Khachaturian - The Masquerade Suite - Kabalevsky - The Comedians - Kiril Kondrashin (Hybrid SACD)
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Aram Khachaturian - Masquerade Suite
Dmitri Kabalevsky - The Comedians
RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra
Kiril Kondrashin, conductor
1 Hybrid SACD
Original analog Master tape : YES
Stereo
Studio
Label : Analogue Productions
Original Label : RCA Victor
Recorded in Manhattan Center, New York City on October 30, 1958 by Lewis Layton
Produced by Richard Mohr
Mastered by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound
Originally released in 1960
Reissued in 2015
Tracks:
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Masquerade Suite
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The Comedians
Reviews :
"In 1938, Dmitri Kabalevsky provided incidental music for a play produced by the Central Children's Theater in Moscow, titled 'Inventor and Comedian.' The score is light and witty and its expressive language quite direct, as was expected in Stalin's Soviet Union at that time. But here Kabalevsky was aiming at young audiences and had good reason to write tuneful, rather simple music. The play's plot deals with a traveling group of entertainers who are more clowns than comedians.
Two years later Kabalevsky extracted 10 numbers from the score for his suite The Comedians, which would become his most popular work, with only the overture to his opera Colas Breugnon even remotely rivaling it. His effort was quite successful in distilling the work's best moments into a 15-minute suite, which he scored for small orchestra." All Music
Ratings :
Discogs : 4.45 / 5