Cello Sonatas by Krizhanovsky & Potolovsky

[Alan Howe]

Fancy some full-blooded Slavic chamber music? Then look no further than this superb new release of cello sonatas by Ivan Krizhanovsky (1867-1924) and Nikolai Potolovsky (1878-1927) on Acte Préalable:
http://www.acteprealable.com/albums/new_ap0220.html
Excerpts here:
http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/Nikolai-Potolovsky-1878-1927-Sonate-f%FCr-Cello-Klavier-op-2/hnum/3283129
(tracks 1-3: Krizhanovsky Cello Sonata; 4-5: Potolovsky Deux pièces; 6-8: Potolovsky Cello Sonata)

[Gareth Vaughan]

Acte Prealable produce some splendid disks. People might like to know that Valentina Seferinova will record a disk of solo piano music by Rozycki for the label this year.

[febnyc]

Thanks for the notice.  A great label, indeed.  I have lots of AP discs - and have just ordered this one.  From the excerpts it all sounds schmaltzy enough for a good wallow.

[febnyc]

It just occurred to me that Krizhanovsky retains the singular honor of having been one of the 48 names of Russian composers in the song "Tchaikovsky (and other Russians)," lyrics by George Gershwin - featured in the 1941 Broadway musical Lady in the Dark.  The inimitable Danny Kaye made this patter-song famous by reeling off all the names in less than a minute.  Great stuff!

http://youtu.be/hh-wOvuOHPE

There's Malichevsky, Rubinstein, Arensky, and Tschaikowsky,
Sapelnikoff, Dimitrieff, Tscherepnin, Kryjanowsky,
Godowsky, Arteiboucheff, Moniuszko, Akimenko,
Solovieff, Prokofieff, Tiomkin, Korestchenko.

There's Glinka, Winkler, Bortniansky, Rebikoff, Ilyinsky,
There's Medtner, Balakireff, Zolotareff, and Kvoschinsky.
And Sokoloff and Kopyloff, Dukelsky, and Klenowsky,
And Shostakovitsch, Borodine, Glière, and Nowakofski.

There's Liadoff and Karganoff, Markievitch, Pantschenko
And Dargomyzski, Stcherbatcheff, Scriabine, Vassilenko,
Stravinsky, Rimsky-Korsakoff, Mussorgsky, and Gretchaninoff
And Glazounoff and Caesar Cui, Kalinikoff, Rachmaninoff,

Stravinsky and Gretchnaninoff,
Rumshinsky and Rachmaninoff,
I really have to stop, the subject has been dwelt upon enough!

He'd better stop because we feel we all have undergone enough!

[JimL]

It just occurred to me that Krizhanovsky retains the singular honor of having been one of the 48 names of Russian composers in the song "Tchaikovsky (and other Russians)," lyrics by George Gershwin - featured in the 1941 Broadway musical Lady in the Dark.  The inimitable Danny Kaye made this patter-song famous by reeling off all the names in less than a minute.  Great stuff!

http://youtu.be/hh-wOvuOHPE

There's Malichevsky, Rubinstein, Arensky, and Tschaikowsky,
Sapelnikoff, Dimitrieff, Tscherepnin, Kryjanowsky,
Godowsky, Arteiboucheff, Moniuszko, Akimenko,
Solovieff, Prokofieff, Tiomkin, Korestchenko.

There's Glinka, Winkler, Bortniansky, Rebikoff, Ilyinsky,
There's Medtner, Balakireff, Zolotareff, and Kvoschinsky.
And Sokoloff and Kopyloff, Dukelsky, and Klenowsky,
And Shostakovitsch, Borodine, Glière, and Nowakofski.

There's Liadoff and Karganoff, Markievitch, Pantschenko
And Dargomyzski, Stcherbatcheff, Scriabine, Vassilenko,
Stravinsky, Rimsky-Korsakoff, Mussorgsky, and Gretchaninoff
And Glazounoff and Caesar Cui, Kalinikoff, Rachmaninoff,

Stravinsky and Gretchnaninoff,
Rumshinsky and Rachmaninoff,
I really have to stop, the subject has been dwelt upon enough!

He'd better stop because we feel we all have undergone enough!

I thought George's brother Ira was the lyricist.  And if George had written those lyrics he most likely did it before 1941, because by then he'd been dead for 4 years!

[febnyc]

Touché to you - of course it was Ira who wrote the lyrics.  They're still brilliant, in spite of my senility.  (And, PS, lots of unsungs sung in this song!)

[eschiss1]

Reminds me tangentially of a song by Cole Porter, but that suggests another topic. Anyway. Thanks!

[JimL]

...and Gretchaninoff
And Glazounoff and Caesar Cui, Kalinikoff, Rachmaninoff,

Stravinsky and Gretchnaninoff,
Rumshinsky and Rachmaninoff,
I really have to stop, the subject has been dwelt upon enough!

He'd better stop because we feel we all have undergone enough![/i]

Touché to you - of course it was Ira who wrote the lyrics.  They're still brilliant, in spite of my senility.  (And, PS, lots of unsungs sung in this song!)

Well, did Ira Gershwin also mention Gretchaninoff and Rachmaninoff twice, or was that also just senile old you? 

[febnyc]

Well, did Ira Gershwin also mention Gretchaninoff and Rachmaninoff twice, or was that also just senile old you? 

I assume you did not listen to the YouTube clip, are not familiar with the song - or simply are tongue-in-cheekish (always hard to ascertain in a written comment).

These were Ira Gershwin's lyrics, not my senility.   

[JimL]

Well, he could have fit Potolovsky in there somewhere.    And no, I didn't listen to the YT.  Guess I'll have to now.  Without having done so may I venture a guess that it is sung to the tune of the Major General's Song from Pirates?

[Alan Howe]

Enough already! Let's get back to the music!

[Christopher]

It just occurred to me that Krizhanovsky retains the singular honor of having been one of the 48 names of Russian composers in the song "Tchaikovsky (and other Russians)," lyrics by George Gershwin - featured in the 1941 Broadway musical Lady in the Dark.  The inimitable Danny Kaye made this patter-song famous by reeling off all the names in less than a minute.  Great stuff!

http://youtu.be/hh-wOvuOHPE

There's Malichevsky, Rubinstein, Arensky, and Tschaikowsky,
Sapelnikoff, Dimitrieff, Tscherepnin, Kryjanowsky,
Godowsky, Arteiboucheff, Moniuszko, Akimenko,
Solovieff, Prokofieff, Tiomkin, Korestchenko.

There's Glinka, Winkler, Bortniansky, Rebikoff, Ilyinsky,
There's Medtner, Balakireff, Zolotareff, and Kvoschinsky.
And Sokoloff and Kopyloff, Dukelsky, and Klenowsky,
And Shostakovitsch, Borodine, Glière, and Nowakofski.

There's Liadoff and Karganoff, Markievitch, Pantschenko
And Dargomyzski, Stcherbatcheff, Scriabine, Vassilenko,
Stravinsky, Rimsky-Korsakoff, Mussorgsky, and Gretchaninoff
And Glazounoff and Caesar Cui, Kalinikoff, Rachmaninoff,

Stravinsky and Gretchnaninoff,
Rumshinsky and Rachmaninoff,
I really have to stop, the subject has been dwelt upon enough!

He'd better stop because we feel we all have undergone enough!

Moniuszko Russian?!!

[markniew]

And Malichevsky (Maliszewski) and Nowakofski (Nowakowski)?

[Alan Howe]

As I said, back to the music, please!

[febnyc]

As I said, back to the music, please!

Party pooper!