"Symphony No. 1 (Rachmaninoff) Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 1 in D minor, his Op. 13, was composed between January and October 1895 at his Ivanovka estate near Tambov, Russia. Despite its poor initial reception the symphony is now seen as a dynamic representation of the Russian symphonic tradition, with British composer Robert Simpson calling it ""a powerful work in its own right, stemming from Borodin and Tchaikovsky, but convinced, individual, finely constructed, and achieving a genuinely tragic and heroic expression that stands far above the pathos of his later music."" The premiere, which took place in St. Petersburg"
"The Music Lovers The Music Lovers is a 1971 British drama film directed by Ken Russell. The screenplay by Melvyn Bragg, based on ""Beloved Friend"", a collection of personal correspondence edited by Catherine Drinker Bowen and Barbara von Meck, focuses on the life and career of 19th-century Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. It was one of the director's biographical films about classical composers, which include ""Elgar"" (1962), ""Delius: Song of Summer"" (1968), ""Mahler"" (1974) and ""Lisztomania"" (1975), made from an often idiosyncratic standpoint. Much of the film is without dialogue and the story is presented in flashbacks, nightmares, and fantasy"
"Yuko is the soloist. Ilya finds out that Yuko is a widow and starts to experience feelings of guilt. Melodies of a White Night Melodies of a White Night () is a 1976 romantic drama directed by Sergei Solovyov. Japanese pianist (Komaki Kurihara) travels to the Soviet Union to better understand the country's composers' production. She falls in love with Soviet composer Ilya (Yury Solomin), who has lost his parents in the Siege of Leningrad and also his wife during childbirth. The lovers enjoy Leningrad's white summer nights, and Ilya starts composing a piano concert by inspired by Yuko. A"
"Observing the passions and disappointments of them all are Doctor Chebutykin, a family friend, and Anfisa, the sisters' former nanny. A performance by the original cast can be seen on a DVD distributed by Kultur International Films Ltd. Produced and directed for BBC Television by Derek Bailey, it was recorded at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in 1990. Winter Dreams (ballet) Winter Dreams is a one-act ballet choreographed by Kenneth MacMillan to piano pieces by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky selected and arranged by Philip Gammon and traditional Russian music selected and arranged for guitar and mandolin ensemble by Thomas Hartman."
"Melodies of a White Night Melodies of a White Night () is a 1976 romantic drama directed by Sergei Solovyov. Japanese pianist (Komaki Kurihara) travels to the Soviet Union to better understand the country's composers' production. She falls in love with Soviet composer Ilya (Yury Solomin), who has lost his parents in the Siege of Leningrad and also his wife during childbirth. The lovers enjoy Leningrad's white summer nights, and Ilya starts composing a piano concert by inspired by Yuko. A couple of years later, they meet again in Japan in Kyoto, where Ilya is conducting his piano concert, and"
"an interview: ""You really feel you should drive a stake through the heart of the man who made it. I mean it is so vile. It is so horrible."" ""The Music Lovers"" was released to DVD by MGM Home Entertainment on October 12th, 2011 via its DVD-on-demand service available through Amazon. The Music Lovers The Music Lovers is a 1971 British drama film directed by Ken Russell. The screenplay by Melvyn Bragg, based on ""Beloved Friend"", a collection of personal correspondence edited by Catherine Drinker Bowen and Barbara von Meck, focuses on the life and career of 19th-century Russian composer"
"Ken Russell Henry Kenneth Alfred Russell (3 July 1927 – 27 November 2011) was an English film director, known for his pioneering work in television and film and for his flamboyant and controversial style. His films in the main were liberal adaptations of existing texts, or biographies, notably of composers of the Romantic era. Russell began directing for the BBC, where he made creative adaptations of composers' lives which were unusual for the time. He also directed many feature films independently and for studios. He is best known for his Oscar-winning film ""Women in Love"" (1969), ""The Devils"" (1971), The"
"film's title card reads ""Ken Russell's Film on Tchaikovsky and The Music Lovers"" to differentiate it from ""Tchaikovsky"", a Russian film released the previous year. Rafael Orozco recorded the piano pieces played by Tchaikovsky in the film. Director Russell hired his wife Shirley as costume designer and cast four of their children – Alexander, Victoria, James, and Xavier – in small roles. There are scenes that could offend the purist. In one sequence, Tchaikovsky and his patron glimpse each other from a distance as she passes through a wood in her carriage. In real life their paths accidentally crossed in"
"(1940). Later Sviridov would turn to the rich Russian musical heritage, including the folk songs, for inspiration. Among Sviridov's most popular orchestral pieces are the Romance and the Waltz from his ""The Blizzard"", musical illustrations after Pushkin (1975), that were originally written for the eponymous 1964 film based on the short story from Pushkin's ""The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin"". A short segment from his score for the 1965 film ""Time, Forward!"" (""Время, вперёд!"") was selected as the opening theme for the main evening TV news program ""Vremya"" (Время, 'time') and became the staple of Soviet life for"
"Channel""», «""Fontanka. White Night""», «""Krukov Channe. Morning""»[8] (all 1958), «""Laundry Bridge""», «""At Vasylivsky Island""»[9], «""Court""»[10][11] (all 1959), «""Channel in the Morning""», «""White Night in Leningrad""»[12] (both 1961), «""Rosa. Portrait of Wife""» (1962), «""Fantasy on North Theme. Night""»[13] (1963), «""Frosty Day""», «""Evening. Baltyisky Factory""», «""Time of Sunrise. Fontanka""»[14] (all 1964), «""Still life with Mannequin""»[15] (1965), «""White Nights""»[16] (1967), «""Watchmakers""»[17], «""Dead Tree""»[15] (both 1968), «""Watchmaker. By the Motifs of Hoffmann`s Tales""»[18], «""Storm of Tychvin""»[17] (1969), «""Kursk Edge. Counteroffensive to Belgorod""»[19], «""Watch and Dolls""»[15] (both 1972), «""Turbine Construction shop""»[20], «""Pickers""»[21] (1975), «""An Hour before Sunrise""»[22], «""Thunderstorm""», «""Troubled White Night""»[23], «""Leningrad Motif""»[22] (all 1977)"
"(1956), Little Cantata ""Wooden Russia"" (1964) after Yesenin, Cantata ""Songs of Kursk"" (1964), ""Spring Cantata"" (1972) after Nikolai Nekrasov, songs, romances, and cantatas after Fyodor Tyutchev, Sergei Yesenin, Alexander Blok, Boris Pasternak, Alexander Prokofyev, Robert Rozhdestvensky. He also wrote one opera, ""Twinkling Lights"" (1951). While Sviridov's music remains little known in the West, his works received high praise in his homeland for their memorable lyrical melodies, national flavor and mainly for great expression of Russia and Russian soul in his music. His piece ""Winter Road"" was plagiarized by Tappi Iwase and used as the theme for the popular video game"
"film won the Grand Prix at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival. Eduard Artemyev's theme from the movie was covered by the Russian trance act PPK and issued under the title ""ResuRection"" in August 2001. It reached #3 in the UK Singles Chart. The movie's theme was also used during the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, when Lyubov, the little girl, climbs in the air. Siberiade Siberiade (, translit. ""Sibiriada"") is a 1979 epic Soviet film in four parts, spanning much of the 20th century. It was directed by Andrei Konchalovsky, working for the Mosfilm studio. In"
"Russia. Meanwhile, Shulgin didn’t stop writing – music, lyrics, or simply rhymes. All this then often resulted in songs and if not - just stayed in mind, waiting. Shulgin then created ""Merry Christmas to the World"", another ambitious East-West collaboration between Shulgin and BBC Worldwide. With music by Shulgin and lyrics and production by Richard Niles it expressed the ethos of glasnost. London studio musicians performed with members of the Moscow Symphony and the Soviet Folk Orchestra. Sung by Valeria, the video was directed by Ken Russell who used it in his film ""Alice in Russialand"" (1998). Shot in Red"
"which were issued only in Chukotka. The first of these books was a new work called ""In the Mirror of Oblivion"" (В зеркале забвения). His works have been translated into numerous languages, including several national languages of the former USSR. In addition, the composer Eduard Artemyev set his poems to music in a 1985 vocal-instrumental suite ""The Warmth of the Earth"" (Тепло Земли). Only a few of his works have been translated into English, including ""A Dream in Polar Fog"" (), originally published in 1970, which was published by Archipelago Books in 2005. It was also adapted as a film"
"the music is folk. The song gave the title to the famous Soviet musical comedy ""Volga-Volga"". The melody was used by Tom Springfield in the song ""The Carnival Is Over"" that placed The Seekers at #1 in 1965 in Australia and the UK. The lyrics of the song were dramatized in one of the very first Russian narrative films, ""Stenka Razin"" directed by Vladimir Romashkov in 1908. The film lasts about 10 minutes. The screenplay was written by Vasily Goncharov, and the music (the first film music to be specially written to accompany a silent film) was by Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov."
"hip hop artist Peter Fox in his song ""Alles neu"" in 2008, and by Plan B in ""Ill Manors"" in 2012. On 31 January 2005 a film version of the Symphony was premiered in St. Petersburg, with the St. Petersburg Academic Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Maxim Shostakovich accompanying a film directed by Georgy Paradzhanov, constructed from documentary materials, including film of the siege of Leningrad. Many survivors of the siege were guests at the performance. The composer's widow Irina acted as script consultant to the project, and its musical advisors included Rudolf Barshai and Boris Tishchenko. The film and performance"
"Winter Journey (2013 film) Winter Journey (, translit. Zimniy put') is a 2013 Russian drama film about a young classical singer who falls in love with a street thug. The film takes its title from a Schubert song cycle, ""Winterreise"", that the hero, Erik, a music student, is practising for a competition. Music student and gifted singer, Erik, is preparing to sing Schubert's ""Winterreise"" for a competition. As his teacher slams him for his poor performance, Erik's life is changed irrevocably by a chance meeting with Lyokha, a coarse and aggressive petty criminal. The Dutch film director Jos Stelling described"
"his ""golden decade,"" he composed 57 film scores. During the single year of 1952, he composed nine film scores, including ""High Noon"", for which he won two Academy Awards. In the same decade, he won two more Oscars and his film scores were nominated nine times. He was honored in the Soviet Union and Russia. In 1967, he was a member of the jury of the 5th Moscow International Film Festival. In 2014, his theme songs to ""It's a Wonderful Life"" and ""Giant"" were played during the closing ceremony for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Beginning with ""Lost"
"(1967), """"At the Pond"""" (1968), """"Sergey Esenin"""" (1971), """"A Field plowed"""" (1975), """"A Widow"""" (1976), ""The Quiet evening"" (1977), """"Northern village"""", """"My Grandmother"""" (both 1978), """"The City is built"""" (1980), """"Cottage in Staraya Ladoga"""", """"Sunny Day on the Moyka river"""", """"Autumn in Staraya Ladoga"""" (all 1981) """"Country Girl"""" (1986), """"House near river"""", """"Autumn Still Life"""" (both 1989), and others. His main topic becomes the images of the artist's childhood and youth, the northern village and the peasant way of life, landscapes of the native land and the central Russia. It is embodied also in the numerous still lifes, occupying a"
"1960s onwards, he began to move away from patriotic roles. In 1965 Kadochnikov directed his first film, the movie ""The musicians of one regiment"" (together with Gennady Kazansky). This film is about the Civil War. It showed his interest in folklore heroes. In 1968 he filmed the fairy tale of Aleksandr Ostrovsky, entitled ""Snow Maiden"" (he also played the role of Berendey). In 1970-1980s, he did roles from the classical repertoire: Triletsky in the ""Unfinished play for the mechanical piano"", Prince Kuchumov in ""Easy money"", and the picturesque figures of ""Russian old men"" (eternal grandfather in ""Siberiade"" and uncle Roman"
"Winter Dreams (ballet) Winter Dreams is a one-act ballet choreographed by Kenneth MacMillan to piano pieces by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky selected and arranged by Philip Gammon and traditional Russian music selected and arranged for guitar and mandolin ensemble by Thomas Hartman. With scenery and costumes designed by Peer Farmer and lighting designed by Clive Thomas, it was first presented by The Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House, London, on 7 February 1991. Macmillan's ballet was inspired by Anton Chekhov's play ""Three Sisters"" (1900), sometimes named as one of his four best plays, along with ""The Cherry Orchard, The Seagull,"""
"with Japanese subtitles). The Snow Queen (1957 film) The Snow Queen (, Snezhnaya koroleva) is a 1957 Soviet animated film directed by Lev Atamanov. It was produced at the Soyuzmultfilm studio in Moscow and is based on the story of the same name by Hans Christian Andersen. The film was re-released with English soundtracks in 1960, 1993, and 1995. Hans Christian Andersen's story is simplified in this animated version of his fairy tale. A little man, who introduces himself as ""Old Dreamy"" (""Ole Lukøje""), he tells the viewer that on days when the master storyteller Andersen is not overtired, he"
"The Snow Queen (1957 film) The Snow Queen (, Snezhnaya koroleva) is a 1957 Soviet animated film directed by Lev Atamanov. It was produced at the Soyuzmultfilm studio in Moscow and is based on the story of the same name by Hans Christian Andersen. The film was re-released with English soundtracks in 1960, 1993, and 1995. Hans Christian Andersen's story is simplified in this animated version of his fairy tale. A little man, who introduces himself as ""Old Dreamy"" (""Ole Lukøje""), he tells the viewer that on days when the master storyteller Andersen is not overtired, he puts him to"
"Symphony Concerts. One of these concerts included the first complete performance of his First Symphony, subtitled ""Winter Daydreams"", in its final version. Another concert featured the premiere of Rimsky-Korsakov's Third Symphony in its revised version. Before this trip, Tchaikovsky had spent considerable time corresponding with Rimsky-Korsakov, Glazunov and Lyadov, and during his visit, he spent much time in the company of these men. Nine years earlier, Tchaikovsky had penned a ruthless dissection of The Five for Nadezhda von Meck. At that time, his feelings of personal isolation and professional insecurity had been at their strongest. In the nine intervening years,"
"the film as ""a genuine film... [which] went straight to my heart. The theme of the alleged homosexuality hardly played a role for me... To me this film sometimes approached the status of a masterpiece for its cinematographic values"". Winter Journey (2013 film) Winter Journey (, translit. Zimniy put') is a 2013 Russian drama film about a young classical singer who falls in love with a street thug. The film takes its title from a Schubert song cycle, ""Winterreise"", that the hero, Erik, a music student, is practising for a competition. Music student and gifted singer, Erik, is preparing to"
"of the famous Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. In 1972 the movie was nominated for two Oscars: Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and Academy Award for Best Original Musical. It was also nominated for the 1971 Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Between 1955 and 2001 Metalnikov wrote screenplays to 20 Soviet and Russian movies, including three movies directed by himself. He had been also working as an educator at High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors since 1966. He mainly specialized in social dramas and village dramas in particular. The themes featured in his screenplays"
"Russian Symphony Russian Symphony ( Russkaya simfoniya) is a 1994 Russian drama film directed by Konstantin Lopushansky and starring Viktor Mikhaylov. The narrative is set in a dark version of contemporary Russia where the world seems to be coming to an end through a flood. A man is desperate to do something good with his life before it ends, but is mostly met with suspicion. The film ties in thematically with Lopushansky's other apocalyptic films, ""Dead Man's Letters"" (1986), ""A Visitor to a Museum"" (1989) and ""The Ugly Swans"" (2006), and is the most overtly religious of them. It played"
"Dreams (1993 film) Dreams or () is a 1993 Russian fantastical absurdist comedy directed by Karen Shakhnazarov and Alexander Borodyansky. ... Russia, end of the 19th century. Countess Prizorova suffers from strange dreams. In them the Countess becomes a dishwasher by the name of Masha Stepanova who works in a dirty Moscow eatery in 1993. Count Prizorov, alarmed by his wife's condition, refers first to a famous doctor, and then, well, to a medium Monsieur Renoir. After the ""magical"" psychic session Prizorov explains that his wife has a prophetic gift: she dreams about what would happen in Russia a hundred"
"(a): ""Ridna My Mother"" (1960) (composer P. Maiboroda; lyrics A. Malyshko): no data ""By Mostochku Narrow"" (1960) (composer K. Akimov; lyrics M. Vershinin): no data ""Beautiful Moonlit Night"" (or ""Moonlight"") (1960; 1963). (a): (b): ""Sing Soldiers"", or ""That Soldier Sings"" (1960) (composer A. Doluhanyan; lyrics Nekrasova L. 1955) (a): ""I Will Be a Soldier Again"" (1960s?). (a): ""Where Are Your Arms"" (1948–65; 1985). (a): ""My Country I Pledge To You"" (1963?). (a): ""Nightingales"" (1963; 1975; 1978) (composer V.Solovev-Sedoy; lyrics A. Fatyanov) (a): (b): ""Near the Garden"" (1963). (a): ""Before the Long Journey"" (1964) (composer Matvey Blanter; lyrics Vladimir Dyhovichny 1962)"
"into a 1970 Red Western movie ""White Sun of the Desert"" by Vladimir Motyl. It turned into one of the box office leaders with 34.5 million viewers and quickly gained a cult status despite lacking any awards or attention from critics. It became a good tradition for Russian cosmonauts to watch the film before the space flights. In 1998 it was awarded the State Prize of the Russian Federation by Boris Yeltsin as a culturally significant piece of art. In 1978 an epic historical drama ""Siberiade"" was produced by Andrei Konchalovsky based on the screenplay written by him and Yezhov."
"and film directing at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in Moscow. His writing credits include more than 40 film and television scripts, numerous plays and pieces of prose, and nearly all of his scripts were eventually made into full feature or TV films, including ""White Sun of the Desert"" (1970, Белое солнце пустыни), ""Interrogation"" (1979, Допрос), ""Guard Me, My Talisman"" (1986, Храни меня, мой талисман), ""Urga"" (Урга, Территория любви, 1991), ""Burnt by the Sun"" (1994, Утомлённые солнцем), ""The Barber of Siberia"" (1998, Сибирский цирюльник), ""East/West"" (1999), ""Broken Bridges"" (2004) and ""Nomad"" (2005/2007). ""White Sun of the Desert"" (1969), for which"
"in the Forum section of the 45th Berlin International Film Festival and received the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury. Russian Symphony Russian Symphony ( Russkaya simfoniya) is a 1994 Russian drama film directed by Konstantin Lopushansky and starring Viktor Mikhaylov. The narrative is set in a dark version of contemporary Russia where the world seems to be coming to an end through a flood. A man is desperate to do something good with his life before it ends, but is mostly met with suspicion. The film ties in thematically with Lopushansky's other apocalyptic films, ""Dead Man's Letters"" (1986), ""A Visitor"
"de Buenos Aires"" and the tango suite ""Cuatro estaciones porteñas"". Desyatnikov wrote the scores for the films ""Sunset"" (1990), ""Lost in Siberia"" (1991), ""Hammer and Sickle"" (1994), ""Moscow Nights"" (Katya Izmailova) (1994), ""Giselle’s Mania"" (1995), ""Prisoner of the Mountains"" (1996), ""All That Is Tender"" (1996), ""Moscow"" (2000), ""His Wife’s Diary"" (2000) and ""The Target"" (2010). Desyatnikov was awarded a Golden Ram prize and the Grand Prix of the IV International Cinema Music festival in Bonn for his score for ""Moscow"" and the special prize of the Window to Europe Cinema Festival in Vyborg. In 2006 the opera ""The Children of"