Evgeny Svetlanov, Philharmonia Orchestra - Mili Balakirev: Symphonies Nos.1 & 2; Symphonic Poems (1998)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 458 Mb | Total time: 59:44+67:44 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDD22030 | Recorded: 1991
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 458 Mb | Total time: 59:44+67:44 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDD22030 | Recorded: 1991
Mily Balakirev was the brilliant, dynamic leader of the group of St Petersburg composers known as ‘The Mighty Handful’ or ‘The Five’, which included, besides himself, Mussorgsky, Borodin, Rimsky-Korsakov and Cui. As well as stimulating these other men, who might never have taken up composition but for him, he was a very fine composer in his own right. Completely lacking in conventional musical training, he had educated himself by studying the works of the Western masters and of his great Russian predecessor, Mikhail Glinka, and he was thus without the preconceived ideas inculcated in conservatoires of music in his day.