Evgeny Svetlanov | Konstantin Ivanov | USSR State Symphony Orchestra - Myaskovsky: Selected Symphonies (2014)

Firma Melodiya presents a set of selected symphonies by Nikolai Myaskovsky. This composers music is not widely popular today. Meanwhile, he belongs to the number of Russias brightest music talents of the first half of the 20th century. Symphony was the most important genre to the composer. His twenty-seven symphonies composed during 40 years are a sort of a personal diary reflecting a complicated and winding path of his artistic evolution. The set includes six symphonies from Myaskovskys latter period (1935 to 1950) Nos 16, 17, 21, 22, 25 and 27 performed by the USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra conducted by the outstanding Evgeny Svetlanov (the only conductor in the world to record all Myaskovskys symphonies) and his predecessor in the State Orchestra Konstantin Ivanov, one of the major representatives of the Soviet conducting school.