Alfred Schnittke,
Symphony No. 3
Evgeni Kostitsyn,
Symphony No. 3
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The
USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra
Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, conductor
Kiev Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
National Choir of the Ukraine "Dumka"
Evgeni Kostitsyn, conductor
$19.99 US
Synchronous music is a new style which demonstrates a new method of organization of musical material. Your perception will bounce between different compositions sounding at the same time and this shifting will evoke remarkable emotions and experiences. Synchronous music is perfect to portray the versatile, polyphonic nature of the modern world.
Dmitry Shostakovich
Symphony No. 8, Op. 65
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The USSR TV
and Radio Large
Symphony Orchestra
Vladimir Fedoseyev, conductor
$19.99 US
Symphony No. 8 was composed in 1943 during the siege of Leningrad. Hundreds of thousands of defenders of the former Russian capital were killed by German Nazis, or died from starvation. In Shostakovich's symphony, war’s stern events are imprinted with colossal, tragically generalized force. Fedoseyev lived in Leningrad during the siege. It places his interpretation of the Eighth Symphony by Shostakovich in a special category of personal experiences.
Sergei Prokofiev
Five Concertos for Piano and Orchestra
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Victoria
Postnikova, piano
The USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra
Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, conductor
$24.99 US (2 CD Set)
Prokofiev's works have been categorized as barbaric, eclectic, ironic, romantic, post-romantic and anti-romantic, neoclassical, sarcastic, cosmopolitan, cold, industrial, lyrical, full of adrenaline, epic, schizophrenic... It looks like he cannot perfectly match any box our musicologists have been attempting to put him into. It is interesting, that Prokofiev never was paid mechanical royalties by American publishers and record labels during his lifetime, being discriminated against as a Soviet citizen.
Mikhail Glinka
Orchestral Works
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The USSR Symphony Orchestra
Evgeni Svetlanov, conductor
$19.99 US
The role of Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka in Russian music is comparable to the role of Shakespeare in English literature. Glinka's music represents Russian classicism. It brings an abundance of positive energy, reveals harmony and balance so common to the Russian character.
Mikhail
Glinka: Summer Night in Madrid
Evgeni Kostitsyn: Summer Night in Baghdad
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
Evgeni Kostitsyn:
Seventy Virgins, Military and Funeral Marches
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The
USSR Symphony Orchestra
Evgeni Svetlanov, conductor
The Kostitsyn Symphony Orchestra
Evgeni Kostitsyn, conductor
The USSR TV and Radio Symphony Orchestra
Vladimir Fedoseyev, conductor
$19.99 US
Two summer nights - one in Madrid, another in Baghdad. Two
works inspired by women - Scheherazade and Seventy Virgins. Two marches
- Military and Funeral.