Russian Carnival

Musiche di Mussorgsky, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, DiLorenzo
Back in the late '60s, after conducting a rip-snorting performance of "Pictures at an Exhibition," conductor Leopold Stokowski turned to the applauding Carnegie Hall audience and shouted, "Wonderful Russian music!" At which the audience stood and cheered. . . .Russian music has excited similar passions for centuries, politics aside. . . .This recording collects music by some of the best-known Russian composers of the 19th and 20th centuries - and adds a new work by an American composer strongly influenced by the Russians. - Byron A. Nilsson