tones
compulsive cantater
...insofar as the Russian composers drew heavily on their marvellous heritage of folk music and the music of the Orthodox Church. I picked this up, because I played an old LP of the old red Army Ensemble, with its brilliant version of Kamarinskaya, and went hunting for a CD version. I found it, but I acquired this as well. This Kamarinskaya isn't as good as the RAE version, but the whole thing is bright and bouncy, with great virtuosity, and very well recorded.
More classical is this:
(very Russian weekend). I picked it up because it had my favourite waltz tune, Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin. It also has lots of other goodies - Prokofiev's Love for three oranges, Khachaturian's Sabre Dance and Masquerade waltz and bits of Shostakovitch, Borodin, Glinka, etc. Really marvellous tuneful music.
