BOHUSLAV MARTINU
Maxim Rysanov plays Martinu Maxim Rysanov (viola) / BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jiří Bělohlávek, with Alexander Sitkovetsky (violin) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 30/May/2015 ] Maxim Rysanov, one of today's leading viola players, explores Martinů's clear fascination with the viola on this disc, opening with the Rhapsody-Concerto from 1952. |
J. S. BACH
Suites for Solo Cello transcribed for the viola Maxim Rysanov, viola [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 22/Feb/2014 ] "Rysanov's playing has grown in depth of feeling, virtuosity and tone colour...Wit and springy rhythms mark his Courantes, Bourrées, Menuets and Gavottes; his Gigues are joyous apotheoses of the dance." (Sunday Times) |
PETERIS VASKS
Vasks: Viola Concerto & 'Voices' Maxim Rysanov (viola & conductor) / Sinfonietta Rīga [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 3/Apr/2020 ] "The BIS recording is exceptionally good, offering some very striking music, in authoritative performances and excellently recorded." MusicWeb |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Chamber Works (Incls Viola Sonata by Glinka) Maxim Rysanov (viola), Evelyn Chang (piano) [ AVIE / CD - released 30/Sep/2007 ] "In this beautifully recorded recital Rysanov makes out an excellent case for taking up teh Franck A major sonata, his arrangement judiciously steering a middle course between the violin and cello versions, but gaining an extra degree of richness of... |
GIYA KANCHELI
Styx (with Tavener-The Myrrh-Bearer) Maxim Rysanov (viola) / Liepaja Symphony Orchestra / Chorus 'Kamere' / Men of the State Choir Latvija / Maris Sirmais [ Onyx / CD - released 30/Nov/2007 ] "Rysanov yields little to Bashmet in terms of intensity of expression and the capacity to sustain an atmospheric melodic line." (BBC Music) |
SCHUBERT / TCHAIKOVSKY / BRUCH
Works for Viola & Orchestra Maxim Rysanov (viola) / Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Muhai Tang [ BIS / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jul/2011 ] "Max Bruch's meltingly beautiful Romance makes for a serene envoi to this delectable disc...[Rysanov] makes [the Rococo's] viola transformation sound thoroughly idiomatic." (Daily Telegraph Five Stars) |
BRAHMS
Music for Viola Vol II Maxim Rysanov (viola) with Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano) & Ashley Wass (piano), etc [ Onyx / CD - released 10/Mar/2011 ] Maxim Rysanov completes his survey of all Brahms's chamber works to feature the viola. |
BRAHMS
Music for Viola (2 CD set) Maxim Rysanov (viola) with Katya Apekisheva & Jacob Katsnelson (pianos) [ Onyx / CD - released 10/Jan/2009 ] "Strong-handedness and humour win over understatement, but nostalgia remains." Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine (January 2009) |
QIGANG CHEN / FRITZ KREISLER / SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Gateways Maxim Vengerov (violin) Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Long Yu [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 19/Jul/2019 ] "Long Yu [is] a superpower of China's burgeoning music world" - Washington Post The second Deutsche Grammophon release "Gateways" by the newly signed Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and Long Yu features Chinese and Russian works. |
AVSHALOMOV / TCHAIKOVSKY / SHOSTAKOVICH
Shanghai Symphony Orchestra (recorded 2017) Maxim Vengerov (violin) Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Long Yu [ Accentus DVD / DVD - released 25/Jan/2020 ] "With first desk players of exceptional ability, the orchestra plays with exemplary polish and a fine sense of ensemble under their conductor Long Yu…Vengerov brings lustrous singing tone to Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto" BBC Music |
NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Rimsky-Korsakov: The Snow Maiden (complete opera recorded in 2017) BLU-RAY Paris National Opera / Aida Garifullina, Yuriy Mynenko, Martina Serafin, Maxim Paster / Dmitri Tcherniakov (cond) [ Bel Air Classiques Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 28/May/2021 ] "Tatarnikov is sensitive to the score's brilliant colours and vividly imagined textures, drawing on the fine playing of the Paris Opera Orchestra and the enthusiastic engagement - both vocal and dramatic - of the chorus." BBC Music Five Stars |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Phaedra, Op. 93 / A Charm of Lullabies / Lachrymae / Two Portraits / Sinfonietta, Op. 1 Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano) / Maxim Rysanov (viola) / BBC Symphony Orchestra / Edward Gardner [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 26/Apr/2011 ] "Gardner's sensitivity to the bittersweet Thirties idiom of the first portrait and the elegiac eloquence of viola soloist Maxim Rysanov in the second combine to highly atmospheric effect. Imaginative programme, highly recommended." Editor's Choice... |
DOBRINKA TABAKOVA
Tabakova: Concertos - Earth Suite - Orpheus' Comet The Halle, Deylana Lazarova (conductor), Maxim Ryanov (viola), Guy Johnston (cello) [ Halle / CD - released 6/Oct/2023 ] This album marks the culmination of two special Hallé collaborations and includes four major pieces from one of the most distinctive of current British compositional voices. |
TCHAIKOVSKY
Hamlet (incidental music) / Romeo and Juliet (original version) Tatiana Monogarova (soprano) Maxim Mikhailov (bass) / Russian National Orchestra / Vladimir Jurowski [ Pentatone SACD / SACD - released 26/Jan/2009 ] MARBECKS STAFF PICK: CD OF THE YEAR 2009 - "Two Shakspearean fantasy overtures - but, excitingly, not as we know them." - Gramophone Recording of the Month March 2009 |
ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: Rusalka (complete opera in 2021) Teatro Real / Asmik Grigorian, Eric Cutler, Maxim Kuzmin-Karavaev, Katarina Dalayman, Karita Mattila / Ivor Bolton (cond) [ C Major DVD / 2 DVD - released 2/Nov/2021 ] 'Loy's concept works well and the stylish production values make this one of the most successful Rusalkas on film...Central to the success is Asmik Grigorian's outstanding, passionate Rusalka.' Gramophone Award Finalist 2022 - Opera |
ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: Rusalka (complete opera recorded in 2021) ) [Blu-ray] Teatro Real / Asmik Grigorian, Eric Cutler, Maxim Kuzmin-Karavaev, Katarina Dalayman, Karita Mattila / Ivor Bolton (cond) [ C Major Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 2/Nov/2021 ] 'Loy's concept works well and the stylish production values make this one of the most successful Rusalkas on film...Central to the success is Asmik Grigorian's outstanding, passionate Rusalka.' Gramophone Award Finalist 2022 - Opera |
TIKHON KHRENNIKOV
Violin Concertos & Piano Concertos Vadim Repin (violin) Evgeny Kissin (piano) Maxim Vengerov (violin) / Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio, Vladimir Fedoseyev [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 10/Jan/2014 ] Tikhon Khrennikov was certainly an equivocal figure in the history of 20thcentury Russian music. A composer with a tendency towards popular theatrical genres and lyricism, the naively optimistic nature of his music was soon noticed by the Soviet... |
ROSSINI
The Italian girl in Algiers (complete opera) Christianne Stotijn / Maxim Mironov / Marco Vinco / Riccardo Frizza (conductor) [ Bel Air Classique / DVD - released 28/Apr/2008 ] G : - Rossini's wonderful comic opera, written when he was only 21, to an Italian libretto by Angelo Anelli, was first performed in Venice on May 22, 1813. |
MODEST MUSSORGSKY
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (piano version) (with Shostakovich - Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor for piano, trumpet & strings, Op. 35) Vladimir Ovchinnikov (piano) / Philharmonia Orchestra, Maxim Shostakovich, with John Wallace (trumpet) [ Piano Classics / CD - released 11/Apr/2011 ] An overwhelming performance of Mussorgsky's masterpiece, Pictures at an Exhibition by Russian virtuoso Vladimir Ovchinnikov. Ovchinnikov made an impressive career after winning the 1987 Leeds piano competition. He recorded extensively for EMI,... |