Rubinstein: Symphony No. 5

Russian folk-style themes and Medelssohnian treatment make for a decent symphonic shot in Rubinstein's Fifth - if a bit anachronistic for 1880. — BBC Music Magazine, December 2013, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 1st Jul 2013
Catalogue No: 8557005
Label: Naxos

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Rubinstein, A: Symphony No. 5 in G minor, Op. 107

George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra
Horia Andreescu

Rubinstein, A: Faust, Op. 68

George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra
Horia Andreescu

Rubinstein, A: Dmitry Donskoy: Overture

George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra
Horia Andreescu

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Anton Rubinstein was one of the towering figures of nineteenth-century music, a great piano virtuoso, conductor and influential teacher. The fifth of his six Symphonies is thoroughly Russian in its melodies, and is often compared to his student Tchaikovsky’s First Symphony. The overture to Rubinstein’s first opera Dmitry Donsky is based on a similarly national Russian theme, while Faust, written in Leipzig in 1854, is the sole surviving movement of an abandoned Faust symphony. Rubinstein’s Symphonies Nos. 3 and 4 can be heard on Naxos 8555590 and 8555979.

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December 2013

Russian folk-style themes and Medelssohnian treatment make for a decent symphonic shot in Rubinstein's Fifth - if a bit anachronistic for 1880.

29th August 2013

The orchestra, as if aware that this is music of real substance, plays well and with plenty of fire and passion.

Rubinstein: Symphony No. 5

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