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The Royal Edition - Russian Orchestral Music / Bernstein
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Details
- Composer
- PROKOFIEV, SERGEI
- Artist
- Leonard, Bernstein
- Format
- CD
- Discs
- 1
- Label
- Sony Masterworks
- Released
- Feb 10, 2010
- Catalog #
- SONY47607
- UPC
- 074644760729
About
Bernstein's charisma is effectively demonstrated in a collection of Russian music... [P]redictably energetic...are Glinka's Ruslan and Ludmilla Overture and Glière's Russian Sailors' Dance from The Red Poppy... But the highlights are lyrical, with Bernstein suitably atmospheric in a fine account of Borodin's In the steppes of Central Asia and giving a coolly poised reading of the beautiful Prelude to Khovantschina of Mussorgsky (with glowing orchestration from Rimsky-Korsakov).
-- Gramophone [7/1985]
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...Prokofiev's Scythian Suite, which [Bernstein] does well; I have not heard all the other available recordings but I should imagine that none surpasses this one in brilliance of colour, excitement and virtuosity.
-- Gramophone [10/1969, reviewing the original LP release of the Scythian Suite]
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These very popular examples of colourful Russian music are very well played and recorded in a style to emphasise brightness, thus enabling us to hear clearly some of the inner parts that are sometimes obscured.
-- Gramophone [12/1967, reviewing the original LP release of the Glinka, Mussorgsky, and Ippolitov-Ivanov works]
-- Gramophone [7/1985]
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...Prokofiev's Scythian Suite, which [Bernstein] does well; I have not heard all the other available recordings but I should imagine that none surpasses this one in brilliance of colour, excitement and virtuosity.
-- Gramophone [10/1969, reviewing the original LP release of the Scythian Suite]
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These very popular examples of colourful Russian music are very well played and recorded in a style to emphasise brightness, thus enabling us to hear clearly some of the inner parts that are sometimes obscured.
-- Gramophone [12/1967, reviewing the original LP release of the Glinka, Mussorgsky, and Ippolitov-Ivanov works]