Igor Raykhelson: Piano & Chamber Music, Vol. 2

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Release Date: 29th Mar 2019
Catalogue No: TOCC0485
Label: Toccata Classics
Length: 80 minutes

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Raykhelson: Piano Trio No. 2 in B Minor

Work length30:33

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Marc Bouchkov (violin), Alexander Kniazev (cello), Konstantin Lifschitz (piano)
Recorded: 16-18 June 2017
Recording Venue: The House of Sound Recording, Moscow, Russia

I. Misterioso

Track length13:22

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II. Allegretto

Track length9:53

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III. Allegro maestoso

Track length7:18

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Raykhelson: 5 Short Pieces for Piano

Work length14:59

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Konstantin Lifschitz (piano)
Recorded: 10 June 2017
Recording Venue: The House of Sound Recording, Moscow, Russia

No. 1, Consolation. Andante mosso

Track length2:41

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No. 2, Serendipity

Track length3:49

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No. 3, Delirium. Melancholic

Track length3:10

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No. 4, Mirage. Melancholic

Track length3:12

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No. 5, Pranks. Scherzando

Track length2:07

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Raykhelson: Melodia for Violin and Piano

Work length3:21

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Ekaterina Astashova (violin), Konstantin Lifschitz (piano)

Raykhelson: Piano Quartet in G-Sharp Minor (Homage to Robert Schumann)

Work length31:47

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Marc Bouchkov (violin), Andrei Usov (viola), Alexander Kniazev (cello), Konstantin Lifschitz (piano)
Recorded: 16-18 June 2017
Recording Venue: The House of Sound Recording, Moscow, Russia

I. Sostenuto - Allegro risoluto

Track length10:12

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II. Allegretto

Track length5:50

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III. Andante cantabile

Track length8:38

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IV. Allegro maestoso

Track length7:07

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In his early days the composer-pianist Igor Raykhelson – born in Leningrad in 1961, once a New York resident and now based in Moscow – studied both classical and jazz piano. Both influences have combined to create a uniquely personal, Rachmaninov-plays-the-blues Neo-Romantic style: not only is Raykhelson unafraid to write a good tune – it’s clear right away whose tune it is. And in his chamber and instrumental works, the parlando manner that Raykhelson absorbed from jazz becomes particularly effective. Raykhelson’s chamber music is usually written for his friends, and here he is joined by some of Russia’s finest musicians, including the cellist Alexander Kniazev and the pianist Konstantin Lifschitz – and the violinist in Raykhelson’s lyrical Melodia is his wife, Ekaterina Astashova.

Marc Bouchkov, violin, has appeared as a soloist with a number of major European orchestras; in January 2018, Gramophone featured him as ‘One to Watch’. Ekaterina Astashova, violin, has premiered several of the works of Igor Raykhelson, her husband, and together they have performed around the world, with performances taking them across Europe and as far as the Bahamas. She is also an avid jazz player. The violist Andrei Usov is a member of the Romantic String Quartet and the Moscow Soloists. Alexander Kniazev was appointed professor at the Moscow Conservatoire in 1995; he frequently gives master-classes in France, Korea and Spain. He is also active as an organist. Konstantin Lifschitz, piano, has given recitals in the most important of the world’s concert venues. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music in London and in 2008 was appointed a professor of the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts.

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