There is an irony in the notion that what masks as “culture” actually manages, although reluctantly, to include as elemental the best part of humanity. The outward appearance of “culture” has evolved through the assumption and ultimate discarding of variously narrow nationalist identities – the European theatre was masked at one time or another variously as predominantly German, then conquered by Russian,…
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Sergei Prokofiev: Suggestion Diabolique, Op. 4, No. 4
Young Prokofiev – a cheerful hooligan. The one that made furious all those conservative academics. Please do not confuse those academics with contemporary idiots from conservatoires of music. Although sometimes boring, those academics were decent people. Like, for example, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. …
A few words about Modest Mussorgsky.
The story of Mussorgsky is indeed a tragedy. Not so much because of his difficult life and early death, but because of the resolute inability of people to understand and comprehend his work. People prefer music that is set out in a simple and accessible language, creating sounds that “caress the ear.” A deep…
Bach: Keyboard Concerto in D Minor, BWV 1052: II. Adagio and III. Allegro
And then Bach structured everything according to his religious program: – “With many sorrows we must enter the Kingdom of God.” – “If we ascend to the highest heights, then descend downwards, finally turn to the outside world to find the truth of our inner souls, we will everywhere find the cross.” И тут у…
Rachmaninov: Prelude op. 23 no. 5 in G minor
Interview: – In the original description the recording date and location were not included, so when was this recording made and where did you make it ? AG: EMI. In the Great hall of the Moscow conservatory. It was recorded in 1984, and was the only EMI recording made in Russia after the revolution It…
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No.3 in D minor
Sergey Rachmaninoff (28 Nov. 1909) 109 years ago Premiere of the piano concerto no. 3 in d minor op. 30, in New York, USA, with Rachmaninov at the piano. Возвращая потерянную 100 лет назад музыку. Первая часть третьего Рахманинова от 19.01.2017 из Pécs. Тут вас ожидают новые темпы, новые мысли, совершенно аутентичное “бездраматичное” развитие….
Handel: Suite No 7 in G minor – HWV 432
Suite No 7 in G minor is the crown of Handel’s monumental talent. This music has been helping me a lot throughout all my life. It helps to overcome obstacles, survive adversity and not to lose faith in truth, beauty, and most important in humanity. As it is always happens with a masterpiece of…
Warm greetings to all! (En) (Es)
For 25 years I have been preparing the best and most original “product” – an unsurpassed philosophy of music, performance, new language, new tools for new knowledge, new horizons of discovery, new thoughts, new literature, new videos, new pedagogy, new performances, new sonic worlds, new aesthetics, new, unheard of depths of understanding of musical language,…
Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 2 in G-minor. II Allegro scherzando.
After feasting with Rachmaninov at a rather scrumptious banquet of Asian tonicity, we may want to jump on a beautiful Horse in the French countryside , say, in the Bois de Boulogne? Having taken in the delicious French Zephyrs we might be tempted to sleep. And sleep well. But instead we choose our repose in…
Schubert: Impromptu in C minor Op. 90 No. 1
Franz Peter Schubert (31 January 1797 – 19 November 1828) It is extremely difficult to combine in performance courage, beauty and tenderness without disturbing the balance of these three basic features of the heart of a romantic idealist. Schubert came very close to that as throughout his life he had the courage to chant the…
UCM Club
Dear potential friends, over the past three years there has been a complete reformatting, then, closing all of my FB accounts (there were three of them from 2008/2010 to 2016 – Russian, English, German). From this year we have a “closed community” which is partly presented here on FB. It was formed during previous…
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2
Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto by no means falls into the category of “academically classical music”. Rather, it is a bright example of “sublime popular music”. This is a perfectly new genre still only subconsciously perceived by people, but having no formal definition as a unique genre. Rachmaninov’s piano technique and his gift for composing…
“Awareness”
“Awareness” This is a very beautiful state and stage of human life, where a person becomes truly “reasonable”, justifying his “species name”. The most curious thing is that it is “not a secret” to anyone that “we are all fools”. Everyone understands that. But how to determine the degree of “our cleverness”? There are very…
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No.1, Op.23
Tchaikovsky’s first concerto was not only the composer’s first piano concerto, but also the first significantly recognized piano concerto in Russian music. Understanding the responsibility of writing not only “musical history”, but also the history of Russia, Tchaikovsky invested a huge amount of imagery, emotions, and art paintings in this concerto, foresaw his own…
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2, 2nd Movement (En)
Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto by no means falls into the category of “academically classical music”. Rather, it is a bright example of “sublime popular music”. This is a perfectly new genre still only subconsciously perceived by people, but having no formal definition as a unique genre. Rachmaninoff’s piano technique and his gift for composing bring…
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