01 - Schubert. Adagio in E major, D.612.
02 - Schubert. Three Minuets - 1. A major, D.334.
03 - Schubert. Three Minuets - 2. E major, D.335.
04 - Schubert. Three Minuets - 1. Cis minor, D.600.
05 - Schubert. Ten Ecossaises, D.145, 299, 421, 697, 735, 781, 977.
06 - Schubert. Allegretto in C Minor, D.900, 348 (edition by Alexander Jocheles).
Robert Schumann
Two Fragments from the Music to Lord George Gordon Byron's Dramatic Poem "Manfred" (transcription by Alexander Jocheles)
07 - The Shadow of Astarte.
08 - The Alpine Fairy.
09 - Schumann. Gugue, Lied and Fughette, Opus 32.
10 - Schumann. Four Sketches for Piano with Pedal Keyboard, Opus 58.
11 - Schumann. Impromptu on a Theme by Clara Wieck, Opus 50.
Alexander Jocheles, piano
Recordings from the 1950 - 1960s
Alexander Jocheles (11 March 1912, Moscow— 19 June 1978, Moscow)
In 1928 Alexander Lvovich Jocheles graduated from the Gnesins' State Music Pedagogical Institute, where he studied with E. Gelman, and entered the second course of Moscow Conservatory where he studied with K. Igumnov. He also studied in A. Goedicke's chamber ensemble class. In 1932, after graduating from the Conservatory, Jocheles continued his studies with K. Igumnov in the Conservatory's post-graduate program (or the School for the Highest Mastery, as it was called at that time).
Alexander Jocheles won a prize at the Second Frederic Chopin Pianists' Competition in Warsaw in 1932. However his fame as a pianist was ensured by the Second Prize won by him in the First АН-Union Competition for Musicians-Performers (the First Prize was received by Emil Gilels). Since 1934 Jocheles was a soloist of the Moscow Philharmonic Society; from 1943 to 1958 he performed in a piano trio together with Mark Zatulovsky and cellist Gerts Zomyk.
From the 1931 an assistant, and in 1935 — 1942 an associate professor of the ensemble and special piano at the Moscow State Conservatory. In 1946 — 1952, was a professor at the Tbilisi Conservatory.
Alexander Jocheles had a preference for a broad repertoire which included numerous compositions that were rarely heard in performance by Soviet pianists of his time: from his own editions of Jean Philippe Rameau's concertos and the rarely performed one-movement Concerto in D major by Ludwig van Beethoven to Claude Debussy's Fantasy, Arthur Honegger's Concertino and Francis Poulenc's "Rhapsody Negre" — compositions which he presented to his country's public for the first time. Jocheles performed world premieres of numerous compositions by Soviet composers, including Concertos by Alexander Dolukhanian and Konstantin Makarov-Rakitin, as well as many other works. In 1957 in the USA on the "Westminster" label an LP record was released with recordings of Concertos by Georgian composers Otar Taktakishvili and Otar Gordeli, which were premiered by Jocheles.
Jocheles is well-known as having made a number of his own transcriptions — for instance, in 1947 he performed Beethoven's "Hammerklavier" Sonata N. 29 (Opus 106) in transcription for piano and orchestra. In Jocheles' concertos and recitals his transcriptions of Bach's, Handel's and Gluck's music took up entirely the whole concertos. Alexander Jocheles belonged to pianists who had preserved and developed the tradition of transcriptions. Of special interest is his work on completion and reconstruction of Schubert's piano sketches.
From 1952 Alexander Lvovich was professor of the Gnesins' State Music Pedagogical Institute (from 1965 to 1973 he was the head of the Secondary Piano Department). At the Gnesins' Institute Jocheles was the initiator of the long-term cycle of concertos "The History of the Piano Sonata for 300 Years."
Alexander Jocheles was an outstanding piano pedagogue. His ability to analyze musical compositions, remarkable ingenuity in searching different variants of fingerings, a wealth of knowledge of music history and culture and phenomenal memory made him into a veritably legendary figure.
The "Firma Melodiya" record company had released three times A. Jocheles' pedagogical commentaries to the performance of the following works: J.S. Bach's "Capriccio on the Departure of his Beloved Brother," Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata N. 17, Opus 31, N. 2 and Johannes Brahms'Variations on a Theme by Schumann, which enjoyed popularity among students, pedagogues and fans of the art of piano playing.
