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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...

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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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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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...

Holst: The Planets; Britten: Variations & Fugue on a Theme of Purcell / Rozhdestvensky

1 CD / ICA Classics / 2012-02-28

Works: Gustav Holst: The Planets, Op. 32/H 125; Benjamin Britten: The Young person's guide to the orchestra
Conductors: Rozhdestvensky, Gennady
Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

Gennadi Rozhdestvensky (b.1931) is the last living survivor of a great Russian quartet of conductors consisting of Mravinsky, Kondrashin and Svetlanov. He was the highly...continue...

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 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...

Anthology of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Vol. 6: 1990-2000

14 CD / RCO Live / 2011-10-11

Works: Béla Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle, Op. 11/Sz 48; Concerto for Piano no 3, Sz 119; Gustav Mahler: Symphony no 5 in C sharp minor; Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no 6 in F major, Op. 68 "Pastor...
Performers: Argerich, Martha [Piano]; Barainsky, Claudia; Brautigam, Ronald; Hamelin, Marc-Andre [Piano]; Komlosi, Ildiko; Kovacs, Kolos; Laurendeau, Jean; Masseurs, Peter; Murray, Ann; Shelton, Lucy [Soprano Vo...
Conductors: Fischer, Iván; Tennstedt, Klaus; Sawallisch, Wolfgang; Berglund, Paavo; Chailly, Riccardo; Dutoit, Charles; Solti, Sir Georg; Previn, Andre; Skrowaczewski, Stanislaw; Jansons, Mariss; Haitink, B...
Ensemble: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

The Anthology of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra is a recorded history of six decades of performances by the Concertgebouw Orchestra, taken from broadcasts contained in...continue...

Shostakovich: The Nose, The Gamblers / Rozhdestvensky, et al

2 CD / Melodiya / 2011-08-09

Works: Dmitry Shostakovich: The Gamblers, opera, for 6 male voices & orchestra (unfinished); The Nose, opera, Op. 15
Performers: Akimov, Eduard; Anisimova, Nina; Barteneva, Irina; Belykh, Valery; Boiko, Anatoly; Braim, Alexander; Bugrova, Maria; Druzhenkova, Yelena; Druzhinin, Boris; Kiseleva, Alla; Kurpe, Nikolai; Lomonosov, ...
Conductors: Rozhdestvensky, Gennady
Ensemble: Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra; Moscow Chamber Opera

The Very Best of Mstislav Rostropovich

2 CD / EMI Classics / 2011-07-26

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Suite for solo cello no 1 in G major, BWV 1007; Franz Joseph Haydn: Concerto for Cello no 1 in C; Concerto for Cello no 2 in D; Ludwig van Beethoven: 12 Variations in F on 'Ein...
Performers: Carrington, Simon; Dedyukhin, Alexander; Devetzi, Vasso; Koch, Ulrich; Oistrakh, David; Percy, Neil; Rostropovich, Mstislav; Shostakovich, Dmitry; Zybtsev, Alexey
Conductors: Rostropovich, Mstislav; Szell, George; Giulini, Carlo Maria; Bernstein, Leonard; Rozhdestvensky, Gennady; Karajan, Herbert von; Britten, Benjamin; Numajiri, Ryusuke; Sargent, Malcolm, Sir
Ensemble: ; Cleveland Orchestra; London Philharmonic Orchestra

1967 Carnegie Hall Marathon / Rostropovich, Rozhdestvensky, et al

6 CD / Doremi / 2009-10-13

Works: Edward Elgar: Concerto for Cello; Dmitry Shostakovich: Concerto for Cello no 2 in G major, Op. 126; Walter Piston: Variations for cello & orchestra; Boris Tchaikovsky: Partita for cello, piano, harps...
Performers: Adams, Glynne [viola]; Perlman, Itzhak; Rostropovich, Mstislav
Conductors: Rozhdestvensky, Gennady; Foss, Lukas [Composer]

At Carnegie Hall in 1967, Mstislav Rostropovich presented 30 cello concertos in eight concerts organized by impresario Sol Yurok. This 6-CD set includes 22 of...continue...

Shostakovich: Symphonies no 12 & 6; Strauss Jr. / Rozhdestvensky, BBC SO, et al

25 CD / BBC Legends / 2008-10-14

Works: Dmitry Shostakovich: Symphony no 12 in D minor, Op. 112 "To the Memory of Lenin - 1917"; Symphony no 6 in B minor, Op. 54; Johann Strauss II: Work(s); Vergnügungszug (Excursion Train), polka sch...
Conductors: Rozhdestvensky, Gennady
Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra; Philharmonia Orchestra

This CD contains the first Western performance of Shostakovich's vast Symphony No.12 'The Year 1917' given in the Usher Hall, Edinburgh in 1962 with the...continue...

Portrait of A Legend - Oistrakh

4 CD / BBC Legends / 2007-12-04

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; Eugène Ysaÿe: Amitié, poem, for 2 violins & ...
Performers: Oistrakh, David; Oistrakh, Igor [Violin]
Conductors: Rozhdestvensky, Gennady; Svetlanov, Evgeny; Sargent, Malcolm, Sir; del Mar, Norman; Kondrashin, Kirill
Ensemble: ; Philharmonia Orchestra

"Oistrakh's technique is without question stellar and well-suited to the demands made on him by Shostakovich. But beyond technique and the mere execution of these...continue...

Shostakovich: Symphonies no 1 & 3 / Rozhedstvensky, et al

1 CD / CD Baby Independants / 2007-06-29

Works: Dmitry Shostakovich: Symphony no 1 in F minor, Op. 10; Symphony no 3 in E flat major (The First of May), Op. 20
Conductors: Rozhdestvensky, Gennady
Ensemble: USSR Ministry of Culture State Symphony Orchestra; Yurlov Russian Choir

Rozhdestvensky made his debut at the age of 20. He has make more than 500 recordings covering an enormous range of repertory. The Symphony No....continue...

Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, etc / Rozhdestvensky

1 CD / BBC Legends / 2007-04-24

Works: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a; Dmitry Shostakovich: The Bolt, suite from the ballet, Op. 27a; Igor Stravinsky: Scènes de ballet, for orchestra
Conductors: Rozhdestvensky, Gennady
Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

"Rozhdestvensky is not only a superb ballet conductor -- his years at the Bolshoi in the 60s taught him to keep his tempos inviting and...continue...

Taverner: The Protecting Veil, etc; Britten / Isserlis

1 CD / Virgin Classics Import / 2006-09-12

Works: John Tavener: The Protecting Veil; Thrinos, for cello solo; Benjamin Britten: Suite for solo cello no 3, Op. 87
Performers: Isserlis, Steven
Conductors: Rozhdestvensky, Gennady
Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra

Prokofiev: Symphony no 5, etc; Britten / Rozhdestvensky

1 CD / BBC Legends / 2006-07-25

Works: Sergey Prokofiev: Symphony no 5 in B flat major, Op. 100; Pieces (10) for Piano from "Romeo and Juliet", Op. 75; Benjamin Britten: The Young person's guide to the orchestra; Recorded Sound: Announcem...
Conductors: Rozhdestvensky, Gennady
Ensemble: Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra

This release of Prokofiev Symphony No.5 completes the three BBC stereo broadcasts made from the Proms in 971 which featured Tchaikovsky Symphony No.4 (BBC CD...continue...

Masterpieces Of The Russian Music

1 CD / Deutsche Grammophon Import / 2006-07-13

Works: Mikhail Glinka: Ruslan and Lyudmila; Alexander Borodin: Prince Igor; In the steppes of central Asia; Modest Mussorgsky: Night on the Bare Mountain; Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Festival Ov...
Conductors: Markevitch, Igor; Frémaux, Louis; Maazel, Lorin; Rozhdestvensky, Gennady

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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...

Howells: Missa Sabrinensis, etc / Rozhdestvensky, et al

2 CD / Chandos Records / 2005-09-20

Works: Herbert Howells: Missa Sabrinensis; Stabat Mater, for tenor solo, chorus & orchestra
Performers: Archer, Neill; Hill, Martyn; Jones, Della; Maxwell, Donald [Bass-Baritone Vocal]; Watson, Janice
Conductors: Rozhdestvensky, Gennady
Ensemble: London Symphony Chorus; London Symphony Orchestra

This disc presents classic Chandos recordings of two spectacular choral works by a supreme master of the British choral tradition. Herbert Howell's music is distinctive...continue...

Works for Celo Ensemble

2 CD / EMI Classics Import / 2005-03-01

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Suite for solo cello no 1 in G major, BWV 1007; Ludwig van Beethoven: Variations (12) for Cello and Piano in F major on "Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen", Op. 66; Concerto for P...
Performers: Dedyuhkin, Alexander; Devetzi, Vasso; Oistrakh, David; Richter, Sviatoslav; Rostropovich, Mstislav; Vishnevskaya, Galina
Conductors: Rostropovich, Mstislav; Giulini, Carlo Maria; Bernstein, Leonard; Szell, George; Rozhdestvensky, Gennady; Sargent, Malcolm, Sir; Baudo, Serge; Orchestre de Paris, L'; Karajan, Herbert von
Ensemble: ; Ensemble de violoncelles

"as an overview of the greatest cellist of the second half of the 20th century's EMI recordings, this particular random collection can't bettered... includes Rostropovich's...continue...

Rozhdestvensky, Rostropovich - Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich

1 CD / BBC Legends / 2004-04-27

Works: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Symphony no 4 in F minor, Op. 36; Dmitry Shostakovich: Concerto for Cello no 1 in E flat major, Op. 107
Performers: Rostropovich, Mstislav
Conductors: Rozhdestvensky, Gennady
Ensemble: Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra

The Leningrad Philharmonic is featured together with one of the greatest Tchaikovsky conductors of our time, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky in their first visit to the London...continue...

Stravinsky: Firebird Suite, The Rite of Spring, etc

2 CD / Nimbus Records / 2004-03-02

Works: Igor Stravinsky: L'oiseau de feu (The Firebird), concert suite for orchestra no 1; Le sacre du printemps; Pétrouchka; Symphony in Three Movements
Conductors: Rozhdestvensky, Gennady
Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra

Rostropovich - The Russian Years - Knipper, Vainberg, et al

2 CD / EMI Classics Import / 2000-10-17

Works: Fernando Lopes-Graça: Concerto da càmera; Lev Konstantinovich Knipper: Concerto Monologue for cello, 7 brass instruments and 2 kettledrums; Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Concerto for Cello, Op. 43; ...
Performers: Amintayeva, Aza; Rostropovich, Mstislav
Conductors: Kondrashin, Kirill; Rozhdestvensky, Gennady; Blazhkov, Igor; Toyama, Yuzo
Ensemble: Instrumental Ensemble; Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra; Moscow Radio & TV Symphony Orchestra; USSR State Symphony Orchestra

Langgaard: The End of Time / Rozhdestvensky, et al

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2000-02-22

Works: Rued Langgaard: The End of Time, Concert Piece for soloists, chorus & orchestra; From the Song of Solomon, for 2 soloists, female chorus & orchestra, BVN 381; Interdik I Ribe Domkirke (At the grave o...
Performers: Andersen, Stig Fogh; Pavlovski, Nina; Salo, Per
Conductors: Rozhdestvensky, Gennady
Ensemble: Danish National Radio Choir; Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra

From an increasingly popular Danish composer, Rued Langgaard, comes a Chandos recording of three world premieres. His 'At The End Of Time' and 'From The...continue...

Russian Orchestral Masterworks

7 CD / Nimbus Records / 2000-01-11

Works: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Symphony no 5 in E minor, Op. 64; Serenade for Strings in C major, Op. 48; Romeo & Juliet; Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade; Russian Easter Festival Overture, Op. 36; ...
Performers: Ashton, Graham; Creswick, Bradley; Ives, George; Jones, Martin [Piano]
Conductors: Frühbeck de Burgos, Rafae; Boughton, William; Otaka, Tadaaki; Rozhdestvensky, Gennady
Ensemble: ; BBC National Orchestra of Wales; English String Orchestra; London Symphony Orchestra; Philharmonia Orchestra

The passion, color, and emotional fervor of Russian music shine through in this diverse collection. "Otaka has already done wonders with the BBC Welsh Symphony...continue...

Shostakovich: Moskva, Cheremushki / Rozhdestvensky, et al

2 CD / Chandos Records / 1998-01-20

Works: Dmitry Shostakovich: Moskva, Cheremushki, Op. 105
Performers: Apaikin, Herman; Baturkin, Andrei; Chernykh, Lydia; Gelakhova, Irina; Goujov, Mikhail; Kisselev, Alexander; Lochak, Anatoly; Prokina, Yelena; Rozhdestvensky, Gennady
Conductors: Rozhdestvensky, Gennady
Ensemble: Russian State Symphonic Choir

'Moskva, Cheremushki' marries satire with romance, in a captivating and remarkable comic operaetta by Shostakovich. That this premiere, complete recording of Shostakovich's "Soviet operetta" should...continue...

Langgaard: Music of the Spheres, etc / Rozhdestvensky, et al

1 CD / Chandos Records / 1997-04-22

Works: Rued Langgaard: The Music of the Spheres, for soprano, chorus & orchestra; Tone Pictures (4)
Performers: Sjoberg, Gitta-Maria
Conductors: Rozhdestvensky, Gennady
Ensemble: Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra

Gramophone Classical Music Guide
Music of the Spheres (1916-18) is probably Langgaard's most important - certainly most original - work. So radical did its sonic experiments...continue...

Riisager: Etudes, etc / Rozhdestvensky, Danish National RSO

1 CD / Chandos Records / 1997-03-18

Works: Knudåge Riisager: Etudes for piano, (After Carl Dzerny's piano Studies); Qarrtsiluni, Op. 36; Erasmus Montanus, Op. 1
Conductors: Rozhdestvensky, Gennady
Ensemble: Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra

Russian Concert Band Music / Rozhdestvensky, Stockholm Band

1 CD / Chandos Records / 1996-04-23

Works: Sergey Prokofiev: March in B flat major, Op. 99; Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Variations, for oboe & military band in G minor; Concerto (Concertstück), for clarinet & military band in E flat major; ...
Performers: Kingstedt, Solve; Nilsson, Alf
Conductors: Rozhdestvensky, Gennady
Ensemble: Stockholm Concert Band

Shostakovich: The Limpid Stream / Gennady Rozhdestvensky

1 CD / Chandos Records / 1996-02-20

Works: Dmitry Shostakovich: Limpid stream, Op. 39
Performers: Lanzky-Otto, Ib; Lavotha, Elemer
Conductors: Rozhdestvensky, Gennady
Ensemble: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra

Shostakovich: The Bolt / Rozhdestvensky, Royal Stockholm PO

2 CD / Chandos Records / 1995-03-21

Works: Dmitry Shostakovich: The Bolt, ballet, Op. 27
Performers: Rozhdestvensky, Gennady
Conductors: Rozhdestvensky, Gennady
Ensemble: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra

Stockholm Philharmonic - 75 Years 1914-1989

8 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 1994-09-23

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no 9 in D minor, Op. 125 "Choral"; Leonore Overture no 3 in C major, Op. 72b; Adolf Wiklund: Symphonic Prologue; Wilhelm Stenhammar: Florez and Blanzeflor, Op. 3; Seren...
Performers: Akestedt, Goran; Backelin, Gosta; Barkel, Charles; Berglund, Joel; Berlin, Leo; Bjorling, Sigurd; Brostrom, Tage; Crafoord, Gert; Grunfarb, Josef; Janson, Thore; Krogh, Erling; Lanzky-Otto, Wilhelm; ...
Conductors: Berglund, Paavo; Dorati, Antal; Schmidt-Isserstedt, Hans; Kletzki, Paul; Fricsay, Ferenc; Kleiber, Erich; Abendroth, Hermann; Furtwängler, Wilhelm; Talich, Vaclav; Wiklund, Adolf; Schneevoigt, G...
Ensemble: ; Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra; Stockholm University Chorus

Shostakovich: The Golden Age / Gennady Rozhdestvensky

2 CD / Chandos Records / 1994-02-19

Works: Dmitry Shostakovich: Age of Gold, Op. 22
Conductors: Rozhdestvensky, Gennady
Ensemble: Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra

Gramophone Classical Music Guide
The ballet The Golden Age (1930) depicts an industrial exhibition organised in a capitalist country, at which a group of Soviet sportsmen...continue...

Berg: 7 Early Songs, Der Wein / Lövaas, Hass, Marshall, etc.

1 CD / Deutsche Grammophon / 1993-04-01

Works: Alban Berg: Early Songs (7); Songs (4), Op. 2; An Leukon; Der Wein
Performers: Hass, Sabine; Lovaas, Kari; Marshall, Margaret
Conductors: Rozhdestvensky, Gennady; Blomstedt, Herbert
Ensemble: ; North German Radio Symphony Orchestra; Vienna Symphony Orchestra

Note: This title is rare and is considered a collector’s item. It is priced according to its common market value. If the record label that...continue...