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Wednesday, October 15, 2008

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Tantric Coupling (2006)
2006 MEGADISC Classics,

Belgium MDC 7802

MAITHUNA (2005) Sinfonia concertante for orchestra
Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto
Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky, conductor

JIAO (2004) Sinfonia concertante for string orchestra, amplified vibraphone and amplified campanelli, amplified celesta, amplified clavinova
Ensemble "Musiques Nouvelles"
Renaud Luison, vibraphone and campanelli
Andrew Russo, celesta
A. Rabinovitch-Barakovsky, clavinova
Jean-Paul Dessy, conductor

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Pura Cosa Mentale (2004)
2004 MEGADISC Classics,

Belgium MDC 7812/11

SIX ETATS INTERMEDIAIRES (1998) Sinfonia based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead "Bardo Thödol"
Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra
Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky, conductor

Recorded live on October 5, 2002
at the Belgrade Festival, Saba Center, Belgrade
MUSIQUE POPULAIRE (1980) For two amplified pianos Score published by Ariadne Verlag, Vienna
Martha Argerich and Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky
Recorded live at the Studio Hall of the Polish Radio
Warsaw, April 2, 1992

LA TRIADE (1998)

Sinfonia concertante for amplified violin and orchestra
Y.Toda violin

Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto
Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky, conductor

Recorded live on May 10, 1999
at the Teatro Verdi, Padova

TROIS INVOCATIONS (1995)

For string quartet and amplified celesta

Score published by Ariadne Verlag, Vienna

Filarmonica Quartet
A. Rabinovitch-Barakovsky celesta
Recorded live in November 2001
at the Paderewski Hall, Lausanne

LA BELLE MUSIQUE N° 4 (1987)

For four amplified pianos

Score published by Ariadne Verlag, Vienna

Mikhaïl Adamovitch, Alexei Ieriomine,
Anton Batagov, Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky
Recorded live at the Festival Alternativa,
Tschaikovsky Hall, Moscow 1990

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Die Zeit (2000)

2001 MEGADISC Classics,

Belgium MDC 7822

Die Zeit (2000)

(for four amplified instruments)

Score published by Ariadne Verlag, Vienna

Lucia Hall amplified violin
Mark Drobinsky amplified cello

Martha Argerich amplified celesta
Alexandre Rabinovitch amplified piano

Recorded live on December 20, 2000
at the The Köln Philharmonic Hall

Récit de voyage (Story of a Trip) (1976)

(for four instruments)

Score published by Ariadne Verlag, Vienna

Jean Piguet violin

Mark Drobinsky cello
Frédéric Macarez percussions
Alexandre Rabinovitch piano
Recorded by the Radio Suisse Romande in 1984

Perpetuum mobile (1975)

(for amplified cello and amplified piano)

Score published by Ariadne Verlag, Vienna

Mark Dro binsky amplified cello

Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky amplified piano
Recorded on May 1995
at the The Adyar Hall, Paris

Musique expressive... (1976) (for piano)

Score published by Ariadne Verlag, Vienna

Anton Batagov piano

Recorded live in 1991
at the Moscow festival " Alternativa "

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La Triade (1998)
2000 DORON Music,

Switzerland DRC 3033

La Triade (1998)

(sinfonia concertante for

amplified violin and orchestra)
Y.Toda amplified violin

Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto
Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky, conductor

Recorded live on May 10, 1999
at the Teatro Verdi, Padova (Italia)

Das Tibetanische Gebet (1992)

(The Tibetan Prayer - Cantata)

Score published by Ariadne Verlag, Vienna

Chamber Chorus of the Tallinn Academy of Music
and Ensemble "Hortus Musicus"
Alexandre Rabinovitch, conductor

Recorded live on October 16, 1999
at the Estonia Concert Hall, Tallinn

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Incantations
1999 MEGADISC Classics,

Belgium MDC 7831

Incantations (1996)

(sinfonia concertante for amplified piano with amplified celestaand two vibraphones and two marimbas, electric guitar and string orchestra)

Score published by Ariadne Verlag, Vienna

Daisuke Suzuki electric guitar

Martha Argerich amplified piano and

amplified celesta
Hibiki Chamber Orchestra
Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky, conductor

Recorded at the Metropolitan Art Space, Tokyo, May 28, 1998

Schwanengesang an Apollo (1996)

Score published by Ariadne Verlag, Vienna

Yayoi Toda violin
Martha Argerich amplified celesta
Alexandre Rabinovitch piano
Recorded live at Bunkamura-Orchard Hall, Tokyo, July 12, 1997

La Belle Musique N° 3 (1977)

Score published by Belaieff Verlag, Frankfurt
Radio's Budapest Symphony Orchestra

György Lehel, conductor
Recorded at the Graz Musikprotokoll Festival 1977 on October 9, 1977
(An Austrian Radio Production)

Liebliches Lied (1980)

Score published by Ariadne Verlag, Vienna
Quatre mains (Four hands)

Martha Argerich & Alexandre Rabinovitch
Recorded at the Radiostudio Bern on November 24, 1993
(A Swiss Radio DRS Production)

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An Introduction to

Alexandre Rabinovitch

1996 MEGADISC Classics,

Belgium MDC 7846

Requiem pour une marée noire (1978)

Score published by Ariadne Verlag, Vienna
Text Quotes from Fjodor Tchutcheff

(1803-1873)

Danielle Borst soprano
Frédéric Macarez percussions
Alexandre Rabinovitch piano

Motif optimiste suivi de sa démystification et ainsi de suite (1976)

Score published by Ariadne Verlag, Vienna

Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky, piano

Discours sur la Délivrance (1982)

Score published by Ariadne Verlag, Vienna

Mark Drobinsky amplified cello
Alexandre Rabinovitch amplified piano
Recorded live in "Kleiner Goldener Saal", Augsburg, March 1995

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Alexandre Rabinovitch

Oeuvres pour Piano
1994 VALOIS-Naive,

France V 4694

Musique Populaire (1980) (For two pianos) Score published by Ariadne Verlag, Vienna

Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky,

Martha Argerich
Recorded live at the Studio Hall S-1 of the Polish Radio on April 11, 1992

La Belle Musique N° 4 (1987)

(for four amplified pianos)

Score published by Ariadne Verlag, Vienna

Mikhaïl Adamovich, Alexeï Ieriomine,
Anton Batagov, Alexandre Rabinovitch
Recorded live at the "Alternativa" Festival, Moscow, 1990

Liebliches Lied (1980) (for four hands)

Score published by Ariad ne Verlag, Vienna
Alexandre Rabinovitch, Anton Batagov piano
Recorded live at the "Alternativa" Festival, Moscow, 1990

Musique triste, parfois tragique (1976)

Score published by Ariadne Verlag, Vienna

Anton Batagov piano

Recorded live at the "Alternativa" Festival, Moscow, 1990

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Pourquoi je suis si sentimental

Bis-CD 702

Pourquoi je suis si sentimental (1976)

Score published by Ariadne Verlag, Vienna
Alexei Lubimov piano

Musique triste, parfois tragique (1976)

Score published by Ariadne Verlag, Vienna
Alexei Lubimov piano

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Revisited Concertos

1999 VDE-GALLO, Switzerland CD-99 4

C. Ph. E. Bach -

A. Rabinovitch-Barakovsky

Concerto for cello and instrumental ensemble

in B-Dur (Transcription made in 1972)

Mark Drobinsky cello

Ekaterinbourg Orchestra
Dimitri Liss, conductor

SIX ETATS INTERMEDIAIRES (SIX INTERMEDIARY STATES, 1998)
sinfonia based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead Bardo Thödol

-First movement, La Vie (Life)-

Recorded live at the Belgrade Festival on October 5, 2002

Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra
Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky, conductor

Published by MEGADISC, Score by Ariadne

THE WORLD PRESS ECHOES ABOUT RABINOVITCH-BARAKOVSKY

Rabinovitch is one of today's most interesting composers. His musical language is based on a deep philosophy that one can clearly feel, although he is at the same time totally free from speculative character and dryness, the typical shortcomings of many contemporary works
Solomon Volkov, Novoe Russkoe Slovo, New York

Rabinovitch-Barakovsky is a Russian minimalist who defies category more that almost any composer I've heard in recent memory(...)This ability to reconcile the static with the engaging is perhaps the composer's greatest technical accomplishment. The Maithna and Jiao are works of a genuinely imaginative, original composer, who has a loopy personal vision, and deep musical technique that informs both the architecture and the sonic "skin" of his music. Highly recommended; it's rare one has "find" like this.
Robert Carl, Fanfare.

Rabinovitch's music poses - and goes beyond - the most significant musical questions of the end of the 20th century. It makes us feel the weight of history, which has never been so obvious as in this age of escapism and evasion, at the same time doing away with it by revealing a new tonal world. It mingles the rhythmic vitality that is so typical of this century with a rediscovery of mysticism, over and above progress in art. All these intermingled tendencies are expressed through a taste for beauty, through a freely-asserted hedonistic aspiration, by an exceptional artistic personality, a traveller on this planet...
Benoît Duteurtre

Rabinovitch's system of thinking and his creative individuality don't fit into any of our culture's known standards. (…) He is interested in the universal spirituality that doesn't stem from any known religion, and in a mystic unification of the eras. He doesn't see music as a pure substance, but as a language that works with abstract symbols.
Soviet Music

Resolutely hanging back from the contemporary circle, full of his official status, the musician remains an endless appartride, he is in an "elsewhere" geographical and metaphysical.
Frank Mallet, Classica

"Pura Cosa Mentale" is a two-disc set.....Simply put, no one else dares write music like "Six Intermediary States." ....
Gorgeous and weird sounds ooze out of the orchestra, and they get ever weirder and more gorgeous in wave after wave of not pure thought but pure aural ecstasy. The effect is almost as though Rabinovitch-Barakovsky, who elicited a winning performance from the Belgrade Philharmonic, has located a previously unknown pleasure point hidden deep in the inner ear.
Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times

The epic-length Incantations, scored for amplified piano and celeste, vibraphones, marimbas, electric guitar, and string orchestra, is a bright, sunny creation, unrelenting in its forward motion."
American Record Guide

Rabinovitch is one of today's most interesting composers. His musical language is based on a deep philosophy that one can clearly feel, although he is at the same time totally free from speculative character and dryness, the typical shortcomings of many contemporary works
Solomon Volkov, Novoe Russkoe Slovo, New York

"Exciting and hypnotic. Listened to intently his music has a genuine hypnotic power and an unnerving kind of rhythmic excitement."
Classic CD

Alexandre Rabinovitch's language, like that of an Arvo Pärt, is similar in many aspects to the "minimalist" conceptions of the American modernism, while drawing its raw material from European tradition.
Diapason

"Trois Invocations" offered spell-like moments of rich, self-propelled harmony, sometimes a tone poem, played with a reverent approach by the strings."
The Saratogian

"Those sounds, though, did not tell the story, acting out Rachmaninov, but prolonged themselves by repetition into a trance-like condition
The Independent, London

A profoundly original style, with Incantations for six soloists and string orchestra (1996) undoubtedly being its most accomplished example.
Frank Mallet, Le Monde de la Musique

"Calling Alexandre Rabinovitch's music "life-affirming" might be overstatement, but there is no denying that the composer's musical outlook on Incantations is positive and uplifting. (…) La Belle Musique No. 3 presents several attractive ideas cloaked in shimmering orchestral garb and accented by surprising harmonic and rhythmic gestures. The epic-length Incantations, scored for amplified piano and celeste, vibraphones, marimbas, electric guitar, and string orchestra, is a bright, sunny creation, unrelenting in its forward motion."
American Record Guide, May/June 2000

"Exciting and hypnotic. Listened to intently his music has a genuine hypnotic power and an unnerving kind of rhythmic excitement."
Classic CD, May 1994 England

"(…) Alexandre Rabinovitch's supremacy as pianist and composer was indisputable during the festival. (…) The most beautiful pearls in this necklace were the bewitching "Belle Musique No. 4" by Rabinovitch, and the separations and reunions of the tonal sequences "The Six Pianos" by Steve Reich."
La Culture, 30.11.1992 (about the festival "Alternativa", Moscow)

"The Paderewski hall was in fairy land Tuesday night. A singular spell hung over the Montbenon concert, extraordinary in every sense of the word, where Alexandre Rabinovitch was officiating at his own works."
24 Heures, Lausanne, 1987

"(…) Alexandre Rabinovitch's language, like that of an Arvo Pärt, is similar in many aspects to the "minimalist" conceptions of the American modernism, while drawing its raw material from European tradition.
Diapason, March 1994

"More than twenty years later (…) his music has not lost any of its impact and originality. Proof of which is this new record called Incantations, as intense and magical as the previous ones."
Les Inrockuptibles, March 2000

"As for Alexandre Rabinovitch's grandiose pianistic tableaux – variations on a unique chord but in a way reminiscent of entire strata of European culture and music – they seem to read the inscription "classicism is the most avant-garde of the avant-gardes"."
Journal Musical Russe No. 1, 1992 (Festival "Alternativa", Moscow)

"The half-hour "La Triade" (The Triad), written in 1998, is a violin conerto as mystic rite. (…) Amplified solo violin and orchestra each encourage the other into ever more rapt figures creating a hallucinogenic effect. Also on the disc is Rabinovitch's choral work "The Tibetan Book of the Dead", a 45-minute mesmeric excursion into the inner recesses of the chant "Om mani padme hum."
Los Angeles Times, 13.01.2002

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