Disc One
01. Prince Igor. Overture* [10'50]
02. Prince Igor. Act I. Galitzky’s Aria^~ [3'52]
03. Prince Igor. Act II. Konchak’s Aria^~ [7'07]
04. Prince Igor. Polovtsian Dances* [13'44]
05. For the Shores of Your Distant Homeland^ #[4'27]
Nicolai Ghiaurov- bass^; Zlatina Ghiaurov- piano#; London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus conducted by George Solti* and Edward Downes~
06. - 09. Symphony No.1 in E-flat major [35'20]
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy
Disc Two
01. - 04. Symphony No. 2 in B minor [25'14]
London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jean Martinon
05. - 08. String Quartet No. 2 in D major [27'46]
Borodin Quartet (Rostislav Dubinsky & Jaroslav Alexandrov- violins; Dmitry Shebalin- viola; Valentin Berlinsky- cello)
09. In the Steppes of Central Asia [6'44]
10. - 11. Symphony No. 3 in A minor [16'04]
L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande conducted by Ernest Ansermet
Decca 455 632-2 (recorded 1954 to 1992; this CD release 1997)
(CD rip; flacs, booklet, inlay and cover scans)
Recording venues, Engineer and Producer not stated.
This Double Decca collects together very fine performances of Borodin's best known works. All of the "must-haves" by the amateur Russian Nationalist composer - his day job was as a Professor of Chemistry - are here and many are classic recordings.
Particular standouts are the Second Symphony with the London Symphony in a 1960 recording that has never been bettered and the Borodin Quartet's early, 1961, recording of the Second Quartet. George Solti offers scintillating performances of the popular numbers from Prince Igor and Ernest Ansermet is his usual reliable self - a very early stereo recording of the short Third Symphony.
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