Igor Raykhelson

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В Большом зале консерватории прозвучал настоящий кроссовер!

В Большом зале консерватории 55-летний юбилей отметил композитор Игорь Райхельсон. На  концерте своими выступлениями именинника поздравили Игорь Бутман, Юрий Башмет, Сергей Крылов  оркест...

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Fantástico talento de un grupo ruso

Julio César Huertas

El Centro Cultural de Música no deja de sorprender en cada concierto. Los Solistas de Moscú brindaron un magnífico concierto ante un Solís totalmente lleno, presentando ...

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BASHMET Y SU GENTE DESLUMBRARON EN EL COLON

Donato Decina

“Nuova Harmonía” en el Teatro Colón: actuación de “Los Solistas de Moscú”,  Director y Solista: Yuri Bashmet (Viola) Participación: A...

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Raykhelson's Piano & Cello Concerto

Igor Raykhelson was born in St. Petersburg on 24 April 1961. He was admitted to the Leningrad Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory in 1976 where he studied both classical and jazz piano. Early in his caree...

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Raykhelson

Сlassical-music.com - The official website of BBC Music Magazine

Back in the 1920s, composers such as Gershwin, Antheil, Milhaud and Stravinsky were able to create a convincing fusion of so-called classical and jazz elements in their music. More recently, howeve...

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RAYKHELSON Piano Concerto in g.1 Cello Concerto in b2

Colin Clarke

RAYKHELSON Piano Concerto in g.1 Cello Concerto in b2 • Hobart Earle, cond; 1Boris Berezovsky (pn); 2Alexander Kniazev (vc); Russian St SO •TOCCATA 0219 (59:24)


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Igor Raykhelson: Piano Concerto in G minor - Boris Berezovsky (piano), Cello Concerto in B minor - Alexander Kniazev (cello)

International Record Review, May 2014

Both works receive stupendous performances. Berezovsky and Alexander Kniazev, dedicatee of the Cello Concerto, play with consummate virtuosity and total conviction. The composer is fortunate in...

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Igor Raykhelson: Orchestral Music, Vol. 3

Paul Ballyk, Expedition Audio

The two concertos dating from 2007 and 2010 on this Toccata Classics CD sound, for the most part, as though they could have been written over a century ago. The music is by the Russian born America...

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Igor RAYKHELSON (b. 1961) Orchestral Music - Volume Three

Jonathan Woolf Reviewer - MusicWeb International

Toccata Classics’ blurb is keen to reprint a critic’s comment that Igor Raykhelson’s music is ‘a world of unreconstructed and unapologetic Romanticism’ adding that the...

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Raykhelson: Orchestral Music Vol. 3

S. Mitchell

I base my comments upon the Piano Concerto only, having not yet heard the Cello Concerto. My hopes for this work were wonderfully realised, the booklet notes by the esteemed Malcolm Macdonald havin...

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Lush, neo-romantic string concertos

Matthew L. Pumphrey, Annapolis, MD USA

Not knowing a thing about the composer, I fell into samples of the tracks provided by the label, Tocatta, on their website. Being a "string concerto nut", I was rivoted by these offerings and had b...

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Viola Concerto, Violin Concerto

Gavin Dixon

The Modernist era wasn’t too kind to the violin concerto, so it’s easy to understand why Igor Raykhelson takes the last generation of Romantics as a starting point for his work in the g...

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Богатство стилей, разнообразие форм

Владимир Кудлач

В Большом зале Одесской филармонии 16 и 18 июня состоялся заключительный концерт сезона Национального одесского филармонического оркестра с участием российских солистов Бориса Березовского (фортепи...

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Raykhelson: Va Conc, Vn Conc; Bashmet/Sachenko/Slatkovsky/Vandelli/NovaRossSt SO [Toccata]

Bob McQiston, Classical Lost and Found (CLOFO.com, P121014)

Please welcome Russian-born Igor Raykhelson (b. 1961) to these pages! Here's someone who began his career as an itinerant jazz pianist, but a meeting wi...

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CD of the week

Evening Standard, London

 

COMPOSERS were big losers in the collapse of communism. Unwanted in the new Russia, they dispersed abroad, seeking a meager livelihood. Raykhelson, 46, born in ...

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Bashmet leads SPCO on dark journey with bow and baton

ROB HUBBARD, Pioneer Press Article

 

Pity the poor viola. While the violin has its pick of concert showpieces, its melancholy cousin is forced to play, well, second fiddle.

But it receives its due at this weeken...

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Ben Finane, NY Times

The first encore, the American premier of "Largo" by Igor Raykhelson, turned out to be the unexpected highlight of the evening. ...

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An Octogenerian's time to shine

Will Friedwald, NY Sun

Speaking of detente, Rose Theater on Wednesday night played host to visitors from even farther away than L.A. This was "Crossover Concerto," a concert starring two ensembles...

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A Musical Exchange With the Best Russia Has to Offer

Nate Chinen. NY Times

(...) Mr. Raykhelson, born in St. Petersburg, was the evening's third major presence; it was the United States premiere of his "Jazz Suite for Viola, Saxophone, Piano and Orchestra" that compr...

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Novoye Russkoe Slovo

 

Absolutely enchanting and compact in its form "Small Symphony for Strings" of Igor Raykhelsonperformed by Mosco...

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Novoye Russkoe Slovo

 

Absolutely enchanting and compact in its form "Small Symphony for Strings" of Igor Raykhelsonperformed by Mosco...

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Times Herald Record

"The weeklong Classics on The Mountain brought its Chamber Music Festival to a gala finale Saturday night with a cross over program called "Clas...

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Kommersant Daily

"The Romantic Poem" of Igor Raykhelson has finally put the orchestra to the forefront. Suddenly the very same orchestra has taken on comple...

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Novoye Russkoe Slovo

Being a remarkable pianist, Raykhelson in his newest opus (this was an American premier) was mainly feeding from well established jazz formulas of 1930-1940, and these ha...

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The Nassau Guardian

The audience was treated to a World Premier performance of chamber symphony for strings composed by Igor Raykhelson...How fortunate we are to have experienced the musicial com...

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