Russian Connections

Before my trip to Russia, here's a program of music with Russian connections:

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Cossack dance from Mazeppa	   (CD: Tchaikovsky:
		(Cincinatti Symphony			     1812 Overture)
		 Orchestra; Erich Kunzel)

Anton Rubenstein: Piano Concerto No. 3 in G, op. 45	 (CD: Anton Rubenstein:
							  Piano Concertos 3-4)

Sergei Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky			    (CD: Prokofiev:
	The battle on ice				    Alexander Nevsky
		(Montreal Symphony			       / Lt. Kijé)
		 Orchestra; Charles Dutoit)

Alexander Sheremetiev: Nine sili nebesniye

Igor Stravinsky: Ave Maria				     (CD: December
		(Dale Warland Singers; Dale Warland)	       Stillness)

John Tavener: Hymn for the dormition of the mother of	    (CD: Innocence)
	God
		(Choir of Westminster
		 Abbey; Martin Neary)

Krzysztof Penderecki: Izhe xeruvimy (Song of cherubim)	     (CD: December
		(Dale Warland Singers; Dale Warland)	       Stillness)

Beloved city						   (CD: The Legendary
		(Paul Robeson)				     Moscow Concert)

Hammerstein & Kern: Old Man River			   (CD: The Legendary
		(Paul Robeson)				     Moscow Concert)

Song of the Warsaw ghetto rebellion			   (CD: The Legendary
		(Paul Robeson)				     Moscow Concert)

Budashkin: Fantasia on two folk songs			     (CD: Balalaika
		(Osipov State Russian Folk		       Favorites)
		 Orchestra; Vitaly Gnutov)

Gregorio Allegri: Miserere				 (CD: Allegri: Miserere
		(A Sei Voce; Bernard Fabre-Garrus)	    / Mass / Motets)

John Tavener: Hymn to the mother of God 		    (CD: Innocence)
		(Choir of Westminster
		 Abbey; Martin Neary)

Dmitri Shostakovich: Allegretto, op. 34, no. 15 	      (CD: Poème)
		(Lydia Mordkovitch, violin;
		 Marina Grusak-Grin, piano)

Peter Illich Tchaikovsky: Dance of the comedians	     (CD: Balalaika
		(Osipov State Russian Folk		       Favorites)
		 Orchestra; Vitaly Gnutov)

Tchaikovsky: Trépak					       (CD: Sonos
		(Sonos Handbell Ensemble;		   Handbell Ensemble)
		 James Meredith)

Aram Khachaturian: Sabre dance				       (CD: Sonos
		(Sonos Handbell Ensemble;		   Handbell Ensemble)
		 James Meredith)

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Flight of the bumblebee	     (CD: Balalaika
		(Osipov State Russian Folk		       Favorites)
		 Orchestra; Vitaly Gnutov)

Sergei Rachmaninoff: Vocalise, op. 34, no. 14		      (CD: Poème)
		(Lydia Mordkovitch, violin;
		 Marina Grusak-Grin, piano)

Sergei Prokofiev: Peter and the wolf			 (CD: Prokofiev: Peter
		(Itzhak Perlman, narrator; Israel	   and the Wolf, etc.)
		 Philharmonic Orchestra; Zubin Mehta)

Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings			   (CD: Tchaikovsky:
	Finale (tema russo): Andante, Allegro con spirito   Serenade / Barber:
		(Boston Symphony				 Adagio)
		 Orchestra; Charles Munch)

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