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Shostakovich: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2; Three Fantastic Dances Op. 5 / Cristina Ortiz, piano

1 CD / Brilliant Classics / 2013-02-26

Works: Dmitry Shostakovich: Concerto for Piano no 1 in C minor, Op. 35; Concerto for Piano no 2 in F major, Op. 102; Fantastic Dances (3) for Piano, Op. 5
Performers: Ortiz, Cristina
Conductors: Berglund, Paavo
Ensemble: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

This disc includes the two Piano Concertos; the first was originally intended to be a concerto for trumpet, but during the composition process the piano...continue...
Recording information: 1975....continue...

Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 7, 9 & 10; The Bolt and Michelangelo suites

3 CD / Brilliant Classics / 2012-10-30

Works: Dmitry Shostakovich: Symphony no 7 (as used in the film "Testimony"); Symphony no 9 in E flat major, Op. 70; Suite on Verses of Michelangelo, songs (11) for bass & orchestra, Op. 145a (orchestration ...
Performers: Nesterenko, Evgeny
Conductors: Rozhdestvensky, Gennady
Ensemble: ; USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra; USSR State Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra

To this day Gennady Rozhdestvensky stands as one of Russia's greatest conductors. Here the maestro conducts an all-Shostakovich program, touring the works of that 20th...continue...
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Passacaglia - works by Reger, Buxtehude, Mendelssohn, Couperin, Kerll, Bach, et al. / Matthias Havinga, organ

1 CD / Brilliant Classics / 2012-07-31

Works: Max Reger: Introduction and Passacaglia for organ in D minor; Dietrich Buxtehude: Passacaglia for organ in D minor, BuxWV 161; Felix Mendelssohn: Little Piece (Passacaglia) for organ in C minor [Litt...
Performers: Havinga, Matthias

This original program by organist Matthias Havinga plays on the theme of the passacaglia throughout history: from its formal maturity in the 17th century through...continue...
Recording information: Kotka, Finland (09/16/2010-09/17/2010)....continue...

Rudolph Barshai Conducts Russian Music: Lokshin, Meerovich, Prokofiev, Weinberg et al.

3 CD / Brilliant Classics / 2012-06-26

Works: Dmitry Shostakovich: Symphony no 14 for soprano, bass, strings & percussion, Op. 135; Chamber Symphony in A flat major, Op. 118a (arr. by Robert Barshai from String Quartet No 10); Prelude & Fugue fo...
Performers: Reshetin, Mark; Vishnevskaya, Galina
Conductors: Barshai, Rudolf
Ensemble: ; Moscow Chamber Orchestra

Rudolf Barshai's influence as a conductor of Russian music is hard to overstate. Combining an inexhaustible work ethic with a commitment to perfecting every detail...continue...

Shostakovich: Romances - Song Cycles for Bass & Piano / Peter Gluboky; Natalia Rassudova

1 CD / Brilliant Classics / 2011-11-15

Works: Dmitry Shostakovich: Yunoshu, gorku rïdaya (A girl, sobbing bitterly), Op. 46/2; Romances (6) to verses by English poets, for bass & piano, Op. 62 (orchestrated as Op62a); Monologues (4), for vo...
Performers: Gluboky, Peter; Rassudova, Natalia

Famed today as one of the 20th century's great symphonists, and composer of one of the greatest cycles of string quartets, he was also a...continue...
Recording information: Moscow Conservatory, Moscow, Russia (1994)....continue...

Shostakovich: Symphonies [Box Set]

11 CD / Brilliant Classics / 2011-10-25

Works: Dmitry Shostakovich: Symphony no 1 in F minor, Op. 10; Symphony no 2 in B flat major (To October), Op. 14; Symphony no 3 in E flat major (The First of May), Op. 20; Symphony no 4 in C minor, Op. 43; ...
Performers: Aleksashkin, Sergey; Simoni, Alla; Vaneev, Vladimir
Conductors: Barshai, Rudolf

The complete Symphonies- Shostakovich' music is the music of 20-th century Russia, from the turbulent Revolution, through the horrors of war to the communistic repression....continue...

Historical Russian Archives: Rudolf Barshai Edition / Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Bartok et al. [10 CDs] (live, 1956 - 1974)

10 CD / Brilliant Classics / 2011-10-25

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Art of the Fugue, BWV 1080; Christoph Willibald Gluck: Don Giovanni; Jean-Philippe Rameau: Concerto no 6 in G minor (from 6ème Pièces de clavecin en concerts); Gavott...
Performers: Barshai, Rudolf; Dobrokhotov, Boris; Dokshitzer, Timofei; Korneyev, Alexander; Lill, John; Moreira-Lima, Arthur; Morozova, Irina; Reshetin, Mark; Smirnov, Yevgeny; Vishnevskaya, Galina
Conductors: Barshai, Rudolf
Ensemble: Moscow Chamber Orchestra

The Russian conductor Rudolf Barshai was born in 1924 and studied at the Moscow and Leningrad Conservatories. He quickly became part of a group of...continue...

Russian Archives: Mstislav Rostropovitch plays Russian cello concertos / Glazunov, Khachaturian, Miaskovsky and Prokofiev

3 CD / Brilliant Classics / 2011-10-25

Works: Sergey Prokofiev: Symphony-Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in E minor, Op. 125; Nikolay Myaskovsky: Concerto for Cello in C minor, Op. 66; Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Variations for Cello and Orchest...
Performers: Rostropovich, Mstislav
Conductors: Kondrashin, Kirill; Rozhdestvensky, Gennady; Svetlanov, Evgeny

One of the interesting facts surrounding the incredible number of great Russian musicians born in the Soviet area, is that the overwhelming majority of them...continue...

Russian Archives: Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff / Evgeny Kissin, piano

3 CD / Brilliant Classics / 2011-10-25

Works: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Concerto for Piano no 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23; Dmitry Shostakovich: Concerto for Piano no 1 in C minor, Op. 35; Sergey Prokofiev: Concerto for Piano no 3 in C major, Op. ...
Performers: Kissin, Evgeni; Soustrot, Bernard
Conductors: Gergiev, Valery; Spivakov, Vladimir; Chistiakov, Andrey

Few classical artists have made so spectacular an initial impact upon public - even global - consciousness as the pianist Evgeny Kissin, when in 1984...continue...
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Russian Archives: David Oistrakh / violin concertos by Kabalevsky, Prokofiev, Shostakovich and Taneyev

3 CD / Brilliant Classics / 2011-10-25

Works: Dmitry Shostakovich: Concerto for Violin no 1 in A minor, Op. 77 (published as Op. 99); Concerto for Violin no 2 in C sharp minor, Op. 129; Dmitry Kabalevsky: Concerto for Violin in C major, Op. 48; ...
Performers: Oistrakh, David
Conductors: Mravinsky, Yevgeny; Rozhdestvensky, Gennady; Eliasberg, Karl; Sanderling, Kurt; Kondrashin, Kirill

David Oistrakh is regarded to this day as the greatest violinist to emerge from Russia in the 20th century. Born in Odessa in the Ukraine...continue...

Russian Piano Minatures for Children / Rimma Bobritskaia, piano

1 CD / Brilliant Classics / 2011-07-26

Works: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Album pour enfants, Op. 39; Sergey Prokofiev: Music for Children, Op. 65; Dmitry Shostakovich: Pieces (5) for Children, for piano (arr. by Atovmyan); A Child's Excercise Bo...
Performers: Bobritskaia, Rimma

This rarely recorded repertoire containes pieces composed by famous composers such as Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich and Prokofiev. Skillfully performed by Rimma Bobritskaïa and inspired by children's...continue...
Recording information: Moscow Conservatoire (02/1991)....continue...

Historic Russian Archives - Kissin in Concert

4 CD / Brilliant Classics / 2006-06-06

Works: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Concerto for Piano no 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23; Dmitri Shostakovich: Concerto for Piano no 1 in C minor, Op. 35; Frédéric Chopin: Concerto for Piano no 1 in E...
Performers: Kissin, Evgeni; Soustrot, Bernard
Conductors: Gergiev, Valery; Spivakov, Vladimir; Kitayenko, Dmitri
Ensemble: Academic Symphony Orchestra St. Petersburg; Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra; St. Petersburg Chamber Orchestra

Historic Russian Archives - Oistrakh plays Violin Concertos

10 CD / Brilliant Classics / 2006-06-06

Works: Felix Mendelssohn: Concerto for Violin in E minor, Op. 64; Antonín Dvorák: Concerto for Violin in A minor, Op. 53; Dmitri Shostakovich: Concerto for Violin no 1 in A minor, Op. 77; Conc...
Performers: Oistrakh, David
Conductors: Kondrashin, Kiril; Mravinsky, Eugen; Rozhdestvensky, Gennady; Eliasberg, Karl; Sanderling, Kurt; Yudin, Gabril; Gauk, Alexander
Ensemble: Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra; Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra; USSR State Radio Symphony Orchestra; USSR State Symphony Orchestra

The violinist David Oistrakh is one of those musicians whose fame crossed many borders both physically and in time. He died over 30 years ago...continue...