Composer: Edison Denisov, Modest Mussorgsky, Sergei Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich
Performer: Fedor Rudin, Boris Kusnezow
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Orchid
Catalogue: ORC100183
Release: 2021
Size: 706 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Denisov: 3 Concert Pieces for Violin & Piano, Op. 15
01. No. 1, Improvisation
02. No. 2, Adagio
03. No. 3, Dance
04. Denisov: Prelude & Duo Scene from the Opera “Rodrigue et Chimène” (After Debussy’s L. 72) [Arr. F. Rudin for Violin & Piano]
Denisov: Violin Sonata
05. I. Allegro moderato
06. II. Largo
07. III. Vivace
Shostakovich: Violin Sonata in G Minor
08. I. Moderato con moto (Unfinished)
Prokofiev: Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 80
09. I. Andante assai
10. II. Allegro brusco
11. III. Andante
12. IV. Allegrissimo
Denisov: Violin Sonatina
13. I. Andante
14. II. Allegretto
Mussorgsky: Sorochintsy Fair
15. Hopak (Arr. S. Rachmaninoff for Violin & Piano)
On this fascinating new release, violinist Fedor Rudin and pianist Boris Kusnezow perform works by mid-20th-century Russian composers Edison Denisov, Dmitri Shostakovich and Sergei Prokofiev, including previously unpublished music. French-Russian violinist Fedor Rudin explores and pays tribute to his heritage via this rich collection of works, including his own arrangement of Denisov’s orchestration of Debussy’s ‘Prelude and Duo’, which comes from Debussy’s unfinished opera, Rodrigue et Chimène. Other gems include Denisov’s rarely-heard Three concert pieces for violin and piano (1958), and his previously unpublished Sonatina (1972), which marks a return to his melodic youth after the musically experimental interim years. Those years are represented here by Denisov’s dodecaphonic Sonata (1963). We also hear an unfinished Sonata by Shostakovich, Rachmaninoff’s arrangement of Mussorgsky’s ‘Hopak’ from his opera Sorochinsky Fair, and Prokofiev’s unusually theatrical Violin Sonata No. 1.