Russian Overtures (Pletnev) [2007]

1.Russlan and Ludmilla: Overture by Mikhail Glinka
2.Prince Igor: Overture by Alexander Borodin
3.Festive Overture, Op. 96 by Dmitri Shostakovich
4.Semyon Kotko Suite, Op. 81a: Introduction by Sergei Prokofiev
5.Colas Breugnon, Op. 24: Overture by Dmitri Kabalevsky
6.Tsar's Bride: Overture by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
7.Khovanshchina: Act 1 Prelude "Dawn on the Moscow River" by Modest Mussorgsky
8.Overture in F major by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
9.Overture solennelle, Op. 73 by Alexander Glazunov

Russian National Orchestra
Mikhail Pletnev – conductor

The Prince Igor Overture is warmly played... Shostakovich's Festive Overture...is one of the least ironic, openly exuberant pieces which Shostakovich ever wrote, and it is played with brisk cheerfulness here... Pletnev is at his most successful with the more reflective introduction to Semyan Kotko, and with the beautiful evocation of dawn over the Moscow River that opens Khovanshchina. Tchaikovsky's almost unknown early overture is a curiosity. It is not hard to observe some of the features that were to distinguish Tchaikovsky's style, with hindsight, but who could have had the foresight to see the genius that would charge them? The overture is eloquently played by a conductor and orchestra with much potential. --- John Warrack, Gramophone [12/1994], arkivmusic.com

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