George plays Mendelssohn's SERENADE & ALLEGRO GIOJOSO for piano and orchestra
with the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra under Maestro Arkady Leytush at Cathedral
of St. John the Divine on October 25, 2008.
Pianist Michael Lewin, Live Performance of Chopin Piano Concerto No.2 in F minor,
2nd movement, Larghetto. Boston's Jordan Hall, Civic Symphony Orchestra of Boston,
Max Hobart conducting.
Sviatoslav Richter playing May and June from Tchaikovsky's The Seasons, plus smaller pieces from op. 51 and op. 72, live at the Pushkin Museum on 4 January 1982. Timing and pieces below:
02:48 - Tchaikovsky The Seasons, op. 37a, May
07:21 - Tchaikovsky The Seasons, op. 37a, June
13:29 - Tchaikovsky 18 pieces, op. 72 no. 12, L'espiègle
15:53 - Tchaikovsky 18 pieces, op. 72 no. 15, Un poco di Chopin
19:19 - Tchaikovsky 6 pieces, op. 51 no. 3, Menuetto scherzoso
23:18 - Tchaikovsky 6 pieces, op. 51 no. 1, Valse de salon
First live performance (25.10.2011, Nijniy Novgorod city).
Conservatory student orchestra, Eugeny Sheiko, conductor.
About the Rhapsody
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Two-Piano version of this Rhapsody was written for the famous piano duo Nikolay PETROV and Alexander GHINDIN. But N. Petrov had a stroke a couple weeks before the premiere at Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow and died 2 months later...
He took very active part in process of creating the Rhapsody, called me almost every week wondering how it was going on, asked about performance details, urged and encouraged me..
His death was a real shock for me. The only thing that I could do was to dedicate the Rhapsody to His Memory.
I made an orchestration this summer. Now the Rhapsody has two versions:
for Piano and Orchestra like a piano concerto, and version for Piano Duo.
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My conception of the Rhapsody was to create a solid piece with its own subject and sense. Gershwin's opera ends on Porgy left for New York for his Bess. But it's unclear if he could ever get there. However, let's imagine that he could. What would happen then? My Rhapsody invites to think about this.
It is about a man with disabled body but healthy soul; about his dream, his belief, his way to his goal. It is about a beautiful woman with beautiful but torn by passions soul, suffering from her weakness. It is about the end of her splitting, the end of his dreams. But...The final conclusion is up to performers and listeners.
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The Rhapsody has 3 parts:
I. Day in New York. Porgy (Introduction, 1st Piano cadenza, Porgy's Story, Final)
II. Bess. Night (Recitative, Variations)
III. Bess and Porgy (2nd Piano cadenza - Bess & Porgy's Duet, Epilogue)
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This is my first expirience in such a kind of transcription. This is not completely my music of course, but not only Gershwin's music too.
Piano-duo Spring Festival. Gala concert (2 part)
S. Rachmaninov. Symphonic dances, op. 45
Two-piano version by Vyacheslav Gryaznov
Piano duo Vyacheslav Gryaznov & Nail Mavlyudov
Piano-duo Spring Festival. Concert 1 (21.04.2013)
M. Ravel. Ma mère l'Oye (4 hands)
I. Pavane de la belle au bois dormant
II. Petit Poucet
III. Laideronnette, impératrice des pagodes
IV. Les entretiens de la belle et de la bête
V. Le jardin féerique
Varvara Chirkina & Vyacheslav Gryaznov http://gryaznoff.com/
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