Historical Russian Archives: Gennady Rozhdestvensky (2009)

The first Soviet conductor of whom it can truly be said that he is a citizen of the world’ John Warrack BBC Radio 3 1978 Gennady Rozhdestvensky is a musician of catholic taste as this 10CD illustrates. His discography includes around 800 works! He is capable of freshly considered and immaculately prepared interpretations of Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Tavener, Berwald and Nielsen as well as some of the rarer names included on CD1 if this set.

However, the Russian repertoire was at the core of his musical life. Among the great recordings of Tchaikovsky, Borodin, Prokofiev and Glazunov, his interpretations of Shostakovich stand out. This set includes symphonies Nos.1, 4, 7, 9 & 10 as well as works by lesser know contemporary Soviet composers who music he championed, notably Fleischmann’s ‘Rotschild’s Violin’ completed by Shostakovich.

He is a conductor who’s podium style is undemonstrative – using only the most subtle and economic of gestures, and yet maintaining total control of the orchestra securing knife edge rhythms, sharp phrases and precision attack. He is without doubt one of the greatest conductors of our time, and Volume 1 of his recordings from Brilliant Classics allows the listener to experience the extraordinary genius of Rozhdestvensky over a characteristically wide and varied range of repertoire.




Tracklisting:

CD1
01. Haydn - Die Erwahlung eines Kappellmeisters -1. Der Chor, den das Schicksal g… / 1:20
02. Aus allen unseren Sohnen / 3:40
03. Weisester Apollo / 1:41
04. Ein’ Stimme ohne Witz, ein’ Nadel ohne Spitz / 6:28
05. Die Wissenschaft ist schon / 1:59
06. Aus Pindus Berg herunter flie?t / 4:25
07. Wie trefflich stimmet alles zusamen / 4:58
08. Ju, he, he, a peu pres / 0:37
09. Schweiget, nasse Pippenbruder / 1:42
10. Es leb’ der echte Musensohn / 1:55
11. Bach arr. Mozart - Three Preludes and Fugues - Adagio / 4:42
12. Fugue / 3:49
13. Adagio / 3:45
14. Fugue / 2:56
15. Adagio / 3:55
16. Fugue / 3:21
17. Gluck - Narcisse et Echo – Overture / 6:36
18. Adam - Danilowa – Overture / 8:12
19. Cherubini - La Prisonniere – Overture / 8:19



CD2
01. Dvorak - Symphony No.2 - Allegro molto / 18:47
02. Poco adagio / 15:59
03. Scherzo: Allegro con brio / 13:59
04. Allegro con fuoco / 13:32
05. Volkmann - Richard III – Overture / 11:54
06. Spohr - Faust – Overture / 3:40



CD3
01. Fleischmann / Shostakovich - Rothschild’s Violin - The Wedding Band / 1:22
02. What are you playing? / 1:18
03. This small town is worse than a village / 4:15
04. Band Music / 1:57
05. Do you remember, Yakov? / 2:42
06. God had given us a little girl / 1:47
07. Band Music – Make that trumpet merrier! / 1:08
08. Down here on earth / 2:53
09. Rothschild runs away / 1:18
10. Loss: One coffin for Marfa Ivanova / 7:15
11. If they could live without hatred or evil / 2:04
12. It’s better to die / 4:22
13. Be kind to me, don’t hit me! / 1:32
14. Rothschild plays the violin / 4:34
15. Strauss II - Express Train Polka / 1:56
16. Shostakovich - British and American Folk Songs - Blow the wind southerly / 3:17
17. When we were first acquent / 2:37
18. Billy Boy / 1:35
19. Oh! the Oak and the Ash / 3:17
20. Servants of King Arthur / 1:43
21. Coming thro’ the Rye / 2:00
22. Come Lasses and Lads / 1:58
23. When Johnny comes marching home / 2:12



CD4
01. Shostakovich - Symphony No.1 - Allegretto – Allegro non troppo / 8:16
02. Allegro – Meno mosso / 4:11
03. Lento – Largo – Lento – / 9:27
04. Allegro molto – Lento – Allegro molto / 9:33
05. Festive Overture Op.96 / 5:57
06. Mournful-Triumphal Prelude in Memory of the Stalingrad Heroes / 2:34
07. Entractes from Katerina Ismailova - Scenes 1–2: Allegretto / 2:18
08. Scenes 2–3: Allegro con brio / 2:14
09. Scenes 4–5: Largo (Passacaglia) / 8:23
10. Scenes 6–7: Allegretto / 1:43
11. Scenes 7–8: Presto / 2:07
12. Der arme Columbus – Overture / 3:38



CD5
01. Shostakovich - Symphony No.4 - Allegro, poco moderato – Presto – Tempo I / 27:06
02. Moderato, con moto / 9:20
03. Largo – Allegro / 28:39



CD6
01. Shostakovich - Symphony No.7 - Allegretto / 26:04
02. Moderato (Poco allegretto) / 9:37
03. Adagio / 16:24
04. Allegro non troppo / 16:27



CD7
01. Shostakovich - Symphony No.9 - Allegro / 5:05
02. Moderato / 7:04
03. Presto / 2:52
04. Largo / 4:07
05. Allegretto – Allegro / 6:40
06. Suite on Verses by Michelangelo Buonarrotti - Truth / 5:03
07. Morning / 3:02
08. Love / 4:12
09. Separation / 2:51
10. Anger / 1:36
11. Dante / 3:40
12. To the Exile / 4:14
13. Creativity / 2:37
14. Night / 4:27
15. Death / 5:01
16. Immortality / 4:02



CD8
01. Shostakovich - Symphony No.10 - Moderato / 22:09
02. Allegro / 4:10
03. Allegretto / 12:12
04. Andante – Allegro / 12:11
05. The Bolt – Ballet Suite - Introduction / 5:07
06. The Bureaucrat’s Dance / 2:27
07. Intermezzo / 2:59
08. The Conciliator / 2:23
09. Drayman’s Dance / 2:11




CD9
01. Shebalin - Symphony No.3 - Allegro assai / 9:29
02. Andante / 8:00
03. Vivo assai / 4:22
04. Andante – Allegro assai / 11:29
05. Shaporin - The Flea – Suite - Moderato assai / 2:40
06. Andante con moto / 2:40
07. Andantino / 2:36
08. Andantino / 1:14
09. Tempo di valse / 0:51
10. Moderato / 2:55
11. Rakov - Sinfonietta for string orchestra - Allegro moderato / 5:06
12. Allegretto grazioso / 3:08
13. Vivo / 2:49
14. Andante sostenuto / 4:18
15. Allegro con fuoco / 3:50
16. Symphony No.3 - Allegro moderato / 2:45
17. Andante / 4:09
18. Vivo / 1:30
19. Andante sostenuto – Allegro / 2:53



CD10
01. Agadzhikov - Concerto-Poem for violin and orchestra / 13:49
02. Volkonsky - Immobile for piano and orchestra / 11:00
03. Belimov - Concerning Water, Dead and Alive - Concerto for oboe and strings / 8:02
04. Polovinkin - Telescope 2 - Suite for orchestra / 14:38
05. Mosolov - Iron Foundry / 2:52



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