USSR State Symphony Orchestra
The Russian State Symphony Orchestra is one of the primary orchestras of Russia. Regular symphonic activity in Moscow began in 1959, when Nikolas Rubinstein founded a Moscow branch of the Russian Musical Society, and in the next year founded the Moscow Conservatory. The RMS gave concerts in the Assembly of Nobles or the auditorium of the Bol'shoi (Great) Theater, home of the city's opera company. In 1883, the Moscow Philharmonic Society was founded and also gave concerts. In these years, several private orchestras were also founded and existed for short periods.
The 1917 Bolshevik Revolution resulted in the nationalization of the Conservatory on June 12, 1918, and most old musical institutions were replaced with government and party run ones. The Great (Bol'shoi) Hall of the Moscow Conservatory was taken over for public concert use. (Thus, there are two musical spaces in Moscow with the name "Bol'shoi." Even more confusingly, the orchestra giving concerts at the conservatory was the "Corporation of Solo Artists of the Bol'shoi Theater.") The Education Commisariat had a symphony orchestra, called MUZO Narkompros as a shortening of its full bureaucratic name beginning in 1920. The State Philharmonic was established in 1920. The Russian Philharmonic existed from 1925 to 1928, then was replaced by the Soviet Philharmonic (1928-1931) and finally the Moscow Philharmonic (1931 onwards).
Two new orchestras were founded in the 1930s. First (1931) was the Grand (the word Bol'shoi, again) Symphony Orchestra of All-Union Radio, variously called the USSR Radio Symphony or Radio Moscow Symphony.
In 1936 the USSR State Symphony Orchestra (Gosudarstvennii Simfonicheskii Orkestr Soyuza SSR) was founded and intended to be the premier orchestra of the Soviet Union and gave its first concert in October of that year at the Great Hall of the Conservatory. (Despite official intentions, for most of the time the Leningrad-later St. Petersburg-Philharmonic has generally been ranked as the country's greatest orchestra.) True to its founding as a national orchestra, it began its first tour of the vast country in 1937. Its initial conductor was Aleksandr Gauk (1936-1941). Nathan Rakhlin served during the war years (1941-1945) and his successor was Konstantin Ivanov (1946-1965).
Taking the podium in 1965 and presiding over the orchestra for the majority of its existence has been Evgeni Svetlanov, who has maintained the orchestra's high standards during the changing times to follow. Over the years the orchestra has given many important premiere performances and has been conducted by eminent guest artists from Russia and abroad, and has extensively recorded, especially, during the Soviet era, for Melodiya, the State record company, and its predecessors. It also broadcast on radio and television on a regular basis. It did not make its first foreign tour until 1957, and first visited North America in 1960. It has frequently toured abroad since then.
After the fall of the Soviet Union, the orchestra was renamed the Russian State Symphony Orchestra (sometimes Russian Federation Symphony Orchestra). It made its first trip outside the country under its new name in 1992, a five-month sojourn taking it to France, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, South Korea, and Japan. It continues to appear abroad, appears regularly in both Moscow and St. Petersburg, and often tours other cities in the country. In the 1990s it recorded a massive overview of the entire history of Russian symphonic music on a hundred compact discs.
The new openness following the end of Communist rule has led to an increase the orchestra's playing of music of Western composers, with especially strong interest in works of Mahler and Villa-Lobos.
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Scriabin: Symphony No. 1 in E Major, Op. 26 & The Poem of Ecstasy, Op. 54
USSR State Symphony Orchestra, Larisa Avdeyeva, Lev Volodin, Yevgeny Svetlanov, Anton Grigoriev, Yurlov Russian Choir
Klassiek - Released by CDK Music Classical on 1 nov. 2015
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Rimsky-Korsakov: Orchestral Works
USSR State Symphony Orchestra, Margarita Miglau, Yevgeny Svetlanov, Nina Isakova, Glafira Koroleva, Yurlov Russian Choir
Klassiek - Released by CDK Music Classical on 1 nov. 2015
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Legendary Artists: USSR State Symphony Orchestra
Klassiek - Released by Denon on 1 jan. 2009
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Casadesus, Boccherini & Bréval: Cello Conertos & Sonatas
Daniel Shafran, USSR State Symphony Orchestra, Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Nina Musinyan, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Arvīds Jansons
Klassiek - Released by Russian Compact Disc on 18 jun. 2021
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Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1
Klassiek - Released by Music Online on 24 apr. 2008
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Glinka, Rubinstein, Dargomyzhsky, Liszt: Symphonic Poems and Fantasias
Klassiek - Released by Music Online on 8 feb. 2008
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Oleg Kagan & Natalia Gutman, Vol. 1 (Live)
Oleg Kagan, Natalia Gutman, Alexander Lazariev, Yevgeny Svetlanov, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, USSR State Symphony Orchestra
Klassiek - Released by DOREMI on 5 nov. 2021
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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4, Fatum & Capriccio Italien
USSR State Symphony Orchestra, Yevgeny Svetlanov
Klassiek - Released by CDK Music Classical on 1 jan. 2016
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Liszt: Hungarian Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra (Digitally Remastered)
USSR State Symphony Orchestra, Lev Vlasenko
Klassiek - Released by EMG Classical on 3 sep. 2013
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Glinka: A Life for the Tzar Opera - Priest Kholminsky Highlights - Waltz Phantasy - Ruslan & Lumilla Dance Act III
Mark Ermler, Mikhail Glinka, Yevgeny Svetlanov, Symphony Orchestra of Bolshoi Theatre, USSR State Symphony Orchestra
Klassiek - Released by Denon on 1 jan. 2010
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Arensky: Dream on the Volga Overture - Myaskovsky: Overture in G Major - Symphony No. 21 - Szmanovski: Violin Concerto No. 1
USSR State Symphony Orchestra, Moscow RTV Symphony Orchestra, Igor Oïstrakh
Klassiek - Released by Blaricum CD Company (B.C.D.) B.V. on 25 sep. 2001
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Kalinnikov: Symphony No. 1 in G Minor - Rimsky-Korsakov: Orchestral Works
Yevgeny Svetlanov, USSR State Symphony Orchestra
Klassiek - Released by CDK Music Classical on 1 nov. 2015
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Symphony No. 3 / Lieutenant Kije
Klassiek - Released by Artia Records on 26 mei 1961
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Tchaikovsky: Symphony Nos. 4-6
USSR State Symphony Orchestra, Moscow RTV Symphony Orchestra, Yevgeny Svetlanov
Klassiek - Released by Music Manager on 4 nov. 2015
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Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 13 & Vocalise in C-Sharp Minor
USSR State Symphony Orchestra, Yevgeny Svetlanov
Klassiek - Released by CDK Music Classical on 1 nov. 2015
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Mravinsky Vol. 2: Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Berlioz & Weber
USSR State Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Evgueni Mravinski
Klassiek - Released by DOREMI on 5 nov. 2002
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Borodin: Symphony No. 1 in E-Flat Major (Digitally Remastered)
Klassiek - Released by EMG Classical on 17 apr. 2013
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The Russian Piano Tradition: Tatiana Nikolayeva (Recorded 1950-1951)
Tatiana Nikolayeva, USSR State Symphony Orchestra, Nikolai Anosov, Kirill Kondrashin
Klassiek - Released by APR on 1 aug. 2008
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Brahms: The Complete Symphonies
Yevgeny Svetlanov, USSR State Symphony Orchestra
Klassiek - Released by Denon on 1 jan. 2009
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The Russian Piano Tradition: Emil Gilels & Yakov Zak
Emil Gilels, Yakov Zak, USSR State Symphony Orchestra, Kirill Kondrashin
Klassiek - Released by APR on 1 mrt. 2006
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Mozart pour vous et bébé
USSR State Symphony Orchestra, Mariss Jansons, Camerata Labacensis
Klassiek - Released by Music Manager on 22 dec. 2015
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