Various Artists - Tribute To Eric Dolphy - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Born in Kharkov, USSR, Alexander Meshibovsky has had a substantial performing career. This is an album of live performances of great works. ALEXANDER MESHIBOVSKY has appeared as soloist with orchestras including the Hamburg Philharmonic, the RIAS Symphony of Berlin, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the North German Radio Orchestra in Hanover, the Bavarian State Radio Orchestra in Munich, the Bamberg Symphony and the European Union Youth Symphony. He has been featured on programs with prominent conductors such as Christoph von Dohnanyi, Ricardo Chailly, Edo de Waart, Klaus Tennstedt, Thomas Sanderling, and Vladimir Ashkenazy. Mr. Meshibovsky has served for many years as Professor of Violin at East Tennessee State University and the University of West Virginia, and is currently on the faculty of the Music Department at Lehman College, Columbia University Teachers College, and Long Island University. Album Tracks 1. Sonata for Violin and Piano in G Major, Op. 13~I. Lento Doloroso; Allegro Vivace 2. Sonata for Violin and Piano in G Major, Op. 13~II. Allegretto Tranquillo 3. Sonata for Violin and Piano in G Major, Op. 13~III. Allegro Animato 4. Souvenir d'un lieu cher, Op. 42~No. 1 Meditation 5. Souvenir d'un lieu cher, Op. 42~No. 2 Scherzo 6. Poeme Elegiaque Op. 12 7. Hungarian Dance No. 5 8. Seven Popular Spanish Songs~Nana Berceuse 9. Mazurka 10. Variations on an Original Theme 11. Meditation

Album Tracks 1. Les 2. Hat and Beard 3. The Prophet 4. 17 West 5. Serene 6. Miss Ann 7. Something Sweet, Something Tender 8. Out There 9. Out to Lunch

Danacord continues it's tribute to the Danish cellist Erling Blöndal Bengtsson with previously unpublished recordings from the archives of the BBC and German radio. There is cello music dedicated to Bengtsson's mentor Piatigorsky and chamber music by Mozart and Offenbach with fellow friends and colleagues. His stylishness, distinctive timbre and subtle colours, as well as his trademark impeccable intonation, may be enjoyed in full. Erling Blöndal Bengtsson performed extensively throughout Europe, the United States, South America and Russia. He has appeared with most of the world´s leading orchestras including the Royal Philharmonic, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, English Chamber Orchestra, Salzburg´s Mozarteum Orchestra, the Hague´s Residentie Orchestra under the direction of many of the contemporary leading maestros, such as Yuri Temirkanov, Mariss Jansons, David Zinmann, Sixten Ehrling, Herbert Blomstedt, Sergiu Commissiona. His repertoire was all-encompassing and he has championed the works of leading Scandinavian composers, as well as performing the Scandinavian premieres of cello concertos by Britten, Barber, Khatchaturian, Delius, Lutoslawsky and Walton and, indeed, the latter two, themselves, conducted several performances each with Mr. Bengtsson as soloist. A consistent recording artist, with over 50 albums, he has, along with the complete standard repertoire for cello and orchestra, recorded many contemporary concertos, most of which were dedicated to him. Album Tracks 1. The WDR Recordings, Saal 2 2. Impromptu, Op. 90C for Cello Solo 3. Divertimento E Flat Major, KV 563 4. Cours Méthodique de Duos Pour Deux Violoncelles Lettre C, Op. 51 - Book 2 in G minor 5. Sonata No. 3 in C Major InchSuite Des PiecesInch, WWV 445 6. The SWR Recordings 7. Sonata No. 1 in B Flat Major, Op. 45 8. Sonata for Cello and Piano in C Major 9. The BBC Record