| Description |
1 audio disc (77 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.. |
| Series |
Berlitz passport
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| Note |
Compact disc. |
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Title on insert cover: The music of Russia. |
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Selections previously released. |
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Booklet (12 p.) includes map, travel highlights and key foreign language phrases, based on Berlitz's world-famous travel guides and phrase books. |
| Performer |
Various orchestras and conductors. |
| Contents |
Sabre dance : from the ballet Gayne / Aram Khachaturian (Philadelphia Orchestra ; Eugene Ormandy) (2:37) -- Polovtsian dance no. 2 : from the opera Prince Igor / Alexander Borodin (Toronto Mendelssohn Choir ; Toronto Symphony ; Andrew Davis) (3:35) -- Troika : from Lieutenant Kijé suite, op. 60 / Prokofiev (Orchestre National de France ; Lorin Maazel) (3:04) -- Two guitars : based on traditional Russian Gypsy folksong (3:19) ; Somewhere my love : Lara's theme / Paul Francis Weber ; Maurice Jarre (2:14) (André Kostelanetz and His Orchestra) -- March : from The love for Three Oranges, op. 33 / Prokofiev (Orchestre National de France ; Maazel) (1:41) -- Finale : finale hymn : from the Firebird ballet suite / Igor Stravinsky (New York Philharmonic ; Leonard Bernstein) (3:26) -- Meadowland, or Cavalry of the steppes : from Symphony no. 4 / Lev Knipper (Philadelphia Orchestra ; Ormandy) (1:50) -- Dance of the tumblers : from The snow maiden / Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (New York Philharmonic ; Bernstein) (3:14) -- Galop : from The comedians suite, op. 26 / Dmitri Kabalevsky (Philadelphia Orchestra ; Ormandy) (1:34) -- Procession of the sardar : from Caucasian sketches, op. 10 / Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov (3:42) ; Russian sailor's dance : from The red poppy / Reinhold Glière (3:25) (New York Philharmonic ; Bernstein) -- Andante cantabile : from String quartet no. 1 in D major, op. 11 / Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Philadelphia Orchestra ; Ormandy) (6:37) -- |
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The great gate of Kiev : from Pictures at an exhibition / Modest Mussorgsky (New York Philharmonic ; Bernstein) (6:04) -- Festive overture, op. 96 / Dmitri Shostakovich (Columbia Symphony Orchestra ; André Kostelanetz) (4:25) -- Marche slave, op. 31 (9:29) ; 1812, festival overture (15:29) / Tchaikovsky (New York Philharmonic ; Bernstein). |
| Note |
GMD: sound recording. |
| Subject |
Music -- Russia.
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| Added Title |
Music of Russia. |
| Music No. |
SFK 47282 Sony Masterworks |
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