Composer: Matvey Nikolaevsky
Performer: Svetlana Zlobina, Mikhail Mordvinov
Orchestra: Moscow Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Philipp Chizhevsky
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0324
Release: 2015
Size: 307 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
01. Nocturne in C minor
02. Fantasia on the Russian Folksong ‘Korobeiniki’
03. Oh Come, Have Mercy – Gypsy Romance
04. I Dreamed of Evening Skies
05. To admire you forever
06. Csardas
07. Gypsy Dance
2 Ballet Marches
08. No. 1. Victory March
09. No. 2. Heroic March
10. The Snuff-Box – A musical box for piano
11. A day on the Volga – Musical picture
12. Tango Satanique
13 .Charlie-Fox (Charleston)
14. Jou-Re (Boston Waltz)
15. Miss Evelyn: Foxtrot (Shimmy, Two-Step)
16. Hey, Enough of That!
17. Old Sofron on the Bench
18. The Road Runs Wide through the Fields
19. The Bell Jingles on the Harness
The Roaring Twenties roared in Russia as well as in Europe and America, to an extent not generally realised in the west.
This CD reveals for the first time the light music of a minor master of the day, Matvey Nikolaevsky (1882–1942). Nikolaevsky’s songs and dances were enormously popular in the Soviet Union in the 1920s and ’30s. His style moved effortlessly from the salon music of the late 19th century to the foxtrots, Charlestons and tangos that were now in vogue. Most of his substantial output was lost and this CD presents most of his surviving compositions.
Svetlana Zlobina took part in the Russian Culture Channel TV series Grand Opera. Since 2011 she has been a guest soloist at the K S Stanislavsky and V I Nemirovich-Danchenko State Musical Theatre in Moscow. The pianist Mikhail Mordvinov is co-founder of the ensemble Arteunita in Valencia, and in Berlin he was a founder-member of the Mieczysław Weinberg Trio.
Filipp Chizhevsky studied at the Moscow Conservatoire, where he himself has taught since 2011, the year in which he was appointed conductor of the State Symphony Capella of Russia. In 2012 he conducted the world premiere of Michael Nyman’s opera ‘Dido: The Prologue’ in a concert performance in Perm with the Capella’s chamber orchestra.