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The Best of Glazunov.(Review)
The Best of Glazunov. Igor Golovschin and Alexander Anissimov, Moscow Symphony Orchestra. Naxos 8.556687.
This sampler disc is a steal for about five bucks. It contains over 75 minutes of bits and pieces by Russian composer Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936), performed by the Moscow Symphony Orchestra and taken from a half-dozen different Naxos recordings spanning 1994 to the present. Interestingly, of the two conductors involved, presumably recorded in the same venue, the bits by Igor Golovschin sound the richer, cleaner, and more robust. By comparison, the several pieces by Alexander Anissimov sound a little more lean and raspy. Nevertheless, the sound is quite good by any standards in all the works represented.
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