Release Date: 01 February 2018
Label: Champs Hill
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5060212591449
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergey Rachmaninov
Description
Gamma Majoris is a London-based ensemble created by 4 established soloists: Ksenia Berezina (violin), Yulia Chaplina (piano), Alisa Liubarskaya (cello) and Anastasia Prokofieva (soprano). The ensemble’s name derives from the star Gamma Ursae Majoris and the term for 'major scale' in Russian musical terms (????? - scale, ????? - major). The debut release by this ensemble presents music by Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov in arrangements by the ensemble. 'The idea of arranging Russian songs emerged spontaneously from a rehearsal one day. What would happen if we added lyrical string instruments to complement the soaring melodies and polyphonic and complex accompaniments of songs by the great Russian composers? To our delight, it worked beautifully.' The songs cover a wide emotional range, from dark and dramatic, to tender and the overall concept chimes with the idea of late-nineteenth domestic music-making, with the Tchaikovsky settings of texts by Russian poets including Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Rachmaninov also using translations of Shelley and Hugo.
O Duo
Majoris/Prokofieva/Chaplina
Gould Piano Trio
Elif Ece Cansever; Lukasz Krupinski
Daniil Bulayev; Maxim Tanichev; Soloists of the Davinspiro Camerata
Viotti Quartet
Vincenzo Maltempo
Veronique Gens; I Giardini
Various Artists
Timothy Parsons
The Choir of King's College London; The Strand Ensemble; Joseph Fort
Tassis Christoyannis; Julien Behr; Purcell Choir; Orfeo Orchestra; Gyorgy Vashegyi; Jerome Boutilli
Sir Edward Bairstow; Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum, Simon Bell
