Knaifel, Alexander

Alexander Knaifel: The Canterville Ghost, opera / Suleimanov, Monogarova, Jurowski

1 CD / Brilliant Classics / 2013-01-29

Works: Alexander Knaifel: Canterville Ghost, opera
Performers: Livental, Alexander; Suleimanow, Stanislaw
Conductors: Jurowski, Michail
Ensemble: Moscow Forum Theatre Orchestra

Alexander Aronovich Knajfel concert tours have taken him all over Russia, Europe and the USA and he has since sung a variety of operatic roles...continue...
Recording information: Mosfilm Studios, Moscow (09/1990)....continue...

String Trios from the East by Gubaidulina, Kancheli, Knaifel and Paiberdin / Goeyvaert String Trio

2 CD / Challenge Classics / 2012-05-08

Works: Sofia Gubaidulina: Trio, for violin, viola & cello; Oleg Paiberdin: Organum A-nn-A, for violin, viola & cello; Giya Kancheli: Time... and again (What I write is true, God knows that I am not lying. -...
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Ensemble: Goeyvaert String Trio

All of these works begin with very little: a note or two, something not far removed from silence, a seed that gives rise to an...continue...
Recording information: Groáer Lindensaal, Markkleeberg, Germany (06/20/2011-06/23/2011)....continue...

Alexander Knaifel: Blazhenstva

1 CD / ECM Import / 2008-09-30

Works: Alexander Knaifel: Lamento; Blazhenstva
Performers: Melentieva, Tatiana; Migunov, Piotr; Monighetti, Ivan
Conductors: Monighetti, Ivan; Sondeckis, Saulius

Third ECM album pioneering this mysterious Russian composer's work after Amicta Sole and Svete Tikhiy....continue...

Rostropovich plays Cello Works

9 CD / Erato / 2008-03-25

Works: Gaspar Cassadó: Toccata "by Frescobaldi," for cello & piano; Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto in D minor after Alessandro Marcello, BWV 974; Ach, was ist doch unser Leben, BWV 743; Vater unser im...
Performers: Brown, Christopher; Emanuelle, Jean; Howard, Peter; James, Layton; Lemoine, Micheline; Primetemps, Edmond; Quatrocchi, Robert; Rostropovich, Mstislav; Seenan, Hugh; Tachezi, Herbert; Vishnevskaya, Ga...
Conductors: Wolff, Hugh; Ozawa, Seiji; Halffter, Cristobal; Jolivet, André; Sacher, Paul; Nagano, Kent; Penderecki, Krzysztof; Rostropovich, Mstislav; Landowski, Marcel; Scribner, Norman
Ensemble: ; Boston Symphony Orchestra; French National Orchestra; London Symphony Orchestra; National Cathedral Lower School Chorus; Philharmonia Orchestra; St. Paul Chamber Orchestra; Zurich Collegium Musicum

Knaifel: Amicta Sole, Psalm 51 / Rostropovich, et al

1 CD / ECM Import / 2005-07-26

Works: Alexander Knaifel: Psalm 51, for solo cello; Amicta Sole, for soprano, boy's choir soloists & chamber orchestra
Performers: Melentieva, Tatiana; Rostropovich, Mstislav
Conductors: Steinlucht, Arkady
Ensemble: Glinka Choral College Boys Choir

Since the mid 1980s, the music of Russian composer Alexander Knaifel has reflected his search for a direct form of sacred musical expression. The resultant...continue...

Knaifel: Svete Tikhiy, etc / Malov, Keller Quartet, et al

1 CD / ECM Import / 2003-04-01

Works: Alexander Knaifel: In Air Clean and Unseen, stanzas with Tyutchev, for piano & string quartet; Svete Tikhiy (O gladsome light), for soprano & sampler
Performers: Malov, Oleg; Melentieva, Tatiana; Siegle, Andrei

"Alexander Knaifel is a Russian composer and cellist. Judging by this release and his previous one, also on ECM, he is a proponent of minimalism...continue...

Lux Aeterna / Patrick Demenga, Thomas Demenga

1 CD / ECM Import / 2000-11-14

Works: Alexander Knaifel: Lux aeterna, for 2 psalmodists; Thomas Demenga: Duo? o, Du..., for 2 cellos; Jean Barrière: Sonata for 2 cellos no 10 in G major; Roland Moser: Wendungen, for 2 cellos; Barr...
Performers: Demenga, Patrick; Demenga, Thomas