Kancheli: Simi/ Mourned by the Wind Orchestral & Concertos Russian Chandos

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Ivashkin plays the concerto with the same dedication displayed in his Chandos recording of the complete cello and piano works.

BBC Music Magazine on CHAN 9722 (Schnittke: Cello

I cannot imagine it [the Cello Concerto No. 1, performed by Ivashkin] being played with more commanding virtuosity or more rhetorical intensity.

Gramophone on CHAN 9852 (Schnittke: Symphony No. 7

Both pieces are written in the slow idiom so characteristic of Kancheli: they are slow moving, tonally rooted, laconic, deeply reflective, unworldly yet touched by the ‘inner’ qualities of the folk music of his native Georgia. Alexader Ivashkin’s warmly toned cello (a 1710 Guarneri) sings most movingly. This is refined playing; a tendency to understate gives Ivahskin’s performance the qualities of inwardness and fragility that seem to me wholly appropriate. Valeri Polyansky and the Russian State Symphony Orchestra meet him on exactly the same footing.

International Record Review

The performance is remarkable: precise, and with concentrated intensity in even the most skeletal phrases… the recording makes sure we miss nothing.

BBC Music Magazine ‘Best of 2001’ on CHAN 9885 (Sc

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