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Dmitry Shostakovich
PRELUDES & BALLET SUITE
ALEXEI & MICHAEL UTKINS / HERMITAGE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

CM 0082004
1   Elegy in F Sharp Minor (transcription for oboe and strings) [04:06]
Listen audioclip (1.8Mb)
     
Ten Preludes, op. 34 (arranged for oboe and strings)
2   Prelude ¹1 in C Major [01:33]
3   Prelude ¹16 in B Flat Minor
[01:05]
4   Prelude ¹3 in G Major

[02:07]

5   Prelude ¹8 in F Sharp Minor [01:03]
6   Prelude ¹11 in B Major [00:51]
7   Prelude ¹17 in A Flat Major [02:04]
Listen audioclip (1.8Mb)
8   Prelude ¹18 in F Minor [01:06]
9   Prelude ¹19 in E Flat Major [01:44]
10   Prelude ¹21 in B Flat Major [09:54]
11   Prelude ¹22 in G Minor [02:45]
       
Prelude and Fugue in C Minor, op. 87 (arranged for oboe, cello and piano)
12   Prelude [03:56]
Listen audioclip (3.4Mb)
13   Fugue [05:32]
       
Prelude and Fugue in B Major, op. 87 (arranged for oboe, cello and piano)
14   Prelude [01:26]
15   Fugue [02:32]
Listen audioclip (2.2Mb)
 
Ballet Suite for Flute, Oboe, Strings and Percussion.
Compiled and arranged by Mikhail Utkin from the ballets The Limpid Stream [Svetly ruchey], The Bolt [Bolt], The Golden Age [Zolotoy vek]
16   Andante (Dance of The Negro)
[00:51]
17   Allegro (Soviet Dance) [02:20]
Listen audioclip (2Mb)
18   Pantomima (Kozelkov’s Scene)
[03:12]
19   Variation (Dance of The Drayman)
[01:59]
20   Polka (Bureaucrat)
[02:28]
21   Intermezzo (Saboteurs)
[03:36]
22   Duet (Jealous Zina)
[01:51]
Listen audioclip (1.6Mb)
23   Russian Dance (Lubok)
[01:45]
24   Adagio (Zina and Pyotr)
[06:18]
25   Pizzicato (Ballerina’s Variation)
[01:02]
26   Waltz (Dance of The Ballerina)
[03:06]
27   Galop (Coda)
[01:56]
28   Adagio [05:05]
       
Total Time [68:09]

All arangements are by M.Utkin.

Text of the booklet is available in English, German, and Russian.

 

Disc reviews:
"Opus Haute Définition" e-magazine (in French)
SA-CD.net
AllMusicGuide
"American Record Guide" magazine

 

Alexei Utkin solo oboe (1 – 24; 26 – 28)
Mikhail Utkin solo cello (12 – 15); cello (24)
Maria Chepurina solo flute (17 – 24; 26 – 27)

HERMITAGE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

Pyotr Nikiforov 1st violin (1 – 11; 16 – 28)
Ilya Norshtein 1st violin (1 – 11; 16 – 28)
Maria Trishina 1st violin (1 – 11; 16 – 28)
Anna Poletaeva 2nd violin (1 – 11; 16 – 28)
Nadezhda Sergiyenko 2nd violin (1 – 11; 16 – 28)
Andrei Barzov 2nd violin (1; 16 – 28)
Eugeny Sorkin 2nd violin (2 – 11)
Fyodor Belugin viola (1 – 11; 16 – 28)
Zoya Nevolina viola (1 – 11; 16 – 28)
Ekaterina Dossina solo cello (24); cello (1 – 11; 16 – 28)
Olga Kazantseva cello (1 – 11; 16 – 28)
Mikhail Khokhlov double bass (1 – 11)
Gleb Chernobrovkin double bass (16 – 28)
Darja Alyoshina piano (12 – 15)
Andrei Vinnitsky percussion (17; 19 – 21)

 

Recording Details

Microphones - Neumann km130
DPA (B & K) 4006
DPA (B & K) 4011

SCHOEPS mk2S
SCHOEPS mk41

All the microphone buffer amplifiers and pre-amplifiers are Polyhymnia International B.V. custom built.

DSD analogue to digital converter - Meitner design by EMM Labs.

Recording, editing and mixing on Pyramix system by Merging Technologies.

 

Recording Producer - Michael Serebryanyi
Balance Engineer - Erdo Groot
Recording Engineer - Roger de Schot
Editor - Carl Schuurbiers

 

(P)&(C) Essential Music, #16b-2, Volokolamskoye shosse,
Moscow, 125080, Russia.

DDD

Recorded:
2.10.2004,11.02.2005 The "Manege" Hall of The Moscow Theatre “School of Dramatic Art”
24.10.2004 The 5th Studio of The Russian Television and Radio Broadcasting Company (RTR)

 


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