|
|
June 4, 2007 "Russian Composers II/Matanya Ophee Interview"
<Listen To Preview>
<Listen Online Now>
This week's program features works by two Russian composers, and an interview music publisher/historian
Matanya Ophee recorded June 2, 2007.
The program begins with the Perpetuum Mobile by Matvei Pavlov-Azancheev (1888-1963), who was a cellist, conductor,
and performer on the Russian 7-string guitar. While on tour, he was arrested and spent 10 years (1941-1951) in a
Soviet gulag.
In an interview with Matanya Ophee, he explains that Pavlov-Azancheev was arrested for telling a joke about Stalin.
During that time, Pavlov-Azancheev was able to compose, and wrote his large-scale work, Sonata #2,
"The Great Patriotic War", a programmatic work designed to appease the authorities, and hopefully secure his early release.
(It didnŐt work)
Nadia Borislova is a contemporary Russian composer now residing in Puebla, Mexico. Her concerto for guitar and
piano, "El Tren Oceanico" combines Russian and Mexican musical elements.
Public Radio Satellite System uplink: Wednesday, June 6, 2007 at 1300 ET
Channel: A68.1
Program ID# 07-D65-00023
Title: Russian Composers II/Matanya Ophee Interview
Total length: 58:01
In Cue: MUSIC IN "Hello and welcome to.."
Out Cue: MUSIC IN "...another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!"
INTRODUCTION:
Bizet: Carmen Suite: Prelude
Los Romeros (Philips 412-609)
PROGRAM BEGINS:
Pavlov-Azancheev: Perpetuum Mobile
Oleg Timofeyev, guitar
(Hanssler 98.458)
Interview: Matanya Ophee:
"He was basically, a cellist, and an orchestra conductor, and guitarist... ...once you get this Marxist-Leninist stuff
out of it, it's very good music."
Pavlov-Azancheev: Sonata #2
Oleg Timofeyev, guitar
(Hanssler 98.458)
Borislova: El Tren Oceanico
Nadia Borislova, guitar
Farizat Tchibirova, piano
(Conaculta Fonica 1999)
CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS
|