Oleg Karnauh

Oleg Nikolayevich Karavaichuk is a legendary St. Petersburg composer known mainly for his work for movies and theatre spanning about 200 films and several dozen stage performances. He is also a brilliant virtuoso performer and improviser. This CD contains waltzes and improvisations recorded at different times and at different venues in St. Petersburg between the years of 1989 and 2004. The recordings were made at the State Hermitage Museum, where Karavaichuk's favourite piano is housed, at the painter Ilya Brodsky's Memorial Museum and at the State Capelle Hall where in one of the waltzes the most significant instruments of Karavaichuk’s music - single tone horns - can be heard.

Early & Modern Music for Organ - Oleg Yanchenko (1988)
Melodiya | USSR | SUCD 10-00009 | 1988 | 1 CD | EAC Rip | FLAC (img + cue), LOG | TT 53:14 | Covers (jpg 300 dpi) | RAR 196.65 MB + 3% Recovery
Classical / Instrumental / Organ

This CD presents a Soviet musician Oleg Yanchenko performing works both by the composers of the 16th — 17th centuries and modern organ music.

Oleg Nikolayevich Karavaichuk (Russian: Оле́г Никола́евич Каравайчу́к; 28 December 1927 – 13 June 2016) was a Soviet and Russian composer, author of music for many films and theater performances. Some call composer Oleg Karavaychuk a genius, others a spook. For the third one he is unknown, although, by and large, his works are known to all. Karavaychuk composed the music for 200 films.

Oleg Marshev has recorded several very good CDs of the piano music of Emil von Sauer (1862-1942), thus rescuing this forgotten composer from undeserved obscurity. Sauer was a pupil of Liszt and Nikolai Rubinstein and he became one of the preeminent virtuosos of his day, along with d'Albert and Godowsky. These etudes are incredibly finely crafted dainties, which require a brilliant technique - something Marshev has in abundance. The Etudes de Concert are not works of great profundity or emotional depth, but they explore some of the furthest reaches of Romantic pianism, marshaling countless colours, textures and effects.

Eagerly anticipated album by Georgia’s Giya Kancheli (“the most important composer to have emerged from the former Soviet Union since the death of Shostakovich.” – Time Magazine), released in the year of his 70th birthday. This disc features one of Kancheli’s most ardent champions, the great violinist Gidon Kremer., who plays in duo with his old comrade, Russian pianist Oleg Maisenberg on the 26 minute 'Time… and again”, and leads the Kremerata Baltica on “V & V” for violin, taped voice, and string orchestra.

Donizetti's opera "Poliuto", based on the play "Polyeucte" by the French composer Pierre Corneille, is now one of the rarest works in the classical opera repertoire. However, this live recording, recorded in the Vienna Konzerthaus in 1986, impresses her with an impressive cast: star tenor José Carreras in the role of Poliuto is accompanied by Italian soprano Katia Ricciarelli as Paolina, who is an absolutely equal star in this recording. The choir of the Wiener Sängerakademie sings, accompanied by the Wiener Symphoniker under the direction of Oleg Caetani.

Rudi Stephan was a promising German composer whose life, like that of George Butterworth, was snuffed out in the heat of battle during "The War to End All Wars." Behind him, Stephan left a tiny output of 33 works, and of these, Music for Orchestra 1912 has proven by far the best known, receiving a decent amount of exposure in the concert halls of German-speaking lands since its 1912 premiere. None of Stephan's music has been recorded with any great frequency, and Chandos' deluxe Super Audio CD Rudi Stephen: Orchestral Works enters the field practically on its own.