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Mendelssohn, Panufnik, Takemitsu, J.S. Bach. Alexander Sitkovesky, violin; Dmitry Sitkovetsky, New European Strings Chamber Orchestra.(Sound Recording Review)
Mendelssohn, Panufnik, Takemitsu, J.S. Bach. Alexander Sitkovesky, violin; Dmitry Sitkovetsky, New European Strings Chamber Orchestra. EMI-Angel 7243 5 57440-2.
I assumed from their names and from the cover picture that young Russian violinist Alexander Sitkovesky and Russian conductor and violinist Dmitry Sitkovetsky were father and son, but nothing that I could find in the booklet notes indicated their relationship. Be that as it may, they make a smooth and agreeable team as soloist and conductor and in the Bach as co-violinists.
Unfortunately, I did not find their repertoire very enterprising nor particularly well suited to my taste. The Mendelssohn is not the familiar E-minor concerto but the D-minor the composer wrote when he was thirteen. It was never performed in Mendelssohn's own day and was only just exhumed in 1952 and premiered by Yehudi Menuhin. It's no coincidence that Alexander Sitkovesky is a protege of Menuhin, and the work's inclusion here is no doubt a tribute to the young man's mentor. In any case, there are reasons why some pieces of music are seldom heard.
Of far more interest is the Violin Concerto of Andrzej Panufnik (1914-1991), which displays more ...
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- Newspaper article from: Times-News (Burlington, NC) March 30, 2006 700+ words
...classical performance in its year-long "Beethoven-Plus" series. IN TWO CONCERTS April 6 and 8, music director Dmitry Sitkovetsky will lead the symphony, four choral groups and singers from the Metropolitan Opera in a performance of Beethoven...
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- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) Campbell, R.M. June 20, 1997 700+ words
...Water Music,'' yet it was performed with such freshness of viewpoint by the New European Strings, conducted by Dmitry Sitkovetsky, that it sparkled and sang as if freshly minted. Handel's adroit handling of winds - pairs of French horns...
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- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) Campbell, R.M. June 21, 1997 700+ words
...fond of picking themes around which to build its two-week offering of concerts. This year artistic director Dmitry Sitkovetsky is looking at what he calls ``Musical Migrations,'' composers who left the land of their birth to seek greater...
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- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) Campbell, R.M. June 23, 1997 700+ words
...summer are in Bellevue. In addition to the Schoenberg and ``Carmen'' fantasies Saturday night, there were Dmitry Sitkovetsky's transcription of various movements from Bach harpsichord partitas and suites, ``Fantasy of Dances...
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- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) Campbell, R.M. December 2, 1997 700+ words
...consider the nature of its future. Faced with rising costs and the increasingly busy schedule of artistic director Dmitry Sitkovetsky, ``it seemed like a good year to catch our breath, take stock of our resources and look to the future...
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- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) Campbell, R.M. January 30, 1996 700+ words
...Katie and Marielle Labeque, Alexander Toradze, Vladimir Feltsman and Kun Woo Paik, piano; and Elmar Oliveira, Dmitry Sitkovetsky and Nadia Salerno-Sonnenberg, violin. Four members of the symphony - Seth Krimsky, principal bassoon; Christopher...
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- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) Campbell, R.M. January 31, 1996 700+ words
...similarities in terms of the social and political worlds they inhabited, according to festival artistic director Dmitry Sitkovetsky. ``I want to explore these . . . geniuses and their treatment of various musical genres, including a look...
Source: HighBeam Research, Mendelssohn, Panufnik, Takemitsu, J.S. Bach. Alexander Sitkovesky,...