Rudolf Barshai’s Discography (Continued)
Mozart - Sym. 1,10,18,20,22,24,25,28-41, in D, in B flat, in G MCO 1961-1973/1961-1974
Piano Con. No.1 K337, Richter, Japan Shinsei Sym. Orchestra,1994 Laurel Record LR902
Piano Con. no.5 K175,Richter,Japan Shinsei Sym.Orchestra, 1994, Laurel Record, LR-902
Piano Con. No. 12 K414 ,V.Devetzi MCO 1962/1962
Piano Con. No. 13 K415 , M.Frager MCO 1963/1963
Piano Con. No.14 K449 , MCO , D.Bashkirov (1963/1963), S.Richter 1973/UR
Piano Con. No. 15 K450, S.Richter MCO MasterTone LM 1302
Piano Con. No. 16 K451 , M.Frager MCO 1963/1963
Piano Con. No. 17 K453 , Bashkirov (1965/1965), Richter (live 1968/UR) MCO
Piano Con. No.18 K456, Richter ,Japan Shinsei Sym.Orch., 1994 , Laurel Record LR902
Piano Con. No.21 K467 , E. Gilels, MCO 1959/1959
Piano Con. No.24 K491 , V.Devetzi, MCO 1969/1971
Piano Con. No.27 K595, Devetzi (1969/1971), Richter (1966) MCO MasterTone LM1302
Violin Con. No.3 K216 , D. Oistrakh , MCO 1960/1960.w/Kogan – Triton DMCC-42001/2
Violin Con. No.5 K219,L.Kogan ,MCO 1960/1960 Arlecchino ARL18, Triton DMCC-42001/2
Concerto for Flute, Harp & Orchestra in C, K299, MCO 1965/1965
Clarinet Concerto in A, K622, Mikhailov, MCO 1971/1971
Divertimento No.1 in D K136,No.2 in F K138,No.7 in D K205 MCO 1958-1963/1958-1963
Serenade No.7 in D “Haffner”, K250, MCO 1973/1974
Idomeneo,K366,Schauspieldirektor,K486,La Nozze di Figaro,K492,Overtures,1976/1991
Various Arias, G.Gabora, sno,Leonskaya, piano, Spivakov, violin, MCO 1976/1977
Mussorgsky - Night on bald Mountain, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra 1989 CBC 2-5083
Pergolesi - Stabat Mater, Pisarenko, Arkhipova,Yurlov Choir , MCO, 1966/1966
Prokofiev - Visions Fugitives, op.22, Nos. 1-15, arr. Barshai, MCO 1962/1963
Piano Con. No. 3 w/Mark Zeltser, Cologne Radio Sym. Orch. Laurel Record LR-904
J. Rääts - Concerto for Strings, op.16 MCO 1963/1963
Rachmaninoff –Rhapsody on a theme by Paganini,w/Zeltser,Cologne R.S.Orch. Laurel Record LR-904
Shubert - Sym. No.5 in B flat, D485, MCO 1964/1964
5 Menuets with 6 Trios, D89, MCO 1965/1965
Shostakovich - Sym. No. 14, op.136, Miroshnikova,Vladimirov MCO 1970/1970
Sym. No. 14, op.136, Vishnevskaya, Reshetin MCO (1969/UR - author’s request)
All 15 Symphonies - Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra - Brilliant Classics #6275
Sym. No.7 Junge Deutsche Philharmonie & members of MPO 1991 BIS-CD-515
Sym. No.8 Bournmouth Symphony Orchestra 1985 EMI CDC 7476702
Sym. No.4 Bundesjugendorchester 1992 Deutsche Harmonia mundi HM 1068-2
Chamber Symphonies on Deutsche Gramophone & Sony Classical
Boris Tchaikovsky - Chamber Symphony in G-E MCO 1968/1969
Piano Concerto, B. Tchaikovsky, piano MCO 1965/1967
P.Tchaikovsky - Sym. No. 6, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, 1989 CBC 2-5083
Piano Con. No.1,2,3 Peter Donohoe (piano), Nigel Kennedy (violin),
Steven Isserelis (cello) , Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra 1986,1987,1989 EMI CDC 7499392
Concert Fantasy ,Op.56,Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra,1989 EMI CDC7499392
Telemann - Concerto for 3 Oboes, 3 Violins & Strings in B flat 1965/1967 EMI 724356534025
Torelli - Violin Concerto in A minor, Op.8 No.9 Spivakov, solo MCO1972/1973
M. Vainberg - Sym. No.7 Op.81, MCO 1967/1969 OLYMPIA OCD 472
Sym. No.10 Op.98, MCO 1970/1970 OLYMPIA OCD 472
Sinfonietta No.2 Op.74, MCO 1962/1962
Fantasy for Cello & Orchestra, Op.52, MCO 1970/1970
Flute Concerto Op.75, Korneev, MCO 1968/1969
Vivaldi - Concerto in G minor RV577 , MCO 1971/1971
Four Seasons Op.8, Nos.1-4, Smirnov, solo, MCO 1961/1962 Revalation RV10043
Con. for 2 Violin & Strings in D minor, RV514 MCO 1970/1971 London 433680-2
Con. for 4 Violins, Cello & Strings in B minor, RV580, MCO 1958/1958 London 433680-2
Con. for Cello, Bassoon & Strings in E minor RV409,MCO 1971/1971
Con. for 2 Oboes & Strings in A minor, Nepalo, Baidak, MCO Revalation RV 10043
Double Concerto for 2 Horns & Strings in F , MCO Revalation RV10043
Cello Concerto in G, RV 413, Rostropovich, MCO 1963/UR
Oboe Concerti in D minor ,in C ,in A minor , Nepalo,MCO 1968,63,68/1970,63,70
Russian Disc RD CD 10 062
Verdi - Requiem, live at Waldbüne, Berlin, World Symphony Orchestra, Maryland Chorus,Shinyu-Kai Choir,Sveshnikov Choir June 11, 1994; IPPNW-Concerts 2-CD
Revol Samoilovich Bunin (1924 - 1976)
Revol Bunin was born in Moscow, on April 6, 1924 in a family of professional revolutionaries. His parents named him after the October revolution, Revol (his friends always called him “Volik”). His father, Samuil Markovich, was the “old timer”, a member of the Communist Party from before the revolution and was a professor of social economics at of the Moscow Institutes.
Volik was 6 when he started to write music and he started by writing scores. In the after revolution Soviet Union, there was no specialty paper to write music on, surely, there was no note paper to write scores for a 6 year old, so young Bunin, would sit down and draw lines on a plane paper to make his own notes. He composed marches, waltzes, minuets and Polkas.
Bunin’s mother was always very ill and she passed away when he was 14. His upbringing was entirely in the hands of his father. When Volik’s mother was dying, she asked him to play a piano. He played Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Mussorgsky through the night and in the morning, he had an asthma attack, his first, that later proved fatal for his life.
In 1938 Revol started his studies at the Composers’ faculty of the Music School of the Moscow Conservatory under professor Ilya Litinsky. During his third year of studies he was admitted to the Moscow Conservatory and continued his studies under professor Vissarion Shebalin, who was, at the time, Conservatory’s director. In 1941, when World War II, he was summoned to first work at the military factory in Moscow and, then, was drafted to the active duty, but, taking into account his musical gift, he was stationed near Moscow, so he could continue to attend the classes. He was decommissioned, due to his ill health, in March of 1943.
In June of 1943 Shostakovich came to teach at the Moscow Conservatory and Revol Bunin was the first student selected by the great composer to be his pupil. Bunin wrote in his article “With great appreciation” in “The Soviet Music” Magazine (September 1976) - “... We were more and more conquered by Shostakovich’s works. Secretly, I was dreaming to become his student. Finally, this happy day came on June 7th, 1943, class room number 31... At the piano a friendly man, dressed in a gray-colored modest suit , wearing horn-rimmed spectacles. He looked very young, nothing like the old eminent scholars of the Conservatory. He asked me in details how old I was, when I started to compose, who were my teachers, if I studied polyphony and so on; he subjected me to a small exam - I had to read a score of Haydn symphony, to tell him what was the difference between a Passacallia and Chiaconne, to give examples, known to me, of a mirror reprise in symphonic allegri and give examples for use of French horns and trumpets in a rare formation (H, Fis). Shostakovich was interested if I read a lot and if I liked Chekhov and Leskov...”
It happened, that for a while, Bunin was Shostakovich’s only student. Revol graduated from the Conservatory in 1945 with honors. Shebalin (director of the Conservatory) could not forgive Bunin’s defection to the class of Shostakovich from his own and did not allow his name to be added to the “Golden Board” of exemplary students.
In 1947 Bunin moved to Leningrad, where he taught music arrangement at the Leningrad Conservatory and assisted Shostakovich as a co-professor of composition. Same year his 2nd Symphony was premiered in Leningrad, under the button of a legendary conductor Evgeny Mravinsky.
In 1948 he moved back to Moscow and worked as an editor at the State Music Publishing.
After infamous government decree, that set stringent regulations on music and art in the former Soviet Union, Shostakovich was dismissed as the professor in the Conservatory. Consequently, his assistant, Bunin, has also lost his position and became, for a while, persona non-grate. He had to make his living by writing scores for other composers, mainly protegees of other Soviet Republics. His music has won on several occasions the “Stalin Prize”, but Bunin’s name didn’t appear on these awards nor was mentioned to the selection committee, however, he was always rewarded by the “composers” for his silence.
Revol Bunin died on July 3rd, 1976 in Moscow. He was mourned by his wife, his friends and many students. He had no children. He was never awarded State honors, for he refused to join the Communist Party, in contrast with many of his colleagues.
Bunin wrote music scores to 48 motion pictures, cartoons and documentaries. He left 45 major compositions, including 9 symphonies, numerous sonatas, quartets, trios, an opera, romances, several concertos for piano, violin. His viola concerto (Op. 22) was composed in 1953 and dedicated to his close friend, famed violist, Rudolf Barshai.
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