At the court of Catherine the Great, or: the Ukrainian grandmasters of Russian music.
In today’s Stroll, we will travel eastwards, and we will have a look at the court of Catherine the Great, where composers who were unknown in Western Europe composed music that has certainly stood the test of time. A little rediscovery.
Playlist:
- Dmitri Bortnjanski – Piano septet in B minor
- Allegro Maestoso
- Larghetto
- Allegretto
Da Camera e da Chiesa, conducted by Victor Felitsiant.
- Maksim Berezovski – Sonata for violin and basso continuo in C major,
Sergei Filchenko, violin and Olga Martynova, piano. - Ivan Kandosjkin – Songs for violin and viola no.1-6, “Old Russian songs ”
- Along the bridge, this bridge
- Is this my fate, my fate?
- Little dove, why do you sit so sadly?
- What happened and why?
- Once I gathered golden sheaves
- Once I was a young man
Anastasia Khiruk, violin, Dmitri Jakubovsky, viola and Kyrill Yevtushenko, cello.
- Stepan Degtjarov – Every Creature
Bortnjanski Capella conducted by Gennady Dmitriak
