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SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Monna Vanna (Act 1) & Songs Soile Isokoski (soprano) Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) / Moscow Conservatory Opera Soloists & Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy [ Ondine / CD - released 10/Feb/2015 ] "Ashkenazy and his forces inject considerable dramatic impetus into the music...this is a tantalising disc of a what-might-have-been, Vladimir Avtomonov's rich, fluid baritone bearing the brunt of the action." (Gramophone Awards Issue 2014) |
ALEXANDER MOSOLOV
Mosolov: Symphony No. 5 / Harp Concerto Taylor Ann Fleshman, Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Arthur Arnold [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Dec/2020 ] Alexander Mosolov was one of the foremost composers of the Russian avant-garde during the 1920s. His music was considered 'a testament to the revolutionary spirit of his time', but the legacy of his fame from that period now rests solely on The Iron... |
ALFRED SCHNITTKE / RODION SHCHEDRIN / SOFIYA GUBALDULINA
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Modern Portraits II Vladimir Spivakov (director) / Moscow Virtuosi [ RCA Victor Red Seal / CD - released 1/Dec/1993 ] "The performance is first-rate" Gramophone |
KARL HARTMANN / IGOR STRAVINSKY / KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI / ALFRED SCHNITTKE / SERGEI PROKOFIEV
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Modern Portraits Vladimir Spivakov (violin & director) / Moscow Virtuosi [ RCA Victor Red Seal / CD - released 1/Dec/1990 ] "Cleanly and brightly recorded...recommended.'" Gramophone |
MEREDITH WILLSON
Willson: Symphonies Nos.1 & 2 Moscow Symphony Orchestra, William T Stromberg [ Naxos / CD ] "My three-word description of these scores is tunes, tunes, tunes." Fanfare |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Complete Symphonies National Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Academy Symphony, Mstislav Rostropovich [ Warner Classics / 12 CD Box Set - released 19/Mar/2007 ] Composed over a period of nearly 50 years, Dmitri Shostakovich's 15 symphonies are astonishingly diverse in conception and expression, reflecting the composer's personal experiences, the history of the 20th century and the tensions and struggles of... |
RACHMANINOV
The Bells / John of Damascus, op.1 Mescheriakova - Larin - Chernov / The Moscow State Chamber Choir. Mikhail Pletnev [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 25/Aug/2002 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD NOMINATION 2002: Choral -- Rosette Recording (highest rating) Penguin Stereo Guide |
PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake (complete ballet recorded in 2005) Moscow Classical Ballet / Marina Rzhannikova / Nikolay Chevychelov / Maxim Guerasimov / Alexei Pryadkin / Pavel Salnikov (conductor) [ Decca Music Group Limited / DVD - released 25/Oct/2006 ] G :- A beautiful and authentic staging in the great tradition of Russian classical ballet (including the authentic Russian happy ending!) Featuring the remarkable ballerina Marina Rzhannikova in the demanding double role of Odette/Odile. |
TRADITIONAL
Russian Chants - Easter Liturgy Moscow Liturgic Choir, Father Amvrosy [ Erato / Warner Classics Inspiration / CD - released 10/Apr/2015 ] Tradition in magnificent robes: Easter in Russia is the most important of all religious festivals, surpassing even the splendour of Christmas. People old and young flock to church in order to celebrate Christ's resurrection together in the Eucharist.... |
RACHMANINOV
Piano Trios Moscow Rachmaninov Trio [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 20/Aug/2013 ] "Performances characterised by admirable technical fluency and innate musical quality" The Strad |
GRECHANINOV
Piano Trios The Moscow Rachmaninov Trio [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 1/Mar/2013 ] 'Lovely and fresh-sounding tonal works full of emotional tune-spinning' (Audiophile) |
RACHMANINOV
Piano Trios The Moscow Rachmaninov Trio [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Nov/2000 ] 'Uniformly fine, sensitive and idiomatic playing and sound that alternately carresses and thunders as the music requires, this disc is a bargain even at Hyperion's full imported-from-England price. Of all these fine works it would be impossible to... |
The Moscow State Chamber Choir; Vladimir Minin
Russian Voices-Works by Modest Mussorgsky, Serge Prokofiev, Georgy Sviridov & Sergei Taneyev [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 28/Jul/2003 ] This is a selection of rare pieces by famous masters such as Prokofiev, Mussorgsky and Taneyev, as well as by contemporary composer Georgy Vasilevich Sviridov. The music reveals a range of colors and moods: on the one hand the joy of Russian life, exp... |
GLINKA / DARGOMIZHSKY / TCHAIKOVSKY / RACHMANINOV / BORODIN
The Bolshoi Experience: Highlights from Russian Operas - Volume 1 Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre Moscow, conducted by Alexander Vedernikov [ Pentatone SACD / SACD - released 5/Jul/2006 ] During the eighteenth century, especially at the time of Catherine the Great, Russia enjoyed a lively opera life; however, it was not until the nineteenth century that the national Russian opera was created. |
GEORGE TEMPLETON STRONG
Strong: Orchestral Music Vol.2 Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Adriano [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Oct/2001 ] |
GEORGE TEMPLETON STRONG
Strong: Orchestral Works Vol.3 Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Adriano [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 4/Nov/2002 ] George Templeton Strong was born in New York on 26th May 1856. His father, a lawyer and a friend of Abraham Lincoln, was President of the New York Philharmonic Society. |
SHOSTAKOVICH
Cello Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 Alexander Ivashkin (cello) / Symphony Orchestra of Moscow / Valeri Polyansky [ Ode Records / CD - released 23/Apr/2007 ] ALEXANDER IVASHKIN is one of three Russian cellists (after Mstislav Rostropovich and Natalia Gutman) for whom Schnittke wrote his cello works. |
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... |
DMITRY KABALEVSKY
Kabalevsky: Cello Concertos. Nos 1&2 Alexander Rudin (cello) / Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Igor Golovschin [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Sep/2016 ] "these performances convey the flow and character of the music admirably" (BBC Music) |
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... |
