Borodin
Alexander Borodin (1833-1887) was a Russian composer and chemist, and one of the group known as The Five, who sought to create a distinctively Russian school of composition. Remarkably, he maintained a major scientific career alongside his musical work.
His best-known compositions include the opera Prince Igor, the Polovtsian Dances, two completed symphonies, chamber music and songs. Because composition had to fit ar...
BORODIN Symphony No. 2
STRAVINSKY The Firebird Suite
Recorded 1952
Total duration: 56:24
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Antál Doráti
MUSSORGSKY Sorochyntsi Fair
MUSSORGSKY Night on the Bare Mountain
BORODIN Polovtsian Dances
Studio recordings, 1955 & 1958
Total duration: 2hr 6:09
Slovenian National Opera, Ljubljana
conductor Samo Hubad
Vienna Symphony Orchestra
Der Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, Vienna
conducted by Willem van Otterloo
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 5
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 6, 'Pastoral'
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 6, 'Pathétique'
TCHAIKOVSKY Serenade for Strings
BERLIOZ Roman Carnival Overture
FRANCK Psyché et Éros
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 1
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 8
BRAHMS Symphony No. 4
R. STRAUSS Don Juan
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 4
BRAHMS Symphony No. 2
TCHAIKOVSKY 1812 Overture
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 3 'Eroica'
FRANCK Symphony in D minor
R. STRAUSS Ein Heldenleben
RÖNTGEN Old Netherlands Dances
WAGNER Die Meistersinger - Overture
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 5
DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 9 'From the New World'
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 6 'Pathétique'
R. STRAUSS Death and Transfiguration
BORODIN In the Steppes of Central Asia
SCHUBERT Symphony No. 8 'Unfinished'
SCHUBERT Symphony No. 9 'The Great'
BEETHOVEN The Creatures of Prometheus - Excerpts
BERLIOZ The Damnation of Faust - Excerpts
BRAHMS Tragic Overture
MOZART Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
WAGENAAR Cyrano de Bergerac Overture
Music by VIVALDI, BACH, SCHUBERT, DEBUSSY, VALERIUS, DOPPER, R. MENGELBERG & ANDRIESSEN
Studio recordings, 1937-1943
Total duration: 14hr 18:55
Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam
conducted by Willem Mengelberg
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 5
DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 9 'From the New World'
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 6 'Pathétique'
R. STRAUSS Death and Transfiguration
BORODIN In the Steppes of Central Asia
Studio recordings, 1941/42
Total duration: 2hr 25:28
Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam
conducted by Willem Mengelberg
RACHMANINOV Symphony No. 2 (world première recording)
SCHUBERT Symphony No. 8, “Unfinished”
BORODIN Polovtsian Dances
and works by TCHAIKOVSKY, WAGNER, BRAHMS, J. STRAUSS, SIBELIUS and others
Studio recordings, 1924-28
Total duration: 3hr 0:20
The Cleveland Orchestra
conducted by Nikolai Sokoloff
BORODIN String Quartet No.1 in A major
Recorded July - October 1950
Duration 40:08
Vienna Konzerthaus Quartet