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Russian Avant-Garde Music - works by Edison Denisov, Sofia Gubaidulina, Alfred Schnittke / Rozhdestvensky

1 CD / Melodiya / 2013-05-14

Conductors: Rozhdestvensky, Gennady
Ensemble: USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra

This amazing release features a concert that has not only great artistic value, but also historic significance. It was the first and arguably the last...continue...

Mussorgsky: The Marriage; The Nursery / Gennady Rozhdestvensky

1 CD / Melodiya / 2013-05-14

Conductors: Rozhdestvensky, Gennady
Ensemble: Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra; USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra

In 1868, inspired by Dargomyzhsky's work on the opera The Stone Guest (based on Pushkin's tragedy of the same name), Mussorgsky decided to compose his...continue...

Igor Stravinksy: Le Baiser de la Fée / Rozhdestvensky (rec. 1966)

1 CD / Melodiya / 2013-04-09

Conductors: Rozhdestvensky, Gennady
Ensemble: Great Symphony Orchestra of the All-Union Radio and Television

Hans Christian Andersen' s fairytale The Ice Maiden was taken as a basis for the libretto of Le baiser de la fée, a ballet that...continue...

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 8 / Rozhdestvensky, London PO

1 CD / London Philharmonic Orchestra / 2013-03-26

Works: Dmitry Shostakovich: Symphony no 8 in C minor, Op. 65
Conductors: Rozhdestvensky, Gennady
Ensemble: London Philharmonic Orchestra

Shostakovich's Eighth Symphony is a powerful work and today stands not only as a chilling reminder of some of the darkest days of the 20th...continue...
Recording information: Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall, London (10/30/1983)....continue...

Essential 20th Century Classics - Over 2 hours of captivating modern classics

2 CD / EMI Classics / 2013-01-22

Works: Sergey Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet; Joaquín Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez; Aram Khachaturian: Spartacus; Edward Elgar: Concerto for Cello; Sergey Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini; C...
Performers: Beniston, Paul; Bloch, Nikolaj; Bowers-Broadbent, Christopher; Currie, Colin; Devos, Louis; Donohoe, Peter; du Pre, Jacqueline; Fischer-Dieskau, Manuel; Gibson, Simon; Gilchrist, Jane; Hendricks, Bar...
Conductors: Previn, Andre; Rattle, Simon, Sir; Temirkanov, Yuri; Barbirolli, John; Ozawa, Seiji; Prêtre, Georges; Penderecki, Krzysztof; Rozhdestvensky, Gennady; Kaljuste, Tönu; Metzmacher, Ingo; B...
Ensemble: ; Ensemble Modern (Frankfurt)

Essential 20th Century Classics is a 2-CD set featuring a collection of important works written between 1901 and 2000. This period is sometimes thought of...continue...

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 "Lenningrad" / Rozhdestvensky, USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra

1 CD / Melodiya / 2013-01-08

Works: Dmitry Shostakovich: Symphony no 7 (as used in the film "Testimony")
Conductors: Rozhdestvensky, Gennady
Ensemble: USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra

Melodiya presents a recording of Dmitri Shostakovich's famous opus, performed by one of the best interpreters of his music. Composed in the first months of...continue...
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Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto; Rococo Variations / David Oistrakh, violin; Mstislav Rostropovich, cello

1 CD / Melodiya / 2012-11-13

Works: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Concerto for Violin in D major, Op. 35; Variations for Cello and Orchestra on a Rococo theme, Op. 33
Performers: Oistrakh, David; Rostropovich, Mstislav
Conductors: Kondrashin, Kirill; Rozhdestvensky, Gennady
Ensemble: Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra; USSR State Symphony Orchestra

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Tchaikovsky: The Oprichnik / Vassily Savenko, Elena Lassoskaya, Vladimir Ognovenko, Vsevolod Grivnov. Rozhdestvensky

3 CD / Brilliant Classics / 2012-10-30

Conductors: Rozhdestvensky, Gennady
Ensemble: Orchestra del Teatro Lirico di Cagliari

This live recording of one of Tchaikovsky's least known operas, in fact his earliest surviving complete opera, is bursting with full-blooded Russian voices that spin...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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Prokofiev: Ballets / Rozhdestvensky, et al [8 CDs]

8 CD / Melodiya / 2012-10-09

Conductors: Rozhdestvensky, Gennady


Works:

CD: 1-2 Tale of the Stone Flower op. 118 4 acts, 9 scenes MEL CD 10 00816.
CD: 3 Le Pas d”Acier op. 41

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Mahler: Das Klagende Lied; Janacek: The Fiddler's Child / Cahill, Baker, Tear, Howekk / Rozhdestvensky

1 CD / ICA Classics / 2012-09-25

Works: Gustav Mahler: Das klagende Lied, cantata for soloists, chorus & orchestra; Leos Janácek: The Fiddler's Child (Sumarovo Díte), ballad for orchestra, JW 6/14
Performers: Baker, Janet, Dame [Mezzo-soprano Vocal]; Cahill, Teresa; Dekany, Bela; Howell, Gwynne; Tear, Robert
Conductors: Rozhdestvensky, Gennady
Ensemble: ; BBC Symphony Orchestra

Rozhdestvensky was the first Russian conductor to perform and record all Mahler's symphonies in his country. Das klagende Lied is performed here live. The ICA...continue...

Tchaikovsky: Cherevichki / Valerij Popov, Ludmila Semciuk; Albert Schagidullin; Ekaterina Morosova

3 CD / Brilliant Classics / 2012-07-31

Conductors: Rozhdestvensky, Gennady
Ensemble: Orchestra del Teatro Lirico di Cagliari

In spite of its lukewarm reception, Tchaikovksy considered his eighth full-length opera, Cherevichki, his "finest work." Indeed, the work is filled with luminous orchestral writing,...continue...

Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition / Giulini - Chicago SO

1 CD / Deutsche Grammophon / 2012-07-24

Works: Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (Kartinki s vïstavski), for orchestra, orchestrated by Ravel; Night on Bald Mountain (Noch' na Lïsoy gore), symphonic poem, edited by Rimsky-Kor...
Performers: Sporsen, Torgny
Conductors: Giulini, Carlo Maria; Maazel, Lorin; Järvi, Neeme; Knussen, Oliver; Rozhdestvensky, Gennady
Ensemble: ; Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Pictures at an Exhibition is an imaginative series of musical tableaux inspired by an art exhibition. Originally composed as a piano suite, it wasn't published...continue...