Borodin: Symphonies Nos. 1-3
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ALEXANDER BORODIN
Borodin: Symphonies Nos. 1-3
Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz
[ Naxos / CD ]
Release Date: Wednesday 20 July 2011
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"This is glorious music, played with character and vitality."
(The Daily Telegraph)
"Three cheers to the Seattle Symphony for championing Borodin's symphonies, particularly in such fresh, lithe performances...Gerard Schwarz shows how virile the symphonies are, and how worthwhile it can be to explore other areas of the Romantic Russian repertoire than the usual Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff...This is glorious music, played with character and vitality."
(The Daily Telegraph)
A new recording of key Russian Romantic repertoire, Borodin's symphonies exude lyricism and panache.
The First took five years to complete but is a work of seamless melodic invention owing something to Mendelssohn, whose influence infuses it with delicious lightness. The Second Symphony is a more explicitly Russian work, pulsing with festive and march-like elements, high-spirited and boldly nationalistic. The Third was left incomplete, and was reconstructed and orchestrated by Glazunov with considerable facility and imagination.
Tracks:
Symphony No. 1 in E flat major
Symphony No. 2 in B minor
Symphony No. 3 in A minor (unfinished) orch. Glazunov
