Review of CD with compositions by Eshpai

Internet Edition compiled by Onno van Rijen

Updated 31 January 2004

Moscow Musical Publishers - Harmony [139 min 51 sec]

2 CD-set

First Disc

Evening Shadows for violin and piano

L. Dmiterko (violin)
Andrei Eshpai (piano)
8 min 25 sec

Sonata No. 3 for violin and piano "In Memory of Maurice Ravel"

L. Dmiterko (violin)
Andrei Eshpai (piano)
13 min 2 sec

Hungarian Tunes, rhapsody for violin and piano

L. Dmiterko (violin)
Andrei Eshpai (piano)
8 min 25 sec

Concerto for viola and orchestra

USSR Symphony Orchestra
Fedor Glushchenko (conductor)
Yuri Bashmet (viola)
20 min 54 sec

Concerto for saxophone-soprano and orchestra

Moscow State Conservatoire Musical College Students' Orchestra
L. Nikolaev (conductor)
S. Gurbeloshvili (saxophone)
18 min 52 sec

Second Disc

String Quartet "Concordia-Discordans in Memory of D. Shostakovich"

M.I. Glinka State String Quartet
20 min 58 sec

Symphony No. 8

Moscow State Conservatoire Symphony Orchestra
L. Nikolaev (conductor)
19 min 32 sec

Symphony No. 6 "Liturgic"

USSR TV and Radio Symphony Orchestra
Valery Fedoseyev (conductor)
Magnitogorsk Choir, Yu. Ivanov (conductor)
Volgograd Choir, M. Kaplansky (conductor)
V. Grashchenko (bass)
28 min 52 sec

Moscow Musical Publishers issued some fine CDs with compositions of Russian and former Soviet composers. An excellent double-CD with works of the great composer Andrei Eshpai contains his Symphonies Nos. 6 and 8, his String Quartet in memory of Dmitri Shostakovich, his concertos for viola and saxophone and music for violin and piano: Evening Shadows, Sonata No. 3 and Hungarian Tunes.
In 2004 Moscow Musical Publishers issued a second double-CD with works of Eshpai. This second double-CD contains Eshpai's Symphony No. 3, 2nd and 3rd Violin Concerto, Oboe Concerto, Concerto Grosso, Concerto for French horn, string orchestra and four French horns, Concerto for tuba, string orchestra and brass, Brass Quintet, Three Pieces for flute and "Espressino molto" for violin solo.

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