Taneyev: Suite de Concert & Rimsky-Korsakov: Fantasy on Russian Themes Lydia Mordkovitch, Royal Scottish National Orchestra & Neeme Järvi

• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 - 1908): Fantasy on Two Russian Themes for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 33:
• 1Rimsky-Korsakov: Fantasy on Two Russian Themes for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 33: I. Allegro moderato - Tranquillo07:30
• 2Rimsky-Korsakov: Fantasy on Two Russian Themes for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 33: II. Lento03:15
• 3Rimsky-Korsakov: Fantasy on Two Russian Themes for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 33: III. Allegro animato06:50
• Sergei Taneyev (1856 - 1915): Suite de Concert, Op. 28:
• 4Taneyev: Suite de Concert, Op. 28: I. Prelude. Grave05:24
• 5Taneyev: Suite de Concert, Op. 28: II. Gavotte. Allegro moderato05:35
• 6Taneyev: Suite de Concert, Op. 28: III. Fairy-tale. Andantino09:52
• 7Taneyev: Suite de Concert, Op. 28: IV. Theme. Andantino01:34
• 8Taneyev: Suite de Concert, Op. 28: IV. Variation I. Allegro moderato01:17
• 9Taneyev: Suite de Concert, Op. 28: IV. Variation II. Allegro energico01:41
• 10Taneyev: Suite de Concert, Op. 28: IV. Variation III. Tempo di Valse02:15
• 11Taneyev: Suite de Concert, Op. 28: IV. Variation IV. Fuga doppia01:57
• 12Taneyev: Suite de Concert, Op. 28: IV. Variation V. Presto scherzando00:56
• 13Taneyev: Suite de Concert, Op. 28: IV. Variation VI. Tempo di Mazurka01:37
• 14Taneyev: Suite de Concert, Op. 28: IV. Variazione finale e coda04:51
• 15Taneyev: Suite de Concert, Op. 28: V. Tarantella. Presto07:46
• Total Runtime01:02:20

Info for Taneyev: Suite de Concert & Rimsky-Korsakov: Fantasy on Russian Themes

Lydia Mordkovitch and the then Scottish National Orchestra conducted by Neeme Järvi were a celebrated team in the 1980s, recording many notable Russian works, including the concertos by Khachaturian, Prokofiev and Shostakovich for Chandos, and winning a Gramophone Award. This ‘team’ has recently re-assembled to record little-known concertante works by Taneyev and Rimsky Korsakov. The unusual coupling of works by Taneyev and Rimsky-Korsakov, two great composer friends, neatly symbolises the era of the last decades of nineteenth-century Russia, with its great conservatories in Moscow and St Petersburg exerting enormous influence on the music of the country at the time.

"A mellower Mordkovitch is outstanding in this splendid Russian pairing. A disc to enjoy. Sounds like she did." (Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine Awards Issue 2008)

"A mellower Mordkovitch is outstanding in this splendid Russian pairing. "Mordkovitch", according to critic Edward Seckerson, "has mellowed. She has… curbed her edgy dynamism." Indeed she has. The overwhelming quality here is a rich, creamy tone - even luscious at times. She finds the drama in the Rimsky-Korsakov and Taneyev works but relishes the cushioning orchestrations. A disc to enjoy. Sounds like she did." (Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine Awards Issue 2008)

Lydia Mordkovitch, violin
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Neeme Jarvi, conductor

Lydia Mordkovitch
was born in Russia and studied at the Odessa Conservatory, then at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow where she was master pupil and assistant to David Oistrakh. She emigrated to Israel in 1974 and since 1980 has lived in Britain, appearing regularly with the London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, The Hallé Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic and English Chamber Orchestra. She has worked with such distinguished conductors as Sir Georg Solti, Riccardo Muti, Vassily Sinaisky, Neeme Järvi, Richard Hickox, Hugo Wolff, Ian Leighton-Konig, Vernon Handley, Gennady Rozhdestvensky and Stanislav Skrowaczewski. An impressive discography of well over fifty recordings reflects her very wide repertoire, and encompasses music from the complete works for solo violin by Bach to the concertos of Shostakovich, her recording of which for Chandos won a Gramophone Award and a Diapason d’Or. Her work has twice been nominated for a Gramophone Award and has received seven Critics’ Choices; recent recordings have won major nominations or prizes across Europe. Lydia Mordkovitch has several times been named ‘Woman of the Year’ by the American Biographical Institute, and also ‘Outstanding Woman of the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries’. She is a professor and Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music in London.

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