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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
I Met You, My Love: Old Russian Romances (sung in Russian) Dmitri Hvorostovsky (baritone) / Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Style of Five, Constantine Orbelian [ Delos / CD - released 1/Jan/2002 ] I met you, my love is a collection of Russian romances sung by the incomparable baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky, whose career has heretofore been devoted almost exclusively to opera. Mr. Hvorostovsky is accompanied on the recording by the combined... |
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KHATCHATURIAN
Cello Concerto / Concerto-Rhapsody Dmitry Yablonsky (cello) / Moscow City Symphony Orchestra / Maxim Fedotov [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Mar/2010 ] The Naxos series devoted to the orchestral music of Aram Khachaturian continues with his two works for cello and orchestra. The Cello Concerto, whose brooding emotional unease did not endear it to the authorities at a difficult time for Soviet... |
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TCHAIKOVSKY
The Snow Maiden, Op. 12 (complete incidental music) Elena Okolysheva (mezzo-soprano) / Arkady Mishenkin (tenor) / Moscow Capella / Moscow Symphony Orchestra / Igor Golovchin [ NAXOS / CD - released 18/Oct/2009 ] Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Capella, Igor Golovschin |
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RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Rimsk-Korsakov - Pan Voyevoda, Suite; Sadko, Op. 5; Overture on Russian Themes, Op. 28; May Night (Overture) Elena Okolysheva, mezzo-soprano / Moscow Symphony Orchestra / Igor Golovschin, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jun/2005 ] Powerful orchestral music from one of Russias greatest orchestrators! |
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FRITZ BRUN
Brun: Complete Orchestral Works Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Bratislava Symphony Orchestra, Adriano [ Brilliant Classics / 11 CD Box Set - released 1/May/2019 ] "...if you have yet to explore the music of this Swiss master, this release affords a very reasonably priced way of immersing yourself into the gorgeous musical world of Fritz Brun." Fanfare |
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ALEXANDER GLAZUNOV
The Best Of Glazunov Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Ilya Kale (violin), POlish National Radio Symphony Orchestra [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jan/2001 ] Glazunov, a pupil of Rimsky-Korsakov, received encouragement also from Belyayev, an influential patron and publisher whose activities succeeded and largely replaced the earlier efforts of Balakirev to inspire the creation of national Russian music.... |
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ALEXANDER GLAZUNOV
Glazunov: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2 - The Kremlin / From the Middle Ages / Poeme Lyrique / Poeme Epique Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Konstanstin Krimets [ Naxos / CD ] "The Moscow Symphony players show real feeling for the orthodox choruses and bellsongs of The Kremlin's middle movement…" Gramophone |
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Golovchin/Moscow So
Rimsky-Korsakov:ivan The Terri [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Dec/2000 ] |
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ALEXANDER SCRIABIN
Scriabin: Symphony No. 1 in E major, Op. 26 / etc. Mikhail Agafonov (tenor), Lyudmila Ivanova (mezzo-soprano) Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Capella, Igor Golovschin [ Naxos / CD ] "With the Kondrasgin-trained Igor Golvschin in charge, this fine new recording - the first of what I hope will be a complete cycle - provides a serious challenge both to older Soviet-era accounts and more modern Western competition from Muti and... |
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TCHAIKOVSKY / RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker & Rimsky Korsakov: Christmas Eve Suite Prunella Scales (narrator), Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Michael Halasz, Igor Golovschin [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Oct/2000 ] Narrated version with Prunella Scales |
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KORNGOLD
Sea Hawk (The) / Deception Irinia Romishevskaya / Moscow Symphony Chorus and Orchestra / William Stromberg [ Naxos Film Music Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Jul/2007 ] "This isn't just essential for Korngold or film score collectors--this release also is perfect for mp3 players, long car trips, or any activity that needs a nice big chunk of orchestral music to while away an hour or two. If this isn't an... |
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XENAKIS / FORNES / BERIO
Works for Violin and Orchestra Irvine Arditti (violin) / Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra / Jonathan Nott [ BIS / CD - released 1/Apr/1996 ] "Three works for violin and orchestra by Mediterranean composers, the first two written in the early 90s for the spectacular skills of Irvine Arditti...Corale is glorious stuff, really - a benchmark of 20th Century concertante music - and it should... |
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BACH / SCHNITTKE / SHOSTAKOVICH
Piano Concertos Ksenia Bashmet (piano) / Moscow Soloists / Yuri Bashmet [ Quartz / CD - released 25/Mar/2008 ] Russian pianist Ksenia Bashmet, rising star and daughter of the legendary viola player and conductor Yuri Bashmet makes her solo debut on Quartz, performing two major 20th century Russian concertos - Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No 1 and Alfred... |
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TCHAIKOVSKY / PROKOFIEV
Piano Concertos Terence Judd (piano) / Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Alexander Lazarev [ Chandos / CD - released 21/May/2001 ] |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Complete Organ Works Konstantin Volostnov (on the Röver organ (1898) of the Moscow Central Church of Evangelical Christians-Baptists) [ Naxos / CD - released 24/Nov/2023 ] In contrast to the grand scale and public profile of his orchestral and choral works, Johannes Brahms saw the organ as an instrument 'for home use', and one in which he confided his most intimate feelings. |
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GYORGY SVIRIDOV
The Snowstorm / Pushkin's Garland / (Three) Choruses Large Symphony Orchestra of Moscow [ Alto / CD - released 1/May/2016 ] (Snowstorm) "Sviridov created music for the film that was epic, romantic, tinged with nostalgia and above all, tuneful, which illustrated superbly his love for Russia, its history and its cultural heritage. Snowstorm was massively successful... |
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TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 6 & Nutcracker Suite Large Symphony Orchestra of the Ministry of Culture, Russian Federation, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky / Moscow State Symphony, Pavel Kogan [ ALTO / CD - released 1/Nov/2010 ] "As I have often felt with Rozhdestvensky's recordings, their warm, easy spontaneity...suggests sessions where the aim was to communicate immediately and warmly in a near equivalent to live performance" Gramophone Magazine |
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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... |
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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 |