Karayev: Symphony No. 1 & Violin Concerto Janna Gandelman, Kiev Virtuosi Symphony Orchestra & Dmitry Yablonsky

• Kara Karayev (1918 - 1982): Symphony No. 1 in B Minor:
• 1Symphony No. 1 in B Minor: I. Molto sostenuto. Allegro15:08
• 2Symphony No. 1 in B Minor: II. Lento moderato18:27
• Violin Concerto:
• 3Violin Concerto: I. Allegro moderato09:21
• 4Violin Concerto: II. Andante04:25
• 5Violin Concerto: III. Allegro07:06
• Total Runtime54:27

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Kara Karayev was one of the most prominent figures in the music of 20th-century Azerbaijan, and an inspiration to subsequent generations of Azerbaijani composers. His eloquently expressive and tautly dramatic First Symphony is a significant work in Karayev’s output, reflecting both the harmonies and melodic characteristics of the South Caucasus region and, in its orchestral brilliance, the influence of his mentor Shostakovich. The Violin Concerto shows a notable shift in style, exploring the serial techniques that add astringency and inventive depth to Karayev’s already richly coloured and vividly diverse palette.

Janna Gandelman, violin (3–5)
Kiev Virtuosi Symphony Orchestra
Dmitry Yablonsky, conductor

Janna Gandelman
was born in Kishinev (Moldova) where she began her violin studies at age of five. At a very young age she had already won a number of competitions in Russia, such as the National Violin Competition, the Stolyarsky School Competition, the International Competition of the USSR and the Auer Moldova Competition.

After her immigration to Israel in 1979, she maintained an active solo and chamber music concert life as a member of the Programs for excelling young musicians at the Jerusalem Music Center in “Mishkenot Sha’ananim”. In 1984-1989, while Gandelman studied at Tel the Aviv Music Academy, she had won several prizes at important Israeli violin competitions such as the “Clermount” and “Shapiro” competitions. She was a laureate of “Lipitzer” competition in Italy (1992) and had received the second prize at the Atlanta competition in the USA (1994).

Since 1993 Gandelman serves as principle violinist of Israel’s leading ensembles, including Musica Nova, the 21st Century Music Ensemble, the Caprizma Ensemble and the Rishon le-Zion Soloists Quartet. She performed as a soloist with most orchestras in Israel, including the Israeli Opera Orchestra, the Haifa Symphony Orchestra, Be’ersheva Simonette, the Kibbutz Chamber Orchestra and Israeli Camerata Jerusalem. She has played under conductors such as Mendi Rodan, Noam Sheriff, Gary Bertini, Avner Biron, Asher Fish, Doron Solomon and others.

In 1996 she played as guest leader in the Flemish Chamber Orchestra. In 1997-1998 Gandelman served as concertmaster of the Kibbutz Chamber Orchestra and between 1998-2001 she had led the Stage Orchestra of Israel. In 2001 Gandelman became the concertmaster of the Israeli Camerata Jerusalem. Since 2009 she has been serving as the concertmaster at the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, IBA, as well as first violin in the Sapphire String Quartet, (alongside Roman Spitzer, Amos Boasson and Oleg Stolpner) – an ensemble dedicated to performing and recording music from Purcell to contemporary music.

Gandelman performed in chamber music concerts with renowned musicians such as Isaac Stern, Gideon Kremer, Eliso Virsaladze and Asher Fisch. She regularly takes part in international festivals such as the Red Sea Festival, the Abu Gosh Festival, the Israel Festival, the Jerusalem Chamber Music Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival and many others.

Dmitry Yablonksy
Grammy nominated conductor, cellist and conductor Dmitry Yablonksy was born in Moscow into a musical family. He began playing the cello when he was 5 years old and was accepted to the Central Music School for gifted children. At the age of 9 he gave his orchestral debut playing Haydn’s cello concerto.

Since then, his career had taken him to the most important stages in the world, such as the Carnegie Hall, La Scala, Moscow Great Hall, St. Petersburg Philharmonic Hall, Taiwan National Hall, Teatre Mogador, Cite de la Musique, Louvre, among others.

He regularly plays with important artists as Boris Berezovsky, Vadim Repin, Shlomo Mintz, Itamar Golan, Yuri Bashmet, and has collaborated with artists as Monserrat Caballé, Roberto Alagna, Olga Borodina, ... He played Mº Penderecki’s Cello concerto with the composer at the podium.

He has also an important career as Conductor that begun in Camerino (Italy), where he had his first opportunity to conduct an orchestra. He was 26 years old and since then, has collaborated with many important orchestras as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra (principal guest conductor 2000-2004), Novoya Rossiya (Principal Guest Conductor 2012- ), Israel Symphony Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Belgian National Orchestra, Antwerpen Orchestra, North Netherlands Orchestra, Maastricht Orchestra, Russian State Orchestra, Orchestre National d'Ile de France, Taiwan National Orchestra, Catania Opera Orchestra, Holland Symphonia, Bologna Chamber Orchestra, Ofunam (México), etc..

His mother is the famed pianist Oxana Yablonskaya, with whom he immigrated in 1977 to New York where he studied with Lorne Munroe (solo cellist of New York Philharmonic Orchestra), David Soyer, cellist of Guarneri quartet, and with Aldo Parisot.

In the summer of 1979, at the age 16, Dmitry was accepted to participate in Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont and was the youngest participant. There, he had the opportunity to meet many great musicians as M. Horszowski, M. Tree, M. Shneider, M. Foley... and after playing for David Soyer, cellist of Guarneri quartet, he offered him to come to Curtis Institute of Music to study with him.

In 2010 Dmitry Yablonsky received the Diploma of the Honorary Academician at the Independet Academy of Liberal Arts at the Russian Academy of Sciences. He has transcribed and edited works for cello, which was released by International Music Company and Dover Publications. Naxos records released his recording of all 40 Popper etudes for solo cello in the fall of 2008, which received great critical acclaim.

But maybe, his most important recording is the Piano trio recording for Erato/ Warner with Vadim Repin and Boris Berezovsky that has won numerous awards.

Dmitry Yablonsky has an enthusiastic and charismatic character that takes him to initiate many projects. He has organized many festivals all over the world and is the artistic director of Gabala Festival in Azerbaijan.

Dmitry Yablonsky is Music Director of Kiev Virtuosi and Conductor Laureate of Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra. Since fall 2016, he teaches at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music at Tel Aviv University and has been recently named Head of International Relations of the same University.

​ Dmitry plays two cellos: a Joseph Filius Andrea Guarneri and a Matteo Gofriller.

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