Alexander Rudin, Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Igor Golovschin - Glazunov: Works for Cello and Orchestra (1999) CD-Rip

One of the most felicitous musical discoveries I have made this year( others include Leopold Kozeluch's exquisite Clarinet Concerto No 1 in E flat major and Anton Reichenauer's Cello Concerto in D minor ),this CD further restores Glazunov to the front rank of Russian composers.The Concerto Ballata is a late work and was dedicated to Casals.It's very Elgarian in mood and melody,the tribute to Gogol was written twenty-two years earlier and is marked by a sombre opening which is characteristically Russian before coming to a grandiose climax.The Homage to an anonymous hero is an early work(subtitled,very appropriately,"Elegie")completed before the composer was twenty.The "Chant du menestrel",written in 1900,is also rather poignant.The "Two Pieces for cello and orchestra" date from the late 1880s and are delightfully orchestrated.Time for further re-appraisal of Glazunov the composer rather than the toper.Anyone who admires Glazunov's work will get enormous pleasure from this disc,as will anyone unfamiliar with this composer who courted unpopularity and controversy but whose works speak for themselves.