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Russian bass Anatoli Safiulin trained at the Gnessin Institute in Moscow with Professor G.G. Aden. He is acclaimed as "a champion of Russian Music" for his interpretations of Mussorgsky, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Rimsky-Korsakov and Shostakovich as well as for the premieres of works by many distinguished Russian composers including Denisov, Gubaidulina and Schnittke. His wide-ranging repertoire also encompasses works by Bach, Bartok, Brahms, Britten, Mahler, Massenet, Mozart, Schönberg, Schubert and Verdi.
Anatoli Safiulin is regularly invited to international music festivals including the Bratislava Autumn, Budapest Bartok Festival, Edinburgh Festival, Prague Spring and White Nights of St Petersburg. He has worked with such distinguished conductors as Fedoseyev, Mariss Jansons, Kakhidze, Lazarev, Markevich, Masur and Penderecki. Among his recordings, his Olympia version of Shostakovich’s Thirteenth and Fourteenth Symphonies, with the USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra under Rozhdestvensky, has won especially favourable notices from the British Press.
UK appearances have included performances of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Mozart and Salieri coupled with the Mozart Requiem with the Scottish National Orchestra conducted by Matthias Bamert and the City of London Sinfonia conducted by Richard Hickox at the Royal Festival Hall. In February 1995, Anatoli Safiulin performed the Knight’s Monologue from The Miserly Knight by Rachmaninov with the Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestra and Arnold Katz in Leeds, Northampton and for the London International Orchestral Season at the Royal Festival Hall. Partnered by award-winning pianist Nikolai Demidenko, he performed the complete Mussorgsky song cycles in St John’s Smith Square; Rouen and at the 1995 Verbier International Festival. The Hyperion recording of these works was released in Autumn 1995.
Anatoli Safiulin returned to the Royal Festival Hall in February 1996 for a performance of Rachmaninov’s Spring Cantata with the Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Djong Victorin Yu. This work and The Bells were recorded for Carlton Classics. In March 1997 he appeared with the Guildford Philharmonic and En Shao in a performance of The Bells for the Guildford International Festival. In February 1999 he returned to the UK to take part in a further performance of The Bells and the Spring Cantata with the Bach Choir and the Philharmonia, conducted by David Hill, in the Royal Festival Hall. In January 2000 he will be taking part in a concert and recording of Stravinsky’s Les Noces and Le Rossignol with the Sinfonieorchester Basel, conducted by Mario Venzago.
October 1999
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