Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, Borodin - Orchestral Works
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Label: Australian Eloquence
Cat No: ELQ4822888
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 3rd February 2017
Contents
Artists
London Philharmonic OrchestraOrchestre de la Suisse Romande
Conductors
Walter WellerSilvio Varviso
Works
Symphony no.2 in B minorThe Rock, op.7
Francesca da Rimini, op.32
Artists
London Philharmonic OrchestraOrchestre de la Suisse Romande
Conductors
Walter WellerSilvio Varviso
About
Rachmaninov’s The Rock (also known as ‘The Crag’) was inspired by the eponymous poem by Mikhail Lermontov (‘The little golden cloud slept through the night / On the breast of the giant rock’) but even more by a short story by Anton Chekhov (Along the Way). Borodin put Prince Igor aside to compose his Symphony No.2, and although it is less than 30 minutes long, it took Borodin the better part of six years, starting in 1871, to compose it. It was premiered in February 1877 in St. Petersburg, and remains the most popular of his three symphonies. The rare Varviso recording of it, and its coupling Francesca da Rimini, receive their first release on CD.
‘Varviso’s Latin temperament and opera training make for a plastic style in the phrasing … The slow movement [of the Borodin] is warmly done, and the finale is amiable’ - Gramophone, July 1968
‘[the orchestra plays] with great virtuosity and [Varviso shows] the utmost sympathy with Rachmaninov’s music’ - Gramophone, October 1975
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