CD, Borodin (composer)
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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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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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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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Borodin - Chamber Music
Alexander Mndoiantz (piano) & Alexander Gotthelf (cello), with Alexander Mndoiantz (piano), with Alexander Gotthelf (cello), Alexander Detisov, Alexander Polonsky (violins), Igor Suliga, Alexander Bobrovsky (violas) & Alexander Osokin, Alexander Gotthelf (cellos)
Moscow String Quartet,...
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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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A sizzling account of Borodin's Polovtsian Dances is the centrepiece here. Glinka's Ruslan and Lyudmila Overture is equally electrifying, yet there is tenderness, too, in Musorgsky's Khovanshchina... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Special offer. Leopold Stokowski: Great Recordings from the BBC Legends Archive, Vol. 2
Berit Lindholm, Heather Harper (soprano), Helen Watts (contralto), Alexander Young, Donald McIntyre (bass-baritone), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Band of the Grenadier Guards, John Alldis Choir, Welsh National Opera Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, New Philharmonia Orchestra,...
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There's no doubting the dedication and sheer power of Svetlanov and his orchestra [in the Kalinnikov]. It is slightly too driven in the finale but certainly exciting...Borodin's First is the... —
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