Borodin
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The Essential Borodin
RecommendedNicolai Ghiaurov (bass), Zlatina Ghiaurov (piano), Borodin Quartet
London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Georg Solti, Edward Downes, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Jean Martinon, Ernest Ansermet
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Building a Library, November 2006, Highly Recommended
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[the Second Symphony's] usually leonine, masculine profile is lightly feminised here...but how the melodies flow, with characterful contributions from first clarinet and horn...Schwarz's players... —
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2011, Orchestral Choice
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I constantly admired his near orchestral range of sonority - his strength in grandiloquence and his hypnotic sustaining power in intimacy. Everything is played with total conviction —
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Mariusz Kwiecien: Slavic Heroes
RecommendedMariusz Kwiecien (baritone)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz
[His signature roles] suggest a certain dashing Italianate quality that's refelcted in his voice: lighter, less rich and chocolatey than some Slavic rivals, for example Dmitri Hvorostovsky.... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 9th January 2012
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Opera, February 2012, Recording of the Month
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The Record of Singing – The Very Best of Volumes 1-4
RecommendedFrom 1899 to the end of the 78 era: 1899-1952
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Gramophone Awards, 1989, Winner - Historic vocal
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Gramophone Awards, 1979, Winner - Historical
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Gramophone Awards, 1986, Winner - Historic vocal
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Finalist - Historic Reissue
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Gramophone Awards, 1977, Winner - Historical
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[Gergiev] bring[s] out Rimsky's crystalline solo textures, such as the passages for solo cello, horn and woodwinds in the first movement. And if tempos are slow in the first three movements,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2002, Editor's Choice
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With complete homogeneity of ensemble, the Borodin Quartet bring out the innate Russian flavour of the music, and the famous Nocturne is all the more convincing in its unsentimental approach. —
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Special offer. Borodin, A.: Symphony No. 2 / In the Steppes of Central Asia / Tchaikovsky, P.I.: Romeo and Juliet
Staatskapelle Dresden, Kurt Sanderling
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[Pictures and Islamey] give him a chance to show off his virtuosity and assured technique...Still, the real interest here resides in the more modest works that come in between...This music may... —
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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 1 in G minor, Op. 13 'Winter Daydreams', etc.
RecommendedLondon Symphony Orchestra & Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati
An absolutely irrepressible version of the little Russian, this hugely stimulating partnership was captured at the very peak of its artistic prowess in this recording, and it still sounds astonishingly... —
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Building a Library, February 2009, First Choice
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Building a Library, January 2017, Also Recommended
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