COMPOSERS: Balakirev
LABELS: Praga Digitals
ALBUM TITLE: Balakirev
WORKS: Symphonies Nos 1 & 2
PERFORMER: Philharmonia/Karajan; Moscow Radio Symphony/Rozhdestvensky
CATALOGUE NO: PRD 250 363 (1949-66)
Western sophistication from Karajan and the Philharmonia in the late 1940s, and Russian dash with blaring trumpets under Rozhdestvensky.
David Nice