Kofman, Roman

Victor Kissine: Between Two Waves; Duo; Barcarola / Gidon Kremer, Daniil Grishin, Giedre Dirvanauskaite, Andrius Zlabys, Andrei Pushkarev

1 CD / ECM / 2013-04-30

Works: Victor Kissine: Between Two Waves, for piano & string orchestra; Duo (After Ossip Andelstam), for viola & cello; Barcarola, concerto for violin, strings & percussion
Performers: Dirvanauskaite, Giedre; Grishin, Daniil; Kremer, Gidon; Pushkarev, Andrei; Zlabys, Andrius [Piano]
Conductors: Kofman, Roman

Following on from Victor Kissine's luminous orchestration of Schuber'ts String Quartet in G Major (ECM 1883) and his own Zerkalo with Kremer and friends (ECM...continue...
Recording information: Lockenhaus Festival, Lockenhaus, Austria (07/2011)....continue...

Jongen: Impressions d'Ardennes, Cello Concerto, Fantaisie

1 CD / Cypress / 2012-07-01

Works: Joseph Jongen: Impressions d'Ardennes, for orchestra, Op. 44; Concerto for Cello Op. 18; Fantaisie sur deux Noëls populaires wallons, for piano, 4 hands, Op. 24
Performers: Hallynck, Marie
Conductors: Kofman, Roman
Ensemble: Belgian National Orchestra

Edition Lockenhaus [Box Set] / Gidon Kremer, violin; Rattle - Kremerata Baltica

5 CD / ECM / 2011-10-24

Works: Richard Strauss: Metamorphosen for 23 solo Strings, AV 142; Olivier Messiaen: Petites liturgies (3) de la Présence Divine; César Franck: Piano Quintet in F minor, M. 7; André Caplet:...
Performers: Bellheim, Markus; Bennion-Feeney, Krista; Berger, Julius; Beyerle, Hatto; Bik, Annette; Brunner, Eduard; Buniatishvili, Khatia; Causse, Gerard [Viola]; Demenga, Thomas; Geringas, David; Grafenauer, I...
Conductors: Rattle, Simon, Sir; Kofman, Roman; Holliger, Heinz
Ensemble: ; Kremerata Baltica

To coincide with the 30th anniversary of Gidon Kremer's Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival in Austria, ECM releases a 5-CD box set of recordings from 1981-2008....continue...
Recording information: Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival....continue...

Hymns & Prayers / Gidon Kremer

1 CD / ECM / 2010-10-19

Works: Stevan Kovacs Tickmayer: Hymns (8) in memoriam Andrei Tarkovsky, for solo violin, string orchestra, vibraphone & piano; César Franck: Piano Quintet in F minor, M. 7; Giya Kancheli: Silent Pray...
Performers: Altunashvili, Sofia; Buniatishvili, Khatia; Dirvanauskaite, Giedre; Kremer, Gidon; Nemenyte, Marija; Pushkarev, Andrei; Rysanov, Maxim
Conductors: Kofman, Roman

Beautifully-recorded album from master violinist Gidon Kremer and his Kremerata Baltica, spanning a wide range of music, from the spirited to the spiritual, all of...continue...
Recording information: Pfarrkirche St. Nikolaus, Lockenhaus (07/2008)....continue...

Classical Top 100

5 CD / Brilliant Classics / 2010-05-04

Works: Antonio Vivaldi: The Four Seasons; Concerto for Flute "Il Gardellino"; Camille Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the animals; Carnival of the Animals; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Sonata, K. 331; Eine ...
Performers: Austbo, Hakon; Boer, Harmen de; Crombach, Sara; Geiger, Gyorgy; Goldstein, Misha; Grafova, Maria; Grauwels, Marc; Groop, Monica; Han, Derek; Hoek, Martijn van den; Holbling, Anna; Jerie, Marek; Jones...
Conductors: Warchal, Bohdan; Clark, Robert Haydon; Bátiz, Enrique; Ermler, Mark; ; Robev, Georgi; Sándor, János; Kosler, Zdenek; Heyerick, Florian; Davis, Carl; Lenárd, Ondrej; Vandernoot, An...
Ensemble: ; Early Music Consort of London; London Baroque; Musica ad Rhenum; New York Harp Ensemble

This set is newly compiled, choosing the 100 very best tracks in the best available performances, including London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Carl...continue...

Silvestrov: Dedication; Post scriptum

1 CD / Apex / 2009-02-17

Works: Valentin Silvestrov: Dedication, symphony for violin and orchestra; Post Scriptum, sonata for violin & piano
Performers: Kremer, Gidon; Sakharov, Vadim
Conductors: Kofman, Roman

Shostakovich: Complete Symphonies Vol 11 / Tamar, Shtonda, Kofman, et al

1 Super Audio CD / MD&G / 2008-11-11

Works: Dmitry Shostakovich: Symphony no 14 for soprano, bass, strings & percussion, Op. 135
Performers: Shtonda, Taras; Tamar, Iano
Conductors: Kofman, Roman
Ensemble: Beethoven Orchestra Bonn

A "grand discographic project" (FonoForum) is now complete: Shostakovich's complete symphonies are now available on MDG in the best SACD quality in 2+2+2 technique. Roman...continue...

Joel Hoffmann: Self-Portrait, et al / Karp, et al

1 CD / Albany Records / 2008-09-09

Works: Joel Hoffman: Sonata for Cello and Piano; Unaccompanied Minor; Self-Portrait with Gebirtig; Karptet
Performers: Hoffman, Gary; Karp, Christopher; Karp, Frances; Karp, Howard; Karp, Parry; Talbot, Katrin
Conductors: Kofman, Roman
Ensemble: Kiev Chamber Orchestra

The works on this recording span 25 years - from the Sonata for Cello (1982) to unaccompanied minor (2007). Joel Hoffman comments that, "Like so...continue...

Shostakovich: Symphonies no 3 & 15 / Kofman, et al

1 Super Audio CD / MD&G / 2008-08-05

Works: Dmitry Shostakovich: Symphony no 15 in A major, Op. 141; Symphony no 3 in E flat major (The First of May), Op. 20
Conductors: Kofman, Roman
Ensemble: Beethoven Orchestra Bonn

The next-to-last release in the complete edition of Dmitri Shostakovich's symphonies on MDG traces the customary development from the wildness of youth to maturity. In...continue...

The Ultimate Most Relaxing Tchaikovsky in the Universe

2 CD / Savoy Label Group / 2008-07-29

Works: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Concerto for Piano no 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23; Serenade for Strings in C major, Op. 48; Swan Lake; Quartet for Strings no 1 in D major, Op. 11; Pathétique Symphony...
Performers: Bavnov, Tomislav; Futer, Arkady; Korneyev, Alexander; Schmalfuss, Peter; Toperczer, Peter [Piano]; Van Den Booren, Borika; Zverev, Fladimir
Conductors: Pesek, Libor; Terian, Mikhail; Fedoseyev, Vladimir; Lapins, Ilmar; Svetlanov, Evgeny; Mága, Othmar M. F.; Ovchinnikov, Vyacheslav; Kofman, Roman
Ensemble: ; Kiev Chamber Orchestra; Moscow Chamber Orchestra; Moscow Radio & TV Symphony Orchestra; Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra; USSR State Academy Symphony Orchestra

Shostakovich: Complete Symphonies Vol 9 - Symphony no 11 / Kofman, Beethoven Orchester Bonn

1 Super Audio CD / MD&G / 2008-05-27

Works: Dmitry Shostakovich: Symphony no 11 in G minor, Op. 103 "Year 1905"
Conductors: Kofman, Roman
Ensemble: Beethoven Orchestra Bonn

Shostakovich: Symphony no 4 / Kofman, et al

1 Super Audio CD / MD&G / 2008-01-22

Works: Dmitry Shostakovich: Symphony no 4 in C minor, Op. 43
Conductors: Kofman, Roman
Ensemble: Beethoven Orchestra Bonn

For many years Dmitri Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony was icebound, until the political thaw under Khrushchev made it possible to go ahead with its premiere. The...continue...

Silvestrov: Symphony no 6 / Kofman, et al

1 Super Audio CD / MD&G / 2007-11-06

Works: Valentin Silvestrov: Symphony no 6
Conductors: Kofman, Roman
Ensemble: Beethoven Orchestra Bonn

"New music lovers know they are living in an age of luxury when works by composers as esoteric as Valentin Silvestrov are available in multiple...continue...

Silvestrov: Symphony no 6 / Kofman, et al

1 CD / MD&G / 2007-11-06

Works: Valentin Silvestrov: Symphony no 6
Conductors: Kofman, Roman
Ensemble: Beethoven Orchestra Bonn

"New music lovers know they are living in an age of luxury when works by composers as esoteric as Valentin Silvestrov are available in multiple...continue...

Shostakovich: Complete Symphonies Vol 7 / Kofman, et al

1 Super Audio CD / MD&G / 2007-09-25

Works: Dmitry Shostakovich: Symphony no 6 in B minor, Op. 54; Symphony no 1 in F minor, Op. 10
Conductors: Kofman, Roman
Ensemble: Beethoven Orchestra Bonn

Roman Kofman and the Beethoven Orchestra of Bonn bring you Volume 7 of the Shostakovich Symphonies. Symphony No. 1 was a hit at its premier...continue...

Shostakovich: Complete Symphonies Vol 6 / Kofman, et al

1 Super Audio CD / MD&G / 2007-04-24

Works: Dmitry Shostakovich: Symphony no 2 in B flat major (To October), Op. 14; Symphony no 12 in D minor, Op. 112 "To the Memory of Lenin - 1917"
Conductors: Kofman, Roman
Ensemble: Ukrainian National Opera Chorus

This volume 6 of the complete Symphonies by Dmitri Shostakovich by Roman Kofman and the Bonn Beethoven Orchestra. Roman Kofman maintains that Shostakovich can be...continue...

Liszt: Christus Oratotio / Kofman, Hirzel, et al

3 Super Audio CD / MD&G / 2007-03-27

Works: Franz Liszt: Christus, oratorio for soloists, chorus, orchestra & organ, S. 3 (LW I7)
Performers: Hirzel, Franziska; Kaasch, Donald; Lukas, Ralf; Noll, Christoph Anselm
Conductors: Kofman, Roman
Ensemble: Beethoven Orchestra Bonn

Liszt took the three phases of Christ's life, Nativity, Messiah & Passion and made them the themes in his most important religious work. This is...continue...

Shostakovich: Complete Symphonies Vol 5 / Kofman, et al

1 Super Audio CD / MD&G / 2006-11-21

Works: Dmitry Shostakovich: Symphony no 13 in B flat minor, Op. 113 "Babi Yar"
Performers: Shtonda, Taras
Conductors: Kofman, Roman
Ensemble: Czech Philharmonic Children's Choir

SCENE Schubert: Der Tod und das Madchen / Kofman, et al

1 Super Audio CD / MD&G / 2006-06-27

Works: Franz Schubert: Quartet for Strings no 14 in D minor, D 810 "Death and the Maiden"; Gustav Mahler: Symphony no 5 in C sharp minor
Performers: Blaumer, Ute
Conductors: Kofman, Roman
Ensemble: Kiev Chamber Orchestra

Composer and Conductor Gustav Mahler routinely arranged and reworked music from other media for various ensembles. His works are conducted here by Roman Kofman, artistic...continue...

Shostakovich: Complete Symphonies Vol 4 / Kofman, et al

1 Super Audio CD / MD&G / 2006-04-18

Works: Dmitry Shostakovich: Symphony no 8 in C minor, Op. 65
Conductors: Kofman, Roman
Ensemble: Beethoven Orchestra Bonn

SCENE Schubert: Der Tod und das Mädchen; Mahler / Kofman

1 CD / MD&G / 2005-12-13

Works: Franz Schubert: Quartet for Strings no 14 in D minor, D 810 "Death and the Maiden"; Gustav Mahler: Symphony no 5 in C sharp minor
Performers: Blaumer, Ute
Conductors: Kofman, Roman
Ensemble: Kiev Chamber Orchestra

Mahlers Adagietto was originally written for his Tenth Symphony as a love letter to his wife Alma. The press of Vienna in his time were...continue...

Britten: Les Illuminations, etc / Kofman, Hirzel, et al

1 Super Audio CD / MD&G / 2005-02-22

Works: Benjamin Britten: Simple Symphony for Strings, Op. 4; Les Illuminations; Variations on a Theme by Frank Bridge, for strings, Op. 10
Performers: Hirzel, Franziska
Conductors: Kofman, Roman
Ensemble: Kiev Chamber Orchestra

Roman Kofman was the concertmaster of the Kiev Chamber Orchestra from its founding in 1963 and became the artistic director and conductor in 1990. He...continue...

Britten: Les Illuminations, etc / Kofman, et al

1 CD / MD&G / 2004-11-23

Works: Benjamin Britten: Simple Symphony for Strings, Op. 4; Les Illuminations; Variations on a Theme by Frank Bridge, for strings, Op. 10
Conductors: Kofman, Roman
Ensemble: Kiev Chamber Orchestra

The Kiev Chamber Orchestra is the leading musical group in the Ukraine....continue...

Tchaikovsky: Opera Arias / Julia Varády, Roman Kofman, et al

1 CD / Orfeo / 2001-05-30

Works: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Eugen Onegin; Maid of Orleans; Mazeppa; The sorceress; Queen of Spades, Op. 68; Iolanta, Op. 69
Performers: Evangelatos, Daphne; Varady, Julia [Soprano Vocals]
Conductors: Kofman, Roman
Ensemble: Munich Radio Symphony Orchestra

Beethoven: Piano Concertos no 3 & 4 / Vracheva, Kofman

1 CD / Arts / 1997-11-01

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Concerto for Piano no 3 in C minor, Op. 37; Concerto for Piano no 4 in G major, Op. 58; Cadenzas (2) to Mozart's Piano Concerto no 20 in D minor, KV466
Performers: Vracheva, Galina
Conductors: Kofman, Roman
Ensemble: Kiev Chamber Orchestra

Beethoven: Piano Concertos no 1 & 2 / Vracheva, Kofman

1 CD / Arts / 1997-08-01

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Concerto for Piano no 1 in C major, Op. 15; Concerto for Piano no 2 in B flat major, Op. 19
Performers: Vracheva, Galina
Conductors: Kofman, Roman
Ensemble: Kiev Chamber Orchestra

Beethoven: Piano Concerto no 5, Choral Fantasia / Vracheva

1 CD / Arts / 1997-02-01

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Concerto for Piano no 5 "Emperor"; Fantasia in C minor, Op. 80 "Choral Fantasy"
Performers: Vracheva, Galina
Conductors: Kofman, Roman
Ensemble: Kiev Chamber Chorus; Kiev Chamber Orchestra