Russian State Orchestra - Various: Russian Adagios

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Item: Russian State Orchestra - Various: Russian Adagios - CD

Artist: Russian State Orchestra
Title: Various: Russian Adagios
Music: Classical Orchestral
Format: CD
Number Of Items: 1
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Label: Brilliant Classics

Item Weight (kilo): 0.09
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A collection of famous Russian Adagios, some well-known (Tchaikovsky, Khachaturian), some true discoveries (Miaskovsky, Khrennikov)

Nobody captures the Slavic warmth, passion and bittersweet melancholy better than the great, legendary Russian conductor Evgeny Svetlanov and his wonderful Russian Sate Orchestra.

The apparently innate Russian genius for composing soulful melodies, combined with the influence of 200 years of Russian ballet, has resulted in a repertoire of dramatic and opulent scores

Opera, symphonies, concertos, songs and chamber works from Russian composers are all infused with the spirit of Mother Russia – her suffering, her dramatic and eventful history, her people and their way of life

This collection of heartfelt adagios includes famous excerpts from Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker and The Sleeping Beauty, and Glazunov’s Raymonda, Prokoviev’s Cinderella and the famous adagio from Spartacus by Khachaturian

There are some rarer pieces as well – Rimsky-Korsakov’s Nocturne ‘Moonlight’ from his opera Pan Voyevoda and Khrennikov’s Hussar Ballad, as well as the wistful slow movement from Miaskovsky’s last symphony (No.27), written after he had been denounced by Stalin’s henchmen as being guilty of ‘Western Formalism’ (a charge levelled by Khrennikov)

Miaskovsky composed this work as he was ill with the cancer that would eventually kill him, and through it he harks back to the Russia of Tchaikovsky’s music – a nostalgic and dignified farewell in the face of Stalin’s tyrannical ignorance.

Tracklisting:
Russian Adagios
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840-1893
1 Pas De Deux: Adagio (the Nutcracker) 6’10
2 Pas D’action: Adagio (the Sleeping Beauty) 7’57
Nikolai Rimsky-korsakov 1844-1908
3 Nocturne: ‘moonlight’ (pan Voyevoda) 5’02
Alexander Glazunov 1865-1936
Raymonda
4 Act I: Intermezzo 5’44
5 Act Iii: Intermezzo 6’00
Aram Khachaturian 1903-1978
6 Adagio (spartacus) 12’07
Sergei Prokofiev 1891-1953
7 Adagio Of Cinderella And The Prince (cinderella) 5’31
tikhon Khrennikov 1913-2007
8 Adagio (the Hussar Ballad) 7’36
Nikolai Miaskovsky 1881-1950
9 Symphony No.27 Op.85 - Ii. Adagio 16’37
total Time: 72’46


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