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Cesar FRANCK / Ernest CHAUSSON
Franck/Chausson: Symphonies Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Jean-Luc Tingaud [ Naxos / CD - released 16/Feb/2024 ] César Franck's only symphony came at a time when the French music world was seeking to rival the great Austro-German tradition. The 'darkness-to-light' narrative of the Symphony in D minor owes a debt to Beethoven and there is a unique power within... |
FELIKSAS BAJORAS
Symphony-Diptych / Violin Concerto / Exodus I Rusne Mataityte (violin) / Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra / Gintaras Rinkevicius [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] A leading representative of 'New Folklorism', the Lithuanian composer Feliksas Bajoras conveys his interest in Lithuanian folk-music in a strikingly individual and personal voice. The Symphony-Diptych, which draws on themes from the composer's opera... |
KARA KARAYEV
Symphony No. 3 / Leyla and Mejnun / Don Quixote Russian Philharmonic Orchestra / Dmitri Yablonsky (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Apr/2009 ] "This is fascinating. Karayev was a pupil of Shostakovich whose music is heavily indebted to the music of his native Azerbaijan. The symphonic poem Leyla and Mejnun won a Stalin prize in 1948. Inspired by the twelfth-century Azerbaijani poet Nizami,... |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Symphony No 7 'Leningrad' Russian Philharmonic Orchestra, Dmitry Yablonsky (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Apr/2004 ] Few symphonies since Beethoven's Fifth have attracted the degree of extra-musical speculation accorded Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony. Although ideas for a Seventh Symphony had begun coming to mind the previous year, the work that emerged has been... |
SHOSTAKOVICH
Symphony No 7 'Leningrad' Russian Philharmonic Orchestra / Dmitry Yablonsky (conductor) [ Naxos SACD / SACD - released 2/Apr/2004 ] Few symphonies since Beethoven's Fifth have attracted the degree of extra-musical speculation accorded Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony. Although ideas for a Seventh Symphony had begun coming to mind the previous year, the work that emerged has been... |
STEPHEN ALBERT
RiverRun / Symphony No. 2 Russian Philharmonic Orchestra / Paul Polivnick [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 18/Apr/2007 ] Stephen Albert’s music is at once traditional and contemporary, lyrical yet powerful and dynamic. He drew inspiration from the rich orchestral palettes of composers such as Stravinsky and Bartók, but his musical language is very much his own. |
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Russian Po/Yablonsky
Karayev: Symphony No 3 [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Sep/2008 ] |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Jazz Suites Nos. 1 And 2 Russian State Symphony Orchestra, Dmitry Yablonsky [ Naxos / DVD-Audio - released 2/Feb/2003 ] DVD audio only |
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOSVKY
Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake (highlights from the complete ballet) Russian State Symphony Orchestra, Dmitry Yablonsky [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Nov/2012 ] Tchaikovsky was ideally equipped to write the music for the ballet Swan Lake. His gift for vivid theatricality, for lively, memorable melodies, and for rich characterisation was allied to a mastery of dance rhythms. These qualities were augmented by... |
PROKOFIEV
Alexander Nevsky / Pushkiniana Russian State Symphony Orchestra / Dmitry Yablonsky (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Jan/2005 ] "Naxos offers a well-planned and by and large admirably executed and recorded disc, to which the 'Dance of the Oprichniks' from Ivan the Terrible makes arousing conclusion." - David Fanning, Gramophone, June 2003 |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Jazz Suites Nos. 1-2 / The Bolt / Tahiti Trot Russian State Symphony Orchestra / Dmitry Yablonsky, conductor [ Naxos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 17/Apr/2005 ] Shostakovich's involvement in popular music came about quite fortuitously, as the result of a bet with the conductor Nikolay Malko, who had given the first performance of the First Symphony in 1926, to orchestrate Vincent Youmans' famous number Tea... |
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOSVKY
Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake (Complete Ballet) Russian State Symphony Orchestra / Dmitry Yablonsky (conductor) [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 10/Jan/2003 ] "Let me say immediately that this new complete Swan Lake is thoroughly recommendable" (Gramophone) |
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PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOSVKY
Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake (Complete Ballet) [SACD version] Russian State Symphony Orchestra / Dmitry Yablonsky (conductor) [ Naxos SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 20/Aug/2011 ] |
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TCHAIKOVSKY / PROKOFIEV / STRAVINSKY / DELIBES / KHACHATURIAN / etc
Great Ballet [10 CD set] Russian State Symphony Orchestra, Dmitry Yablonsky / Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, Andrew Mogrelia / etc [ Naxos / 10 CD Box Set - released 1/Dec/2015 ] This collection starts in France, with one of the most haunting and memorable examples of the ballet form: Giselle. We are then swept along in a whirlwind tour of some of the greatest Russian ballets by such composers as Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky. |
BALAKIREV
Balakirev: Symphony No. 1 / Islamey / Tamara Russian State Symphony Orchestra, Igor Golovschin [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Feb/2003 ] |
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MENDELSSOHN
Elijah, Op. 70 [Elias] (complete, in German) Ruth Ziesak / Claudia Mahnke / Christoph Genz / Ralf Lukas / MDR Symphony Orchestra / MDR Radio Choir / Jun Märkl [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 6/Dec/2010 ] "This is in every way a 'big' Elijah. Climaxes are full-blooded from both orchestra and chorus, and in the narrative sections conductor Jun Märkl brings out the drama with telling use of contrasts in both texture and tempo. Most important of all,... |
MENDELSSOHN
Symphony No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 52 'Lobgesang' Ruth Ziesak / Mojca Erdmann / Christian Elsner / MDR Symphony Orchestra / MDR Radio Choir / Jun Märkl [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Jan/2010 ] Hot on the heels of October's release of Elijah, comes a new recording of Mendelssohn's opulent Symphony No. 2 'Lobgesang'. |
MAHLER
Das Lied von der Erde (Song of the Earth) Ruxandra Donose (mezzo-soprano) Thomas Harper (tenor) / Ireland National Symphony Orchestra / Michael Halasz, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 16/Nov/2004 ] "All in all this is an amazing bargain" - Gramophone |
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Saarbrucken Rso/Lyndon-Gee
Rochberg: Symphony No 2 [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Aug/2005 ] |
GEORGE BOCHBERG
Rochberg: Symphony No.5 / Black Sounds / Transcendental Variations Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra, Christopher Lyndon-Gee [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 2/Jun/2003 ] Rosette - Penguin Guide Recorded: 22-23 March 2002 |
