Contains previously released selections from other Revelation recordings.

Compact disc.

The final work work sung in Russian.

Classical Russia

Symphony no. 1 in D minor, op. 13. IV Allegro con fuoco, grave / Rachmaninov (Grand Symphony Orchestra of Radio and Television ; Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, conductor) (11:41)

Intermezzo in A minor from Fantasy, op. 116 / Brahms (Emil Gilels, piano) (4:11)

Recondite armonia (Tosca, Act I) / Puccini (Giuseppe Giacomini, tenor ; Orchestra of the Bolshoi State Academy Theatre ; Tommaso Severini, conductor) (2:41)

Waltz in A minor, op 34 no. 2 / Chopin (Artur Rubinstein, piano) (5:13)

Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, op. 28 / R. Strauss (State Symphony Orchestra ; David Oistrakh, conductor) (15:10)

Warum? from Fantasiestücke, op. 12 / Schumann (Sviatoslav Richter ; piano) (3:54)

Romance for violin and orchestra, op. 40 / Beethoven (David Oistrakh, violin ; State Symphony Orchestra ; Kyrill Kondrashin, conductor) (7:22)

'Nuages' from Nocturnes / Debussy (State Symphony Orchestra ; Evgeny Svetlanov, conductor) (6:55)

Sonata for cello and piano in D minor, op. 40: IV Allegro / Shostakovich (Daniil Shafran, cello ; Dmitry Shostakovich, piano) (4:17)

Piano concerto no. 3 in C minor, op. 17: III Rondo: Allegro / Beethoven (Andrei Gavrilov, piano ; State Symphony Orchestra ; Yuri Temirkanov, conductor.) (8:08)

Spring Symphony, op. 44: XII Finale: London, to thee I do present the merry month of May / Britten (Boys' Chorus and Choir ; Grand Symphony Orchestra of Radio and Television ; Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, conductor. (Sung in Russian)) (7:28).

Symphonies > Excerpts.

Operas > Excerpts.

Sonatas (Cello and piano) > Excerpts.

Concertos (Piano) > Excerpts.

Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices) with orchestra > Excerpts.

Vsesoi︠u︡znoe radio. Simfonicheskiĭ orkestr.

Bolʹshoĭ teatr SSSR. Orkestr.

Moskovskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ simfonicheskiĭ orkestr.