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Joseph Alenin
Posted by Marc Bridle on January 6, 2023, 4:57 pm
Has anyone come across a pianist called Joseph Alenin? I can find no information about him, although he does seem to have made a number of recordings with an orchestra called The St Petra Russian Symphony Orchestra, itself an orchestra that there is no information about. Joseph Alenin, it has been pointed out, is a kind of melding together of Joseph (Stalin) and Lenin we think!
I’m most interested in a Joseph Alenin recording of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto Nr.3 (St Petra Russian SO/Bernardo Kuznetsov). I came across the recording recently writing my survey of the concerto but quickly questioned its authenticity.
I think I have narrowed down the ‘Alenin’ recording anyway to what I know to be a genuine one of the Rach 3. I’m almost certain it’s the recording with Vitalij Berzon and the Leningrad Philharmonic conducted by Alexander Dmitriev (a Russian Legacy CD).
There are, it appears, a lot of Alenin recordings out there.
I'd still be interested to know about him, however!