Heritage [Fedor Rudin; Boris Kusnezow] [Orchid Classics: ORC100183] [Audio CD]

Description

On this fascinating new release, violinist Fedor Rudin and pianist Boris Kusnezow perform works by mid-20th-century Russian composers Edison Denisov, Dmitri Shostakovich and Sergei Prokofiev, including previously unpublished music. French-Russian violinist Fedor Rudin explores and pays tribute to his heritage via this rich collection of works, including his own arrangement of Denisovs orchestration of Debussys Prelude and Duo, which comes from Debussys unfinished opera, Rodrigue et Chimne. Other gems include Denisovs rarely-heard Three concert pieces for violin and piano (1958), and his previously unpublished Sonatina (1972), which marks a return to his melodic youth after the musically experimental interim years. Those years are represented here by Denisovs dodecaphonic Sonata (1963). We also hear an unfinished Sonata by Shostakovich, Rachmaninoffs arrangement of Mussorgskys Hopak from his opera Sorochinsky Fair, and Prokofievs unusually theatrical Violin Sonata No. 1.