Frolov: Concert Fantasy On Themes From Gershwin's Porgy and Bess / Divertissement / Romance / Spanish Fantasy
10/29/2008, 14 Tracks, 1:02:27
Featuring
Nicolas Koeckert
Kristina Miller-Koeckert
Rudolf Koeckert
George William Meyer
Igor Frolov
Herminio de Almeida
George Kern
Scott Joplin
Serge Gais
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Composer's Artistic Vision
Although Frolov never formally studied composition, he began composing on the advice of David Oistrakh, who suggested a new cadenza for Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 5.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Despite his classical training, Frolov developed a lifelong interest in jazz, incorporating its elements into many of his compositions, even though jazz was banned during his student years.
Performer Biography
Nicolas Koeckert, a German-Brazilian violinist, was the first German to become a laureate at the International Tchaikovsky Violin Competition in Moscow in 2002.
Recording & Production
This album was co-produced with Bayerischer Rundfunk and recorded at their Studio 1 in Munich, Germany, across two sessions in 2005 and 2006.
Composer Biography
Igor Alexandrovich Frolov, the composer, was born in Moscow in 1937 to a violin teacher and conductor father and an accompanist mother.
Composer Biography
Frolov studied at the Moscow Conservatory with prominent figures of the Soviet violin school, Abram Yampolsky and David Oistrakh.
Composer Biography
Frolov grew up immersed in music, listening to his parents and their students, and began his violin studies with his father.
