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...Choirs and State Orchestra of the U.S.S.R., Eugene Mravinsky conducting; Vanguard, 2 sides LP). This oratorio, composed in 1949, won back for Shostakovich the Kremlin favor he lost in 1948. The reason is evident in this first recording to reach the U.S. Strictly old shapka, it sounds more like Glinka in an off-moment than the dissonantly powerful Shostakovich of Symphony No. 5. The performance is rousing, the recording fair...
...fast-developing young company this season (he did five last year, plus one for Britain's Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet), Balanchine made one of them a sure-fire novelty. He decided to introduce his fans to the music of one of his favorite composers, Glinka ("the Verdi of Russia," says Balanchine), and one of his favorite dances, the fiery mazurka. Who could set its style better than Balanchine himself...
...eight years. His tenor was a little rusty, and he had not yet worked back to his former full-voiced power. But he sang the songs of Mozart, Beethoven, Wolf, Verdi with lyrical warmth and expressiveness that reminded some of Caruso indeed. He also sang the songs of Tchaikovsky, Glinka and other Russians and he reduced a house filled largely with Russian expatriates to bravos and tears...
...Glinka...
There's Glinka, Winkler, Bortniansky, Rebikoff, Ilyinsky...