PUCCINI / CILEA / VERDI / DONIZETTI / FRANCK / SCHUBERT / TRADITIONAL
Viaggio Italiano Andrea Bocelli (tenor) / Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra [ Philips / CD - released 8/Nov/1998 ] Viaggio Italiano sees Bocelli perform a concert of famous opera arias and traditional songs. It's an imaginary journey through the melodrama of the Italian opera |
FRANZ LISZT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Liszt: Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2 / Encores Byron Janis (piano) / Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra & Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra [ Mercury Living Presence / CD - released 11/Oct/1990 ] The original 35 mm Magnetic Film recording made on location in Moscow in 1961 & 1962 |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
David Oistrakh Volume 1 (LP) David Oistrakh (violin) Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, Kirill Kondrashin [ Melodiya / LP - released 8/Oct/2014 ] "The world had one of the greatest violinists in the person of David Oistrakh", wrote the prominent conductor Eugene Ormandy. His other fellow musicians - violinists, pianists, composers and conductors - spoke about Oistrakh with as much admiration.... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS CCOLLECTABLE: Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 / Symphony No. 4 Emil Gilels (piano) / Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, Kyrill Kondrashin [ Russian Revelation / CD - released 2/Feb/1997 ] Recorded Feburary 1968 (Op. 37) and 22 March 1945 (Op. 60) |
BORIS PARSADANIAN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Parsadanian: Symphonies Nos 1 & 2 Moscow Radio Symphony, USSR Symphony Orchestra, Evgeni Svetlanov, with Klara Kadinskaya (soprano) [ Russian Compact Disc / CD - released 1/Jan/1994 ] Rare recordings from Russia Recorded 1966 (Sym. 1) and 1969 |
ALEXANDER SCRIABIN
Scriabin: Piano Concerto / Prometheus Konstantin Scherbakov (piano) / Russian State TV and Radio Choir / Moscow Symphony Orchestra / Igor Golovschin [ Naxos / CD - released 10/May/2008 ] "This budget-priced production from the composer's compatriots certainly holds its own against all comers. Konstantin Scherbakov plays the concerto with steel and sensitivity in equal measure, and he's particularly successful in knitting together the... |
TCHAIKOSVKY / BORODIN / DARGOMYZHSKY / GLAZUNOV / LIADOV / PROKOFIEV / SHOSTAKOVICH / etc
Sviatoslav Richter plays Russian Composers (recorded 1945-1963) Sviatoslav Richter (piano) with Nina Dorliak (soprano) / Brno Radio Symphony Orchestra, Wiener Symphoniker, Leningrad Philharmonic, Moscow Youth Symph [ Hanssler Profil / 13 CD Box Set - released 3/Sep/2021 ] "Sviatoslav Teofilovich Richter was born on March 20, 1915 (Julian: March 7) in Zhitomir in present-day Ukraine. His father Teofil (Theophilus) came from a German commercial family. The famous Russian piano teacher Heinrich Neuhaus (of German origin)... |
PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
TchaikovskY: Manfred Symphony, Op. 58 (with Miaskovsky: Cello Concerto in C minor, Op. 66) Alexander Knyazev (cello) / Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio, Vladimir Fedoseyev [ Bel Air Classiques DVD / DVD - released 10/Dec/2013 ] Filmed in one of the most prestigious world concert halls, the Musikverein, in Vienna, this fourth volume concludes a cycle of the concerts by the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra under conductor, Vladimir Fedoseyev. This programme included the... |
PIOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
The Tchaikovsky Cycle Volume I - Symphony No. 1 in G minor "Winter Daydreams" / Francesca da Rimini, Variations on a Rococo Theme (Recorded 1991) Alte Oper Frankfurt / Antonio Meneses (cello) / The Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra / Vladimir Fedoseyev [ Arthaus Musik DVD / DVD - released 16/Jul/2007 ] Hailed by the press as "the definitive video production" of Tchaikovsky's music, this exceptional concert series, recorded live from the Alte Oper Frankfurt, features the leading Russian conductor Vladimir Fedoseyev and the Moscow Radio Symphony... |
PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
The Tchaikovsky Cycle Volume II - Symphony No. 2 in C minor / Eugene Onegin excerpts (Recorded 1991) Alte Oper Frankfurt / Lydia Shernikh / Alexander Nenadovsky / The Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra / Vladimir Fedoseyev [ Arthaus Musik DVD / DVD - released 16/Jul/2007 ] G :-Hailed by the press as "the definitive video production" of Tchaikovsky's music, this exceptional concert series, recorded live from the Alte Oper Frankfurt, features the leading Russian conductor Vladimir Fedoseyev and the Moscow Radio Symphony... |