Title: Russian Legends & Dances Artist: Maurice Abravanel Label: Alto Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 5055354414503 Genre: Classical Artists Release Date: 2022-02-18 Number of Discs: 1
"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)
Tracks: 1.1 Rimsky-Korsakov: 'Antar' Suite (Symphony) Op. 9 1.2 Ippolitov-Ivanov: Caucasian Sketches Op. 10 1.3 Glière: The Red Poppy Op. 60 1.4 Khachaturian: Gayaneh Ballet Suite
