RUSSIA: ROMANCE & DRAMA

$11.01
Label
ALTO
Release Date
October 12, 2018
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BORODIN, MUSSORGSKY, PROKOFIE
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      London Symphony Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Yuri Ahronoivitch
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 12, 2018
    • UPC
      5055354413711
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      AOTL1371.2
    • LABEL
      ALTO
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. Gayane, Act III: Sabre Dance

      Composer: Aram Khachaturian

      Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Yuri Ahronovitch

    2. Spartacus, Act III: Adagio de Spartacus et Phrygie

      Composer: Aram Khachaturian

      Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Yuri Ahronovitch

    3. Lieutenant Kijé Suite, Op. 60: IV. Troika

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Yuri Ahronovitch

    4. Prince Igor (Knyaz Igor), Act II: Dance of the Polovtsian Maidens

      Composer: Alexander Borodin

      Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Yuri Ahronovitch

    5. Ruslan and Lyudmila: Overture

      Composer: Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

      Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Yuri Ahronovitch

    6. Masquerade Suite: I. Waltz

      Composer: Aram Khachaturian

      Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Yuri Ahronovitch

    7. St. John's Night on Bald Mountain, "A Night on the Bare Mountain" (Original version)

      Composer: Modest Mussorgsky

      Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Yuri Ahronovitch

    8. The Love for Three Oranges Suite, Op. 33bis: III. March

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Yuri Ahronovitch

    9. The Gadfly Suite, Op. 97a: III. Folk Feast (National Holiday)

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Yuri Ahronovitch

    10. Marche slave (Slavonic March), Op. 31

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Yuri Ahronovitch

    11. 1812 Festival Overture, Op. 49

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Yuri Ahronovitch


Ahronovitch is direct and exciting and the title is well borne out by the performances. The recording is brilliant without being aggressively so, and has plenty of weight (with splendid brass sonorities in Night on the Bare Mountain) plus an effective ambience. The Sabre Dance has great energy and the Prokofiev March from Love for three oranges is nicely pointed, and it includes favourites such as the BBC TV Onedin Line theme - the Adagio from Spartacus. In short, this is excellent value and does much to recommend the L.S.O series."(Gramophone). (Tchaikovsky): "recording spectacular, and the balance truthful... fusillade of canon at the end of '1812' is impressively realistic" (Penguin Guide)