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| YMCD001:
"Images of Three Centuries" |
| Sonata
F-dur K.107 L.474 |
Dominico
Scarlatti |
1:56
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| Sonata
f-moll K.69 L.382 |
Dominico
Scarlatti |
2:46
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| The
Cuckoo |
L.
Daquin |
1:41
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| The
Reeds |
F.
Couperin |
4:01 |
| La
Campanella |
N.
Paganini-F. Listz |
4:32 |
| Vocalise
op. 39 No. 19 |
Sergey
Rachmaninov |
5:19 |
| "The
Fresh Water Seller…" |
Jaques
Ibert |
2:04 |
| Caprice
No. 1 |
Viacheslav
Semionov |
4:35 |
Fantasia
on the Theme of the Song
"Guelder Rose" by Jan Frenkel
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Viacheslav
Semionov |
5:59 |
Morning
Prayer
(from the cycle "Children's album, op.3").
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Piotr
Tchaikovsky |
1:20
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The
Hobby-Horse
(from the cycle "Children's album, op.39")
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Piotr
Tchaikovsky |
0:37
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The
Nurse's Tale
(from the cycle "Children's album, op.39").
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Piotr
Tchaikovsky |
0:58
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"God
Among Us"
(from the cycle "La Nativite du Seigneur")
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Olivier
Messiaen |
7:02
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| Milonga
para tres |
Astor
Piazzolla |
6:40 |
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Name
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Time
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mp3
file size
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The
Hobby-Horse
(from the cycle "Children's album, op.39")
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0.37
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Sonata
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0.26
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La
Campanella
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1.11
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The
Cuckoo
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1.18
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Milonga
para tres
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1.17
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Caprice
No. 1
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1.37
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 Yuri
Medianik, prize-winner of international contests and festivals,
took in his hands his first instrument - bayan - when he was 2 years
old. At age 7 another two instruments - violin and piano - were
added. In 2004, being hardly 21 years old, Yuri is a student at
P.I. Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory (violin class of Professor
A.G. Bogdanian) and trainee of Professor Viacheslav Semionov at
the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music (bayan).
A real child prodigy, Medianik began his performance career at the
age of 10. His past experience already includes a great number of
guest performances and a considerable repertoire. It should be noted
that in most of his concerts, the young musician performs simultaneously
as solo violinist and solo bayanist. This combined double qualification
is Medianik's special advantage over the other performers, as Yuri
plays not only the two different instruments but the two unrelated
ones, whose technical characteristics are strongly opposed. This
not only broadens his instrumental thinking but also enriches his
musical psychology through interaction of string playing sensations
and bayan-playing skills, likened to those of an organ-player.
At first sight, the track list for the disk "Images of Three
Centuries" may look somewhat arbitrary. However, while listening
to it, one begins to see an aesthete and performer that is both
intellectual and inquisitive. Gradually, the conception and the
idea of this musical-historical excursion becomes more comprehensible.
Yuri Medianik plays, first of all, beautiful music. He himself enjoys
and delights in this music, inviting the listeners to take the same
pleasure.
 He
also enjoys the very process of playing and revels in this musical
existence, apparently getting the listener involved in it too. So,
one follows him, in this dangerous stylistic labyrinth in which
the exit and the entrance do not coincide at all - just like the
graceful and perfect Scarlatti Sonata and the none the less perfect
but melodically different and inspired Vokaliz by Rakhmaninov, which
are so distant from each other.
The same applies to the brilliant masterly Paganini Campanella and
unexpectedly dramatic, meaningful "Red Snowball Tree"
by Semionov; the mystical "God Among Us" by Messiaen that
is full of painful quest and the elegantly tragic "Tango"
by Piazzolla which is like a question without an answer.
From time to time, it seems that Yuri Medianik plays not one but
several bayans at once. As soon as you have got involved in this
music sensation of time in which every moment is unique, the CD
is finished. But this is only a pause, since "Images of Three
Centuries - 2" is soon to be released.
Honored Artist of Russia, Galina BOEVA-MASHINSKAYA.
CD
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