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“Abravanel is very good in this music – crackling with energy tempered with tender ways with the great melodies. Antar is a neglected prize among Rimsky’s works ranking with Sheherazade …Caucasian Sketches have These You Have Loved status with Procession of the Sardar establishing the idiom for a thousand Hollywood triumphal and barbarous marches … The Glière is a fun piece that stamps emphatically and clearly influenced by Mussorgsky’s Pictures from an Exhibition.
As an inexpensive single disc collection of less obvious Russian repertoire this is difficult to top. I recommend it strongly.” (Rob Barnett / MusicWeb International)
| Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: ‘Antar’ Suite (Symphony), Op.9 [29:25] |
| [1] I. Largo – Allegro giocoso – Allegretto vivace 11:15 |
| [2] II. Allegro 5:01 |
| [3] III. Allegro risoluto alla marcia 5:20 |
| [4] IV. Allegretto vivace – Andante amoroso 7:47 |
| Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov: Caucasian Sketches, Op.10 [21:59] |
| [5] I. In a Mountain Pass 9:51 |
| [6] II. In a Village 4:43 |
| [7] III. In a Mosque 3:29 |
| [8] IV. Procession of the Sardar 3:54 |
| Reinhold Glière: The Red Poppy, Op.60 |
| [9] Russian Sailors’ Dance 3:27 |
| Aram Khachaturian: Gayaneh Ballet Suite [22:52] |
| [10] I. Sabre Dance 2:35 |
| [11] II. Lullaby 6:08 |
| [12] III. Dance of the Rose Maidens 2:22 |
| [13] IV. Dance of Ayshe 4:13 |
| [14] V. Dance of the Kurds 1:57 |
| [15] VI. Dance of the Young Kurds 2:26 |
| [16] VII. Lesginka 3:07 |
