I often find these Soviet recording's of better quality than they were made out to be in the old review magazines! Not state of the (then) art;but,often,surprisingly good! (Albeit,a tad resonant at times!)
I agree. Some of those old Melodiya recordings were excellent, despite what some snarky western critics would have had you believe.
Sergei Taneyev: Symphony No 2 in B flat minor (edited/completed:Vladimir Blok) Moscow Radio SO/ Fedoseyev
You'd think the maestro's would have been queueing up to record these symphonies?!
You would, wouldn't you. I love the music of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov as much (if not more!) than the next man but surely we could do without another integral recording of all their orchestral music in exchange for more recordings of Taneyev.
