Nikolaï Zverev Vidéos
musicien ou musicienne, fonctionnaire, pianiste, professeur ou professeure de musique, professeur ou professeure d'université, compositeur ou compositrice
- piano
- musique classique
- Empire russe
Dernière mise à jour
2024-05-09
Actualiser
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Zverev Clark Rundell 2019
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Violin concerto in D major op. 35. Savva Zverev, violin Clark Rundell, conductor RNCM Symphony Orchestra Performed on 25 October 2019, RNCM Concert Hall, Manchester, UK. www.savvazverev.com
Alexander Skriabin Nikolai Zverev Sergei Rachmaninoff 1872 1887 1915
Performed by Christian Dillig (www.christiandillig.com) The Etude op. 2 No. 1 in C-sharp minor (1887) is an early work by the then only 15-year-old Alexander Scriabin, who lived from 1872 to 1915. It reveals great compositional maturity, although it was written before his composition studies at the Moscow Conservatory. It is still held in such high esteem today that it is part of many concert programs and has been and is interpreted by the world's best pianists. Scriabin, who came from a wealthy background, was at the time a piano student of Nikolai Zverev, a respected Moscow piano teacher and professor at the Moscow Conservatory. Zverev privately maintained a musical boarding house, where he let talented people from poor backgrounds live free of charge and supported them financially. One of these favorites was the young Sergei Rachmaninoff. Scriabin and Rachmaninoff became friends at the time. In the following years, however, their musical ideas diverged and Rachmaninoff could not or would not understand Scriabin's compositional visions, which were characterized by new tonal systems and coupled with synesthetic ideas. When Scriabin unexpectedly died of blood poisoning in 1915 at the age of only 43, however, Rachmaninoff was deeply shaken and once again took a close look at Scriabin's piano music. In honor of his one-time friend, he went on tour with his pieces. It is only a guess on my part: in the same year Rachmaninoff composed his famous Vocalise. Both pieces are in the original C-sharp minor, and share much more of the atmosphere than just nominally the key. I think it is quite possible that the Vocalise was at least sometimes consciously or unconsciously inspired by Scriabin's Etude op. 2 No. 1.
Sergei Rachmaninoff Vladimir Ashkenazy John Field Alexander Siloti Nikolai Zverev Sergei Taneyev Anton Arensky Tchaikovsky Alexander Glazunov Paganini Bolshoi Philadelphia Orchestra 1873 1885 1888 1891 1892 1897 1899 1900 1902 1903 1904 1906 1908 1917 1918 1939 1940 1943 1973
LIKE and SUBSCRIBE for more score videos ! (http•••) SUBSCRIBE to my PATREON ! → (http•••) Vladimir Ashkenazy plays Rachmaninoff - Prelude in D minor Op. posthumous [Audio + Score]. The Prelude in D minor, a dark piece with thick and fast moving chords that repeatedly descend into low register, is a manifestation of his unhappiness with the October Revolution. The manuscript survived and was first published in 1973. (wikipedia) BIOGRAPHY Sergei Rachmaninoff, one of the greatest pianists of all time and one of the most outstanding melodists amongst composers, was born at Oneg, near Novgorod, on 20 March 1873 (1 April New Style), into a musical family: his grandfather had been a pupil of John Field and his father, too, played the piano. When Sergei was nine, financial difficulties forced the sale of the family estate and they moved to St Petersburg, where he took piano lessons at the Conservatoire. Rachmaninoff’s cousin, the pianist and conductor Alexander Siloti, had studied in Moscow with the strict Nikolai Zverev, and suggested that Rachmaninoff go to Zverev as well, and so in 1885, he made the journey to Moscow, staying with Zverev for three years. In 1888 Rachmaninoff began to study piano with Siloti himself and composition with Sergei Taneyev and Anton Arensky; he also received advice from Tchaikovsky, who was a friend of Siloti and his former teacher. Even before his graduation as a pianist in 1891, Rachmaninoff had composed what was to become his best-known work, the Prelude in C sharp minor. His graduation as a composer came in 1892: he was awarded a gold medal for his Pushkin opera Aleko. The premiere of his First Symphony, in Moscow in 1897, was a disaster (word was that the conductor, Alexander Glazunov, was drunk), and Rachmaninoff destroyed the score (fortunately, a set of parts survived, which allowed the reconstruction of the score after Rachmaninoff’s death). Rachmaninoff’s early career established a pattern he was to follow throughout his life: an uneasy struggle between performing and composing, with economic pressures usually ensuring that precedence needed to be given to the demands of the platform. He was an international figure as early as 1899, when he conducted a concert of his orchestral works in London, also playing some of his piano music. Rachmaninoff began his Second Piano Concerto, one of the most frequently performed of all works in the genre, in 1900, completing it the following year, when his Cello Sonata was also composed. The little-heard cantata Spring followed in 1902, the year in which he married his cousin Natalya Satina; their daughter Irina was born in 1903. In 1904 Rachmaninoff took up a conductor’s post at the Bolshoi Opera in Moscow, stimulating the completion of two further operas, Francesca da Rimini and The Miserly Knight, in 1906. The pressures of conducting life in the Bolshoi persuaded the Rachmaninoffs to spend some time away from the capital, and they moved for a short while to Dresden, where he worked on his Second Symphony; Rachmaninoff himself conducted the premiere, in St Petersburg, in 1908. The years up to the Russian Revolution were spent in an exhausting whirl of playing and conducting, with the family’s country estate at Ivanovka, in the countryside south-east of Moscow, offering a haven of peace where he could concentrate on composition. The works that emerged during this period include the Third Piano Concerto, the symphonic poem The Isle of the Dead, the choral symphony The Bells, and two a cappella choral works, the Liturgy of St John Chrysostom and the Vespers. After the October Revolution in 1917 Rachmaninoff determined that he and his family would have to leave the country, and he accepted an invitation to perform in Stockholm. The composer, his wife and their two daughters left in December; he was never to return. They stayed briefly in Stockholm and Copenhagen, sailing to America in November 1918. There, his concertising increased, reducing his time for composition; he also began a career in the studio, producing recordings that eighty-odd years later are still regarded as some of the most valuable interpretations, of his own and others’ music, ever committed to disc. Rachmaninoff sought to recreate the peace he had found at Ivanovka by building a villa on the shores of Lake Lucerne, far from the insistent pressures of the international concert circuit, and here he wrote the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini and the Third Symphony which, in 1939, he recorded with the Philadelphia Orchestra, which maintained a long association with his music. His last large-scale masterpiece was the Symphonic Dances, composed in 1940; at the time of his last recital, on 17 February 1943, in Knoxville, Tennessee, he was already gravely ill, and he died on 28 March, in Beverley Hills. #rachmaninoff #ashkenazy
ou
- chronologie: Compositeurs (Europe). Interprètes (Europe).
- Index (par ordre alphabétique): Z...