Since you are interested in Organ Music from Russia, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
ALEXANDER GRECHANINOV
Grechaninov: Passion Week, Op. 58 Caroline Markham (mezzo-soprano) Paul Davidson (tenor) Bryan Taylor (baritone) / Phoenix Bach Choir / Kansas City Chorale / Charles Bruffy [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Mar/2007 ] "The massed forces of the Phoenix Bach Choir and the Kansas City Chorale make a formidable choral machine…If Grechaninov's music is sentimental in the best sense, this performance has an integrity and honesty to it which I found profoundly... |
SHOSTAKOVICH
Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Op.102 / Symphony for Strings in A flat Op.118a Dmitri Shostakovich Jr. (piano) / I Musici de Montreal / Maxim Shostakovich [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 10/Aug/2007 ] "In the concerto the immediacy of Cd is also exciting, and the touch of hardness that the piano takes on once or twice did not strike me as inappropriate, nor even the slight trace of harshness in the deliberately vociferous tutti in the first... |
ALEXANDER GLAZUNOV
Glazunov: The Seasons; Ballet Op.67 / Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Op.82 Oscar Shumsky (violin) / Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Neeme Jarvi [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 10/Aug/2007 ] "Neeme Jarvi is always at his best in big, splashy Romantic pieces, and this performance is no exception. He whips the orchestra up to a fine frenzy where necessary, and given Chandos's fine sound and a sensible coupling, you're in for some good... |
TANEYEV
Symphony in E minor (No. 1) / Symphony in D minor (No. 3) Russian State Symphony Orchestra / Valeri Polyansky [ Chandos / CD - released 25/Apr/2007 ] 'The performances are of quality and the notes by Anastasia Belina with copious music-type illustrations, exemplary… a highly interesting and valuable disc.' BBC Music Magazine |
GRECHANINOV
String Quartets Vol. 2 Utrecht String Quartet [ MDG / CD - released 20/May/2007 ] |