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Composer:
Nikolai Rimsky Korsakov

Conductor:
Valery Gergiev

Background: This CD marks the first time that Valery Gergiev has recorded any of the featured works'. Gergiev’s dramatic and theatrical conducting style together with his well established working relationship with the Kirov Orchestra, always make for thrilling listening and this recording is no exception.

CATALOGUE NR: 4708402
RECORD LABEL: Philips
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.77
RELEASE DATE: 07-Oct-2002

COMPOSER: Nikolai Rimsky Korsakov  (other composers in brackets after works)
TRACKS: Sheherazade Symphonic Suite op.35: - The Sea and Sinbad's Ship. The Story of the Kalender Prince. The Young Prince and the Young Princess. Festival at Baghdad - The Sea - Shipwreck (Rimsky Korsakov). In the Steppes of Central Asia (Borodin). Islamey (Balakirev).
ORCHESTRA: Kirov Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Valery Gergiev

- Nov-2002 4 star BBC Music Mag. - Nov-2002 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'Edge-of-the-seat playing in a weighty, powerful Sheherazade from St Petersburg' - Penguin Guide 4 star 'Gergiev's Kirov performance is the most exciting, most red-blooded account of Rimsky-Korsakov's orchestral warhorse in many years, electrifying from beginning to end, with sound of a fullness and brilliance never before heard in Russian recordings'

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