Anthology of Contemporary Russian Choral Music Vol.1

This is a choir to watch in concert. They exude youthful confidence and thoroughly enjoy themselves in Alexander Tchaikovsky’s Can’t get Drunk With Unpleasant People — Choir & Organ, May/June 2019, 3 out of 5 stars

Release Date: 4th Jan 2019
Catalogue No: MELCD1002557
Label: Melodiya
Length: 72 minutes

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Agafonnikov: Canticle for the 150th Anniversary of the Moscow Conservatory

Work length2:56

Evgenia Krivitskaya
Chamber Choir of the Moscow Conservatory
Alexander Soloviev

Shchedrin: Russian Folk Proverbs

Work length6:25

Maria Chelmakina
Chamber Choir of the Moscow Conservatory
Alexander Soloviev

I. If You’re Sweet, You’ll Get Pecked

Track length2:02

II. He Who is Not Sinful to God is Not Guilty Towards the Tsar

Track length4:23

Chalayev: From the Cycle Dedication

Work length5:18

Chamber Choir of the Moscow Conservatory
Alexander Soloviev

No. 6, Prayer

Track length2:34

No. 7, The Mountain Heights (From Goethe)

Track length2:44

Podgaits: Console Yourself, My Soul

Work length3:25

Chamber Choir of the Moscow Conservatory
Alexander Soloviev

Kikta: Andrei Rublev’s Daydreams

Work length3:36

Chamber Choir of the Moscow Conservatory
Alexander Soloviev

Yevstratova: Prayer

Work length4:09

Chamber Choir of the Moscow Conservatory
Alexander Soloviev

Yekimov: Kontakion from the Acathistus to Faithful Saint Grand Prince Alexander Nevsky

Work length5:58

Chamber Choir of the Moscow Conservatory
Alexander Soloviev

Ledenyov: Autumn Has Come

Work length7:25

Maria Chelmakina
Chamber Choir of the Moscow Conservatory
Alexander Soloviev

Krivitsky: Doctor Zhivago, Act II Tableau 7: Introduction "Autumn"

Work length4:30

Chamber Choir of the Moscow Conservatory
Alexander Soloviev

Yevgrafov: About Love and the Sky

Work length2:13

Maria Chelmakina
Chamber Choir of the Moscow Conservatory
Alexander Soloviev

Shakhidi: 'Impromptu Ad Libitum' for Solo Piano and Choir

Work length8:55

Ekaterina Mechetina
Chamber Choir of the Moscow Conservatory
Alexander Soloviev

Part I

Track length3:38

Part II

Track length5:17

Bodrov: "Gloria" for choir and piano

Work length3:57

Ekaterina Mechetina
Chamber Choir of the Moscow Conservatory
Alexander Soloviev

Chudova: Concerto for Choir "The Tram of Poetry"

Work length6:25

Chamber Choir of the Moscow Conservatory
Alexander Soloviev

Kvint: Audience

Work length2:36

Andrei Vinnitsky, Chamber Choir of the Moscow Conservator
Chamber Choir of the Moscow Conservatory
Alexander Soloviev

Tchaikovsky, A: Can’t Get Drunk with Unpleasant People

Work length2:49

Chamber Choir of the Moscow Conservatory
Alexander Soloviev

Alexander Klevitsky: Concert Piece for Mixed Choir a Capella "Tu-cha"

Work length2:15

Mikhail Kotelnikov, Andrei Vinnitsky
Chamber Choir of the Moscow Conservatory
Alexander Soloviev

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Firma Melodiya and the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory with support of the All-Russian Non-governmental Organization The Union of Russia’s Composers present the first release from the large-scale project Anthology of Contemporary Choral Music by Russian Composers performed by the Chamber Choir of the Moscow State Conservatory.

This unique choir was established in the mid-1990s as a choral laboratory of modern music. The MSC Chamber Choir led by the outstanding choirmaster Boris Tevlin was distinguished by the diversity of its programmes that comprised holy canticles to spirituals, bright theatrics of its performing style and supreme professional mastery. However, modern music has always been the choir’s particular focus of attention. The choir has numerous domestic and international premieres to its name. In addition, the MSC Chamber Choir is a regular participant of musical festivals and fora dedicated to composers of the 20th and 21st centuries.

In 2012, after maestro Tevlin’s passing, Alexander Soloviev, one of his students and followers, and now a professor of the Moscow Conservatory, took on leadership of the MSC Chamber Choir. The choir keeps expanding its repertoire, but its major direction remains the same – music of modern composers written in different styles and manners.

Anthology of Contemporary Choral Music by Russian Composers is a peculiar result of Alexander Soloviev’s five years with the choir. It is compiled from recordings of the choir’s live broadcasts from the Grand, Small and Rachmaninoff halls of the Moscow Conservatory.

The first disc comprises holy and secular pieces by Moscow composers of different generations – Rodion Shchedrin, Roman Ledenyov, Vladislav Agafonnikov, Valery Kikta, Yefrem Podgaits, Alexander Tchaikovsky, Kuzma Bodrov and others, as well as a work by Tajik composer Tolibkhon Shakhidi. The recordings feature pianist Ekaterina Mechetina, organist Evgenia Krivitskaya and other renowned Moscow musicians.

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May/June 2019

This is a choir to watch in concert. They exude youthful confidence and thoroughly enjoy themselves in Alexander Tchaikovsky’s Can’t get Drunk With Unpleasant People

Anthology of Contemporary Russian Choral Music Vol.1

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