FULL My Happiness Is In My Art Concert (Lev Knipper) Moscow 2025

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: My Happiness Is In My Art  
• Composer: Knipper Lev   
• Libretto: various  
• Venue & Opera Company: Concert Hall of the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music, Moscow, Russia  
• Recorded: March 26, 2025
• Type: Concert Live
• Singers: Zhargal Tsyrendagbaeva, Tatyana Taysaeva, Ernest Suleimanov, Evgeniya Shpiller
• Conductor:   
• Orchestra:
• Chorus: Gnessin ensemble of contemporary choral music "ALTRO CORO"  
• Chorus Master: Denis Morozov, Maximilian Chikhachev  
• Stage Director:   
• Costume Designer:   

Information about the Recording

• Published by: Russian Patephone  
• Date Published: 2025  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: nosubs  

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

Part I

“Tales of the Plaster Idol”: Suite for large orchestra
in six parts
dedicated to N. S. Zhilyaev
1) Introduction 2) Dance 3) Prayer of Man and Dance of the God
4) Curse of Man 5) Overthrow of the God 6) Conclusion
(1924, Op. 1, arranged for piano four hands by V. D. Vasilyeva)
Performed by Nadezhda Titarenko, Elizaveta Ekavyan (piano)

Sonatina for harp in three parts (1947)
dedicated to V. G. Dulova
1) Allegretto 2) Andante 3) Allegro
Performed by Valeria Korovkina (harp)

Song (“If I were a swallow”)
and Song (“Dust lay like a gray haze on the hills…”) Zhargal
from the opera “On Baikal”
text by G. Ts. Tsydynzhapov, translation from Buryat by A. I. Mashistov
(1948/1957, arrangement for high voice with piano accompaniment by L. K. Knipper)
Performed by Zhargal Tsyrendagbaeva (soprano), Nadezhda Titarenko (piano)

Concert Scherzo for violin and piano (1962)
Performed by Nikolay Bormotov (violin), Roman Sosnin (piano)

“Why the Bear Sleeps in Winter” to the verses of A. A. Kovalenkov (1941)
“Song” to the verses of A. A. Kovalenkov (1938)
Performed by Tatyana Taysaeva (soprano), Nadezhda Titarenko (piano)

Concerto for Clarinet with Chamber Orchestra in Five Parts
dedicated to R. O. Baghdasaryan
1) Introduction 2) Dance 3) Song 4) Cadenza 5) Barcarolle
(1967, edition for clarinet and piano by L. K. Knipper)
Performed by Evgeny Varavko (clarinet), Daria Kaminskaya (piano)
Part II

Four Children’s Miniatures for Nonet (1931, op. 27)
dedicated to A. L. Knipper
1) Lullaby 2) March 3) Song 4) Finale
Performed by Svyatoslav Golubenko (flute), Artyom Varosyan (cor anglais),
Evgeny Varavko (clarinet), Evgeny Alimov (trumpet), Oleg Makarishin (trombone), Firgat Musin (tuba), Nikolay Bormotov (violin), Yuri Tkanov (viola), Daria Borisova (cello)

“Goodbye” to poems by A. A. Kovalenkov (1941)
“Moscow Summer” to poems by M. A. Svetlov (1936)
Spanish Ernest Suleimanov (tenor), Vladislav Mikhailov (piano)

Four pieces from the music for the “theatrical performance” “Candide”
1) March “Buenos Aires” 2) Bulgarian March 3) Portuguese Dance
4) Minuet
(1926–1927, op. 16, arrangement for piano by V. D. Vasiliev)
Performed by Nadezhda Titarenko (piano)

Concert Suite for Oboe, String Quintet and Percussion Instruments
dedicated to K. G. Paustovsky
1) Song 2) Dance 3) Waltz 4) Romance 5) March
6) Story, 7) Shepherd’s Tunes, 8) Song Again
(1968, arranged for oboe and piano by L. K. Knipper)
Performed by Alexey Konoplyannikov (oboe), Roman Martynov (piano)

Two poems by R. I. Rozhdestvensky
for soprano and cello (1962)
dedicated to G. P. Vishnevskaya and M. L. Rostropovich
1) “Concert” 2) “I love life godlessly!”
Performed by Evgeniya Shpiller (soprano), Daria Borisova (cello)

Prelude for small orchestra
in memory of S. A. Yesenin
(1926, op. 12b No. 2, arrangement for piano four hands by V. D. Vasilyeva)
Performed by Nadezhda Titarenko, Elizaveta Ekavyan (piano)

“Polyushko-Pole” from Symphony No. 4: “Poem about a Komsomol fighter”
text by V. A. Gusev
(1933–1934, op. 41, arrangement for choir a cappella by S. V. Ekimov)
Performed by Gnessin ensemble of contemporary choral music “ALTRO CORO”
Artistic director and chief conductor – Alexander Ryzhinsky
Chorus masters – Denis Morozov, Maximilian Chikhachev

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