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Russian Overtures & Orchestral Works | Newton Classics 8802037

Russian Overtures & Orchestral Works

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Label: Newton Classics

Cat No: 8802037

Barcode: 8718247710379

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 4th January 2011

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Contents

Works

Glinka
Ruslan and Ludmila: Overture

Borodin
Prince Igor: Overture

Shostakovich
Festive Overture Op.96

Prokofiev
Semyon Kotko Suite Op.81a: Introduction

Kabalevsky
Colas Breugnon Op.24: Overture

Mussorgsky
Khovanshchina: Act 1 Prelude, ‘Dawn on the Moscow River’

Tchaikovsky
Overture in F

Glazunov
Overture solennelle Op.73

Liadov
Baba-Yaga

Liadov
The Enchanted Lake Kikimora

Tcherepnin
La Princesse lontaine: Prelude

Tcherepnin
The Enchanted Kingdom: Prelude

Rimsky-Korsakov
Tsar’s Bride: Overture

Rimsky-Korsakov
The Golden Cockerel (Le coq d’or): Suite

Artists

Russian National Orchestra

Conductor

Mikhail Pletnev

Works

Glinka
Ruslan and Ludmila: Overture

Borodin
Prince Igor: Overture

Shostakovich
Festive Overture Op.96

Prokofiev
Semyon Kotko Suite Op.81a: Introduction

Kabalevsky
Colas Breugnon Op.24: Overture

Mussorgsky
Khovanshchina: Act 1 Prelude, ‘Dawn on the Moscow River’

Tchaikovsky
Overture in F

Glazunov
Overture solennelle Op.73

Liadov
Baba-Yaga

Liadov
The Enchanted Lake Kikimora

Tcherepnin
La Princesse lontaine: Prelude

Tcherepnin
The Enchanted Kingdom: Prelude

Rimsky-Korsakov
Tsar’s Bride: Overture

Rimsky-Korsakov
The Golden Cockerel (Le coq d’or): Suite

Artists

Russian National Orchestra

Conductor

Mikhail Pletnev

About

A stunning double CD of Russian music from Mikhail Pletnev and the Russian National Orchestra that includes a mix of the familiar and the not so familiar.

Liadov’s exquisite miniature tone poems and Glinka’s effervescent overture to Ruslan and Ludmila rub shoulders with a rare Tchaikovsky overture and two preludes by Tcherepnin.

All the composers here had a deep knowledge and respect for the traditional music of Mother Russia, and every work on these discs has the unmistakable sound of Russia, irrespective of whether it was composed under the Tsarist or Soviet regime.

Pletnev is at his most successful with the more reflective introduction to Semyon Kotko, and with the beautiful evocation of dawn over the Moscow River that opens Khovanshchina. Tchaikovsky's almost unknown early overture is a curiosity. It is not hard to observe some of the features that were to distinguish Tchaikovsky's style, with hindsight, but who could have had the foresight to see the genius that would charge them?’ - Gramophone, December 1994

Recordings made in 1993/94.

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