“Recorded under live conditions but without an audience in St Petersburg's Mariinsky Theatre, this Scheherazade is the most red-blooded, exciting account of Rimsky-Korsakov's orchestral warhorse currently available, helped by full, immediate…
"The program, recorded in 1966, includes some of the best performances available in the popular Russian repertoire. Solti was at the top of his form in the rousing opening number, Mikhail Glinka's Russlan and Ludmila overture, as stirring a…
"Borodin's String Quartet No.1 has been overshadowed by the ultra-tuneful No.2, which is indeed a lyrical masterpiece. It's predecessor is not quite that; then again, the Borodin Quartet's state-of-the-art performance of No.1 here s…