Rachmaninov: Symphony.. - St. Louis Symphony Orchestra - Audio CD (Arrives in 50 days)

The premiere of Rachmaninov’s Symphony No. 1 in D minor was a notorious failure. It took until the 1940s for the work to gain recognition, and it contains much that is recognisable from the composer’s later works – brooding intensity, lyricism and yearning, orchestral colour and grandeur, written in a profoundly Russian manner. Unperformed during his lifetime, Prince Rostislav exudes qualities of melancholy and voluptuousness familiar from his other works, as well as including, as does the Symphony, Rachmaninov’s pervasive use of the Dies irae. These acclaimed Vox recordings conducted by Leonard Slatkin were originally issued in 1977 and 1982.

Label: Vox | Origin: Holland

📌 .. No. 1 / Prince Rostislav