Tag: Alexander Glazunov
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Russian Horn Music
Check out our latest YouTube video featuring Russian Horn Music from our Northern Flowers collection! Featuring Gliére, Glazunov and more performed by Marie-Luise Neunecker, it is some of the best music written for the instrument! Add it to your streaming library!
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Glazunov: Symphony No. 8, Raymonda Ballet Selections, Mazurka in G, Finnish Fantasy
Alto returns to international availability Evgeny Svetlanov’s groundbreaking recording go Glazunov’s final symphony coupled with highlights from the ballet Raymonda and two symphonic miniatures.
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Fritz Kreisler: Encores, Arrangements, Compositions 1926-1938
Fritz Kreisler became the early 20th Century’s first world-celebrity violinist. Today he is remembered not only for the remarkable tone he achieved but also as composer, arranger and promoter of so many beloved works for violin. In the early years, he recorded his own compositionas and arrangements for His Master’s Voice and Victor Records, with…
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Michael Rabin on The Bell Telephone Hour – The Complete Broadcasts, Vol. 1: 1950-1954
Michael Rabin’s short life and career are one of the saddest stories in the history of classical music. Fortunately, he left behind enough splendid recordings – for Columbia Masterworks and Capitol/Angel/EMI – that document the extravagant praise his playing received during his all-too-brief life. Rabin made frequent appearances on the radio, in particular on a…
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Saxophone Concerti and Quartets
Virtuoso saxophonist Detlef Bensmann plays concerto masterpieces for the instrument along with chamber music for saxophone played by the Berlin Saxophone Quartet.
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Russian Horn Music: Concertos & Quartets
“a first-class collection which (was) obscure only because its virtues had not been ‘trumpeted’… Neunecker is a musician of outstanding musicality and technical brilliance. Snap it up while it is available” –Rob Barnett, MusicWeb
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Glazunov: String Quartets Nos. 3 and 5, Music from “The Fridays”
“I commend this inexpensive disc to explorers of the string quartet who know and love their Smetana and late Dvořák Quartets.” – MusicWeb “Glazunov’s string quartets contain attractive music. … a successful reconciliation between the two traditions of Borodin and Tchaikovsky.” – Gramophone “… one is tempted to believe [Quartet No. 5] is the finest…
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David Oistrakh – Violin Masterclass
10CD deluxe clamshell box including 24 Concertos, two Sonatas (Devil’s Trill etc), Scottish Fantasia, and many short Encores
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Rostropovich Plays Concertos and Encores
“The [Prokofiev] performance is an eloquent one, and Rostropovitch’s playing shows his beautiful tone and masterly technique … a very faithful recording, a true balance of tone between soloist and orchestra.” – Gramophone Saint-Saens: “The best performance of all, however (and best recording) is that of Rostropovich – more fanciful altogether, and backed up by…
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The Young Richter Live – Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Liadov, Borodin, Glazunov, Scriabin
During his lifetime, legendary pianist Sviatoslav Richter’s reputation was built on early studio recordings and, more and more from the 1960s onward, live recordings that captured the sound of an virtuoso whose formidable technique summoned insightful and formidable interpretations in a wide repertoire. Starting in the mid-1990s, Leslie Gerber launched a CD series focusing on…
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Russian Romantics
“This disc includes the first recording of Glinka’s own violin version of his viola sonata (1825), of which only two movements survive. It is a beautiful piece, its slow movement beautifully sustained here. Udagawa’s sound is pure and sweet; Glinka’s Mazurka, originally a piano piece, works beautifully, Udagawa’s double-stopping a delight (think Heifetz).” –Classical Music
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Great Russian String Quartets
(Borodin) “movement-by-movement comparison makes it clear that …the Borodins win hands down … their internal balance at every point is irreproachable (Gramophone) (Glazunov): “reconciliation between the traditions of Borodin and Tchaikovsky … Shostakovich Quartet have great feeling for this music and play with real conviction” (Penguin Guide); (Tchaikovsky): “their earlier recordings (as here) are unassailable…
