Melodiya re-releases the album of the cello quartet of the State Orchestra in a digital format. Yuri Loevsky, artistic director of the cello quartet, joined the USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra in 1983 as an accompanist of the cello group and founded the State Orchestra’s cello quartet that was known for its extensive concert repertoire.
The album includes not only classical hits, but also some very unusual finds. In addition to Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Flight of the Bumblebee,” that has already become a universal encore for performers on all instruments, the cello quartet also performs Schubert’s “Ave Maria,” Saint-Saëns’s “The Swan,” Bach’s Sarabande, Massenet’s Elegy, and Darius Milhaud’s Scaramouche. The second of the Five Pieces for Cello and Piano by Georgian composer Sulkhan Tsintsadze, imitating the sound of the Georgian folk instrument chonguri, as well as the pieces by Krengel and Krein for cello quartet and Popper’s Requiem for three cellos and piano are also intriguing.
