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Severin von Eckardstein, National of Orchestra of Belgium, Walter Weller - Glazunov: Piano Concerto No.1, Symphony No.5 (2007)

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Severin von Eckardstein, National of Orchestra of Belgium, Walter Weller - Glazunov: Piano Concerto No.1, Symphony No.5 (2007)

Severin von Eckardstein, National of Orchestra of Belgium, Walter Weller - Glazunov: Piano Concerto No.1, Symphony No.5 (2007)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 59:39 | 298 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Fuga Libera | Catalog: FUG521

If ever a Fuga Libera release has been eagerly awaited, sure it is this one: a first recording with orchestra for Severin von Eckardstein, the briliant 1st laureate of the Queen Elisabeth of Belgium Music Competition; the first recording of a radiant National Orchestra of Belgium under its new musical director Walter Weller, a musician who brought so much to the recording industry - as well with his mythic string quartet as with the baton in hand.

Johanna Martzy, Erica Morini, Ferenc Fricsay - Dvořák, Bruch, Glazunov: Violin Concertos (2001)

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Johanna Martzy, Erica Morini, Ferenc Fricsay - Dvořák, Bruch, Glazunov: Violin Concertos (2001)

Johanna Martzy, Erica Morini, Ferenc Fricsay - Dvořák, Bruch, Glazunov: Violin Concertos (2001)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:14:42 | 345 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | Catalog: 0289 463 6512 0

Before the great conductor Ferenc Fricsay died (tragically young at the age of 48 in 1963), he made dozens of brilliant mono and stereo recordings for Deutsche Grammophon. Many of his most significant recordings have been released on CD, though some have already drifted out-of-print (Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra, Mozart Syms 29, 39-41 and Beethoven Syms 3, 5 & 7) and others are only available as expensive imports. This past year there has even been a limited edition boxed set of his music released (in the "Original Masters" series – see my review).

Yevgeny Mravinsky conducts the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra (2007) 12 CD Box Set

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Yevgeny Mravinsky conducts the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra (2007) 12 CD Box Set

Yevgeny Mravinsky conducts the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra (2007) 12 CD Box Set
Beethoven - Shostakovich - Wagner - Mozart - Tchaikovsky - Mussorgsky - Glinka - Glazunov

EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 2.5 Gb | Scans included | Time: 09:57:02
Genre: Classical, Orchestral | Label: Erato | # 2564-69890-5

This compilation covers 20 years of live recordings made by conductor Yevgeny Mravinsky and the then-named Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra for Erato. Mravinsky led that orchestra for nearly 50 years, from 1938 until his death. His last recording was that of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 12, made in 1984, found on Disc 3 here. His interpretations of Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky were highly regarded, so it's not surprising that several of their symphonies are here. There are also symphonies by Mozart and Beethoven in this set; tone poems by Tchaikovsky and Mussorgsky; and orchestral excerpts from operas by Wagner, Glinka, and Glazunov. The final disc contains a rare recording of a rehearsal led by Mravinsky, something few outsiders were ever allowed to witness. Even though he was an elder statesman of Russian music at the time of these recordings, there is still precision and energy in his interpretations.

John Harle, Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields - Saxophone Concertos (1991)

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John Harle, Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields - Saxophone Concertos (1991)

John Harle, Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields - Saxophone Concertos (1991)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 264 Mb | Total time: 71:00 | Scans included
Classical | Label: EMI Classics | # CDC 7 54301 2 | Recorded: 1990

Though the saxophone has never found a regular place in the orchestra it has nevertheless captured the interest of a long line of composers; a square peg doesn't need to fit into any orchestral round hole when it is centre-stage. It is, too, one of the instruments whose technique has been advanced by players of jazz—a field in which John Harle remains active. There are now exponents of awesome ability, worthy of the attention of serious composers such as, in this recording, Bennett—who is also given to crossing the musical tracks.

Gil Shaham, Mikhail Pletnev - Glazunov, Kabalevsky: Violin Concertos (1997)

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Gil Shaham, Mikhail Pletnev - Glazunov, Kabalevsky: Violin Concertos (1997)

Gil Shaham, Mikhail Pletnev - Glazunov, Kabalevsky: Violin Concertos (1997)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 61:58 | 294 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | Catalog: 457 064-2

This is a very enjoyable program of some really worthwhile music. Glazunov's superb violin concerto from 1905 is a conservative, melodic work, but a splendid one whose popularity is definitely well deserved. Gil Shaham's approach is also rather conservative, but in the best sense of the word. The playing is beautifully phrased, warm-toned and romantic, and it is excellently supported by the Russian National Orchestra under Mikhail Pletnev. No, Shaham does not really provide any new insights, but as a library version of the work this is, I assume, possibly the best you could do.

François-Xavier Roth, Les Siècles - Stravinsky: L'Oiseau de Feu; Glazunov, Sinding, Arensky, Grieg: Les Orientales (2011)

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François-Xavier Roth, Les Siècles - Stravinsky: L'Oiseau de Feu; Glazunov, Sinding, Arensky, Grieg: Les Orientales (2011)

François-Xavier Roth, Les Siècles - Stravinsky: L'Oiseau de Feu; Glazunov, Sinding, Arensky, Grieg: Les Orientales (2011)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 277 Mb | Total time: 60:12 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Actes Sud | # ASM 06 | Recorded: 2010

The practice of performing music on original instruments was once the exclusive domain of early music specialists who sought to revive the characteristic sounds of Renaissance, Baroque, and Classical instruments and ensembles scaled to proper size. The so-called "historically informed movement" eventually expanded into re-creating 19th century music, which yielded some ear-opening performances; but this practice soon began to overlap with modern interpretation and instrumentation, so the actual differences between period and modern strings or winds were minimal.

Yuli Turovsky, I Musici de Montréal - Arensky, Glazunov: Concertos (1997)

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Yuli Turovsky, I Musici de Montréal - Arensky, Glazunov: Concertos (1997)

Yuli Turovsky, I Musici de Montréal - Arensky, Glazunov: Concertos (1997)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 243 Mb | Total time: 71:43 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN9528 | Recorded: 1996

Here's a bit of intrigue. The failure of Rachmaninov's First Symphony at its premiere in 1897 is habitually blamed on Glazunov's ineptitude as a conductor. But, by 1907 Rachmaninov had written his Second Symphony, whose instant and continuing success can be attributed to a pervasive melody of enormous emotional power. Why, then, did Glazunov incorporate a motif of striking similarity in the first movement of his 1911 Piano Concerto? Glazunov's tune is paler, less keenly felt, than Rachmaninov's, but is this a homage, an apology, or merely a coincidence? I found it so perplexing that the wistful variations in the second and final movement of the concerto passed by almost unnoticed. But there's not a lot to miss. While some of the harmonies have a smudgy, Broadway sensuality, the easy lyricism is frequently banal.

Maxim Vengerov, Claudio Abbado, Berliner Philharmoniker - Tchaikovsky, Glazunov: Violin Concertos (1996)

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Maxim Vengerov, Claudio Abbado, Berliner Philharmoniker - Tchaikovsky, Glazunov: Violin Concertos (1996)

Maxim Vengerov, Claudio Abbado, Berliner Philharmoniker - Tchaikovsky, Glazunov: Violin Concertos (1996)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 270 Mb | Total time: 54:28 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Teldec | # 4509-90881-2 | Recorded: 1995

Surprisingly this seems to be the only disc coupling what might reasonably be counted the two greatest romantic Russian violin concertos: if Vengerov's reading of the Tchaikovsky emerges clearly as a leading contender among many superb versions, in the Glazunov he gives a warhorse concerto extra dimensions, turning it from a display piece into a work of far wider-ranging emotions. This Tchaikovsky immediately establishes itself as a big performance, not through close placing of the soloist — the balance is forward though not excessively so — but both in the manner and in the range of dynamic of the playing.

Neeme Järvi - Glazunov: The Symphonies (2019)

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Neeme Järvi - Glazunov: The Symphonies (2019)

Neeme Järvi - Glazunov: The Symphonies (2019)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 1.5 Gb | 05:34:07
Genre: Classical | Label: Orfeo

Glazunov’s symphonies are a significant cycle within the Russian symphony, to which similar status should be accorded as the today considerably better-known symphonic cycles by his successors Prokofiev, Myaskovsky or Shostakovich. Like Camille Saint-Saëns in France or Max Bruch in Germany, Alexander Glazunov was a truly progressive, but formally conservative-thinking composer who was not willing to sacrifice the traditional symphonic form to superficial Modernism. It is now time to rehabilitate Glazunov’s symphonies. Whoever studies them intensively will discover some of the finest music of their time and particularly under the wonderful baton of the great Glazunov champion Neeme Järvi.

Stephen Coombs, Martyn Brabbins - The Romantic Piano Concerto Vol. 13: Glazunov & Goedicke: Piano Concertos (1996)

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Stephen Coombs, Martyn Brabbins - The Romantic Piano Concerto Vol. 13: Glazunov & Goedicke: Piano Concertos (1996)

Stephen Coombs, Martyn Brabbins, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra - The Romantic Piano Concerto Vol. 13: Glazunov & Goedicke: Piano Concertos (1996)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 290 Mb | Total time: 65:37 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA66877 | Recorded: 1996

The disc is the thirteenth volume in the famous Hyperion 'Romantic Piano Concerto' series; it also follows on from Stephen Coombs's four-volume set of Glazunov's music for solo piano, meaning that Coombs has now recorded all of Glazunov's music for piano soloist.

Arthur Fiedler and The Boston Pops - Bizet-Shchedrin: Carmen Ballet; Shostakovich: Hamlet; Glazunov: Carnaval Overture (1999)

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Arthur Fiedler and The Boston Pops - Bizet-Shchedrin: Carmen Ballet; Shostakovich: Hamlet; Glazunov: Carnaval Overture (1999)

Arthur Fiedler and The Boston Pops - Bizet-Shchedrin: Carmen Ballet; Shostakovich: Hamlet, incidental music; Glazunov: Carnaval Overture (1999)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 354 Mb | Total time: 67:58 | Scans included
Classical | Label: RCA Red Seal | 09026-63308-2 | Recorded: 1968, 1969

Arthur Fiedler's recording of Shchedrin's Carmen Ballet is excellent in every way. The composer's imaginative rescoring of several sections of Bizet's opera for strings and percussion is a superb reorchestration exploiting a full range of percussion timbre that reveals an incredible array of views of the score that continually delight the listener. The Ballet, composed as a vehicle for his celebrated wife- prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Ballet, Maya Plisetskaya - is an extraordinary orchestration which invites the listener to explore new and very different colors with music originally scored for Bizet's classically constituted orchestra of the opera pit. While the disk also includes the Incidental Music to "Hamlet" by Shostakovich and Glazunov's Carnival Overture, it's the Shchedrin performance that makes the disk worth any price for the listener who values discovering new things in music well known in an earlier guise.

Gennady Rozhdestvensky, USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra - Glazunov: Symphony No. 6, Scenes de Ballet op. 52 (1987)

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Gennady Rozhdestvensky, USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra - Glazunov: Symphony No. 6, Scenes de Ballet op. 52 (1987)

Gennady Rozhdestvensky, USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra - Alexander Glazunov: Symphony No. 6, Scenes de Ballet op. 52 (1987)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 322 Mb | Total time: 68:30 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Melodia | # MEL 46005-2 | Recorded: 1987

While the Symphony No. 6 in C minor, Op. 58, of 1896 by Alexander Glazunov is not the most personally characteristic of his eight completed symphonies – the optimistic Third or the Olympian Fifth are more typical of his confident symphonic aesthetic – it is arguably the most typically Russian of his symphonies. Part of the reason for this is the scoring – violins in octaves above massed brass at its climaxes à la Tchaikovsky and gorgeously colorful woodwind writing in its central movements – part of it is the themes – ardent and powerful with a yearning quality characteristic of fin de siècle Russian symphonies – but most of it is the furious tone of the opening movement.

Gennady Rozhdestvensky, USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra - Alexander Glazunov: Symphony No. 3 (1987)

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Gennady Rozhdestvensky, USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra - Alexander Glazunov: Symphony No. 3 (1987)

Gennady Rozhdestvensky, USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra - Alexander Glazunov: Symphony No. 3; Lyric Poem (1987)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 291 Mb | Total time: 65:03 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Melodia | # MEL 46008-2 | Recorded: 1987

Alexander Glazunov composed his Symphony No. 3 in D major, Op. 33, in 1890. The symphony is dedicated to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and was first performed in St. Petersburg in December 1890 under the baton of Anatoly Lyadov. The symphony is considered a transitional work, with Glazunov largely eschewing the influences of Balakirev, Borodin, and Rimsky-Korsakov inherent in his earlier symphonies for the newer influences of Tchaikovsky and Wagner. Because of this change, the Third has been called the "anti-kuchkist" symphony in Glazunov's output (kuchkist kuchka, the shortened Russian name for the nationalist music group The Five"). He would tone down these new influences in his subsequent symphonies as he strove for an eclectic mature style.

Neeme Järvi, Scottish National Orchestra - Glazunov: From the Middle Ages, Scenes de Ballet; Lyadov: Musical Snuffbox (1990)

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Neeme Järvi, Scottish National Orchestra - Glazunov: From the Middle Ages, Scenes de Ballet; Lyadov: Musical Snuffbox (1990)

Neeme Järvi, Scottish National Orchestra - Glazunov: From the Middle Ages, Scenes de Ballet; Lyadov: Musical Snuffbox (1990)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 267 Mb | Total time: 53:57 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 8804 | Recorded: 1989

While the Middle Ages Suite is interesting, the real gem on this disk is the Scenes de Ballet. In this score, Glazunov matches the pinnacle of ballet music writing that he reached in his ballet The Seasons. Many listeners will recognize some of the numbers in this piece, because they tend to crop up in various "new" ballet productions that are patched together by choreographers such as Peter Maartens and Mikhail Baryshnikov – plus their occasional inclusion in the figure-skating routines presented by those great Russian and Ukrainian skaters every time the Winter Olympics comes around.

Vladimir Fedoseyev, USSR RTV Symphony Orchestra - Alexander Glazunov: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 (1994)

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Vladimir Fedoseyev, USSR RTV Symphony Orchestra - Alexander Glazunov: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 (1994)

Vladimir Fedoseyev, USSR RTV Symphony Orchestra - Alexander Glazunov: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 (1994)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 345 Mb | Total time: 76:12 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Melodia | # MEL 46047-2 | Recorded: 1981

Alexander Glazunov was one of the most important Russian romantic composers, but didn’t belong to the “Mighty Handful” or “The Five”, whose strongly nationalistic tendencies he respected, but did not embrace. Glazunov’s music is of “western” charm, lyricism and inner passion. His symphonies, still somewhat neglected in favour of those of his compatriot Tchaikovsky, are brilliantly orchestrated and full of sweeping romantic grandeur, a true discovery for those not acquainted with these Russian master pieces!