Glazunov
Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936) was a Russian composer, conductor and teacher. Born in Saint Petersburg, he showed remarkable gifts as a teenager and became one of the leading figures in Russian musical life.
His works include eight completed symphonies, concertos, ballets, chamber music and orchestral pieces. The Violin Concerto, The Seasons and the ballet Raymonda remain among his best-known scores.
Glazunov’s...
VARIOUS COMPOSERS Short works and excerpts
Recorded by Victor between 1926 and 1928
Total duration: 65:06
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Alfred Hertz
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Ossip Gabrilowitsch
GLAZUNOV Stenka Razin
TCHAIKOVSKY '1812' Overture
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 5
Recorded 1928/9
Total duration: 72:21
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Berlin State Opera Orchestra
Ural Cossacks Choir
conducted by Alexander Kitschin
GLAZUNOV Symphony No. 4
Recorded in 1949
Duration 25:52
Orchestra dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia
Conducted by Jacques Rachmilovich
TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No. 1
RIMSKY-KORSAKOFF Piano Concerto
RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No. 1
RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No. 2
PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No. 1
GLAZUNOV Piano Concerto No. 1
Studio Recordings · 1950-59
Total duration: 2hr 33:34
Sviatoslav Richter, piano
Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra
Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra
Moscow Youth Orchestra
USSR Radio & TV Large Symphony Orchestra
Yevgeny Mravinsky - Kirill Kondrashin - Kurt Sanderling, conductors
BEETHOVEN Cello Sonata No. 3 in A major, Op. 69
GRIEG Cello Sonata in A minor, Op. 36
Short works by BRIDGE, BRUCH, GLAZUNOV, GRIEG, POPPER and SAINT-SAËNS
Studio recordings · 1926-29
Total duration: 79:25
Felix Salmond, cello
Simeon Rumschisky, piano
TCHAIKOVSKY, GLINKA, RIMSKY-KORSAKOV, LIADOV
GLAZUNOV From the Middle Ages
DUBENSKY Stephen Foster – Theme, Variations and Finale
DUBENSKY Fugue for 18 Violins
CESANA Negro Heaven
GERSHWIN-BENNETT Porgy and Bess: A Symphonic Picture
KHATCHATURIAN Gayaneh – Ballet Suite ENESCU 2 Romanian Rhapsodies
DVOŘÁK 4 Slavonic Dances
BRAHMS 3 Hungarian Dances
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 1, 'Winter Dreams'
KALINNIKOV Symphony No. 1
HAYDN L’Isola Disabitata – Overture
HAYDN Symphony No. 73, “La Chasse”
GRIEG Sigurd Jorsalfar – Suite
GRIEG Peer Gynt – Suite No. 2
GRIEG Symphonic Dances
DELIBES Coppélia - Suite
DELIBES Sylvia - Suite
KHACHATURIAN Masquerade - Suite
music by KREISLER, SGAMBATI, WEBER, J. STRAUSS II
Studio recordings, 1941-53
Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Fabien Sevitzky