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Yaroslav Krasnikov The violinist Yaroslav Krasnikov was born in 1959 and received his Master’s Degree at State ALLA PAVLOVA Conservatory. From 1983 to 1990 he served as concertmaster of the Moscow Chamber Orchestra. From 1993 until 1999 he was the leading soloist of the “Concertino” Chamber Ensemble of the Moscow State Philharmonic. He has made eleven recordings, and also participated in international music festivals in Istanbul, Beirut, Zdrui, and St Petersburg. Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4

Georgy Khachikiyan The pianist Georgy Khachikyan, who plays the organ in the present recording, graduated from the Gnesin Academy Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio of Music in Moscow. After his graduation he worked until 1993 as concertmaster in an opera theatre. He performed as a solo pianist in Hungary and Japan, and since 1993, he has been a soloist of the Tchaikovsky Symphony Vladimir Fedoseyev Orchestra of Moscow Radio.

Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio Internationally recognised as one of ’s most prestigious and versatile orchestras, the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio (formerly known as the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra) was founded in 1930. Until the dissolution of the , the orchestra was the official orchestra of the Soviet Radio Network. From 1961 until 1974, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky was Chief Conductor of the orchestra, to be followed by Vladimir Fedoseyev, who turned the orchestra into one of Russia’s most widely acclaimed ensembles. In 1993, the orchestra was renamed by the decree of the Russian Ministry of Culture, and became the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio. The orchestra has performed in all the major cities of the world, and recorded extensively for a variety of labels, winning great critical acclaim.

Vladimir Fedoseyev Vladimir Fedoseyev was born in St Petersburg and studied in Moscow at the Gnesin Musical Academy and then at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory with Leo Ginzburg. In 1974 he became Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra. During almost thirty years in this rôle, he developed a distinctive profile for the orchestra, which, under his leadership, has made many successful tours of Germany, , Switzerland, Scandinavia, Great Britain, Spain, the United States, Hong Kong, and Japan. In 1997 Vladimir Fedoseyev was appointed Chief Conductor of the Orchestra. Since assuming this position, he has toured worldwide with the orchestra, and has received acclaim for his concerts. During recent years Vladimir Fedoseyev has worked as a guest conductor with many of the world’s leading orchestras including the Bavarian Radio, Cologne Philharmonic, and Zurich Tonhalle Orchestras, conducting every season in the last of these, in addition to appearances with all the major Paris orchestras. In 1996 he was appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra. He is also known in the sphere of musical theatre with engagements that have taken him to , the , the Salle Pleyel in Paris, the Maggio Fiorentino Musicale festival, the Bregenz Festival, and other theatre and festivals.

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Alla Pavlova (b.1952) the end of June, I started the score, and completed it in painting by Nicholas Roerich Path to Shambala. I see Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4 about three weeks with no drafts. this symphony as my personal ‘path to Shambala’.” “This work was done with very special inspiration. Alla Pavlova is a composer and musicologist. In 1983 play an important rôle in these movements. The second As a general comment, I can say that the concept of she received her Master’s Degree at the Gnesin and third movements picture the Universe, with its Symphony No. 4, to me, is very close to the idea of the Alla Pavlova Academy of Music in Moscow. From 1983 to 1986 she forces of Light and Darkness, which are always in lived in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, where she worked opposition to each other, but at the same time for the Union of Bulgarian Composers and the Bulgarian complement each other. The second movement is a kind National Opera. She spent the years from 1986 to 1990 of “Devil’s Dance.” The third movement represents in Moscow, working for the Russian Musical Society Light and Love. Board. Since 1990 she has lived in New York, where she “It so happened that I was rewriting the last two is a member of New York Women Composers, Inc. Alla pages of the score of the third movement on 11th Pavlova has written a number of compositions for September, 2002, exactly one year after the tragedy of orchestra, including four symphonies, as well as other 9/11. I remember the day I worked on these two pages instrumental and vocal works that have been performed as one of the windiest days in New York, in my memory. in the United States, Europe, and Canada. She has a The wind was so strong that trees were shaking and special interest in writing music for film, theater, dance, bending like blades of grass, and in this wind one could, and children. as it were, hear cries and moans of the souls of the Symphony No. 2, ‘For the New Millennium’, was victims, trying to communicate with us, telling their written in 1997 and 1998. The first recording was made stories. Thus, unexpectedly for myself, the end of the in 1999 in Moscow with the ‘Globalis’ International third movement came out as more tragic than it had been Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Konstantin Krimets, in the first version. The essence of the symphony in its and produced by Albany Records in the United States in entirety is the necessity of human striving toward Light 2000. and Love, no matter how tragic the reality may be. With Alla Pavlova writes about this symphony: “This was great love and appreciation, I dedicate this symphony to my first work for full orchestra, and after the recording I my husband Arkady.” felt that I would like to make some changes in the music Of Symphony No. 4 Alla Pavlova writes: “This work material. The present, revised, version of Symphony is a single extended movement in which several No. 2 was made in August and September 2002, and it different themes develop and interact. Some drafts of the has the same conception, the same structure, and the main themes were made in February 2002. From March same main themes as the first version. Some changes until June that year, I was busy working on another were made in music and orchestration, and I believe this version of Symphony No. 3, with slightly different Alla Pavlova (photographed by Daniel Entin) has made the new version stronger and more expressive. instrumentation (without the guitar). It is a kind of more The idea of the symphony is of man and his relation to classical version, and I like it better than the one the Universe on the threshold of the new millennium. produced on my earlier recording with Naxos. Yet, even The first movement and finale express man’s subjective while working on Symphony No. 2, I kept thinking about perception of he Universe, and this is why violin solos Symphony No. 4, and writing it in my mind. Finally, by

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Alla Pavlova (b.1952) the end of June, I started the score, and completed it in painting by Nicholas Roerich Path to Shambala. I see Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4 about three weeks with no drafts. this symphony as my personal ‘path to Shambala’.” “This work was done with very special inspiration. Alla Pavlova is a composer and musicologist. In 1983 play an important rôle in these movements. The second As a general comment, I can say that the concept of she received her Master’s Degree at the Gnesin and third movements picture the Universe, with its Symphony No. 4, to me, is very close to the idea of the Alla Pavlova Academy of Music in Moscow. From 1983 to 1986 she forces of Light and Darkness, which are always in lived in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, where she worked opposition to each other, but at the same time for the Union of Bulgarian Composers and the Bulgarian complement each other. The second movement is a kind National Opera. She spent the years from 1986 to 1990 of “Devil’s Dance.” The third movement represents in Moscow, working for the Russian Musical Society Light and Love. Board. Since 1990 she has lived in New York, where she “It so happened that I was rewriting the last two is a member of New York Women Composers, Inc. Alla pages of the score of the third movement on 11th Pavlova has written a number of compositions for September, 2002, exactly one year after the tragedy of orchestra, including four symphonies, as well as other 9/11. I remember the day I worked on these two pages instrumental and vocal works that have been performed as one of the windiest days in New York, in my memory. in the United States, Europe, and Canada. She has a The wind was so strong that trees were shaking and special interest in writing music for film, theater, dance, bending like blades of grass, and in this wind one could, and children. as it were, hear cries and moans of the souls of the Symphony No. 2, ‘For the New Millennium’, was victims, trying to communicate with us, telling their written in 1997 and 1998. The first recording was made stories. Thus, unexpectedly for myself, the end of the in 1999 in Moscow with the ‘Globalis’ International third movement came out as more tragic than it had been Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Konstantin Krimets, in the first version. The essence of the symphony in its and produced by Albany Records in the United States in entirety is the necessity of human striving toward Light 2000. and Love, no matter how tragic the reality may be. With Alla Pavlova writes about this symphony: “This was great love and appreciation, I dedicate this symphony to my first work for full orchestra, and after the recording I my husband Arkady.” felt that I would like to make some changes in the music Of Symphony No. 4 Alla Pavlova writes: “This work material. The present, revised, version of Symphony is a single extended movement in which several No. 2 was made in August and September 2002, and it different themes develop and interact. Some drafts of the has the same conception, the same structure, and the main themes were made in February 2002. From March same main themes as the first version. Some changes until June that year, I was busy working on another were made in music and orchestration, and I believe this version of Symphony No. 3, with slightly different Alla Pavlova (photographed by Daniel Entin) has made the new version stronger and more expressive. instrumentation (without the guitar). It is a kind of more The idea of the symphony is of man and his relation to classical version, and I like it better than the one the Universe on the threshold of the new millennium. produced on my earlier recording with Naxos. Yet, even The first movement and finale express man’s subjective while working on Symphony No. 2, I kept thinking about perception of he Universe, and this is why violin solos Symphony No. 4, and writing it in my mind. Finally, by

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Yaroslav Krasnikov The violinist Yaroslav Krasnikov was born in 1959 and received his Master’s Degree at Moscow State ALLA PAVLOVA Conservatory. From 1983 to 1990 he served as concertmaster of the Moscow Chamber Orchestra. From 1993 until 1999 he was the leading soloist of the “Concertino” Chamber Ensemble of the Moscow State Philharmonic. He has made eleven recordings, and also participated in international music festivals in Istanbul, Beirut, Zdrui, and St Petersburg. Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4

Georgy Khachikiyan The pianist Georgy Khachikyan, who plays the organ in the present recording, graduated from the Gnesin Academy Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio of Music in Moscow. After his graduation he worked until 1993 as concertmaster in an opera theatre. He performed as a solo pianist in Hungary and Japan, and since 1993, he has been a soloist of the Tchaikovsky Symphony Vladimir Fedoseyev Orchestra of Moscow Radio.

Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio Internationally recognised as one of Russia’s most prestigious and versatile orchestras, the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio (formerly known as the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra) was founded in 1930. Until the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the orchestra was the official orchestra of the Soviet Radio Network. From 1961 until 1974, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky was Chief Conductor of the orchestra, to be followed by Vladimir Fedoseyev, who turned the orchestra into one of Russia’s most widely acclaimed ensembles. In 1993, the orchestra was renamed by the decree of the Russian Ministry of Culture, and became the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio. The orchestra has performed in all the major cities of the world, and recorded extensively for a variety of labels, winning great critical acclaim.

Vladimir Fedoseyev Vladimir Fedoseyev was born in St Petersburg and studied in Moscow at the Gnesin Musical Academy and then at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory with Leo Ginzburg. In 1974 he became Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra. During almost thirty years in this rôle, he developed a distinctive profile for the orchestra, which, under his leadership, has made many successful tours of Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Scandinavia, Great Britain, Spain, the United States, Hong Kong, and Japan. In 1997 Vladimir Fedoseyev was appointed Chief Conductor of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. Since assuming this position, he has toured worldwide with the orchestra, and has received acclaim for his concerts. During recent years Vladimir Fedoseyev has worked as a guest conductor with many of the world’s leading orchestras including the Bavarian Radio, Cologne Philharmonic, and Zurich Tonhalle Orchestras, conducting every season in the last of these, in addition to appearances with all the major Paris orchestras. In 1996 he was appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra. He is also known in the sphere of musical theatre with engagements that have taken him to La Scala, the Vienna State Opera, the Salle Pleyel in Paris, the Maggio Fiorentino Musicale festival, the Bregenz Festival, and other theatre and festivals.

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CMYK NAXOS NAXOS Born and trained in Russia, the composer Alla Pavlova later settled in America and composed music for a variety of media ranging from film and dance, to theatre. Her Symphony No. 2 ‘For the New Millennium’ is her first work for full orchestra and, in the words of the composer, represents ‘the necessity of human striving towards light and love, no matter how 8.557566 LAPAVLOVA:ALLA LAPAVLOVA:ALLA tragic the reality may be.’ Symphony No. 4 depicts the composer’s own path of spiritual development – visually captured by the painting ‘Path to Shambala’ by Nicholas Roerich on DDD the cover of this CD. Pavlova’s Symphonies Nos. 1 and 3 can be heard on Naxos 8.557157. Alla Playing Time PAVLOVA 57:33 (b. 1952)

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Yaroslav Krasnikov, Violin • Georgy Khachikyan, Organ * Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio Vladimir Fedoseyev 8.557566 8.557566 Recorded in Studio 5, Russian State TV and Radio Company KULTURA, Moscow, from 17th to 20th September 2003 • Producer: Vadim Ivanov • Engineer: Farida Uzbekova Booklet Notes: Alla Pavlova • Cover Picture: Path to Shambala by Nicholas Roerich (used with kind permission of the Nicholas Roerich Museum, New York)