Alexander Ivashkin
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Alexander Ivashkin born in Blagoveshchensk
, Russia
is a cellist, writer
and conductor
residing in the UK.
, where his parents worked. He began his piano and cello studies at the age of five, at the Gnessin Music School for gifted children in Moscow
. Ivashkin graduated, with distinction, from the Russian Academy of Music (formerly the Gnessins Institute), obtaining degrees in cello performance and in historical musicology. He completed his doctorate studies at the State Institute of Arts Studies in Moscow. In 1993 he was awarded the DMus higher doctorate for his book on Charles Ives
.
At the age of twenty, Ivashkin joined the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, soon becoming a solo cellist there. In 1978 he and the conductor Alexander Lazarev
co-founded The Bolshoi Soloists - a pioneering group specializing in a modern repertoire. In 1987 Ivashkin became a member of the Directors Board at the Bolshoi Theatre.
In 1990 Ivashkin moved to New Zealand
to accept a post of cello/chamber music professor at the University of Canterbury
in Christchurch
. He became a member of The Canterbury Trio there, together with Polish violinist Jan Tawroszewicz and Canadian pianist Diedre Irons. Ivashkin founded the Adam International Cello Festival/Competition in New Zealand (1995 onwards), and the International Canterbury Chamber Music Festival (1996–1999).
Since 1999 Ivashkin has lived in London. He is currently Professor of Music at the University of London
and the director of the Centre for Russian Music in London. In 1999 he founded a series of research and performance seminars/symposia/workshops at the Centre for Russian Music in London. He is the curator of the Alfred Schnittke Archive at Goldsmiths College
, University of London. He is also artistic director of annual festivals in London, including The VTB Capital Prize for Young Cellists.
As a soloist Ivashkin has played with conductors such as Ricardo Muti, Seiji Ozawa
, Gennady Rozhdestvensky
, Vladimir Jurowski
, Rudolf Barshai
, Alexander Lazarev
, Janos Furst
, Vladimir Verbitsky
, Nicholas Braithwaite
, Dmitri Liss, David Stern
, Nikolai Alexeev, Theodore Kuchar
and Andrey Boreyko
. As a chamber musician he has performed with Gidon Kremer
, Mikhail Kopelman
, Shlomo Mintz
, Isabelle van Keulen, Oleh Krysa
, Tatyana Grindenko, Dmitri Sitkovetsky, James Buswell, Rainer Moog, Boris Berman
, Malcolm Bilson
, Dmitri Alexeev, Arturo Pizzaro, Alexei Lubimov
, Mikhail Rudy
, Victoria Postnikova, Daniel Adni
, Piers Lane
, Hamish Milne
, Rustem Hayroudinoff
, Tamas Vesmas
Alexander Ivashkin has been a regular guest at music festivals in Europe, Britain, the United States, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. He appears regularly as soloist with some of the world’s leading orchestras, including London Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra (Great Britain), the Russian State Symphony Orchestra, Ukrainian State Symphony Orchestra, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, The Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, The Ural Symphony Orchestra (Russia), Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic; RAI Torino, Australian ABC Orchestras, Slovak Philharmonic, Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, Sudwestfalische Philharmonie (Germany), Boulder Philharmonic (US), Winnipeg Symphony (Canada), Cape Philharmonic, Free State Symphony Orchestra (South Africa), New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Auckland Philharmonia, Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, Southern Sinfonia (New Zealand), Geneva Chamber Orchestra (Switzerland), London Chamber Orchestra, Reno Chamber Orchestra (US), Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, New Zealand Chamber Orchestra, Kremlin Chamber Orchestra ( Russia), Sofia Chamber Orchestra (Russia), Studio for New Music (Moscow, Russia), The Montreal Soloists ( Canada), Il Nostri Tempi chamber orchestra (Italy).
Alexander Ivashkin has been the first performer and dedicatee of many works by contemporary composers. He is one of the cellists for whom Alfred Schnittke composed. He has collaborated with composers such as John Cage, George Crumb, Mauricio Kagel, Krzysztof Penderecki, Peter Sculthorpe, Sofia Gubaidulina, Giya Kancheli, Arvo Pärt, Rodion Shchedrin, Nikolai Korndorf, Alexander Raskatov, Vladimir Tarnopolski, Faradzh Karaev, Augusta Reid Thomas, James MacMillan, Lyell Cresswell, Larry Sitsky, Christopher Cree Brown, Bridgid Bisley, and Gillian Whitehead.
In 2004 he presented a world premiere of the Brahms Cello Concerto in Hamburg (followed by performances in Moscow, St Petersburg and Auckland).
A recording artist for the Chandos, BMG, Naxos, Ode, Alma Classics, Megadisc, Melodyia and Toccata Classics labels, Ivashkin has recordings of the complete cello music by Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Roslavets, Tcherepnin, Schnittke and Kancheli to his credit.
Ivashkin conducts masterclasses in Russia, US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands, France, Italy, Greece, Croatia, Switzerland, China, Singapore, Ukraine, Estonia, Uzbekistan, Azerbajdzhan, Slovakia, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand.
He plays a Giuseppe (Joseph) Guarneri cello of 1710, courtesy of The Bridgewater Trust. He also plays electric cello, viola de gamba, sitar and piano.
Alexander Ivashkin has published eighteen books, on Schnittke, Ives, Penderecki, Rostropovich and others, and more than 200 articles in Russia, Germany, Italy, the US, the UK and Japan.
As a conductor, Alexander Ivashkin appears in Great Britain, Russia, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Armenia, and Azerbajan.
Selected articles
Music Scores Edited
Blagoveshchensk
Blagoveshchensk is a city and the administrative center of Amur Oblast, Russia. Population: -Early history of the region:The early residents of both sides of the Amur in the region of today's Blagoveshchensk were the Daurs and Duchers...
, Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
is a cellist, writer
Writer
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and conductor
Conducting
Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. The primary duties of the conductor are to unify performers, set the tempo, execute clear preparations and beats, and to listen critically and shape the sound of the ensemble...
residing in the UK.
Biography
He was born in the far East of Russia into a family of biologists. The first three years of his life were spent in MongoliaMongolia
Mongolia is a landlocked country in East and Central Asia. It is bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south, east and west. Although Mongolia does not share a border with Kazakhstan, its western-most point is only from Kazakhstan's eastern tip. Ulan Bator, the capital and largest...
, where his parents worked. He began his piano and cello studies at the age of five, at the Gnessin Music School for gifted children in Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
. Ivashkin graduated, with distinction, from the Russian Academy of Music (formerly the Gnessins Institute), obtaining degrees in cello performance and in historical musicology. He completed his doctorate studies at the State Institute of Arts Studies in Moscow. In 1993 he was awarded the DMus higher doctorate for his book on Charles Ives
Charles Ives
Charles Edward Ives was an American modernist composer. He is one of the first American composers of international renown, though Ives' music was largely ignored during his life, and many of his works went unperformed for many years. Over time, Ives came to be regarded as an "American Original"...
.
At the age of twenty, Ivashkin joined the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, soon becoming a solo cellist there. In 1978 he and the conductor Alexander Lazarev
Alexander Lazarev
Alexander Lazarev is a Russian conductor. He studied at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, and later at the Moscow Conservatory with Leo Ginsbourg. In 1971, he was the first prize winner in a national conducting competition in the USSR...
co-founded The Bolshoi Soloists - a pioneering group specializing in a modern repertoire. In 1987 Ivashkin became a member of the Directors Board at the Bolshoi Theatre.
In 1990 Ivashkin moved to New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
to accept a post of cello/chamber music professor at the University of Canterbury
University of Canterbury
The University of Canterbury , New Zealand's second-oldest university, operates its main campus in the suburb of Ilam in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand...
in Christchurch
Christchurch
Christchurch is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the country's second-largest urban area after Auckland. It lies one third of the way down the South Island's east coast, just north of Banks Peninsula which itself, since 2006, lies within the formal limits of...
. He became a member of The Canterbury Trio there, together with Polish violinist Jan Tawroszewicz and Canadian pianist Diedre Irons. Ivashkin founded the Adam International Cello Festival/Competition in New Zealand (1995 onwards), and the International Canterbury Chamber Music Festival (1996–1999).
Since 1999 Ivashkin has lived in London. He is currently Professor of Music at the University of London
University of London
-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...
and the director of the Centre for Russian Music in London. In 1999 he founded a series of research and performance seminars/symposia/workshops at the Centre for Russian Music in London. He is the curator of the Alfred Schnittke Archive at Goldsmiths College
Goldsmiths College
Goldsmiths, University of London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom which specialises in the arts, humanities and social sciences, and a constituent college of the federal University of London. It was founded in 1891 as Goldsmiths' Technical and Recreative Institute...
, University of London. He is also artistic director of annual festivals in London, including The VTB Capital Prize for Young Cellists.
As a soloist Ivashkin has played with conductors such as Ricardo Muti, Seiji Ozawa
Seiji Ozawa
is a Japanese conductor, particularly noted for his interpretations of large-scale late Romantic works. He is most known for his work as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and principal conductor of the Vienna State Opera.-Early years:...
, Gennady Rozhdestvensky
Gennady Rozhdestvensky
Gennady Nikolayevich Rozhdestvensky is a Russian conductor.-Biography:Rozhdestvensky was born in Moscow. His parents were the noted conductor and pedagogue Nikolai Anosov and soprano Natalya Rozhdestvenskaya...
, Vladimir Jurowski
Vladimir Jurowski
Vladimir Mikhailovich Jurowski is a Russian conductor. He is the son of conductor Mikhail Jurowski.Jurowski began his musical studies at the Moscow Conservatory...
, Rudolf Barshai
Rudolf Barshai
Rudolf Borisovich Barshai was a Soviet/Russian conductor and violist.Barshai was born in Stanitsa Lobinskaya, Krasnodar Krai, and studied at the Moscow Conservatory under Lev Tseitlin and Vadim Borisovsky. He performed as a soloist as well as together with Sviatoslav Richter, David Oistrakh, and...
, Alexander Lazarev
Alexander Lazarev
Alexander Lazarev is a Russian conductor. He studied at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, and later at the Moscow Conservatory with Leo Ginsbourg. In 1971, he was the first prize winner in a national conducting competition in the USSR...
, Janos Furst
János Fürst
János Fürst was a Hungarian-born conductor and violinist.János Fürst originally studied the violin at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in his native Budapest. After the 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary, he continued studies at the conservatory in Brussels. He attended the Conservatoire de Paris...
, Vladimir Verbitsky
Vladimir Verbitsky
Vladimir Igoryevich Verbitsky is a Russian and Australian conductor.He was born in Leningrad. He studied piano and conducting at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, and had later conducting studies with Yevgeny Mravinsky...
, Nicholas Braithwaite
Nicholas Braithwaite
Nicholas Paul Dallon Braithwaite is an English conductor. He is the son of the conductor Warwick Braithwaite.Braithwaite studied at the Royal Academy of Music, at the Festival masterclasses in Bayreuth, and with Hans Swarowsky in Vienna. In the 1960s, Braithwaite was associate conductor of the...
, Dmitri Liss, David Stern
David Stern
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, Nikolai Alexeev, Theodore Kuchar
Theodore Kuchar
Theodore Kuchar is a Ukrainian American conductor of classical music and a violist.-Biography:Kuchar was born in 1960 in New York City. He started to learn to play the violin at ten years of age, later switching to viola...
and Andrey Boreyko
Andrey Boreyko
Andrey Boreyko is a Russian conductor. At the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory in Saint Petersburg, he studied conducting , graduating summa cum laude...
. As a chamber musician he has performed with Gidon Kremer
Gidon Kremer
Gidon Kremer is a Latvian violinist and conductor. In 1980 he left the USSR and settled in Germany.-Biography:Kremer was born in Riga to parents of German-Jewish and Latvian-Swedish origins. He began playing the violin at the age of four, receiving instruction from his father and his grandfather,...
, Mikhail Kopelman
Mikhail Kopelman
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, Shlomo Mintz
Shlomo Mintz
Shlomo Mintz is an Israeli violin virtuoso, violist and conductor. He regularly appears with orchestras and conductors on the international scene and is heard in recitals and chamber music concerts around the world.- Awards :...
, Isabelle van Keulen, Oleh Krysa
Oleh Krysa
-Early life:Oleh Krysa was born in Uchanie, now Gmina Uchanie in the Lublin Voivodeship, Poland, into a family of Ukrainian aristocrats. In 1945, as a result of the so-called Operation Vistula, Oleh's family found itself in Lviv, where he grew up and spent his school years.Although none of the...
, Tatyana Grindenko, Dmitri Sitkovetsky, James Buswell, Rainer Moog, Boris Berman
Boris Berman
Boris Berman is a Russian pianist and pedagogue .He was a student of Lev Oborin at the Moscow Conservatory. He made his debut in Moscow in 1965. He joined an early music ensemble, at the time the only one in Russia, as a harpsichordist. At the same time he worked with contemporary composers such...
, Malcolm Bilson
Malcolm Bilson
Malcolm Bilson is an American pianist specializing in performance on the fortepiano, which is the 18th century version of the piano. Bilson is the Frederick J...
, Dmitri Alexeev, Arturo Pizzaro, Alexei Lubimov
Alexei Lubimov
Alexei Lubimov is a Russian pianist, fortepianist and harpsichordist.Alexei Lubimov studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Heinrich Neuhaus and Lew Naumov...
, Mikhail Rudy
Mikhail Rudy
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, Victoria Postnikova, Daniel Adni
Daniel Adni
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, Piers Lane
Piers Lane
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, Hamish Milne
Hamish Milne
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, Rustem Hayroudinoff
Rustem Hayroudinoff
Rustem Hayroudinoff - Kazan born pianist. His father Awzal Xäyretdinov is a professor at Kazan State Conservatoire. He is a brother of Halida Hayrutdinova, also a pianist...
, Tamas Vesmas
Alexander Ivashkin has been a regular guest at music festivals in Europe, Britain, the United States, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. He appears regularly as soloist with some of the world’s leading orchestras, including London Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra (Great Britain), the Russian State Symphony Orchestra, Ukrainian State Symphony Orchestra, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, The Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, The Ural Symphony Orchestra (Russia), Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic; RAI Torino, Australian ABC Orchestras, Slovak Philharmonic, Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, Sudwestfalische Philharmonie (Germany), Boulder Philharmonic (US), Winnipeg Symphony (Canada), Cape Philharmonic, Free State Symphony Orchestra (South Africa), New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Auckland Philharmonia, Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, Southern Sinfonia (New Zealand), Geneva Chamber Orchestra (Switzerland), London Chamber Orchestra, Reno Chamber Orchestra (US), Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, New Zealand Chamber Orchestra, Kremlin Chamber Orchestra ( Russia), Sofia Chamber Orchestra (Russia), Studio for New Music (Moscow, Russia), The Montreal Soloists ( Canada), Il Nostri Tempi chamber orchestra (Italy).
Alexander Ivashkin has been the first performer and dedicatee of many works by contemporary composers. He is one of the cellists for whom Alfred Schnittke composed. He has collaborated with composers such as John Cage, George Crumb, Mauricio Kagel, Krzysztof Penderecki, Peter Sculthorpe, Sofia Gubaidulina, Giya Kancheli, Arvo Pärt, Rodion Shchedrin, Nikolai Korndorf, Alexander Raskatov, Vladimir Tarnopolski, Faradzh Karaev, Augusta Reid Thomas, James MacMillan, Lyell Cresswell, Larry Sitsky, Christopher Cree Brown, Bridgid Bisley, and Gillian Whitehead.
In 2004 he presented a world premiere of the Brahms Cello Concerto in Hamburg (followed by performances in Moscow, St Petersburg and Auckland).
A recording artist for the Chandos, BMG, Naxos, Ode, Alma Classics, Megadisc, Melodyia and Toccata Classics labels, Ivashkin has recordings of the complete cello music by Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Roslavets, Tcherepnin, Schnittke and Kancheli to his credit.
Ivashkin conducts masterclasses in Russia, US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands, France, Italy, Greece, Croatia, Switzerland, China, Singapore, Ukraine, Estonia, Uzbekistan, Azerbajdzhan, Slovakia, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand.
He plays a Giuseppe (Joseph) Guarneri cello of 1710, courtesy of The Bridgewater Trust. He also plays electric cello, viola de gamba, sitar and piano.
Alexander Ivashkin has published eighteen books, on Schnittke, Ives, Penderecki, Rostropovich and others, and more than 200 articles in Russia, Germany, Italy, the US, the UK and Japan.
As a conductor, Alexander Ivashkin appears in Great Britain, Russia, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Armenia, and Azerbajan.
Discography
- "Russian Elegy". Original pieces for cello and piano written by Russian composers from the 18th to the 20th century. With Ingrid Wahlberg, piano. Ode Records MANU 1426, 1993.
- "Music for cello solo". World premiere recordings. Melodyia SUCD 10-005566, 1994.
- "Alfred Schnittke. Four Hymns for cello and ensemble". With the Bolshoi Soloists. [The Third Hymn is dedicated to A.Ivashkin.] Melodiya SUCD 00061 - Russia; Mobile Fidelity MFCD 915 - US). World premiere recording. New releases: VoxBox , US, 1994,1996. Diapason D’Or Award ( France)
- "Alfred Schnittke, Music for Cello and Piano". World premiere recordings. With Tamas Vesmas. Ode Records MANU 1480, 1995.
- "Sergei Prokofiev. Complete Music for Cello and Piano". With Tamas Vesmas. Ode Records MANU 1414, 1996.
- "Bohiuslav Martinu. Chamber Music". Naxos, 8.553916, 1996.
- "Alexander Gretchaninov. Cello Concerto, op. 8". World premiere recording. Chandos CHAN 9559, 1997.
- "Dmitri Shostakovich. Cello Concertos Nos.1-2". BMG/Ode Records MANU 1542, 1997.
- "Alfred Schnittke. Complete Music for Cello and Piano". With Irina Schnittke, piano. World premiere recording. Chandos, CHAN 9705, 1998. CD of the month', BBC Music Magazine, 1998.
- "Alfred Schnittke. Cello Concerto No.2". With Russian State SO, Chandos CHAN 9722,1999
- "Alexander Tcherepnin. Complete Music for Cello and Piano". With Geoofrey Tozer, piano. Chandos, CHAN 9770, 1999.
- "Unknown Shostakovich: Schumann - Shostakovich. Cello Concerto, op.129/126; Tishchenko-Shostakovich. Cello Concerto No.1". World premiere recording. With Russian State SO. Chandos, CHAN 9792 .
- "Franz Schubert. String Quintet in C major D956, Dmitri Shostakovich. Piano Trio No 2". With Isabelle van Keulen, violin, Mark Lubotsky, violin, The Goldner Quartet, Boris Berman, piano. ABC Classics 465 841 -2, 2000.
- "Under the Southern Cross. New music for solo cello from Australia and New Zealand". BMG,1999. Recording Industry Award, 1999.'
- "Alfred Schnittke - Concerto No. 1". With Russian State Symphony Orchestra under Valery Poliansky.. Chandos CHAN 9852, 2000. Best CD in last 5 years - 'Fanfare', US.
- "Alfred Schnittke - Chamber Music". With Mark Lubotsky, violin, Irina Schnittke, piano, Theodore Kuchar, viola. Naxos 8-554728, 2000. Best CD of the year, BBC Music Magazine.
- "Unknown Prokofiev -Concerto for cello &orchestra op.58, Concertino op 132, orchestrated by Vladimir BlokVladimir BlokVladimir Mikhailovich Blok was a Russian musicologist, composer and orchestrator of the works of Prokofiev, of Udmurt ethnicity.-Completions:* completion of the Prokofiev Andante for solo cello....
, Cadenza by Alfred SchnittkeAlfred SchnittkeAlfred Schnittke ; November 24, 1934 – August 3, 1998) was a Russian and Soviet composer. Schnittke's early music shows the strong influence of Dmitri Shostakovich. He developed a polystylistic technique in works such as the epic First Symphony and First Concerto Grosso...
". With Russian State Symphony Orchestra under Valery Poliansky. Chandos,CHAN 9890 , 2001.World premiere recording. The Strad Selection, July 2001. - "Nikolai Roslavets . Complete Music for cello and piano". With Tatyana Lazareva, piano. Chandos, CHAN 9881, 2001. CD of the month, BBC Music Magazine, April 2001.
- "Sofia Gubaidulina. Works for Cello". With Natalia Pavlutskaya, cello, Rachel Johnston, cello, Miranda Wilson, cello, Malcolm Hicks, organ. Chandos, CHAN 9958, 2001. World premiere recording.
- "Nikolai Korndorf. Passacaglia for cello solo" (dedicated to Alexander Ivashkin), String Trio, Piano Trio. With Patricia Kopachinskaya, violin, Daniel Raiskin,viola, Ivan Sokolov, piano. Megadisc 7817, 2001. World premiere recording.
- "Dmitry Smirnov. Sonata for cello and piano, Postlude for cello solo" (dedicated to Alexander Ivashkin), Piano Trio . With Patricia Kopachinskaya, violin, Ivan Sokolov, piano. Megadisc 7818, 2001. World premiere recording.
- "Sergei Prokofiev . Sinfonia-Concertante, op. 125". With Russian State Symphony Orchestra under Valery Poliansky.. Chandos, CHAN 9989, 2002 .
- "Nikolai Myaskovsky. Cello Concerto". With Russian State Symphony Orchestra under Valery Poliansky. Chandos, CHAN 10025, 2002 .
- "Sergei Prokofiev. Complete Cello/piano Music". With Tatyana Lazareva, piano. Chandos, CHAN 10045, 2003.
- "Sergei Rakhmaninoiv. Complete Cello/piano Music". With Rustem Hayroudinoff, piano. Chandos CHAN 10095, 2004.
- "Alfred Schnittke. Concerto Grosso No 2". With Tatyana Grindenko, violin, Russian State Symphony Orchestra under Valery Poliansky. Chandos, CHAN 10180, 2004.
- "Giya Kancheli. Simi; Mourned by the wind for cello and orchestra". With Russian State Symphony Orchestra under Valery PolianskyChandos CHAN 10297, 2005.
- "Dmitri Shostakovich. Cello Concertos, Nos 1 and 2". With Russian State Symphony Orchestra under Valery Poliansky. Brilliant Classics 7620, 2006
- "Alfred Schnittke. Concerto for Three, Dialogue". ‘Chandos’ (in preparation).
- "Alexander Ivashkin plays Schnittke" (Double CD). Complete Cello Concertos and Sonatas. Chandos, CHAN 241-39, 2007. Best Re-issue of the month - Gramophone
- "Due Celli (Music by Pergolesi, Vivaldi, Boccherini, Boismortier, Mozart, and Schnittke)". With Natalia Pavlutskaya, cello. Alma Classics 5031, 2007.
- "Hommage a Anna Akhmatova." (includes Beethoven Sonata op 102, No 1; Bach – Solo cello BWV 1010; Britten - Solo Cello Suite No. 3; Kancheli - ‘ Nach dem Weinen’ for solo cello', World premiere recording; Shostakovich – Cello Concerto No 2). Alma Classics 5022, 2008.
- "Alexander Ivashkin plays Prokofiev" (Double CD). Complete Cello Concertos and Sonatas. Chandos, CHAN 241-41, 2008.
- "Pacific Voyage". With Ora Barlow and Kim Halliday. Alma Classics 5028, 2009.
- "Edison Denisov. The Blue Notebook". World premiere recording. With Elena Komarova, soprano, Vladimir Smekhov, reciter, Tigran Alikhanov, piano. Moscow: Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatoire SMC CD 0106, 2009.
- "Alfred Schnittke: Discoveries. Yellow Sound, Dialogue for cello and instrumental ensemble, Variations for String Quartet". World premiere recording. Alexander Ivashkin, cello/voice. London: Toccata Classics TOCC 0091, 2010.
- "Russian Cello Concertos 1960–2000. With various orchestras". Alma Classics, MANU 5029, 2010. Denisov, Schnittke, Vustin, Shchedrin, including first recordings.
Publications
Selected books:- Contemplating Shostakovich . Edited by Alexander Ivashkin and Andrew Kirkman. Farnham: Ashgate (in progress)
- Schnittke Studies . Edited by Alexander Ivashkin. Bloomington-Indianapolis: Indiana University Press (in progress).
- Rostropovich. Tokyo: Shunjusha Publishing Company, 2007. 280 pp.
- Alfred Schnittke: Stat'I o muzyke [Articles on music] . Edited by Alexander Ivashkin. Moscow: Compozitor, 2003. 407 pp.
- A Schnittke Reader. Bloomington /Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2002. 352pp.
- Rostrospective (On the Life and Achievement of Mstislav Rostropovich). Frankfurt-Schweinfurth: Reimund Maier Verlag,1997 . 142 pp.
- Alfred Schnittke. London: Phaidon Press, 1996, 240 pp.
- Besedy s Alfredom Schnittke [Conversations with Alfred Schnittke ]. Moscow: The Culture Publishers, 1994. 304pp. Second, revised edition: Moscow: Klassica-XXI, 2003, 316pp. German Edition: Munich: 1999. Japanese Edition: Tokyo, 2002.
- Charl'z Aivz i muzyka XX vieka [Charles Ives and the 20th-century music]. Moscow: Sovietsky Compozitor, 1991. 464pp.
- Krzysztof Penderecki. Moscow: Sovietsky Compozitor, 1983. 126pp.
Selected articles
- "Symbols, Metaphors and Irrationalities in Twentieth-Century Music." Cataño, Rafael Jiménez and Yarza, Ignacio ( Ed.). Mimesi, Verità e Fiction. Roma: Edusc, 2009, 69 –87.
- "Cooling the volcano: Prokofiev’s Cello Concerto Op. 58 and ‘Symphony-Concerto’ Op. 125". Three Oranges, Journal of the Serge Prokofiev Foundation, No. 18 (November 2009), 7-14.
- "Podsolnukh [Sunflower]. Rostropovich in memoriam". Muzykal’naya Academia. Moscow , 2007/3: 1 – 16. Short English version: Radius Solis. Three Oranges, Journal of the Serge Prokofiev Foundation, No. 14 (November 2007), 25 – 27.
- "Dvoinaya pererabotka otkhodov v sovetskoi muzyke [Double recycling in Soviet music]". Iskusstvo XX veka : elite i massy [ The 20th-century Art: Elite and Masses]. Nizhny Novgorod: The Glinka Conservatoire Press, 2005, 12- 18.
- "Logic of Absurdity or Taste of Freedom? Alexander Knaifel and his opera 'Alice in Wonderland'". Tempo, 219 , 2002, 34-36
- "Alfred Schnittke." New Grove Dictionary. London: Macmillan. 2001 ( with Ivan Moody)
- ‘…und wenn es mir den Hals bricht’. "Zum Gedenken an Alfred Schnittke". MusikTexte. Heft 78, March 1999, 27- 31.
- "Shostakovich and Schnittke: the erosion of symphonic syntax". D.Fanning (ed.) Shostakovich Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995, 252-268.
- "The paradox of Russian Non-Liberty". The Musical Quarterly, vol.76, no.4, 1992, 543-556
- "Die Musik als grosse Buhne". Kagel . . .1991. Köln: DuMont Buchverlag, 1991, 110-119
- "Charles Ives : Otkrytie Ameriki". Zapadnoye Iskusstvo. XX vek. [ Charles Ives: discovery of the America. In Western Art. XX Century]. Moscow: Nauka, 1991, 222-247
- "Sowietische Musik. Von der Struktur zum Symbol". Sowietische Musik im Licht der Perestroika. Berlin: Laaber, 1990, 109-117
- "Post-October Soviet Art: Canon and Symbol". The Musical Quarterly, vol.74, no. 2,1990, 350-368
Music Scores Edited
- Sergei Rakhmaninov. Melody on a Theme for cello and piano. First publication. Edited and prefaced by Alexander Ivashkin. Hamburg: Hans Sikorski Musikverlage, 2010 (in preparation).
- Alfred Schnittke . Collected Works. Critical Edition in sixty- seven volumes. Compiled and prefaced by Alexander Ivashkin. St.Petersburg: Compozitor, 2007 - . Alexander Ivashkin, Editor-in-chief (in progress).
- Alexander Grechaninov. Cello Concerto ( 1895). Performance edition from the manuscript. Moscow: State Symphony Capella, 1998
- Frangiz Ali-Zade. Habil-Sayahy for cello and piano. Edited and prefaced by Alexander Ivashkin. Hamburg, Hans Sikorski Internationale Musikverlage, 1991.
- Twentieth-century American piano music. Compiled, prefaced and commented by Alexander Ivashkin and Andrei Khitruk. Moscow: Muzyka State Publishers, 1991.
- Charles Ives. Works for Orchestra. Critical Edition. Compiled, prefaced and commented by Alexander Ivashkin. Kiev: Muzychna Ukraina, 1990.