ولادیمیر اسپیواکف – نسخه سالگرد (Vladimir Spivakov – Anniversary Edition)

 Vladimir Spivakov – Anniversary Edition: Box Set 5CDs (2015)
Classical | Label: Melodiya

Firma Melodiya presents an anniversary set dedicated to Vladimir Spivakov’s 70th birthday.
This outstanding musician is well-known and loved across the world. A violinist, educator, conductor, founder and permanent leader of the chamber orchestra Moscow Virtuosi and the National Symphony Orchestra of Russia, an organizer of the charity trust that supports talented children, a director of international music festivals both in Russia and overseas, a jury member of a number of violin competitions, and the president of the Moscow International House of Music – Maestro Spivakov’s artistic and social activities only broaden through the years. He performs all over the world, renews his violin and conducting repertoire playing with some of the best soloists and conductors.
    The 5-CD set features Vladimir Spivakov as both a violinist and conductor on recordings made in the 1970s to the 1990s. That period of performing activity and creation of the Moscow Virtuosi was a bright phase in the maestro’s career, leaving an unforgettable trace in performing arts of this country and the world.

Full Tracklist:

CD 1 [79.42]
Pyotr Ilyich TCHAIKOVSKY (1840-1893)
Mélodie, Op. 42 No. 3
Rodion SHCHEDRIN (b. 1932)
Imitating Albeniz
Pablo de SARASATE (1844-1908)
Caprice Basque, Op. 24
Pyotr Ilyich TCHAIKOVSKY
Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35
Jean SIBELIUS
Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47
Maria Gousak (piano)
Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra/Yuri Temirkanov (Tchaikovsky & Sibelius Concertos)
rec. 1970

CD 2 [66:53]
Rodion SHCHEDRIN
Music for the Town of Köthen
Carmen Suite (Bizet)
Chamber orchestra Moscow Virtuosi/Vladimir Spivakov
rec. 1984-1986

CD 3 [47.09]
Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART (1756–1791)
Symphony No. 28 in C major, K. 200
Mass in C major, Coronation, K. 317*
Moscow Virtuosi/Vladimir Spivakov
Araks Davtyan (soprano)*
Larisa Pyatigorskaya (mezzo)*
Jorge Anton (tenor)*
Inaki Fresan (bass)*
Basques Chorus Orfeon Donostiarra, under A. Ayestaran*
rec. Moscow Conservatoire 1989 (K.200), 1986 (K317)

CD 4 [74.41]
Antonio LOCATELLI (1695-1764)
Sonata da camera in G minor for Violin and Piano, Op. 2 No.6
Nicolò PAGANINI (1782-1840)
Le Streghe, Op. 8
César FRANCK (1822-1890)
Violin Sonata in A major (1886)
Belá BARTÓK (1881-1945)
Violin Rhapsody No. 1, Sz. 87
Sergei PROKOFIEV (1891-1953)
Five Mélodies for Violin and Piano, Op. 35
Viktoria Postnikova (piano)
rec. 1970

CD 5 [72.05]
Franz Peter SCHUBERT (1797-1828)
Violin Sonata (Sonatina No. 2) in A minor, D. 385, Op. 137/2
Camille SAINT-SAËNS (1835-1921)
Havanaise, Op. 83
Claude DEBUSSY (1862-1918)
Pieces
Maurice RAVEL (1875-1937)
Valses nobles et sentimentales, M. 61
Darius MILHAUD (1892-1974)
Corcovado from Saudades do Brasil, Op. 67
Henryk WIENIAWSKI (1835-1880)
Polonaise de Concert in D major, Op. 4
Belá BARTÓK
Romanian Folk Dances, Sz. 56
Ernest BLOCH (1880-1959)
Baal Shem for Violin and Orchestra (1939)
George GERSHWIN (1898-1937)
Prelude No. 2 in c sharp minor, Fragments from the opera Porgy and Bess
Boris Bekhterev (piano)
rec. 1972-1981