This has always been my favorite recording of this work. Such brazen character! Nice lyricism in the 2nd movement. I would never want to sound like this (I'd never work again in the US!!!), but I love and respect the way he plays. IT JUST DOESN'T GET MORE AUTHENTIC THAN THIS. True Russian trombone style accompanied by a Russian military band....exactly as Rimsky-Korskov wrote....and that's another thing. Batashov plays the solo part as the composer wrote it....without all of the octave displacement histrionics many other players use. He respects the piece as it is. Yes, this is a light-weight piece, but it's fun...and it's the only concerto we trombonists have from a major name composer.
Old Soviet trombone school. Viktor Batashov (1937) graduated from the music school at the Moscow Conservatory in 1956, and then from the Moscow Conservatory (1960). Student of Vladimir Shcherbinin. Since 1958, he has been a soloist with the Symphony Orchestra of the All-Union Radio and Central Television, and also became the first Russian winner of the Geneva Performing Competition. In 1962 - Laureate (III prize) of the international festival Prague Spring. Since 1963 he has been teaching at the Department of Wind and Percussion Instruments of the Moscow Conservatory, since 1995 he has been a professor. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1981).
Batashov's performance is the most vibrant & interesting out of the many recordings of this concerto i have heard. Also very much like the band accompaniment!
This has always been my favorite recording of this work. Such brazen character! Nice lyricism in the 2nd movement. I would never want to sound like this (I'd never work again in the US!!!), but I love and respect the way he plays. IT JUST DOESN'T GET MORE AUTHENTIC THAN THIS. True Russian trombone style accompanied by a Russian military band....exactly as Rimsky-Korskov wrote....and that's another thing. Batashov plays the solo part as the composer wrote it....without all of the octave displacement histrionics many other players use. He respects the piece as it is. Yes, this is a light-weight piece, but it's fun...and it's the only concerto we trombonists have from a major name composer.
Old Soviet trombone school.
Viktor Batashov (1937) graduated from the music school at the Moscow Conservatory in 1956, and then from the Moscow Conservatory (1960). Student of Vladimir Shcherbinin. Since 1958, he has been a soloist with the Symphony Orchestra of the All-Union Radio and Central Television, and also became the first Russian winner of the Geneva Performing Competition. In 1962 - Laureate (III prize) of the international festival Prague Spring. Since 1963 he has been teaching at the Department of Wind and Percussion Instruments of the Moscow Conservatory, since 1995 he has been a professor. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1981).
So much power and beauty! Wonderful playing! o/
Record of 1967, conductor Nikolai Nazarov.
Batashov's performance is the most vibrant & interesting out of the many recordings of this concerto i have heard. Also very much like the band accompaniment!
The finest, most character filled recording of this piece there is so far.
Obwohl die Tonqualität nicht ideal ist, klingt die Posaune sehr kräftig und eindrucksvoll.
Batashov as the strongest !