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If Russian composer Mikhail Glinka was the father of Russian nationalism, Mily Balakirev was its St. Peter, evangelizing to fellow apostles Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, and others and therefore acting as "the rock" whereupon Glinka's church was built. Nevertheless, the Balakirev works that have been available on disc for the most part -- the glittering, Lisztian piano fantasia Islamey, the lush and orientalist tone poem Tamara, and his quirky, idiosyncratic symphonies -- certainly sound "Russian," but provide little evidence of what it was in Balakirev's music that motivated the "Mighty Handful" to follow his lead. An 1866 collection of folk songs harmonized by Balakirev is often cited in relevant literature as breaking the ground for the first generation of Russian Nationalists.
Not that this was in any way an easy thing to achieve -- the main supporters of concert life in Russia in Balakirev's time was made up among educated nobles, aristocrats, bureaucrats, well-to-do military officers, and others who looked down upon Russian folk song as the unworthy, culturally poor product of illiterate serfs and peasants. In Russia, the serfs were liberated in 1861, a little later than in most European nations, though not, incidentally, than England! Nevertheless, in 1852 the 14-year-old Balakirev was already making an honest stab at working what he thought were their melodies into his Grand Fantasia on Russian Folksongs for piano and orchestra, Op. 4, recorded on Toccata Classics' Balakirev and Russian Folksong for the first time. Performed by pianist Joseph Banowetz with the Russian Philharmonic of Moscow under Konstantin Krimets, the work is far more sophisticated and involved than one would surmise from a composer so young, although the example of Chopin's piano concerti -- the use of glittering sequences in the solo part and of a spare, restrained orchestral component -- is readily apparent. While the piece consists of moderate and slow movements only and is technically unfinished, it still feels like a coherent whole even as Balakirev left it.
The main event, though, is the 30 Songs of the Russian People, a collection of folk song harmonizations Balakirev created and published in 1898-1900. Balakirev did not personally collect the folk melodies, as he had in the 1866 volume, and here a two-piano version, played by Banowetz and Alton Chung Ming, is favored over the parallel voice and piano edition that appeared at about the same time. In this realization, singers Olga Kalugina, Svetlana Nikolayeva, and Pavel Kolgatin sing the original folk melodies, unaccompanied, and Balakirev's piano duet harmonizations follow. Some listeners may feel the back and forth nature of this arrangement is a little disorienting, but it makes good musical sense, and Balakirev's settings deliberately avoid attempting to pin down or drive the traditional melodies around harmonically. It is easy to hear how this naked approach helped define the art of setting Russian folk song, not only for Balakirev's immediate circle, but also for others outside it, such as Tchaikovsky. In sum, Toccata Classics' Balakirev and Russian Folksong offers one of the most direct perspectives offered so far on Balakirev's work as an avatar of traditionally tinged Russian Western art music.
© TiVo
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Grande fantaisie on Russian folksongs, Op. 4 (Mily Balakirev)
Dormition of the Mother of God (Traditional)
Olga Kalugina, soprano - Svetlana Nikolayeva, mezzo soprano - Pavel Kolgatin, tenor - Joseph Banowetz, piano - Alton Chung Ming Chan, piano
2007 Toccata Classics 2007 Toccata Classics
30 Russian Folksongs (Mily Balakirev)
Olga Kalugina, soprano - Svetlana Nikolayeva, mezzo soprano - Pavel Kolgatin, tenor - Joseph Banowetz, piano - Alton Chung Ming Chan, piano
2007 Toccata Classics 2007 Toccata Classics
Egority the Brave (Traditional)
Olga Kalugina, soprano - Svetlana Nikolayeva, mezzo soprano - Pavel Kolgatin, tenor - Joseph Banowetz, piano - Alton Chung Ming Chan, piano
2007 Toccata Classics 2007 Toccata Classics
30 Russian Folksongs (Mily Balakirev)
Olga Kalugina, soprano - Svetlana Nikolayeva, mezzo soprano - Pavel Kolgatin, tenor - Joseph Banowetz, piano - Alton Chung Ming Chan, piano
2007 Toccata Classics 2007 Toccata Classics
Lazar (Traditional)
Olga Kalugina, soprano - Svetlana Nikolayeva, mezzo soprano - Pavel Kolgatin, tenor - Joseph Banowetz, piano - Alton Chung Ming Chan, piano
2007 Toccata Classics 2007 Toccata Classics
30 Russian Folksongs (Mily Balakirev)
Olga Kalugina, soprano - Svetlana Nikolayeva, mezzo soprano - Pavel Kolgatin, tenor - Joseph Banowetz, piano - Alton Chung Ming Chan, piano
2007 Toccata Classics 2007 Toccata Classics
The Last Judgement (Traditional)
Olga Kalugina, soprano - Svetlana Nikolayeva, mezzo soprano - Pavel Kolgatin, tenor - Joseph Banowetz, piano - Alton Chung Ming Chan, piano
2007 Toccata Classics 2007 Toccata Classics
30 Russian Folksongs (Mily Balakirev)
Olga Kalugina, soprano - Svetlana Nikolayeva, mezzo soprano - Pavel Kolgatin, tenor - Joseph Banowetz, piano - Alton Chung Ming Chan, piano
2007 Toccata Classics 2007 Toccata Classics
The Book of the Dove (Traditional)
Olga Kalugina, soprano - Svetlana Nikolayeva, mezzo soprano - Pavel Kolgatin, tenor - Joseph Banowetz, piano - Alton Chung Ming Chan, piano
2007 Toccata Classics 2007 Toccata Classics
30 Russian Folksongs (Mily Balakirev)
Olga Kalugina, soprano - Svetlana Nikolayeva, mezzo soprano - Pavel Kolgatin, tenor - Joseph Banowetz, piano - Alton Chung Ming Chan, piano
2007 Toccata Classics 2007 Toccata Classics
The King's Sons from Krakow (Traditional)
Olga Kalugina, soprano - Svetlana Nikolayeva, mezzo soprano - Pavel Kolgatin, tenor - Joseph Banowetz, piano - Alton Chung Ming Chan, piano
2007 Toccata Classics 2007 Toccata Classics
30 Russian Folksongs (Mily Balakirev)
Olga Kalugina, soprano - Svetlana Nikolayeva, mezzo soprano - Pavel Kolgatin, tenor - Joseph Banowetz, piano - Alton Chung Ming Chan, piano
2007 Toccata Classics 2007 Toccata Classics
Kostruk (Traditional)
Olga Kalugina, soprano - Svetlana Nikolayeva, mezzo soprano - Pavel Kolgatin, tenor - Joseph Banowetz, piano - Alton Chung Ming Chan, piano
2007 Toccata Classics 2007 Toccata Classics
30 Russian Folksongs (Mily Balakirev)
Olga Kalugina, soprano - Svetlana Nikolayeva, mezzo soprano - Pavel Kolgatin, tenor - Joseph Banowetz, piano - Alton Chung Ming Chan, piano
2007 Toccata Classics 2007 Toccata Classics
Nikita Romanovich (Traditional)
Olga Kalugina, soprano - Svetlana Nikolayeva, mezzo soprano - Pavel Kolgatin, tenor - Joseph Banowetz, piano - Alton Chung Ming Chan, piano
2007 Toccata Classics 2007 Toccata Classics
30 Russian Folksongs (Mily Balakirev)
Olga Kalugina, soprano - Svetlana Nikolayeva, mezzo soprano - Pavel Kolgatin, tenor - Joseph Banowetz, piano - Alton Chung Ming Chan, piano
2007 Toccata Classics 2007 Toccata Classics
Grisha Otrepyev (Traditional)
Olga Kalugina, soprano - Svetlana Nikolayeva, mezzo soprano - Pavel Kolgatin, tenor - Joseph Banowetz, piano - Alton Chung Ming Chan, piano
2007 Toccata Classics 2007 Toccata Classics
30 Russian Folksongs (Mily Balakirev)
Olga Kalugina, soprano - Svetlana Nikolayeva, mezzo soprano - Pavel Kolgatin, tenor - Joseph Banowetz, piano - Alton Chung Ming Chan, piano
2007 Toccata Classics 2007 Toccata Classics
Vasiliy Okulyevic (Traditional)
Olga Kalugina, soprano - Svetlana Nikolayeva, mezzo soprano - Pavel Kolgatin, tenor - Joseph Banowetz, piano - Alton Chung Ming Chan, piano
2007 Toccata Classics 2007 Toccata Classics
30 Russian Folksongs (Mily Balakirev)
Olga Kalugina, soprano - Svetlana Nikolayeva, mezzo soprano - Pavel Kolgatin, tenor - Joseph Banowetz, piano - Alton Chung Ming Chan, piano
2007 Toccata Classics 2007 Toccata Classics
The Razvoinik Brothers and their Sister (Traditional)
Olga Kalugina, soprano - Svetlana Nikolayeva, mezzo soprano - Pavel Kolgatin, tenor - Joseph Banowetz, piano - Alton Chung Ming Chan, piano
2007 Toccata Classics 2007 Toccata Classics
30 Russian Folksongs (Mily Balakirev)
Olga Kalugina, soprano - Svetlana Nikolayeva, mezzo soprano - Pavel Kolgatin, tenor - Joseph Banowetz, piano - Alton Chung Ming Chan, piano
2007 Toccata Classics 2007 Toccata Classics
Birds and Animals (Traditional)
Olga Kalugina, soprano - Svetlana Nikolayeva, mezzo soprano - Pavel Kolgatin, tenor - Joseph Banowetz, piano - Alton Chung Ming Chan, piano
2007 Toccata Classics 2007 Toccata Classics
30 Russian Folksongs (Mily Balakirev)
Olga Kalugina, soprano - Svetlana Nikolayeva, mezzo soprano - Pavel Kolgatin, tenor - Joseph Banowetz, piano - Alton Chung Ming Chan, piano
2007 Toccata Classics 2007 Toccata Classics
They said: Fedot-ot doesn't drink beer… (Traditional)
Olga Kalugina, soprano - Svetlana Nikolayeva, mezzo soprano - Pavel Kolgatin, tenor - Joseph Banowetz, piano - Alton Chung Ming Chan, piano
2007 Toccata Classics 2007 Toccata Classics
30 Russian Folksongs (Mily Balakirev)
Olga Kalugina, soprano - Svetlana Nikolayeva, mezzo soprano - Pavel Kolgatin, tenor - Joseph Banowetz, piano - Alton Chung Ming Chan, piano
2007 Toccata Classics 2007 Toccata Classics
There were no winds… (Traditional)
Olga Kalugina, soprano - Svetlana Nikolayeva, mezzo soprano - Pavel Kolgatin, tenor - Joseph Banowetz, piano - Alton Chung Ming Chan, piano
2007 Toccata Classics 2007 Toccata Classics
30 Russian Folksongs (Mily Balakirev)
Olga Kalugina, soprano - Svetlana Nikolayeva, mezzo soprano - Pavel Kolgatin, tenor - Joseph Banowetz, piano - Alton Chung Ming Chan, piano
2007 Toccata Classics 2007 Toccata Classics
Are you, my river, little river… (Traditional)
Olga Kalugina, soprano - Svetlana Nikolayeva, mezzo soprano - Pavel Kolgatin, tenor - Joseph Banowetz, piano - Alton Chung Ming Chan, piano
2007 Toccata Classics 2007 Toccata Classics
30 Russian Folksongs (Mily Balakirev)
Olga Kalugina, soprano - Svetlana Nikolayeva, mezzo soprano - Pavel Kolgatin, tenor - Joseph Banowetz, piano - Alton Chung Ming Chan, piano
2007 Toccata Classics 2007 Toccata Classics
Oh, drinking berry… (Traditional)
Olga Kalugina, soprano - Svetlana Nikolayeva, mezzo soprano - Pavel Kolgatin, tenor - Joseph Banowetz, piano - Alton Chung Ming Chan, piano
2007 Toccata Classics 2007 Toccata Classics
30 Russian Folksongs (Mily Balakirev)
Olga Kalugina, soprano - Svetlana Nikolayeva, mezzo soprano - Pavel Kolgatin, tenor - Joseph Banowetz, piano - Alton Chung Ming Chan, piano
2007 Toccata Classics 2007 Toccata Classics
Many, many by a damp oak tree… (Traditional)
Olga Kalugina, soprano - Svetlana Nikolayeva, mezzo soprano - Pavel Kolgatin, tenor - Joseph Banowetz, piano - Alton Chung Ming Chan, piano
2007 Toccata Classics 2007 Toccata Classics
30 Russian Folksongs (Mily Balakirev)
Olga Kalugina, soprano - Svetlana Nikolayeva, mezzo soprano - Pavel Kolgatin, tenor - Joseph Banowetz, piano - Alton Chung Ming Chan, piano
2007 Toccata Classics 2007 Toccata Classics
Mummy wasn't hoping (Traditional)
Olga Kalugina, soprano - Svetlana Nikolayeva, mezzo soprano - Pavel Kolgatin, tenor - Joseph Banowetz, piano - Alton Chung Ming Chan, piano
2007 Toccata Classics 2007 Toccata Classics
30 Russian Folksongs (Mily Balakirev)
Olga Kalugina, soprano - Svetlana Nikolayeva, mezzo soprano - Pavel Kolgatin, tenor - Joseph Banowetz, piano - Alton Chung Ming Chan, piano
2007 Toccata Classics 2007 Toccata Classics
My girlfriends, dear girlfriends… (Traditional)
Olga Kalugina, soprano - Svetlana Nikolayeva, mezzo soprano - Pavel Kolgatin, tenor - Joseph Banowetz, piano - Alton Chung Ming Chan, piano
2007 Toccata Classics 2007 Toccata Classics
30 Russian Folksongs (Mily Balakirev)
Olga Kalugina, soprano - Svetlana Nikolayeva, mezzo soprano - Pavel Kolgatin, tenor - Joseph Banowetz, piano - Alton Chung Ming Chan, piano
2007 Toccata Classics 2007 Toccata Classics
Oh you geese, you geese… (Traditional)
Olga Kalugina, soprano - Svetlana Nikolayeva, mezzo soprano - Pavel Kolgatin, tenor - Joseph Banowetz, piano - Alton Chung Ming Chan, piano
2007 Toccata Classics 2007 Toccata Classics
30 Russian Folksongs (Mily Balakirev)
Olga Kalugina, soprano - Svetlana Nikolayeva, mezzo soprano - Pavel Kolgatin, tenor - Joseph Banowetz, piano - Alton Chung Ming Chan, piano
2007 Toccata Classics 2007 Toccata Classics
Grape-harvest (Traditional)
Olga Kalugina, soprano - Svetlana Nikolayeva, mezzo soprano - Pavel Kolgatin, tenor - Joseph Banowetz, piano - Alton Chung Ming Chan, piano
2007 Toccata Classics 2007 Toccata Classics
30 Russian Folksongs (Mily Balakirev)
Olga Kalugina, soprano - Svetlana Nikolayeva, mezzo soprano - Pavel Kolgatin, tenor - Joseph Banowetz, piano - Alton Chung Ming Chan, piano
2007 Toccata Classics 2007 Toccata Classics
There is a tree on a hill (Traditional)
Olga Kalugina, soprano - Svetlana Nikolayeva, mezzo soprano - Pavel Kolgatin, tenor - Joseph Banowetz, piano - Alton Chung Ming Chan, piano
2007 Toccata Classics 2007 Toccata Classics
30 Russian Folksongs (Mily Balakirev)
Olga Kalugina, soprano - Svetlana Nikolayeva, mezzo soprano - Pavel Kolgatin, tenor - Joseph Banowetz, piano - Alton Chung Ming Chan, piano
2007 Toccata Classics 2007 Toccata Classics
I went into the garden (Traditional)
Olga Kalugina, soprano - Svetlana Nikolayeva, mezzo soprano - Pavel Kolgatin, tenor - Joseph Banowetz, piano - Alton Chung Ming Chan, piano
2007 Toccata Classics 2007 Toccata Classics
30 Russian Folksongs (Mily Balakirev)
Olga Kalugina, soprano - Svetlana Nikolayeva, mezzo soprano - Pavel Kolgatin, tenor - Joseph Banowetz, piano - Alton Chung Ming Chan, piano
2007 Toccata Classics 2007 Toccata Classics
Our wide street (Traditional)
Olga Kalugina, soprano - Svetlana Nikolayeva, mezzo soprano - Pavel Kolgatin, tenor - Joseph Banowetz, piano - Alton Chung Ming Chan, piano
2007 Toccata Classics 2007 Toccata Classics
30 Russian Folksongs (Mily Balakirev)
Olga Kalugina, soprano - Svetlana Nikolayeva, mezzo soprano - Pavel Kolgatin, tenor - Joseph Banowetz, piano - Alton Chung Ming Chan, piano
2007 Toccata Classics 2007 Toccata Classics
Utushnaya (Traditional)
Olga Kalugina, soprano - Svetlana Nikolayeva, mezzo soprano - Pavel Kolgatin, tenor - Joseph Banowetz, piano - Alton Chung Ming Chan, piano
2007 Toccata Classics 2007 Toccata Classics
Albumbeschreibung
If Russian composer Mikhail Glinka was the father of Russian nationalism, Mily Balakirev was its St. Peter, evangelizing to fellow apostles Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, and others and therefore acting as "the rock" whereupon Glinka's church was built. Nevertheless, the Balakirev works that have been available on disc for the most part -- the glittering, Lisztian piano fantasia Islamey, the lush and orientalist tone poem Tamara, and his quirky, idiosyncratic symphonies -- certainly sound "Russian," but provide little evidence of what it was in Balakirev's music that motivated the "Mighty Handful" to follow his lead. An 1866 collection of folk songs harmonized by Balakirev is often cited in relevant literature as breaking the ground for the first generation of Russian Nationalists.
Not that this was in any way an easy thing to achieve -- the main supporters of concert life in Russia in Balakirev's time was made up among educated nobles, aristocrats, bureaucrats, well-to-do military officers, and others who looked down upon Russian folk song as the unworthy, culturally poor product of illiterate serfs and peasants. In Russia, the serfs were liberated in 1861, a little later than in most European nations, though not, incidentally, than England! Nevertheless, in 1852 the 14-year-old Balakirev was already making an honest stab at working what he thought were their melodies into his Grand Fantasia on Russian Folksongs for piano and orchestra, Op. 4, recorded on Toccata Classics' Balakirev and Russian Folksong for the first time. Performed by pianist Joseph Banowetz with the Russian Philharmonic of Moscow under Konstantin Krimets, the work is far more sophisticated and involved than one would surmise from a composer so young, although the example of Chopin's piano concerti -- the use of glittering sequences in the solo part and of a spare, restrained orchestral component -- is readily apparent. While the piece consists of moderate and slow movements only and is technically unfinished, it still feels like a coherent whole even as Balakirev left it.
The main event, though, is the 30 Songs of the Russian People, a collection of folk song harmonizations Balakirev created and published in 1898-1900. Balakirev did not personally collect the folk melodies, as he had in the 1866 volume, and here a two-piano version, played by Banowetz and Alton Chung Ming, is favored over the parallel voice and piano edition that appeared at about the same time. In this realization, singers Olga Kalugina, Svetlana Nikolayeva, and Pavel Kolgatin sing the original folk melodies, unaccompanied, and Balakirev's piano duet harmonizations follow. Some listeners may feel the back and forth nature of this arrangement is a little disorienting, but it makes good musical sense, and Balakirev's settings deliberately avoid attempting to pin down or drive the traditional melodies around harmonically. It is easy to hear how this naked approach helped define the art of setting Russian folk song, not only for Balakirev's immediate circle, but also for others outside it, such as Tchaikovsky. In sum, Toccata Classics' Balakirev and Russian Folksong offers one of the most direct perspectives offered so far on Balakirev's work as an avatar of traditionally tinged Russian Western art music.
© TiVo
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- 1 Disc(s) - 61 Track(s)
- Gesamte Laufzeit: 01:18:56
- Künstler: Joseph Banowetz
- Komponist: Traditional
- Label: Toccata Classics
- Genre: Klassik
2007 Toccata Classics 2007 Toccata Classics
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