Elly Ney - Elly Ney Plays Brahms & Schubert - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

This new from Centaur features a programme of well known works for violin and piano from Brahms and Schumann performed by Alexander Meshibovsky and Raisa Kagramanova. Alexander Meshibovsky was born in Kharkov, USSR. After graduating from the Kharkov conservatory, he joined the Russian Concert Agency as a soloist, performing throughout the USSR. In 1975 he began his career in the West, making solo appearances with European and American orchestras, performing on radio and television, giving recitals and master classes in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Belgium, and Norway, and even returning for a triumphant tour of the USSR. In 1979, Mr. Meshibovsky immigrated to the United States, to work with Jascha Heifetz. In New York, he has appeared at Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Hall, New York University, The Bruno Walter Auditorium, and at Lehman College. His extensive repertoire includes nearly 50 violin concertos from baroque to contemporary, early and modern Russian works, and his own compositions, arrangements, and transcriptions. Album Tracks 1. Sonata in a for Violin and Piano, Op. 100, No. 2 2. Fantasy Pieces, Op. 73 3. Sonata in a Minor, No. 3 for Violin and Piano

Album Tracks 1. I. Allegro Amabile 2. II. Allegro Appassionato 3. III. Andante Con Moto 4. I. Con Moto 5. II. Ballada Con Moto 6. III. Allegretto 7. IV. Adagio 8. I. Allegro Appassionato 9. II. Andante Un Poco Adagio 10. III. Allegretto Grazioso 11. IV. Vivace

The album Hymne à la beauté brings together seldom heard gems of chamber music in the delightful formation of voice, violin and piano - passionately performed by the aspiring and outstanding Swiss artists Sonja Leutwyler, Astrid Leutwyler and Benjamin Engeli, who are among the most versatile musicians of their generation and have long-established reputations within Switzerland and abroad. This programme of discoveries features captivating works by Louis Spohr, Johannes Brahms, Charles Ives, Camille Saint-Saëns, Felix Petyrek, Czeslaw Marek and Ottorino Respighi. On a special commission for this , the Swiss composer Martin Wettstein has composed the piece Hymne à la beauté (hymn to beauty) for mezzo soprano, violin and piano after a poem by Charles Baudelaire. The music is inspired by the incredible power of beauty, which is part and parcel of this world, giving us meaning and lust for life. At the same time, though, beauty can seduce and ruin people. Lying somewhere between kitsch and madness, beauty waits to be discovered by us.