Orchestral, 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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[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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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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Special offer. Antal Doráti: The Mercury Masters
RecommendedThe Mono Recordings
Antal Dorati, Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
this is a special release because of the importance of these Mercury recordings in the history of symphonic music in America. The majority of the material (22 of the 31 CDs) has never been released... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023, Shortlisted - Box Set of the Year
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Historical
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31 CDs
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The performance [of Pictures] is forthright and effective, without competing with the finest versions already available. But it’s the other major work on Krichel’s disc – George Enescu’s Second... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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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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Borodin: Symphony No. 2 in B minor, etc.
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky
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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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