Review of CD with compositions by Eshpai

Internet Edition compiled by Onno van Rijen

Updated 12 January 2005

Moscow Musical Publishers - Harmony2 CD-set
2004

First Disc

Symphony no. 3 "To the Memory of My Father"

USSR TV Radio Symphony Orchestra
V. Fedoseyev (conductor)
25 min 45 sec

Concerto for oboe and orchestra

The Symphony Orchestra
D. Kitaenko (conductor)
A. Lubimov (oboe)
15 min 30 sec

Violin Concerto No. 2

The Symphony Orchestra
D. Kitaenko (conductor)
E. Grach (violin)
19 min 50 sec

Concerto for trumpet, piano, vibraphone, double-bass and orchestra (Concerto Grosso)

USSR State Symphony Orchestra
Y. Svetlanov (conductor)
A. Maksimenko (trumpet)
R. Azarkhin (double-bass)
P. Meshchanikov (piano)
B. Stepanov (vibraphone)
13 min 16 sec

Second Disc

Concerto for french horn, string orchestra and four french horns in F major

Radio & TV Symphony Orchestra
S. Kondrashev (conductor)
A. Serov (French horn)
15 min 3 sec

Violin Concerto No. 3 "Bartok Concerto"

Radio & TV Symphony Orchestra
S. Kondrashev (conductor)
N. Tokareva (violin)
16 min 49 sec

Three Pieces for flute solo

V. Shapkin (flute)
13 min 16 sec

Espressivo molto for violin solo

L. Dmiterko (violin)
7 min 31 sec

Andante and Allegro for wind quintet

Students of the Moscow Conservatory, L. Chumov (director)
6 min 48 sec

Concerto for tuba, string orchestra and brass

The Symphony Orchestra
A. Vedernikov (conductor)
D. Anakovsky (tuba)
14 min 7 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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