Name: Nikolaï Golovanov conducts Tchaikovsky
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Archive recordings of Nikolai Golovanov. The mono sound is grainy, the performances combustible, with jerky tempo changes and sometimes scrappy playing. Variable, but interesting. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 26th Aug 2014
Catalogue No: DSD350117
Label: Praga
Series: Digitals

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Tchaikovsky: Moscow Cantata

Ludmilla Legistayeva (mezzo) & Daniel Damianov (baritone)
Moscow Radio Symphony Soloists & Choir
Nikolai Golovanov

Tchaikovsky: The Voyevoda, symphonic ballad Op. 78

Moscow Radio Symphony Soloists & Choir
Nikolai Golovanov

Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture, Op. 49

Moscow Radio Symphony Soloists & Choir
Nikolai Golovanov

Tchaikovsky: The Tempest, Op. 18

Moscow Radio Symphony Soloists & Choir
Nikolai Golovanov

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Nikolai Golovanov [1891-1953] was known in the West as the 'Russian Furtwängler' in the '40s and '50s. A visionary conductor who transformed even the most pedestrian pieces with ecstatic fervour - his hyper-dramatic 1812 Overture is frighteningly intense - he was officially written out of Soviet history and forgotten after being purged in 1952 and he conveniently died the following year. Fortunately Praga Digitals have remastered these mythical Tchaikovsky readings from 1952, including the 'Moscow' cantata commissioned for the coronation of Alexander III, given here in a 'Sovietised' text by Machistov erasing all imperial and religious references: a pearl of epic Russian archaism built of a flamboyant splendour. This hybrid SACD includes the 1812 Overture without artillery, the rare 'Voyevoda', plus Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' in its original edition. Resurrected icons by one of the greatest talents to ever hold a baton.

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March 2015

Archive recordings of Nikolai Golovanov. The mono sound is grainy, the performances combustible, with jerky tempo changes and sometimes scrappy playing. Variable, but interesting.

Audiophile Audition 14th February 2015

For a conductor whose recorded legacy has often languished in inferior sonic reproduction, this restoration remains a real coup for all concerned.

Nikolaï Golovanov conducts Tchaikovsky

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