

Despite a sonic soundstage that places the orchestra and soloist in a position akin to viewing celestial beings from the wrong end of a telescope,

This convenient program brings together Anton Arensky’s three charming suites for orchestra, all of them vintage examples of Romantic Russian music. The spirit of the

Following on Valery Gergiev’s decent traversal of Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky with the Kirov Orchestra for Philips comes yet another all-Russian attempt to do justice to

Dmitry Yablonsky’s new Swan Lake recording represents one of the few instances in which Naxos breaks its general policy of non-duplicating repertoire. Yet there’s significant
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