As we follow the saga of a certain wild-partying entertainer, WNYC’s Sara Fishko considers the case of Anton Arensky. The somewhat disreputable Russian composer wrote music, lived hard – and died young. Here is the next Fishko Files.
The Danny Kaye Radio Show - Russian Composers
There’s Malichevsky, Rubinstein, Arensky and Tchaikovsky,
Sapelnikoff, Dimitrieff, Tscherepnin, Kryjanowsky,
Godoswsky, Arteiboucheff, Moniuszko, Akimenko,
Solovieff, Prokofieff, Tiomkin, Korestchenko.
There’s Glinka, Winkler, Bortniansky, Rebikoff, Ilyinsky,
There’s Medtner, Balakireff, Zolotareff, and Kvoschinsky.
And Sokoloff and Kopyloff, Dukelsky, and Klenowsky,
And Shostakovitsch, Borodine, Glière, and Nowakofski.
There’s Liadoff and Karganoff, Markievitch, Pantschenko
And Dargomyzski, Stcherbatcheff, Scriabine, Vassilenko,
Stravinsky, Rimsky-Korsakoff, Mussorgsky, and Gretchaninoff
And Glazounoff and Caesar Cui, Kalinkikoff, Rachmaninoff.
Stravinsky and Gretchnaninoff,
Rumshinsky and Rachmaninoff,
I really have to stop, the subject has been dwelt upon enough!
He’d better stop because we feel we all have undergone enough!
More from the speaker in this week's Fishko Files...
- Richard Taruskin is a Professor of Musicology at U.C. Berkeley. His book, On Russian Music, is available here.
Pieces in Anton Arensky
- Arensky, Piano trio no. 1 in d minor, Beaux Arts Trio, Philips
- Kurt Weill/Ira Gershwin, Tchaikovsky and Other Russians, Danny Kaye, ASV
- Arensky, Serenade, Mischa Elman violin, Vanguard Classics
- Arensky, Intermezzo in g minor, opus 13, USSR Symphony, Svetlanov cond., BMG Classics
- Arensky, Variations on a Theme by Tchaikovsky, London Symphony Orchestra, Barbirolli cond., EMI Classics
- Arensky, Waltz from Two-Piano Suite Op. 15, Bauer and Gabriowitsch, pianos, VAI
- Arensky, Piano Concerto in f minor, Scherbakov, piano, Russian Philharmonic, Yablonsky cond., Naxos
- Arensky, Violin Concerto in a minor, opus 54, Gringolts, violin, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Volkov cond., Hyperion
WNYC Production Credits...
Mix Engineer: Wayne Shulmister
Assistant Producer: Laura Mayer
Managing Editor, WNYC News: Karen Frillmann
Comments [2]
Just a non-musical comment: alcoholics are never "partying," they just say they are.They are angry, driven and full of chaos.
Do not marry one, it won't be a party.
A very interesting presentation. That brief bio was a touchpoint for a lot of musical history.
It would be nice to hear the Bauer-Gabrilovitch duo recording in its entirety, if it's in the WQXR archive. Pianist Harold Bauer was the founding chairman of the piano department of the Manhattan School of Music, and pianist/conductor Ossip Gabrilovitch was also the son-in-law of Mark Twain. In a way, they're more interesting than Arensky himself.
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