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ROSENBLATT, A.: Gipsy Fantasy / Concertino on Two Russian Themes / Variations on a Theme by Niccolo Paganini / Cello Sonata (Tokarev)

Composer(s):Rosenblatt, Alexander
Artist(s)
Genre Classical Music
Category Chamber MusicInstrumentalOrchestral
Catalogue SM137
Label Solo Musica
Quality   320kbps
Album Price
 
MP3
USD 9.99
 

 

   



Some nice lesser known 'crossover classical' from Russia!
Review By dc92823,September 2010

I had never heard of Alexander Rosenblatt, I admit. The new Solo Musica CD, "Tokarev plays Rosenblatt" is easy to listen to and very interesting. The young Russian pianist, Nikolai Tokarev, countryman of the composer, is clearly gifted and quite adept in his approach to music that is a bit of a hybrid.

Rosenblatt has written many works, large and small. His approach to composition is a bit symbiotic. He admits an affinity for jazz and American pop. (As his "Beatles" Symphony would suggest) The two pieces on this disc that most clearly illustrate Rosenblatt's liking for jazz are the simultaneously spiky and ethnically flavored, "Concertino on Two Russian Themes" for piano, four hands as well as the immensely entertaining "Waltzing with Hartmann".

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Review By Infodad.com,September 2010

There are two pianists featured on a CD called “Tokarev Plays Rosenblatt,” from the specialized Solo Musica label; and one of the performers is also the composer of the music here—that being part of this label’s approach. Rosenblatt (born 1956) graduated from the Moscow Conservatory, and his music is fairly well known in Russia—but as this CD shows, it has been strongly influenced by that most American of musical forms, jazz. Even the two most overtly “Russian” works here—the Concertino on Two Russian Themes for 4 Hands and Waltzing with Hartmann (after Mussorgsky)—partake of jazz influences, and the remaining works are filled with similar inflections.

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