Composer: Vladimir Jurowski
Orchestra: Norrköpings Symfoniorkester
Conductor: Michail Jurowski
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: CPO
Catalogue: 7778752
Release: 2015
Size: 459 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Symphony No. 5
01. I. Andante sereno
02. II. Andante amoroso
03. III. Allegro vigoroso
Symphonic Pictures ‘Russian Painters’
04. I. Above Eternal Peace (Isaak Iljitsch Levitan)
05. II. Ivan Tsarevich, Riding the Grey Wolf (Viktor Michailowitsch Wasnezow)
06. III. Portrait of an Unknown Woman (Iwan Nikolajewitsch Kramskoj)
07. IV. Morning of the Streltsy’s Execution (Wassilij Iwanowitsch Surikow)
08. V. A Winter Scene (Konstantin Alexejewitsch Korowin)
09. VI. Alenushka (Viktor Michailowitsch Wasnezow)
10. VII. Maslenitsa (Boris Michailowitsch Kustodiew)
Vladimir Jurowski’s grandfather was an immediate contemporary of Shostakovich, Kabalevsky, and Khachaturian, but in unlike his famous conductor-grandson, today his name is largely forgotten. He worked as an independent composer from 1938 and occupied himself with a wide range of genres, from the opera and the symphony, through chamber music and vocal works, to music for many feature films and cartoons. This cycle of seven symphonic pictures of the Russian Painters reflects the aesthetic world of each of the artists; rendered in rich, contrasting musical colours.