Balakirev - Symphony no.2, In Bohemia, Overture on Russian Themes, etc. | Alto ALC1429

Balakirev - Symphony no.2, In Bohemia, Overture on Russian Themes, etc.

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Label: Alto

Cat No: ALC1429

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 11th June 2021

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“an attractive piece [Symphony no.2] - I am inclined to think the Svetlanov account is finer (than) Rozhdestvensky … Svetlanov plays with great élan, driving the Cossack scherzo on, and drawing almost risky sweetness from the orchestra in the Andante. …the USSR orchestra has much to recommend it: their strings certainly have greater sonority and weight though the brass and wind are not always to Western tastes … some of the material of the scherzo was actually intended for the First Symphony. Yet the ideas are very engaging … [Overture:] In some ways the most striking is the Overture … beautifully orchestrated, with a lucidity which owes much to Glinka and even outdoes him. It should be better known to us” - Gramophone

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