Igor Markevitch
Igor Markevitch was a leading conductor, known for brilliant performances, especially of twentieth century music. He was also a composer who attracted some interest in his own day. His parents left Kiev when he was two years old. Markevitch was brought up in Vevey, Switzerland. He took piano lessons from his father and then with Paul Loyonnet and also started to compose. The pianist Alfred Cortot saw some of his piano compositions and recommended that the boy study in Paris. In 1925 he enrolled in Cortot's piano class at the École Normale de Musique. He studied harmony, counterpoint, and composition with Nadia Boulanger. The ballet impresario Serge Diaghilev commissioned him to write a piano concerto and a ballet. The concerto premiered in London in 1929, but Diaghilev's death in August of that year caused Markevitch to stop work on the ballet, instead recycling materials from it into a cantata, premiered with great success in Paris on June 4, 1930. Later that year, another new work, a Concerto Grosso, received even greater acclaim. The ballet, Rébus, was first staged in December 1931, and was hailed as a great composition. The next ballet, L'envol d'Icare (June 1933), was once again highly praised. But after this Markevitch began to receive criticism for his use of unrelieved dissonance and his novel use of instruments.
Meanwhile, Markevitch had begun to conduct, debuting on the podium with the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra in 1930. He studied conducting with Hermann Scherchen in 1935. His composing activities dropped off as he increased his conducting. He spent World War II in Italy, having acquired Italian citizenship. In 1944 he was appointed music director of the Maggio Musicale Orchestra in Florence. He began conducting full time, coming into demand as a guest conductor, and held a variety of directorships or principal conducting appointments with the Stockholm Symphony Orchestra (1952-1955), the Montreal Symphony Orchestra (1956-1960), the Havana Philharmonic Orchestra (1957-1958), the Concerts Lamoureux of Paris (1957-1961), the Spanish Radio and Television Orchestra (1965-1969), the Monte Carlo Orchestra (1967), and the orchestra of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome (1967-1972). His American debut was with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1955. He also began giving conducting master classes, especially in Monte Carlo, from 1969.
He was known for his performance of the Russian repertory and twentieth century music. He had a quick temper, reflected in his music in sharp emotional shifts, yet the music was meticulously prepared and nearly always followed the composer's directions with exceptional care. In the late '90s, his recordings came back into demand in re-release, and even his compositions were finding a small but interested market and were praised anew for their originality.
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Boulanger: Du Fond De L'abime; Psaume 24; Psume 129; Vielle Priere Bouddhique; Pie Jesu
Orchestre Lamoureux, The Chorale Elisabeth Brasseur, Igor Markevitch
Klassik - Erschienen bei Music Manager am 27.01.2012
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Mozart: Messe, K. 317 "Du couronnement" (Mono Version)
Maria Stader, Orchestre Lamoureux, Igor Markevitch
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1962
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Rossini: Ouvertures de L'échelle de soie & Cendrillon (Mono Version)
Orchestre National de France, Igor Markevitch
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1959
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Beethoven: Symphonie No. 9, extraits (Stereo Version)
Igor Markevitch, Orchestre Lamoureux
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1961
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Prokofiev: Pierre et le loup (Mono Version)
Igor Markevitch, Philharmonia Orchestra, André Reybaz
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1952
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Mozart: Messe in C Major & Concerto pour basson in B-Flat Major (Mono Version)
Orchestre Lamoureux, Igor Markevitch, Maurice Allard
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1961
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Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1 "Classical" & Suite from The Love for Three Oranges (Mono Version)
Phiharmonia Orchestra, Igor Markevitch
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1959
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 - Fidelio Overture - Egmont Overture
Igor Markevitch, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
Klassik - Erschienen bei Hallmark am 01.01.2000
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Beethoven: Orchestral Works
Igor Markevitch, Orchestre Lamoureux
Klassik - Erschienen bei Artemisia am 06.11.2020
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Master of Classic Music, Borodin - Mussorgsky - Glière, Polovetzian Dances from "Prince Igor" Night on the Bare Mountain Sailors Dance from "The Red Poppy"
Igor Markevitch, Choeurs et Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française, Orchestre National de la Radioffusion française
Klassik - Erschienen bei Oscardigital am 18.08.1997
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Igor Markevitch in Italy (Live)
Orchestra Sinfonica di Torino della RAI, Igor Markevitch
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Hommage à Diaghilev (Mono Version)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Igor Markevitch
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1955
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Hommage à Diaghilev, Vol. II (Mono Version)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Igor Markevitch
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1958
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Wagner: Bacchanale du Venusberg de Tannhäuser (Mono Version)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Igor Markevitch
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1960
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Tchaikovsky: Suite de Casse-noisette (Mono Version)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Igor Markevitch
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1958
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Verdi: La battaglia di Legnano, ouverture (Mono Version)
Igor Markevitch, Philharmonia Orchestra
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1953
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Markevitch dirige à Moscou (Stereo Version)
Igor Markevitch, Galina Vishnevskaya, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra
Klassik - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1962
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Tchaikovsky: Symphonie No. 4 (Mono Version)
Igor Markevitch, Orchestre National de France
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1957
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Un portrait de la valse (Mono Version)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Igor Markevitch
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1956
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Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring (Stereo Version)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Igor Markevitch
Klassik - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1960
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Bizet: Orchestral Suites, Extracts (Mono Version)
Orchestre Lamoureux, Igor Markevitch
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1960
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