Rachmaninoff 3 & The Rock - Rozhdestvensky

And another one: 

RACHMANINOFF

 

The Rock, Symphonic Poem, Op. 7  

Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 44  

State Symphony Orchestra

Gennadi Rozhdestvensky

Recording: 12 March 1991.

FLAC - Scans

 

Rozhdestvensky conducts Rimski, Taneyev, Arensky

 

I continue with this series of CDs, this time "escaping" from the more usual repertoire. Even Rimski-Korsakov's Third is hardly ever performed, but at least there are some versions on record. I listened to the other two works here for the first time... but I admit that for me these were not great "revelations" :)

RIMSKI-KORSAKOV

Symphony no. 3, op. 32 (revised edition 1886)

TANEYEV

Overture to "Oresteya", op. 6

ARENSKY

March in memory of Suvorov

Grand Symphony Orchestra of All-Union Radio and Television

GENNADI ROZHDESTVENSKY

recordings 1962-1973 (further details in the booklet)

FLAC + Scans

Shostakovich 8 - Alexander Gauk (1959)

 

Returning to the Russia Revelations series to start this year posts, 

here you can find an important DSCH 8 recorded in 1959: 

plus the Festive Overture, composed only five years earlier.

SHOSTAKOVICH

Festive Overture

Symphony no. 8

Grand Symphony Orchestra of  State Radio

ALEXANDER GAUK

October 7, 1959 

FLAC & Scans