[ Double Decca / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Wednesday 2 June 2004
"Ashkenazy's (1st) many delights come richly, thanks not only to the quality of the RPO playing but also to the warm (1992) digital recording."
(Penguin Guide)
*** Three Stars Penguin Stereo Guide
"Ashkenazy's (1st) many delights come richly, thanks not only to the quality of the RPO playing but also to the warm (1992) digital recording."
(Penguin Guide)
"What makes this extended programme especially attractive is the inclusion of the whole of the Second String Quartet. The performance by the eponymous Borodin String Quartet is masterly in every respect."
(Penguin Guide)
"The Decca engineers have produced sound consistently satisfying, full and brilliant"
(Gramophone)
Prince Igor: Overture
London Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti
Prince Igor: 'Greshno tait, ya skuki ne lyublyu' (Galitzky's Aria)
Nicolai Ghiaurov (bass)
London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Edward Downes
Prince Igor: 'Zdorov-li, Knaz?' (Konchak's Aria)
Nicolai Ghiaurov (bass)
London Symphony Orchestra, Edward Downes
Prince Igor: Polovtsian Dances and Chorus
London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Georg Solti
For the Shores of Your Distant Homeland
Nicolai Ghiaurov (bass), Zlatina Ghiaurov (piano)
Symphony No 1
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy
Symphony No 2
London Symphony Orchestra, Jean Martinon
Symphony No 3 (unfinished)
L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet
String Quartet No 2 in D
Borodin Quartet
In the Steppes of Central Asia
L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet