Khachaturian - Piano Concerto, Violin Concerto, etc
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Label: EMI - 20th Century Classics
Cat No: 6278902
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Release Date: 5th July 2010
Contents
Works
Gayaneh: Ballet Suite (highlights)Gayaneh
Piano Concerto in D flat major, op.38
Pictures of Childhood
Violin Concerto in D minor, op.46
Artists
Christina OrtizDavid Oistrakh
London Symphony Orchestra
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductors
Aram KhachaturianSir Adrian Boult
Works
Gayaneh: Ballet Suite (highlights)Gayaneh
Piano Concerto in D flat major, op.38
Pictures of Childhood
Violin Concerto in D minor, op.46
Artists
Christina OrtizDavid Oistrakh
London Symphony Orchestra
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductors
Aram KhachaturianSir Adrian Boult
About
Aram Khachaturian was born in 1903 into a poor Armenian family in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, which was then part of Imperial Russia and later the USSR. After moving to Moscow he took up studies with Myaskovsky at the Conservatoire, eventually becoming a professor there. In spite of having been an enthusiastic communist he was, in 1948, severely denounced by the Soviet authorities (along with Prokofiev and Shostakovich) for writing what they termed 'formalist' music: music that did not appeal to the masses.
Khachaturian's works include some of the best-known music in the 20th-Century repertoire, most notably the ballets Gayaneh (from which comes the ever-popular Sabre Dance) and Spartacus, the Adagio from which was used in Stanley Kubrick's film '2001: A Space Odyssey'.
Suites from both of these works are contained in this set, along with a fine recording of the Piano Concerto that is making it's first appearance on CD, and David Oistrakh's incomparable recording of the Violin Concerto conducted by the composer.
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