Track listing
10 tracks · 67:25Aram Khachaturian
- 1 Adagio from Spartacus 11:56
Tikhon Khrennikov
- 2 Adagio from Hussar Ballad 7:03
Sergei Prokofiev
- 3 Adagio from Cinderella 6:22
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
- 4 Nocturne from Pan Voyevoda 4:43
Alexander Glazunov
- 5 Entreacte No. 2 from Raymonda 5:14
- 6 Petit Adagio from The Seasons 5:38
- 7 Entreacte No. 3 from Raymonda 6:01
Peter Tchaikovsky
- 8 Panorama from Sleeping Beauty 5:35
- 9 Adagio. Pas d'action from The Sleeping Beauty 8:27
- 10 Pas de deux from The Nutcracker 6:26
About this recording
One of the final recordings by the legendary conductor Evgeny Svetlanov, recorded at the Berwald Hall, Stockholm in May, 1999.
Svetlanov is widely known as the only conductor to have performed ‘all existing Russian orchestral music’. His recordings cover a representative cross-section of his repertoire, including symphonies and other orchestral works by Rachmaninov, Borodin, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov and Glazunov. This album features some of the most beautiful Adagios of Russian orchestral repertoire.
Features
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The artists
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
More than one hundred first-class musicians have the Berwald Hall in Stockholm as their home base. Together they form the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, and since all concerts are broadcast live they also serves as a symphony orchestra for the whole of Sweden.
The high calibre of the ensemble has been developed over the years by a series of prominent principal conductors. Founded in 1936, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra developed into an ensemble of world standard in the 1960s under the leadership of the great Rumanian maestro Sergiu Celibidache (music director 1965-1971). Celibidache was succeeded by Herbert Blomstedt, who led the orchestra from 1977 to 1982. In 1984 the 25-year-old Esa-Pekka Salonen arrived, bringing fresh ideas and innovative repertoire, and ten years later Yevgeny Svetlanov took over the reins. Between 2000 and 2006 Manfred Honeck gave the orchestra a strong Viennese flavour.
Today the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra ranks among Europe's foremost orchestras. During the current artistic leadership of Daniel Harding the orchestra has become one of the most interesting and diverse orchestras in the world, collaborating continuously with leading conductors, soloists and composers.
A strong commitment to contemporary music is clearly reflected in the orchestra's repertoire, and works by Swedish and international composers are frequently commissioned. The orchestra tours regularly in Europe, Asia and elsewhere, appearing at many important concert venues and at major festivals, and is also the backbone of the annual Baltic Sea Festival in Stockholm.