Moussorgski, Tchaïkovski & Rachmaninov Ilya Rashkovskiy
Album info
Album-Release:
2016
HRA-Release:
19.10.2016
Label: La Musica
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Artist: Ilya Rashkovskiy
Composer: Piotr Ilitch Tchaïkovski (1840-1893), Modeste Moussorgski (1839-1881), Sergueï Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Album including Album cover
- 1 Doumka, Op. 59 08:34
- 2 Romance, Op. 5 06:17
- 3 I. Promenade [I] 01:18
- 4 II. Gnomus 02:20
- 5 III. Promenade [II] 00:49
- 6 IV. Le vieux château 04:01
- 7 V. Promenade [III] 00:26
- 8 VI. Le jardin des Tuileries 00:58
- 9 VII. Bydlo 02:46
- 10 VIII. Promenade [IV] 00:45
- 11 IX. Ballet des poussins dans leurs coques 01:09
- 12 X. Samuel Goldenberg et Schmuyle 02:23
- 13 XI. Promenade [V] 01:19
- 14 XII. Limoges, le marché 01:17
- 15 XIII. Catacombes 01:37
- 16 XIV. Cum mortuis in lingua mortua 01:43
- 17 XV. La Cabane sur des pattes de poule 02:55
- 18 XVI. La Grande Porte de Kiev 05:03
- 19 Élégie No. 1, Op. 3 05:13
- 20 I. Allegro agitato 08:04
- 21 II. Non allegro 05:18
- 22 III. Allegro molto 05:37
Info for Moussorgski, Tchaïkovski & Rachmaninov
Pictures at an Exhibition is the mainstay of this disc, the other pieces having been chosen with it in mind. I had started to play Rachmaninoff’s Sonata no. 2 in concert again before the decision to make the recording was taken, so it was under my fingers. It seemed logical to put the two works together because the influence of Mussorgsky is very much in evidence in the sonata. However, Rachmaninoff’s primary source of inspiration was clearly Tchaikovsky, who therefore, and quite naturally, also claimed a place in the programme. I have recently played Rachmaninoff’s Suite no. 1 for Two Pianos, dedicated to Tchaikovsky. The last movement, entitled Easter, explicitly evokes The Great Gate of Kiev from Pictures at an Exhibition, thus closing the circle.
I got to know all these works at different stages of my life. I played the Tchaikovsky pieces as a child, the Romance at the age of 8 and Dumka at 12 or 13, for the Vladimir Krainev International Competition for Young Pianist. The Rachmaninoff sonata came into my life during my adolescence and I immediately opted for the version revised by the composer himself. Despite my affection for the original edition, I feel more at home with the revised and ostensibly more effective version.
Pictures is the work I came to last, playing it for the first time in 2009, because I believe it requires a certain maturity. My reading of it could be said to be highly personal, since I have never studied the score with a teacher. With some music I feel the need to shut myself away, without trying to find out how other pianists approach it. That was the case with Pictures. Although the piece demands a vast input of energy, it generates a literally transformative positive energy in return. What I like most about Mussorgsky’s masterpiece is the construction, together with a very individual kind of transcendence. I am fascinated, for example, by the progression which leads us from the dark forces unleashed by Baba Yaga’s Hut to the luminous conclusion of the Great Gate of Kiev. As its gleaming bells ring out, I feel myself truly transported back to Russia.
Ilya Rashkovskiy, piano
Ilya Rashkovskiy
wurde in Irkutsk, Russland, in 1984 geboren. Im Alter von fünf Jahren erhielt er seinen ersten Klavierunterricht, und im Alter von sechs Jahren begann er zu komponieren.
Sein erstes Konzert gab er mit acht Jahren mit dem Kammermusikorchester Irkutsk.
Mit neun Jahren trat er ins Konservatorium von Novosibirsk ein, wo er bis zum Jahre 2000 den Unterricht bei Mary Lebenzon hatte.
Von 2000 bis 2009 studierte er an der Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover bei Vladimir Krainev.
Seit Oktober 2009 lebt er in Paris und setzt seine Ausbildung an der l'Ecole normale supérieure de musique bei Marian Rybicki fort.
Der erste Preistäger von Vladimir Krainev Internationalen Klavierwettbewerb(1998), den Valsesia-Musica(2004), Jaen und Hong Kong Internationalen Klavierwettbewerben (2005), ist er auch ein Preisträger von 2001 Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud Wettbewerb (2.Preis), 2007 Königin Elisabeth Wettbewerb in Brüssel(4.Preis), 2010 Vianna da Motta Wettbewerb (2.Preis). sowie 2011 Artur Rubinstein Wettbewerb (3.Preis).
Er gab Klavierabende in einigen bedeutenden Sälen in Europa, Japan und Russland, u.a. Bolshoy Hall des Tchaikovsky Konservatorium in Moskau, die Philharmonie Essen und die Philharmonie Köln, Théâtre du Châtelet und Salle Pleyel in Paris,Suntory Hall in Tokyo und Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. Er wirkte als Solist u.a. mit Russischem Staatsorchester, Kiew Philharmonieorchester, Gulbenkian Orchester, Orchestre National de Radio France, Chechischem National Sinfonieorchester und New Japan Sinfonieorchester zusammen. Er wurde zu den renommierten Musikfestivalen, wie Festival international de Piano de La Roque d’Anthéron und Chopin Festival in Duszniki Zdroj in Polen eingeladen.
Er spielte die Jahreszeiten und die Sonate cis-moll von Tchaikovsky auf Naxos Label ein (2008), sowie die Fantasien von Mozart, Chopin, Liszt und Skriabin auf Alpha Omega Hong Kong (2009)
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