This album was recorded live in DSD 128fs on November 11 and 13, 2014, at the Barbican in London.
Performer Biography
Valery Gergiev, the conductor on this album, won the Herbert von Karajan Conductors' Competition at age 24 and made his Mariinsky Opera debut a year later.
Composer Biography
Sergei Rachmaninov's First Symphony was so poorly received by critics that it caused him to lose confidence and seek hypnotherapy to compose again.
Cultural Impact
Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto gained global fame after being used as the soundtrack for the classic film "Brief Encounter."
Composer Biography
Mily Balakirev, a composer known for inspiring a truly Russian style of music, abandoned his musical life for five years after a nervous breakdown, finding solace in the Russian Orthodox Church.
Performer Biography
Valery Gergiev was the first Russian conductor since Tchaikovsky in 1891 to open the Carnegie Hall season with the Mariinsky Orchestra.
Composition History
Balakirev's "Russia" (Second overture on three Russian themes) is based on three folksongs he heard during his travels along the Volga river.
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