Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 A Pianist Is Born
- 2 A Concert Pianist in Exile
- 3 Spirituality, Love, and Color: Understanding Messiaen’s Music
- 4 From Thaw to Frost: Neonationalism and the Messiaen Premieres in the USSR
- 5 Haimovsky and Grazhdanstvennost’
- Appendix 1 Selected Performances of the Music of Olivier Messiaen by Gregory Haimovsky, 1964–72
- Appendix 2 Selected Writing by Gregory Haimovsky on the Music of Olivier Messiaen
- Notes
- Index
Appendix 1 - Selected Performances of the Music of Olivier Messiaen by Gregory Haimovsky, 1964–72
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 June 2021
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 A Pianist Is Born
- 2 A Concert Pianist in Exile
- 3 Spirituality, Love, and Color: Understanding Messiaen’s Music
- 4 From Thaw to Frost: Neonationalism and the Messiaen Premieres in the USSR
- 5 Haimovsky and Grazhdanstvennost’
- Appendix 1 Selected Performances of the Music of Olivier Messiaen by Gregory Haimovsky, 1964–72
- Appendix 2 Selected Writing by Gregory Haimovsky on the Music of Olivier Messiaen
- Notes
- Index
Summary
During the period 1964–72, as a soloist in concert halls in Moscow, Leningrad, Gorky, Vilnius, and Kaunas, Haimovsky performed the following from Messiaen's oeuvre:
1. Selected movements from Préludes
2. Quatre études de rythme
3. Selected movements from Vingt regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus
4. Selected movements from Catalogue d’oiseaux
In addition to the above, the below list is a selected calendar of Haimovsky's performances of Messiaen's music. All annotations for all performances of Messiaen's music were written by Haimovsky.
1964
May 5, Glinka State Conservatory of Music, Gorky, USSR. Chamber Music of the Twentieth Century: Georges Auric, André Jolivet, Olivier Messiaen, and Henri Dutilleux.
Works by Olivier Messiaen:
“Le baiser de l’Enfant-Jésus” from Vingt regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus and Rondeau (Gregory Haimovsky, piano)
Harawi (Nina Cherednikova, soprano and Gregory Haimovsky, piano)
2. Bonjour toi, colombe verte
9. L’escalier redit, gestes du soleil
7. Adieu
Visions de l’Amen, 2 movements (Isaac Katz and Gregory Haimovsky, piano)
November 3, Glinka State Conservatory of Music, Gorky, USSR. Music of the twentieth Century. Concert on French Composers: Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur, Darius Milhaud, and Olivier Messiaen. Introductory remarks by Gregory Haimovsky.
Work by Olivier Messiaen:
Thème et variations (Georgi Vassiliev, violin, and Gregory Haimovsky, piano). First performance in the USSR.
1966
December 22, Monograph Concert, Olivier Messiaen. Concert Hall of the Composers Union, Moscow, USSR.
Visions de l’Amen (Isaac Katz and Gregory Haimovsky, piano)
1. Amen de la création
2. Amen des étoiles, de la planète à l’anneau
3. Amen de l’agonie de Jésus
4. Amen du désir
5. Amen des anges, des saints, du chants des oiseaux
Harawi (Nina Cherednikova, soprano, and Gregory Haimovsky, piano)
1. La ville qui dormais, toi
2. Bonjour toi, colombe verte
9. L’escalier redit, gestes du soleil
7. Adieu
Quatour pour la fin du temps (Mark Baranov, violin; Viktor Simon, cello; Vladimir Tupikin, clarinet; and Gregory Haimovsky, piano)
1. Liturgie de cristal
2. Vocalise, pour l’ange qui annonce la fin du temps
3. Abîme des oiseaux
4. Intermède
5. Louange à l’éternité de Jésus
6. Danse de la fureur, pour les sept trompettes
7. Foullis d’arcs-en-ciel, pour l’ange qui annonce la fin du temps
8. Louange à l’immortalité de Jésus
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- Gregory HaimovskyA Pianist's Odyssey to Freedom, pp. 165 - 172Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2018