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Moscow Patriarch Choir & Ilya Tolkachev - Hidden Music of the Russian Church (2016) Music

Posted by SERTiL at Jan. 8, 2017

The Patriarch Choir of the Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Moscow conducted by Ilya Tolkachov devotes the second of their CDs issued by Christophoros to Russian sacred music composed after the 1917 Revolution. Under the Soviet regime, most churches and the majority of monasteries were closed and the priests and monks expelled; ecclesiastical life became extremely difficult and was permanently under threat of reprisal. Numerous celebrated composers of sacred music were only permitted to publish secular compositions, but continued to work in secret.

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Russian National Orchestra & Carlo Ponti - Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition - Night on the Bare Mountain (2018) Music

Posted by delpotro at Oct. 20, 2018

Russian National Orchestra & Carlo Ponti - Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition - Night on the Bare Mountain (2018)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 202 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 139 Mb | 01:00:52
Classical | Label: Pentatone

These well known pieces are presented in superb sound. Carlo Ponti Jr. is the son of Carlo Ponti Sr. and Sophia Loren and is a regular conductor of the Russian National Orchestra.

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Apollon Musagete Quartett - Russian Soul: Tchaikovsky Prokofiev Shostakovich (2014) {OehmsClassics} Music

Posted by ruskaval at March 12, 2015

Apollon Musagete Quartett - Russian Soul: Tchaikovsky Prokofiev Shostakovich (2014) {OehmsClassics}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 274 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 148 Mb
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (png) -> 62 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 2014 OehmsClassics / BR Klassik | OC 874
Classical / Romantic / Chamber Music / String Quartet

It's hard to know what to make of the Russian Soul title of this release by Poland's young Apollon Musagète Quartet. Is the program, with only Shostakovich from the truly nationalist side of the Russian compositional roster, supposed to represent "the Russian soul?" Or just a Russian brand of soul? In any event, only the Shostakovich String Quartet No. 4 in D major, Op. 83, fits the general stereotype of the inward, melancholy, perhaps self-destructive Russian soul. Tchaikovsky's popular String Quartet No. 1 in D major, Op. 11, of 1871, is both the first true efflorescence of the composer's proto-neo-classic Mozartian side and nearly the first evidence of his ability to write a real heartbreaker of a good tune, in the slow movement (track 2).

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Lydia Mordkovitch, RSNO, Neeme Jarvi - Taneyev: Suite de Concert; Rimsky-Korsakov: Fantasy on Russian Themes (2008) Music

Posted by Designol at Sept. 4, 2022

Lydia Mordkovitch and the then Scottish National Orchestra conducted by Neeme Järvi were a celebrated team in the 1980s, recording many notable Russian works, including the concertos by Khachaturian, Prokofiev and Shostakovich for Chandos, and winning a Gramophone Award. This ‘team’ has recently re-assembled to record little-known concertante works by Taneyev and Rimsky Korsakov. The unusual coupling of works by Taneyev and Rimsky-Korsakov, two great composer friends, neatly symbolises the era of the last decades of nineteenth-century Russia, with its great conservatories in Moscow and St Petersburg exerting enormous influence on the music of the country at the time.

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Dmitri Hvorostovsky - The Bells of Dawn: Russian Sacred and Folk Songs (2014) Music

Posted by Designol at June 28, 2023

Ondine’s third release with the star baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky is devoted to sacred works by Russian composers and Russian folk songs. Hvorostovsky is accompanied by the prestigious Russian Grand Choir “Masters of Choral Singing,” conducted by Lev Kontorovich, a choir that keeps up the best traditions of Russian choral singing.

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Engelbert Humperdinck - It's All In The Game (2001) {Hip-O Russian boot} Music

Posted by TestTickles at Oct. 19, 2019

Engelbert Humperdinck - It's All In The Game (2001) {Hip-O Russian boot}
EAC Rip | FLAC with CUE and log | scans | 496 mb
MP3 CBR 320 kbps | RAR | 168 mb
Genre: pop

It's All In The Game is a 2001 compilation CD by Engelbert Humperdinck. It is a counterfeit CD, a clone of the original but sounds exactly like a real disc made by Hip-O.

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Pimleur Russian Audio course I, II, III Complete Music

Posted by metafox at July 4, 2006

Complete Pimleur Russian Audio course Part-I, Part-II and Part-III
MP3 | 1.7 Gb

This is a state-of-the-art language learning course for spoken Russian. The popular Pimsleur course does not use a book but uses a completely aural approach to language learning, perfect for learning “on-the-go”. Features a proficiency-based system that helps the student learn through listening and speaking practice.

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Mila Shkirtil, St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra & Yuri Serov - Gavrilin: Russian Notebook & Anyuta (Excerpts) (2020) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at April 22, 2020

Mila Shkirtil, St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra & Yuri Serov - Gavrilin: Russian Notebook & Anyuta (Excerpts) (2020)
FLAC tracks +booklet | 01:09:55 | 296 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Naxos

Valery Gavrilin was one of the most colourful and significant Russian composers of the second half of the 20th century. He was only 25 when he composed The Russian Notebook, a ‘poem of love and death’ crafted in a new musical language that doesn’t employ folk melodies but does use folkloric texts, and with a virtuosic vocal part. These stylised tunes are combined with rich melodies to form a haunting cycle heard here in a 2018 orchestration. The ten numbers from the ballet Anyuta are lively, melodious and touchingly beautiful.

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Portugal. The Man - Woodstock (Special Russian Version) (2017) Music

Posted by SERTiL at Dec. 29, 2017

Portugal. The Man - Woodstock (Special Russian Version) (2017)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks)+cue, log, front cover | 329 MB
Label: Warner Music Russia – 563738-2 | Tracks: 14 | Time: 50:49 min
Indie Rock

Woodstock is the eighth full-length album by Alaskan rock band Portugal. The Man. After having released Evil Friends in 2013, Portugal. The Man began work on a new project, under the working title Gloomin + Doomin. This album was eventually shelved, partly due to a conversation between John Gourley and his father and the discovery of a lost ticket stub from the Woodstock festival. Work began on the Woodstock album shortly thereafter, involving new music as well as material from the Gloomin + Doomin era.

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Russian National Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev – Tchaikovsky: The Symphonies (2010) (Repost) Music

Posted by tirexiss at Aug. 24, 2018

This set underlines various lessons. One of them is not to disdain the first three symphonies. They may not have the torrid solar flares of the last three but they certainly deserve as much attention as comes the way of Balakirev 1, the Borodins, the Glazunovs and the Lyapunovs. Pletnev is a most caring and thoughtful shaper of moods as the First Symphony shows. The playing is finely nuanced to match the strong balletic character. Indeed it made me think of Nutcracker more than once.

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