Since you are interested in Russian Songs, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
ALLA PAVLOVA
Symphonies Nos. 1 and 3 Mikhail Adamovich (piano) / Valery Brill (cello) / Leonid Lebedev (flute) / Russian Philharmonia Orchestra / Alexander Vedernikov [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Jan/2004 ] "Pavlova paints delicately with the unconventional ensemble, creating a sound-world simultaneously precise but also somehow suspended in dream." (BBC Music) |
Milana Chernyavska, piano / Nicolas Koeckert, violin
Russian and Slavonic Miniatures [ Naxos / CD - released 19/Sep/2005 ] |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Manon Lescaut (highlights from the opera) Miriam Gauci (soprano) / Kaludi Kaludov (tenor) / Henk Lauwers (bass) / Vincente Sardinero (baritone) / Belgian Radio and Television Philharmonic / [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Feb/2005 ] "This 68 minutes of excerpts from Puccini's first great success is an excellent introduction to the opera. We get most of the music for Manon and Des Grieux in Act 1, Manon's second act aria and the big duet, the beautiful Intermezzo (rather... |
W.A. MOZART
The Marriage of Figaro (highlights) Natale de Carolis (baritone) / Donato di Stefano (bass) / Ingrid Kertesi (soprano) / Hungarian State Opera Orchestra / Pier Giorgio Morandi, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Oct/2005 ] Love, seduction, intrigue and comedy provide the confusing situations that has placed Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro among of the most popular of all the comic operas. |
TRADITIONAL
Russian Chant - Divine Liturgy (Sung in Church Slavonic) Novospassky Monastery Choir, Igumen Mitrofan [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Aug/2001 ] a number of the most popular Russian religious-composers are represented |
KARA KARAYEV
Symphony No. 3 / Leyla and Mejnun / Don Quixote Russian Philharmonic Orchestra / Dmitri Yablonsky (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Apr/2009 ] "This is fascinating. Karayev was a pupil of Shostakovich whose music is heavily indebted to the music of his native Azerbaijan. The symphonic poem Leyla and Mejnun won a Stalin prize in 1948. Inspired by the twelfth-century Azerbaijani poet Nizami,... |
FIKRET AMIROV
Shur / Kyurdi Ovshari / Gyulistan Bayati Shiraz / Azerbaijan Capriccio Russian Philharmonic Orchestra / Dmitry Yablonsky [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Apr/2010 ] "Very punchy sound ideal for the music." David's Review Corner, March 2010 |
SHIRO FUKAI
Chantes de Java / Creation / Quatre Mouvements Parodiques Russian Philharmonic Orchestra / Dmitry Yablonsky (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 12/Mar/2006 ] In the second half of the nineteenth century, Japanese westernisation in music led first to an interest in German musical traditions, while the Army Band, on the contrary, took France as its model, with many of its musicians trained in France... |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Hamlet, Op. 116 / 116a Russian Philharmonic Orchestra / Dmitry Yablonsky, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Jul/2004 ] Complete published film score (incorporating the Suite, Op.116a, arranged by Lev Atovmian) |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Hamlet, Op. 116 / 116a Russian Philharmonic Orchestra / Dmitry Yablonsky, conductor [ Naxos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 7/Jul/2004 ] On Hybrid Super Audio CD (SACD) format, presented in full 5.1 surround sound! PLAYABLE ON ANY CD SYSTEM - The director Grigori Kozintsev had been fascinated by Hamlet since the early 1920s. In 1928 he and his co-director Leonid Trauberg met... |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Symphony No 7 'Leningrad' Russian Philharmonic Orchestra, Dmitry Yablonsky (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Apr/2004 ] Few symphonies since Beethoven's Fifth have attracted the degree of extra-musical speculation accorded Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony. Although ideas for a Seventh Symphony had begun coming to mind the previous year, the work that emerged has been... |