gives us a somewhat unusual compilation, featuring 9 excerpts from an "early Russian" All-Night Vigil–unison chants transcribed from 16th- & 17th-century manuscripts, recorded in 1988 by the Youth & Students Choir of the Moscow Musical Society (Boris Tevlin, cond.) These are followed by the first six movements from Rachmaninoff's "All-Night Vigil," op.37, from the classic (& currently unavailable) 1965 recording by the USSR State Chorus under Alexander Sveshnikov.

Dedicated to the blessed memory!
Araxia Davtian began her musical education as a pianist. Upon graduation from music school she continued her education as a vocalist in the college of music and then in the Yerevan Conservatory where she studied with R. Gulabian. In 1979 she became a prize-winner at the Glinka Competition, and in 1984 she won First Prize at the International Viotti Competition in Italy.
Vladimir Yurigin-Klevke studied at the Moscow Conservatory under Heinrich Neuhaus and Jacov Zak and was a First Prize-winner at the 1969 National Piano Competition of Contemporary Soviet Music.

Celibidache was without question one of the most important and original conductors in recent memory. He was a perfectionist who disliked what he perceived to be the synthetic sounds created in the modern recording studio, preferring the immediacy of the concert platform and the interaction with a live audience.