浪漫钢琴协奏 - Anton Arensky Suite no. 1 for two pianos op. 15

Anton Stepanovich Arensky （1861 - 1906) 是俄国古典浪漫时期的作曲家，钢琴家，音乐教授（详见英文介绍）

Mauricio Vallina-古巴年青的钢琴家，近年活跃在国际乐坛上; Polina Leschenko 是在俄国出生的以色列年青钢琴家,  深受著名钢琴家Matha Agerich的器重.



POLINA / VALLINA playing Arensky Suite n. 1 op. 15 (Part 1)




POLINA / VALLINA playing Arensky Suite n. 1 op. 15 (Part 2)

Polina Leschenko & Mauricio Vallina playing Anton Arensky (1861-1906) Suite no. 1 for two pianos op. 15 at the Martha Argerich Project in Lugano, 2002. Recorded for the RTSI Radiotelevisione Svizzera di lingua italiana (Swiss Italian Radio and Television Broadcast).






Anton Stepanovich Arensky 

Anton Stepanovich Arensky (Russian: Антон Степанович Аренский) (12 July [O.S. 30 June] 1861 – 25 February [O.S. 12 February] 1906), was a Russian composer of Romantic classical music, a pianist and a professor of music.

Biography

Arensky was born in Novgorod, Russia. He was musically precocious and had composed a number of songs and piano pieces by the age of nine. With his mother and father, he moved to Saint Petersburg in 1879, where he studied composition at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.

After graduating from the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in 1882, Arensky became a professor at the Moscow Conservatory. Among his students there were Alexander Scriabin, Sergei Rachmaninoff and Alexander Gretchaninov.

In 1895 Arensky returned to Saint Petersburg as the director of the Imperial Choir, a post for which he had been recommended by Mily Balakirev. Arensky retired from this position in 1901, spending his remaining time as a pianist, conductor, and composer.

Arensky died of tuberculosis in a sanatorium in Perkijarvi, Finland. It is alleged that drinking and gambling undermined his health.

Music

Pyotr Tchaikovsky was the greatest influence on Arensky's musical compositions. Indeed, Rimsky-Korsakov said, "In his youth Arensky did not escape some influence from me; later the influence came from Tchaikovsky. He will quickly be forgotten." The perception that he lacked a distinctive personal style contributed to long-term neglect of his music, though in recent years a large number of his compositions have been recorded. Especially popular are the orchestral Variations on a Theme of Tchaikovsky based on one of Tchaikovsky's Songs for Children, Op. 54.

Arensky was perhaps at his best in chamber music, in which he wrote two string quartets, two piano trios, and a piano quintet.

(wikipedia)