KABALEVSKY: Violin Concerto, Cello Concerto, Piano Concerto
Dmitri Kabalevsky, a pioneer of the official Soviet tradition of socialist-realist music and for decades a leading light of the Union of Soviet Composers, was born in St.Petersburg on 30 December 1904. He entered the Moscow Conservatory in 1925 where he studied piano and composition. Kabalevsky made a crucial impact on Soviet musical education. His music for children, his prolific output of study-pieces for young pianists and other instrumentalists, his songs, cantatas and anthems for the Pioneers and other Soviet youth organisations, made him easily the most familiar composer to anyone who grew up in the USSR. He favoured clarity and simplicity of form, traditional melodies and gestures, sweet moments of melancholy in the slow movements and cheerful optimism to end, often with a bracing dash of neo-classical motor rhythms.
SIDE 1
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in C major, Op.48
1. Allegro molto e con brio
2. Andantino cantabile
3. Vivace glorioso
Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in G minor, Op.49
1. Allegro
2. Largo molto espressivo
SIDE 2
Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in G minor, Op.49
3. Allegretto
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in D major, Op.50
1. Allegro molto
2. Andante con moto
3. Presto
David Oistrakh, Violin
Daniel Shafran, Cello
Emil Gilels, Piano
Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Dmitri Kabalevsky
The sleeve is GOOD; consistent with age.
Record graded visually to RRPG grade GOOD.
We recommend that the record is cleaned by a professional to maximise the sound quality.