Download, Borodin (composer)
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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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[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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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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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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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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Special offer. Iván Fischer conducts Borodin & Tchaikovsky
RecommendedBudapest Festival Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno, Iván Fischer
Fischer once again doesn’t disappoint; indeed, he’s brought to light elements of this work, in particular textural detaileven during the loud brass-led sections, the strings can still be heard... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd September 2016
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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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There’s abundant charm, craftsmanship and – in the case of Korsakov’s Cminor epic completed in 1939 by his son-in-law Maximilian Steinberg – ambition…If the three players don’t always pull out... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Special offer. Highlights from Russian Opera - Volume 1
Chorus and Orchestra of The Bolshoi Theatrem Moscow, Alexander Vedernikov