CLASSIC AL A UDI O MRAVINSKY EDITION, VOL. 1 PH15000 | 881488150001 6 CD | SRP: US $29.99 CA $35.99 COMPOSER: Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky • Joseph Haydn • Dmitri Shostakovich • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart • Claude Debussy ARTIST: Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra • Sviatoslav Richter (piano) • Yevgey Mravinsky (conductor) TRACK LIST: Disc 1 Pyotr Il’yich Tchakovsky Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36 Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64, I & II Disc 2 Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64, III & IV Symphony No. 6 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 74 Disc 3 Joseph Haydn Symphony No. 101 “die Uhr” in D Major, Hob. 1:101 Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 54 Disc 4 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No. 39 in E-Flat Major, KV 543 Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 12 in D Minor, Op. 112 Disc 5 Claude Debussy La mer Nocturnes Nos. 1-2 Maurice Ravel Pavane pour une Infante defunte Bolero Disc 6 Johannes Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat Major, Op. 83 Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 23 RELEASE DATE: 10/14/16 • Yevgeny Mravinsky rehearsed indefatigably and remorsely with the individual sections of the orchestra, kicking out anyone who did not meet his expectations and replacing him with the best. • In the concert hall, Mravinsky was able to apply in technically perfect and precise manner his extremely finely graduated dynamic range, immense palette of tone colors and volcanic outbursts. He never gesticulated wildly and often did not even use a baton. His Philharmonic Orchestra coule measure itself with the best in the world. • Mravinsky recorded in studioes from 1938 to 1961. His interpretations of Tchaikovsky set standards that hold to this day and his Shostakovich performances enjoy the intimate authority of the connoisseur, but he was also altogether at home in the standard Classical and Romantic repertoires. • Only live recordings of Mravsinky’s concerts exist after 1961 - and they document a great musician. Mravinsky was, in the words o fmusic commentator Norman Lebrecht, “the most capable of all Soviet conductors”. DISTRIBUTED BY NAXOS OF AMERICA | NAXOS OF CANADA | NEW RELEASE 92