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Artist
Yevgeny Mravinsky
12+ albums
ClassicalrussiancccpRussia
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Like so many Russian musicians, Mravinsky seemed first headed toward a career in the sciences. He studied biology at St. Petersburg University, but had to quit in 1920 after his father's death. To support himself, he signed on with the Imperial Ballet as a rehearsal pianist. In 1923, he finally enrolled in the Leningrad Conservatory, where he studied composition with Vladimir Shcherbachov and conducting with Alexander Gauk and Nikolai Malko. He graduated in 1931, and left his Imperial Ballet job to become a musical assistant and ballet conductor at the Bolshoi Opera from 1931 to 1937, with a stint at the Kirov from 1934. Mravinsky gave up these posts in 1938, after winning first prize in the All-Union Conductors' Competition in Moscow, to become principal conductor of the Leningrad Philharmonic. He remained there until 1982, long ignoring many guest-conducting offers from abroad. Under Mravinsky's direction the Leningrad Philharmonic came to be regarded as one of the finest orchestras in the world, although the world had comparatively few opportunities to hear it aside from the rare tour (about 30 performances in 25 years, starting in 1956), some dim Soviet recordings, and a very few highly acclaimed records for such Western European companies as Deutsche Grammophon and, in the end, Erato. Mravinsky was made People's Artist of the U.S.S.R. in 1954, and in 1973, he received the order of Hero of Socialist Labor. But his more lasting international acclaim came for his performanc
top songs
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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64, TH. 29 - II. Andante cantabile, con alcuna licenza -
552Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74, TH 30 "Pathétique" - II. Allegro con grazia
453Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64: I. Andante - Allegro con anima
344Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36: I. Andante sostenuto - Moderato con anima - Moderato assai, quasi Andante - Allegro vivo
285Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36: I. Andante sostenuto - Moderato con anima
266Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36: II. Andantino in modo di canzone
2473. Valse (Allegro moderato)
218Symphony No. 10 in E Minor, Op. 93: II. Allegro
219Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64: Andante cantabile, con alcuna licenza
2110Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36: III. Scherzo. Pizzicato ostinato. Allegro
20albums
Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos. 4, 5 & 6
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Symphonies Nos. 4, 5, 6 'Pathetique' CD1
Shostakovich & Scriabin
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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5
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Tchaikovsky : Symphonies Nos.4, 5 & 6 "Pathetique"
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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 8
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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74, 'Pathétique'
20th Century's Philosophies
The Mravinsky - Shostakovich Friendship
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Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos.4, 5 & 6 "Pathetique"
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Wagner: Excerpts from Götterdämmerung, Tristan und Isolde, Die Walküre, Tannhäuser & Lohengrin (Live at Leningrad)
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Shostakovich: Symphonie No. 10