RECORDINGS
 Russian Elegy
Original pieces for cello and piano written by Russian composers from the eighteenth to the twentieth century.
Ode Records CD MANU 1426, Auckland, 1993.
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 New Russian Music for cello solo
World premiere recordings
Melodyia SUCD 10-005566, Moscow, 1994.
 Alfred Schnittke. Four Hymns for cello and ensemble
[The Third Hymn is dedicated to A.Ivashkin.]
Melodiya SUCD 00061 – Russia;
Mobile Fidelity MFCD 915 – USA
World premiere recording. New releases, VoxBox, USA, 1994, 1996.
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 Alfred Schnittke, Music for Cello and Piano
World premiere recordings. With Tamas Vesmas.
Ode Records CD MANU 1480, Auckland, 1995.
 Sergei Prokofiev. Complete Music for Cello and Piano
With Tamas Vesmas
Ode Records CD MANU 1414, Auckland, 1996.
 Bohuslav Martinu. Chamber Music
Naxos, 8.553916, Frankfurt-Hong-Kong, 1996.
 Alexander Gretchaninov. Cello Concerto, op.8
World premiere recording.
'Chandos', CHAN 9559. England, 1997.
 Dmitri Shostakovich. Cello Concertos No.1-2
BMG/Ode, MANU 1542, 1997.
 Alfred Schnittke.
Complete Music for Cello and Piano
With Irina Schnittke, piano.
World premiere recording.
Chandos, CHAN 9705. England, 1998.
'CD of the month', BBC Music Magazine, 1998.
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 Alfred Schnittke. Cello Concerto No.2
With Russian State SO.
'Chandos', CHAN 9722. England, 1999
 Schnittke. Cello Concerto No.2, mov.1(3:20)
 Tcherepnin. Complete Music for Cello and Piano
With Geoofrey Tozer, piano.
Chandos, CHAN 9770, 1999.
 Schubert. String Quintet in C major D956
Shostakovich. Piano Trio No 2.
With Isabelle van Keulen, Mark Lubotsky, Goldner Quartet, Boris Berman.
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.
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 Schnittke – Concerto No. 1
With Russian State Symphony Orchestra.
'Chandos', CHAN 9852, England, 2000.
'Best CD in last 5 years' – 'Fanfare', USA.
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 Schnittke – Chamber Music Alexander Ivashkin, Mark Lubotsky, Irina Schnittke, Theodore Kuchar. Naxos 8-554728, Hong-Kong – London, 2000. 'Best CD of the year' – BBC Music Magazine, December 2001. Schnittke. Klingende Buchstaben (4:44)
 Gubaidulina and Cello
In croce, Quaternion, Ten Preludes
Chandos, CHAN 9958, 2001.
World premiere recording and booklet.
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 Nikolai Korndorf
Passacaglia for cello solo (dedicated to Alexander Ivashkin), String Trio, Piano Trio (with Patricia Kopachinskaya, Daniel Raiskin, Ivan Sokolov).
Megadisc 7817, Belgium.
World premiere recording
 Dmitry Smirnov
Sonata for cello and piano,
'Postlude' for cello solo (dedicated to AI),
Piano Trio (with Patricia Kopachinskaya, Ivan Sokolov)
Megadisc 7818, Belgium, 2001.
World premiere recording
 Prokofiev – Sinfonia-Concertante, op. 125 (+ Symphony No 2).
With Russian State SO.
'Chandos', CHAN 9989, England, 2002.
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 Myaskovsky. Cello Concerto (+ Symphony No 27).
With Russian State SO.
'Chandos', CHAN 10025, England, 2002.
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 Prokofiev. Complete Cello/piano Music
With T.Lazareva.
'Chandos', CHAN 10045, England, 2003.
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 Rakhmaninov. Complete Cello/piano Music
With R. Hayroudinoff.
'Chandos', CHAN 10095, England, 2004.
Melody on a theme by Rachmaninov (1:38)
An improvisation by the composer reconstructed by Modest Altschuller (1873-1963)
Piano part revised by Rustem Hayroudinoff
Premiere recording of this version
 Schnittke. Concerto Grosso No 2
With T. Grindenko, vn, Russian State SO, under V. Poliansky.
Chandos, CHAN 10180, England, 2004.
 Kancheli.
Simi; Mourned by the wind, for cello and orchestra.
'Chandos', CHAN 10297. England, 2005.
Kancheli. Mourned By The Wind, 3 mv. (6:44)
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 Shostakovich. Cello Concertos
With Russian State SO.
Brilliant Classics 7620, Holland, 2006
Shostakovich. 2nd Cello Concerto, scherzo (1:49)
- Schnittke. Concerto for Three, Dialogue.
'Chandos' (in preparation).
 Alexander Ivashkin plays Schnittke
Cello Concertos and Sonatas
With Irina Schnittke, Tatiana Grindenko
Russian State SO, under V.Polyansky
'Chandos', CHAN 24139. England, 2007.
Schnittke. Cello Concerto No.2, mov.1(3:20)
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 Due Celli
(Music by Pergolesi, Vivaldi, Boccherini, Boismortier, Mozart, Schnittke).
With Natalia Pavlutskaya.
Alma Classics, New Zealand/Australia, 2007
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 Anna Akhmatova
ALMA CLASSICS CD MANU 5022, 2008
It includes world premiere recording of Giya Kancheli's 'Having Wept' for solo cello, 1994 (dedicated to Mstislav Rostropovich)
 Alexander Ivashkin plays Prokofiev
(Complete Concertos and Sonatas)
'Chandos', CHAN 24141, released on July 01, 2008.
Prokofiev. Cello Concerto (Andante - 6:07)
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 Pacific Voyage. Impovisations with Fijian and Maori musicians Ora Barlow and Kim Halliday
Alma Classics, Auckland, New Zealand, MANU 5028, 2009.
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Improvisation on 'Isa Lei' (National Anthem of Fiji).
A.Ivashkin, cello. Kim Halliday, folk guitar from Cook Islands (1:48)
Bach Pacificus. with Kim Halliday and Ora Barlow (Polynesian nose flute, Polynesian drums) (3:29)
Recorded in Auckland, New Zealand
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 Alfred Schnittke: Discoveries. Yellow Sound, Dialogue for cello and instrumental ensemble, Variations for String Quartet. Alexander Ivashkin, cello/voice. London: Toccata Classics, 2010. TOCC 0091
- Edison Denisov. The Blue Notebook. Moscow: Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatoire, 2010. SMC CD 0106
Over 20 discs for Melodiya (Russia) and Mobile Fidelity (USA) labels, with the Bolshoi Orchestra Soloists, including World Premieres: - Stravinsky. Chamber Music (Melodiya/Mobile Fidelity MFCD 891)
- Works by Ives, Schnittke, Gubaidulina (Melodiya/Mobile Fidelity MFCD 869)
- Music of Russian Futurism (Popov, Roslavetz, Zhivotov, Mosolov).(Melodiya C 10 25031 009, SUCD, also available on BMG
- Music by Denisov, Schnittke, Gubaidulina (Melodiya/Mobile Fidelity MFCD 869)
- Nikolai Medtner, Piano Quintet (Melodiya C10 14929-30)
- Anton Rubinstein. Melody and other pieces. With the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky conducting. Melodiya, C10 25177 003
Regular Radio and TV recordings/broadcasts: - BBC 2, BBC 4, BBC Radio 3, Classic FM (London)
- CBC (Canada)
- ABC (Australia)
- Concert FM (New York City, USA)
- Radio Netherlands
- WDR (Germany)
- Radio Swizzeria Italiana (Switzerland)
- Radio Suisse Romande (Switzerland)
- DRS (Switzerland)
- RTE (Ireland)
- Radio New Zealand Classic FM
- TV New Zealand
- Radio Orpheus (Moscow, Russia)
- Russian Federation State TV ( Moscow)
- The 'Culture' TV Channel (Moscow, Russia)
LIVE RADIO RECORDINGS – excerpts:
Krzysztof Penderecki. Largo (Cello Concerto)
World premiere of the revised version.
With Cape Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Krzysztof Penderecki.
18 December, 2008
Mstislav Rostropovich (1927-2007). Humoresque (sample 0'42'')
Recorded by Radio New Zealand, in Christchurch Studio,
in 1991, with Maurice Till, piano.
Nikolai Korndorf (1947-2001). Concerto Capriccioso for cello and orchestra (sample from the Finale)
World Premiere.
Alexander Ivashkin, cello, Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Andrey Boreyko.
Recorded live by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation at Winnipeg Centennial Concert Hall, 26 January 2004
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 Sofia Gubaidulina. 'The Canticle of the Sun' for solo cello, chamber chorus and percussion instruments, 1997 (sample 4'14'')
Dedicated to Mstislav Rostropovich.
Text by St Francis of Assisi (1181/2-1226).
Alexander Ivashkin, cello, Richard Benjafield, percussion, Chris Brannick, percussion.
BBC Singers, Stephen Cleobury, conductor.
Recorded/broadcasted live by BBC Radio 3 at the festival:
'A Journey of the Soul'. The Music of Sofia Gubaidulina. Barbican Centre, London, January 2007
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With Mikhail Rudy at BBC Radio 3
Rehearsing with Irina Schnittke in Schnittke's Hamburg apartment
Recording session with two Polynesian folk musicians and their instruments. New Zealand, 2006
Cello Duet Natalia Pavlutskaya and Alexander Ivashkin in windy New Zealand
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– July 2001. 
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