Valery Joice

Créée spécialement pour lui, P. Valéry occupe la chaire de poétique au Collège de France de 1937 à 1945. Dans ses cours, il élabore un système total comprenant la genèse de l'oeuvre littéraire, une approche psychologique de la création, une sociologie de l'art ainsi qu'une esthétique de la réception. …

Gergiev's is a Rite of Spring with a difference. He stresses the primitive barbarism of Stravinsky's groundbreaking score–the strange wheezings of the winds, the wild yawps of the tubas, and the deep rumblings of the bass drum. It's a Rite that stands out at a time when so many internationalized western orchestras give the piece an overlay of sophisticated polish that can rob it of the shock factor that drove the audience at the Paris premiere to riot. There are also numerous personal touches that can be controversial, such as the pause before the final chord, which may bother some but which work in the context of the interpretation. Gergiev's Rite faces strong competition from recorded versions by Markevitch, Dorati, Monteux, and Stravinsky himself, but it's definitely among the top choices. The Scriabin's less compelling, though still fascinating. Gergiev's approach tends to sound sectional, as the overall line is subordinated to momentary thrills. –Dan Davis

The Münchner Philharmoniker have arguably given more performances of Anton Bruckner’s music than any other orchestra. A great number of Bruckner recordings led by the many legendary conductors that have worked for and with the Münchner Philharmoniker are stored in the historical archive of the MPHIL Label including magnificent pieces with Sergiu Celibidache, Christian Thielemann, Rudolf Kempe, Günter Wand and Oswald Kabasta.

Born in Baku, Azerbaijan in 1943 Faradzh Karaev is one of the leading composers of the post Soviet era. The chronology of his creative works resembles more the typical avant-garde cardiogram than a classical gradual growth. Neoclassics and serial music, pointillism and sonore, collages and modality, neoromanticism and mugam, postmodernism and jazz, European instrumental theatre and a theatre of folk instruments, conceptualism and electronic music…

Fruit de dix ans d’entretiens avec Bertrand Dermoncourt, cet ouvrage laisse la parole à Valery Gergiev, chef d’orchestre le plus demandé au monde et directeur du Théâtre Mariinsky depuis près de trente ans. Actuellement, Valery Gergiev entame, à la tête de l’Orchestre du Mariinsky, une intégrale de L’Anneau du Nibelung de Richard Wagner sur deux saisons, entouré de chanteurs de sa troupe permanente et de quelques invités de choix. …

Valery Gergiev directs the Kirov Opera and Ballet in this dramatic staging of Tchaikovsky’s historical opera, based on Pushkin’s verse tale of the legendary Cossack chieftain. Tchaikovsky’s dark musical setting intertwines the political drama of Mazeppa’s ill-fated betrayal of the Tsar with the personal tragedy of his love for Maria, the young daughter of his hapless opponent, Kocubej.