Although there are superb recordings of Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky Cantata out in the world, none of them can beat this 1993 recording by Yuri Temirkanov and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic. First, the sound is unbelievably clear and vivid and immediate: there are moments when you'll swear the tympani are in the room with you. Second, the ...
Pianist Nikolay Rubinstein, for whom Tchaikovsky wrote his First Piano Concerto, initially remarked that the concerto was completely unplayable. How ironic that not only was he made to eat his words during his lifetime, but that the concerto has been one of the most widely performed and recorded works in the repertoire. Of course, with that kind ...
Certainly Gergiev is the most passionate and surely Rozhdestvensky is the most ironic and of course Mravinsky was the most magisterial and the most monumental. But when the question is who the greatest living Russian conductor is, the answer is Yuri Temirkanov. He has the technique to do anything he wants with an orchestra. He has the temperament ...
This disc of Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet and his Symphony No. 6 in B minor, "Pathétique," may seem unremarkable, for both works are famous warhorses, and one may wonder what distinguishes this RCA reissue from many other recordings. If the music itself is standard fare, then listeners may hope that some interest lies in the conductor's approach ...
Is this the greatest performance of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 13 ever recorded? Probably not. There are, after all, Kiril Kondrashin's three canonical recordings to consider: his 1965 live recording of the world premiere with the Moscow Philharmonic, his 1967 studio recording also with the Moscow Philharmonic, and his 1982 live recording with ...
Nearly all of RCA's releases in its Red Seal Classic Library series have been reissues. That's fine: RCA has many superlative recordings in its vaults, and reissuing them is the appropriate means to keep them in circulation. But this particular disc of Grieg's orchestral music performed by the Royal Philharmonic under the direction of Yuri ...
For some listeners in the '90s, Yuri Temirkanov was the great conductor of post-Soviet Russian orchestral music. Temirkanov not only had the St. Petersburg (Leningrad Philharmonic) -- the most virtuosic orchestra in Russia -- he had such complete control over it that he could do anything he wanted with it. In this 1992 recording of Tchaikovsky's ...
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