V2: Russian & Soviet Symphonic

Album cover art for upc 4600317024810
Label: MELODIYA
Catalog: MELCD1002481
Format: CD

KOGAN ROSTROPOVICH RICHTER SHCHEDRIN NASEDKIN PETROV KHRENNIKOV BASHKIROV ESHPAI AVDEYEVA REPIN KHOMITSER GR

Melodiya presents the second part of the Anthology of Russian and Soviet Symphonic Music, an anniversary limited collection of recordings of orchestral works by Russian composers of the 19th and 20th centuries. The second part of the Anthology also includes complete recordings of Alexander Glazunov’s orchestral music, symphonic music of Rachmaninoff and Scriabin, Nikolai Myaskovsky's 14 of the composer’s 27 symphonies and cello concerto, recordings of a number of symphonic and instrumental concertos by Dmitri Shostakovich and some of the pieces by Soviet classical composers such as Sergei Prokofiev, Aram Khachaturian and Reinhold Glière. The Anthology includes a symphony by Anatoly Alexandrov, a piano concerto by German Galynin, Symphony No. 4 by Nikolai Peiko, Sinfonietta No. 1 by Mieczyslaw Weinberg and other little know pages of Soviet music – orchestral pieces by Alexandra Pakhmutova, Rostislav Boiko, Alexander Mosolov, Zinovy Kompaneits, Arkady Mazayev and Grigory Zaborov. The set features works by the leading composers of 20th century: Tikhon Khrennikov, Andrei Eshpai and Rodion Shchedrin. The second box set of the Anthology of Russian and Soviet Symphonic Music (55 CDs + a bonus CD) is a lined hard board box with a lid. The edition contains a hardback booklet in four languages (Russian, English, French and German) with illustrations of the cover works of the original releases.

Price: $639.98