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You'll need piano concertos: unfortunately



Toradze/Gergiev is out of print!

Ciaran wrote:

Cheap as chips and very good.

Agreed :-)

Thank you gentlemen. Once again the forum comes up trumps.

Ciaran wrote:
Authentic Russian performances of the symphonies, conducted by Gennady Rozhdestvensky.

I've read some good things about the above and it seems to come highly recommended. I believe its hard to source though. I'll have a look later.

well, just look at what this forum can do when we pull together to help one another! that's really impressive!

I think you'll agree that these days, collectively, the Tir Na members have most bases covered... compare that to where we would have been only 3 years ago, gentlemen... :-))

Jared wrote:well, just look at what this forum can do when we pull together to help one another! that's really impressive!

I think you'll agree that these days, collectively, the Tir Na members have most bases covered... compare that to where we would have been only 3 years ago, gentlemen... :-))

I put it down to the influx of very pleasant foreigners.

Ciaran wrote:


Hair-raising piano sonatas in excellent sound

He's not bluffing!

DaveF wrote:Thank you gentlemen. Once again the forum comes up trumps.

Ciaran wrote:
Authentic Russian performances of the symphonies, conducted by Gennady Rozhdestvensky.

I've read some good things about the above and it seems to come highly recommended. I believe its hard to source though. I'll have a look later.

It's on MDT for about €25 here. The link may not work for long: they're launching a new website shortly.

A few more:

the Naxos Alexander Nevsky isn't half bad.



A very enjoyable Love for Three Oranges with a team from Russian radio (Symphony Orchestra of All-Union Radio) conducted by G. Dalgat in about 1960, with surprisingly good sound but unfortunately no libretto:



I was never that keen on his string quartets until I heard the Pavel Haas Quartet play them: