Composer: Boris Tishchenko
Performer: Gabriel Tchalik, Dania Tchalik
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Evidence Classics
Catalogue: EVCD013
Release: 2015
Size: 361 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Fantaisie pour violon et piano, Op. 118
Sonate pour violon No. 1, Op. 5
02. I. Allegro
03. II. Andante
04. III. Allegro ma non troppo. Energico
05. Rondo pour violon et piano, Op. 2
06. Kaprichchio, Op. 31
07. 2 starinnïkh tantsa, Op. 62b
Sonate pour violon No. 2, Op. 63
08. I. Prélude. Maestoso
09. II. Intermezzo I. Presto
10. III. Sonate. Allegro
11. IV. Intermezzo II. Presto
12. V. Aria. Andante
13. VI. Intermezzo III. Presto
14. VII. Postlude. Maestoso
After the success of his first album, devoted to Locatelli’s 24 ‘Caprices for solo violin’, Gabriel Tchalik takes us to Russia in the second half of the 20th century, following in the footsteps of Boris Tishchenko (1939-2010).This album features the world premiere recordings of Tishchenko’s complete works for violin. To underscore this event, Gabriel Tchalik wanted to bring together with this album three outstanding personalities from the intellectual and artistic world of this post-Stalin era: a composer, a painter and a writer, each of whom, in his own way, depicted Soviet reality of the time. Instigator of Moscow’s famous so-called ‘Bulldozer Exhibition’, repressed in 1974 by the regime, Oscar Rabin is a painter now internationally known; 12 of his unpublished drawings, dating from the 1950s and ’60s, are thus presented in this new album conceived as an art object. Drawing their inspiration from the same Soviet reality and attesting to the ephemeral artistic effervescence that occurred at the moment of the Thaw, they closely echo the music of Tishchenko. So it is with the text by Nicolas Bokov, a dissident writer forced into exile by the same regime.