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Historical Russian Archives: Gennady Rozhdestvensky | Brilliant Classics 9019

Historical Russian Archives: Gennady Rozhdestvensky

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Label: Brilliant Classics

Cat No: 9019

Barcode: 5029365901925

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 10

Release Date: 14th December 2009

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Artists

Conductor

Gennady Rozhdestvensky

Artists

Conductor

Gennady Rozhdestvensky

About

Gennady Rozhdestvensky is a musician of catholic taste, as this 10CD set illustrates. His discography includes around 800 works! He is capable of freshly considered and immaculately prepared interpretations of Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Tavener, Berwald and Nielsen as well as some of the rarer names included in this set.

However, the Russian repertoire was at the core of his musical life. Among the great recordings of Tchaikovsky, Borodin, Prokofiev and Glazunov, his interpretations of Shostakovich stand out. This set includes Symphonies Nos 1, 4, 7, 9 & 10 as well as works by lesser know contemporary Soviet composers whose music he championed, notably Fleischmann’s ‘Rotschild’s Violin’, completed by Shostakovich.

He is a conductor who’s podium style is undemonstrative – using only the most subtle and economic of gestures, and yet maintaining total control of the orchestra - securing knife edge rhythms, sharp phrases and precision attack. He is without doubt one of the greatest conductors of our time, and Volume 1 of his recordings from Brilliant Classics allows the listener to experience the extraordinary genius of Rozhdestvensky over a characteristically wide and varied range of repertoire.

"The first Soviet conductor of whom it can truly be said that he is a citizen of the world" - John Warrack, BBC Radio 3 (1978)

Contents:
CD 1
Attrib Joseph Haydn
- Cantata Die Erwählung eines Kappellmeisters, Hob XXIVa:11

Johann Sebastian Bach / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Orchestrated Rozhdestvensky)
- Three Preludes and Fugues from K.404a

Christoph Willibald Gluck
- Overture, Echo et Narcisse

Adolphe Adam
- Overture, Danilowa

Luigi Cherubini / François-Adrien Boieldieu
- Overture, La Prisonnière

CD 2
Antonín Dvorak
- Symphony No.2 in B flat Op.4

Robert Volkmann
- Overture, Richard III Op.68

Louis Spohr
- Overture, Faust Op.60

CD 3
Veniamin Fleischmann (Completed Dmitri Shostakovich)
- Rothschild’s Violin

Johann Strauss II (Re-Orchestrated Shostakovich)
- Vergnügungszug: Polka schnell Op.58e [Excursion Train Polka Op.281]

Shostakovich
- Eight British and American Songs

CD 4
Shostakovich
- Symphony No.1 in F minor Op.10
- Five Entr’actes from Katerina Ismailova Op.29/114a
- Overture to Erwin Dressel’s Der arme Columbus Op.23

CD 5
Shostakovich
- Symphony No.4 in C minor Op.43

CD 6
Shostakovich
- Symphony No.7 in C Op.60 ‘Leningrad’

CD 7
Shostakovich
- Symphony No.9 in E flat Op.45
- Suite on Verses of Michelangelo Buonarroti Op.145a

CD 8
Shostakovich
- Symphony No.10 in E minor Op.93
- The Bolt – Suite Op.27a (excerpts)

CD 9
Vissarion Shebalin
- Symphony No.3 in C Op.17

Yuri Shaporin
- The Flea: Suite Op.8

Nikolai Rakov
- Sinfonietta in G minor for Strings
- Symphony No.3 in C for strings, ‘Little Symphony’

CD 10
Amandurdy Agadzhikov
- Concerto-Poem for violin and orchestra

Prince Andrei Volkonsky
- Immobile for piano and orchestra

Sergei Belimov
- Of Water Alive and Dead Concerto for oboe and strings

Leonid Polovinkin
- Telescope II

Alexander Mosolov
- The Foundry (Zavod) Op.19

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