Russian Masters

There’s a heartfelt quality to Jamal Aliyev’s playing that comes across strongly on this debut disc. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2017, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 10th Mar 2017
Catalogue No: CHRCD127
Label: Champs Hill Records
Length: 80 minutes

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Prokofiev: Cello Sonata in C major, Op. 119

Work length26:12

$4.50

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Anna Fedorova, Jamal Aliyev

I. Andante grave

Track length12:05

$2.00

$2.80

II. Moderato

Track length5:21

$1.00

$1.40

III. Allegro, ma non troppo

Track length8:46

$1.50

$2.10

Shostakovich: Cello Sonata in D minor, Op. 40

Work length29:08

$5.50

$7.70

Anna Fedorova, Jamal Aliyev

I. Allegro non troppo

Track length12:47

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II. Allegro

Track length3:19

$1.00

$1.40

III. Largo

Track length8:42

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$2.10

IV. Allegro

Track length4:20

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$1.40

Tchaikovsky: 6 Pieces, Op. 4: IV. Nocturne in D Minor

Work length5:09

$1.00

$1.40

Anna Fedorova, Jamal Aliyev

Tchaikovsky: Valse sentimentale / Andante cantabile / Pezzo capriccioso Op. 62

Work length7:30

$1.50

$2.10

Anna Fedorova, Jamal Aliyev

Glazunov: Chant du Ménestrel, Op. 71

Work length4:08

$1.00

$1.40

Anna Fedorova, Jamal Aliyev

Borodin: Prince Igor: Polovtsian Dances

Work length4:01

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Anna Fedorova, Jamal Aliyev

Shchedrin: Im Stile von Albeniz for violin & piano

Work length3:58

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Anna Fedorova, Jamal Aliyev

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Cellist Jamal Aliyev and pianist Anna Fedorova explore the Russian works that are been central to both their musical and family heritages.

In the introduction to this new recording Aliyev and Fedorova describe the shared experience of being brought up by parents who were musically schooled in Russia’s Soviet music tradition, lending a special resonance and insight to their performances and collaboration. This disc includes Sonatas and other works by a broad palette of different Russian styles, including Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky, Glazunov, Borodin and Schedrin.

BBC Introducing Classical Artist Jamal Aliyev is rapidly becoming one of the most sought after cellists of his generation. Aliyev has performed frequently on BBC Radio 3, and is the First Prize winner of several international competitions, including the Muriel Taylor Cello Competition (2014); Croydon Concerto Competition (2015); Bromsgrove International Competition (2015) and Eastbourne Concerto Competition (2016). Aliyev has also twice won both the Royal College of Music Concerto Competition (2014 and 2015) and the Royal College of Music Violoncello Competition (2014 and 2015), the college where he also studies.

Anna Fedorova is one of the world’s leading young pianists. From an early age, she demonstrated an innate musical maturity and outstanding technical abilities. Her international concert career took off while she was only a child, and audiences around the world were stunned by the depth and power of her musical expression. Critics have praised Anna’s signature “sweet modesty and wild expression”, which rendered listeners “completely taken by surprise, compelled and astonished.”

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May 2017

There’s a heartfelt quality to Jamal Aliyev’s playing that comes across strongly on this debut disc.

May 2017

Aliyev plays with a pleasant if tightly focused tone and Fedorova is clearly on the same wavelength. There are countless little touches of imaginative colour – the balletic grace with which Aliyev unfolds the second subject of Prokofiev’s first movement, Fedorova strumming her piano like a gusli at the start of Glazunov’s Chant du ménéstrel, and the two of them whirling and shimmering together in Shostakovich’s Scherzo

Classical Music April 2017

Thoughtful, expansive readings of the two great Soviet cello sonatas from a young artist possessed of enviable technique and a rich broad palette.

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