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Owl Night: Music for Organ, Vol. 7
Cutajar, Etienne: Fantasie (Music for Horn)
Artyomov: Star Wind & Other Works / Various
Vyacheslav Artyomov is considered by many to be Russia’s greatest living composer. His music is deep, ultimately spiritual and brilliantly crafted, with influences from the Russian symphonic tradition colored by Mahler, Scriabin, Honegger and Messiaen to name a few – but melded into a unique voice. The Divine Art Artyomov Retrospective (which to date has received wonderful reviews internationally) is a mix of new recordings and former Melodiya releases. This is the ninth instalment, which comprises six works for varying chamber ensembles, and while embodying the composer’s overall wide ranging compositional style, spirituality and mysticism, these pieces express this in a more intimate, lyrical style than his massive symphonic works. ‘Scenes’ was originally written as a ballet score for a film, but as the movie was banned by the Soviet authorities and never shown, the work now stands in its own right as a balletic suite.
Sullivan: Haddon Hall / Lyle, The Prince Consort, Et Al
Artyomov: Gentle Emanation / Currentzis, Ponkin, Russian National Orchestra
Yacheslav Artyomov is considered by many to be Russia’s greatest living composer. After the fall of the Soviet regime his music has travelled the world to great acclaim. It is deep, ultimately spiritual and brilliantly crafted, with influences from the Russian symphonic tradition colored by Mahler, Honegger and Messiaen to name a few – but melded into a unique voice. This is one of a pair of related albums and contains a Symphony which is the third of his gigantic symphonic tetralogy “Symphony of the Way” - it was given its premiere by Mstislav Rostropovich to whose memory the disc is dedicated. The symphony is accompanied by another major work, Tristia II, a Fantasy for piano and orchestra with poems and prayers by Nikolai Gogol. The two conductors are among the cream of Russia’s younger generation, both amassing a very fine reputation in their own fields. Overall, this is a release of high importance in the symphonic repertoire (world premiere recordings).
Clarke, Raymond: Piano Music for Children by Shostakovich, K
Artyomov: In Memoriam, Lamentations, Pieta & Tristia I / Various
Vyacheslav Artyomov is considered by many to be Russia’s greatest living composer. His music is deep, ultimately spiritual and brilliantly crafted, with influences from the Russian symphonic tradition colored by Mahler, Scriabin, Honegger and Messiaen to name a few – but melded into a unique voice. The Divine Art Artyomov Retrospective is a mix of new recordings and former Melodiya releases. This is the eighth instalment, containing three orchestral works, with an over-arching sorrowful cast – remembering, like his Requiem, the suffering of the Russian peoples under Soviet rule (and for In Memoriam, a tribute to the composer’s mother), and all typifying Artyomov’s true genius as a truly individual composer who can make thoroughly modern music listenable and demanding further regular hearings. Three fine orchestras and conductors, and superb soloists, provide a rich and satisfying program of substantial modern orchestral music.
PIANO WORKS (LP)
A Song Without Words: The Legacy of Paul Taffanel
Russian Piano Music Series, Vol. 2 - Rebikov
The Piano at the Ballet
Chopin for Piano Duo
The Jazz Age for Piano Duo
Mersenne's Clavichord
Stevenson, R.: Passacaglia on DSCH
Schubert: The Unauthorised Piano Duos, Vol. 3 / Goldstone, Clemmow
Jill Crossland - Live at Restoration House
Sander, Mart: Five-Fifteen (A Tribute to the BBC Dance Orche
From the British Isles
Artyomov: Album XI
Jongen, Jonathan Dove & Liszt: Organ Works
Mozart: Serenades Nos. 10 & 11
Handel's Recorder
Litany
Music for Organ by Carson Cooman, Vol. 13: Eternal City / Simmons
Carson Cooman is many things musical–organist and Composer in Residence at the Memorial Church, Harvard University; writer, critic and consultant, concert organist, and above all a highly prolific composer of music in a wide variety of genres, from orchestral to song. His organ compositions come in many styles, from liturgical models, to substantial secular pieces such as his organ symphonies, preludes and fugues. On this album a range of works, most composed in 2017-9, which are ideal for the rich and atmospheric sound of the chosen instrument. Erik Simmons is a superb organist, making his 13th Cooman organ album for Divine Art. He is again playing the wonderful ‘Sun Organ’ of St. Peter &Paul, Görlitz, recorded through the Hauptwerk system.
