The new CD of Alexander Scriabin’s Second Symphony and Poème de l’Extase, performed by the WDR Rundfunkchor and the Gürzenich-Orchester Köln under Dmitrij Kitajenko (Oehms Classics OC 474) has received a first very good review from Pizzicato. The reviewer writes that the Second Symphony’s “subtle colorful differentiation is still very…
Fifth Award at ICMA: Kitajenko Collection wins in the 2021 Awards
The Jury of the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) announced today the Awards for 2021. In the Audio and Video categories, 18 productions are awarded a prize. In the category Best Collection the winner is the box Dmitrij Kitajenko Collection released by Melodiya. This is already the fifth award for…
All three releases are ICMA Nominations for the Awards 2021
The three releases conducted by Dmitrij Kitajenko and published by Oehms Classics and Melodiya between November 2019 and October 2020 have been nominated for the 2021 International Classical Music Awards (ICMA). Sergei Prokofiev: Summer Night, Suite Op. 123 + Scythian Suite Op. 20 Aram Khachaturian: Masquerade Suite + Spartacus Suites…
Pizzicato review of the Kitajenko Collection
The online magazine Pizzicato has published a detailed review of Melodiya’s new Kitajenko Collection. Here is the link: https://www.pizzicato.lu/spannend-spannend-die-kitajenko-collection/
Supersonic Award for the Prokofiev-Khachaturian CD
The new CD with works by Prokofiev and Khachaturian has been awarded the Supersonic prize of the online magazine Pizzicato. Here is the link to the review: Russische Musik mit Authentizitätssiegel
SWR broadcast to honour Dmitrij Kitajenko on its 80th birthday
Under the title Botschafter der russischen Musik – Dmitri Kitajenko wird 80, the German broadcaster SWR honoured Dmitrij Kitajenko in its series Treffpunkt Klassik. The author of the programme is Claus Fischer. You can hear the broadcast here.
Kitajenko portrait in the Frankfurter Allgemeine (FAZ)
Under the title “Der Meister knapper Zeichensprache” and the subtitle “Russisch, romantisch, sachlich” the German newspaper FAZ published an article for the 8oth birthday of Maestro Dmitri Kitajenko. Here is the link.
Melodiya celebrates Dmitrij Kitajenko’s 80th Anniversary with a Kitajenko Collection
On 18 August, Maestro Dmitrij Kitajenko turned 80. The Russian label Melodiya publishes now a collection of eight CDs (currently only in digital form) with an extremely varied and broad program with recordings from the seventies and the eighties of the 20th century, including previously unreleased Bernstein’s Second Symphony and…
Watch Grigory Sokolov and Dmitrij Kitajenko
In 1978, Russian pianist Grigory Sokolov and the Moscow Philharmonic conducted by Dmitrij Kitajenko performed Rachmaninov’s Third Piano Concerto at the main hall of the State Conservatory in Moscow. A CD recording is available at Bomba Music (CL 033-660, released in 2010), featuring also pianist Nikolai Petrov in Ravel’s Valses…
Supersonic award for new Rachmaninov-Taneyev CD
The music magazine Pizzicato has awarded the Supersonic Award to Dmitrij Kitajenko’s new recording of Rachmaninov’s The Bells and Taneyev’s John of Damascus with the Gürzenich Orchestra. Here is the link to the review.