Mar 12, 2009

Romantic Russia

















Mikhail Glinka (1804-1857)
Ruslan and Lyudmila - Overture

Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881)
Khovanschchina - Prelude
(compl. & orch. Rimsky-Korsakov)
Night on the Bare Mountain
(arr. Rimsky-Korsakov)

Alexander Borodin (1833-1887)
Prince Igor - Overture & Polovtsian dances
(compl. & orch. Rimsky-Korsakov & Glazunov)

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Symphony No. 2 in C minor 'Little Russian'*

London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
L'Orchestre de la Sociéte des Concerts du Conservatoire de Paris*
Sir Georg Solti, conductor

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