USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra

CD From Hell: Bruckner and the Siege of Leningrad

David Hurwitz

Believe it or not, Rozdestvensky’s Melodiya Bruckner cycle (yes, there […]

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All the Major Prokofiev Ballets in a Box

David Hurwitz

If I had to pick one series of Prokofiev ballets,

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Shostakovch: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3

Victor Carr Jr

This uncommon pairing presents Gennady Rozhdestvensky’s rather stern rendition of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 1 that captures the work’s bitter irony and Mussorgskian pensiveness but downplays

Prokofiev: Piano concertos/Postnikova

Victor Carr Jr

Viktoria Postnikova spreads her prodigious talents evenly over Prokofiev’s most (No. 1) and least (Nos. 4 & 5) popular piano concertos. In the compact No.

Schnittke: Cello concerto/Gutman

Victor Carr Jr

Schnittke’s Cello Concerto is a big, heavy work consisting of two dark and gloomy slow movements followed by a considerably lighter one that ends in

Liszt poems

Victor Carr Jr

I suppose the novelty of hearing Franz Liszt’s tone poems played by a Russian orchestra would generate some interest in these recordings. And indeed, the