Alexander Melnikov: Shostakovich: 24 Preludes & Fugues [2CD]

Klasyczna Muzyka Kameralna
premiera polska: 2023-01-18
kontynent: Europa
opakowanie: Digipackowe etui
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Editor's info:
These twenty-four preludes and fugues have become so closely associated with the personality and playing style of their ‘official interpreter’ (Tatiana Nikolaeva) that history has ended up deciding that “that’s the way to perform them” without looking any more deeply into the matter.
Yet this op.87 is brimming with fascinating answers for anyone who takes the trouble to ask the right questions; and it is not the least merit of Alexander Melnikov to have approached the work from first principles and come up with his own, eminently musical solutions.
Reissue from 2010

BBC Music Magazine * * * * *
Melnikov unquestionably gives an impression of freshness and daring, as if he's discovering the music for the first time...Certainly one's bound to feel, listening to such superb playing, that this is indeed one of the greatest contrapuntal cycles since Bach. Overall, then, a magnificent achievement.

Gramophone Magazine
Few pianists have shown themselves to be so sensitive to music which is the response of a complex visionary to the corrosive banality of Soviet life at the time...[Melnikov] responds to all this with an impeccable all-Russian mastery and with a poetic commitment few could equal.

International Piano
A towering achievement.

International Record Review
Melnikov is consistently alert to (and in control of) the music's dizzying variety of idioms and tones of voice...[He] conveys the scope of the collection as a totality with such consistent penetration and invention that this expertly engineered set can be enthusiastically endorsed for anyone seeking a complete recording.

Sunday Times - 5 out of 5 stars
For all his brilliance in the extrovertly Bachian numbers, Melnikov, more than either Nikolayeva or Ashkenazy, is especially compelling in the internalised movements (the C minor and D minor preludes and fugues), baring the innermost thoughts of Shostakovich’s tormented soul. Simply unforgettable

The Observer
In this muscular, virile account, [Nikolayeva's] fellow Russian Alexander Melnikov makes you wonder why these works are considered monotonous or didactic. In his virtuosic hands, each one glints

muzycy:
Alexander Melnikov (piano)

utwory:
Shostakovich: Preludes & Fugues for piano (24), Op. 87
Shostakovich: Prelude & Fugue for piano, Op. 87 No. 1 in C major
Shostakovich: Prelude & Fugue for piano, Op. 87 No. 2 in A minor
Shostakovich: Prelude & Fugue for piano, Op. 87 No. 3 in G major
Shostakovich: Prelude & Fugue for piano, Op. 87 No. 4 in E minor
Shostakovich: Prelude & Fugue for piano, Op. 87 No. 5 in D major
Shostakovich: Prelude & Fugue for piano, Op. 87 No. 6 in B minor
Shostakovich: Prelude & Fugue for piano, Op. 87 No. 7 in A major
Shostakovich: Prelude & Fugue for piano, Op. 87 No. 8 in F sharp minor
Shostakovich: Prelude & Fugue for piano, Op. 87 No. 9 in E major
Shostakovich: Prelude & Fugue for piano, Op. 87 No. 10 in C sharp minor
Shostakovich: Prelude & Fugue for piano, Op. 87 No. 11 in B major
Shostakovich: Prelude & Fugue for piano, Op. 87 No. 12 in G sharp minor
Shostakovich: Prelude & Fugue for piano, Op. 87 No. 13 in F sharp major
Shostakovich: Prelude & Fugue for piano, Op. 87 No. 14 in E flat minor
Shostakovich: Prelude & Fugue for piano, Op. 87 No. 15 in D flat major
Shostakovich: Prelude & Fugue for piano, Op. 87 No. 16 in B flat minor
Shostakovich: Prelude & Fugue for piano, Op. 87 No. 17 in A flat major
Shostakovich: Prelude & Fugue for piano, Op. 87 No. 18 in F minor
Shostakovich: Prelude & Fugue for piano, Op. 87 No. 19 in E flat major
Shostakovich: Prelude & Fugue for piano, Op. 87 No. 20 in C minor
Shostakovich: Prelude & Fugue for piano, Op. 87 No. 21 in B flat major
Shostakovich: Prelude & Fugue for piano, Op. 87 No. 22 in G minor
Shostakovich: Prelude & Fugue for piano, Op. 87 No. 23 in F major
Shostakovich: Prelude & Fugue for piano, Op. 87 No. 24 in D minor

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