Yevgeny Svetlanov - Russian Moods (1997)

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Title: Russian Moods
Year Of Release: 1997
Label: Melodiya
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (image+.cue,log,scans)
Total Time: 02:29:57
Total Size: 710 Mb
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Tracklist:

CD 1:
Eduard Napravnik (1839-1916):
Melancholy, op.48 no.3
Night Intermezzo
Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881):
Dawn at the Moskva River
Dance of the Persian Maidens
Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936):
Lyrical Poem in D flat major
Alexander Borodin (1833-1887):
Petite Suite (orch.: Glazunov)
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908):
At the Tomb, op.61
Anton Arensky (1861-1906):
Intermezzo in G minor, op.13

CD 2:
Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943):
Vocalise, op.34 no.14
The Rock, op.7
Anatoli Liadov (1855- 1914):
Eight Russian Folk Songs for Orchestra, op.58
Musical Snuff-Box, op.32
Vasili Kalinnikov (1866-1901):
Serenade in G minor for String Orchestra
Mili Balakirev (1837-1910):
Suite in D minor in Four Pieces by Frédéric Chopin

Performers:
SSR Symphony Orchestra
Yevgeny Svetlanov - conductor

An appealing collection of short Russian orchestral works in recordings dating from 1965 to 1990. The performances are idiomatic, with plangent brass and bassoons, while Svetlanov unfolds the structure of each piece with a sure and certain hand. Many rewarding discoveries among the rarer pieces, including Glazunov’s surprisingly powerful Lyrical Poem, two miniatures by the Czech-born Eduard Nápravník, an influential figure in St Petersburg’s musical life for more than fifty years, and Balakirev’s suite of Chopin arrangements. George Hall