Moscow Chamber Orchestra
The Moscow Chamber Orchestra has been regarded for more than a half century as one of the greatest chamber ensembles in the world. Shostakovich considered it the greatest and entrusted the premiere of his Fourteenth Symphony to the orchestra. The MCO has made countless concert tours throughout Europe, Asia, and the Americas and numerous acclaimed recordings. The MCO gives 120 concerts per year and the performance venues for subscription concerts are Moscow Conservatory's Large Hall and the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall. The MCO's repertory has been truly eclectic over the years, from Baroque to contemporary, from operatic fare to ballet, from transcriptions of Chopin and Gershwin to folk and traditional arrangements, and from light waltzes and tangos to tragic symphonies. It would be difficult to see the MCO as a specialist ensemble in any area, though Russian music from the late 19th and early 20th centuries has garnered a higher portion of the ensemble's attention. The MCO's recordings are available from such labels as EMI and Delos.
The Moscow Chamber Orchestra, also known as the Russian State Academic Chamber Orchestra, was founded in 1956 by conductor/violist Rudolph Barshai. The ensemble quickly earned a reputation for its collective virtuosity and interpretive skills.
In 1962 it debuted in England at the Bath Festival. The acclaimed performances there led to one of the first recordings in the west by a Russian ensemble, an EMI LP of Prokofiev's Visions Fugitives (arranged for string orchestra by Barshai) and Tippett's Concerto for Double String Orchestra. On September 29, 1969, Barshai led the MCO in the premiere of the Shostakovich Fourteenth Symphony, a work that stirred much controversy. Over the next decades the orchestra maintained its lofty reputation under conductors Igor Bezrodny (1976-1981), Victor Tretyakov, and Andrei Korsakov.
Upon the 1991 death of Korsakov, pianist/conductor Constantine Orbelian was appointed music director, the first American ever to hold a major conducting post in Russia. Under Orbelian, the MCO would draw greater attention in Western Europe and the U.S. Acclaimed concerts in Berlin, Paris, London, and Tokyo regularly followed, and from 1998 the MCO has made annual appearances at Carnegie Hall. In 2004 the MCO was given the prestigious invitation to appear at the Dean Acheson Auditorium, Washington, D.C., by the U.S. State Department for a concert to commemorate 70 years of U.S.-Russian diplomatic relations. Among the MCO's later recordings is the popular 2008 Delos disc, To Russia With Love, featuring baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky.
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Paganini: Violin Concerto No. 1 & Violin Concerto No. 2
Ilya Grubert, Constantine Orbelian, Moscow Chamber Orchestra
Concertos - Released by Chandos on 1 Aug 1996
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Vivaldi : Four Concertos for Chamber Orchestra, Concerto Rv 577, for the Orchestra at Dresden, Concerto Rv 103, Concerto Rv 514, Concerto Rv 409
Classical - Released by World Classical Music Digital on 4 Mar 1971
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Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 101-104
Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Carl Eliasberg, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra
Classical - Released by Music Manager on 10 Nov 2015
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Stamic: Clarinet Concerto: Tchaikovsky: Concerto for Piano No. 2
Moscow Chamber Orchestra, USSR State Symphony Orchestra
Classical - Released by Firefly Entertainment on 1 Jun 2013
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Albinoni, Vivaldi & Mozart: Concertos pour cordes (Mono Version)
Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Rudolf Barchaï
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1 Jan 1961
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Haydn: Concerto for Violin, Piano and Chamber Orchestra No. 6 in F Major, Hob. XVIII/6 (Digitally Remastered)
Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Igor Oïstrakh, Natalia Zertsalova
Classical - Released by EMG Classical on 20 Aug 2013
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Haydn: Symphony Nos. 101 'The Clock', 102, 103 'Drum Roll' & 104
Classical - Released by Denon on 1 Jan 2009
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Haydn: Concerto for Violin, Piano and Chamber Orchestra No. 6 in F Major, Hob. XVIII/6 (Digitally Remastered)
Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Oleg Krysa, Vladimir Krainev
Classical - Released by EMG Classical on 20 Aug 2013
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Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings in C Major, Op. 48 (Digitally Remastered)
Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Mikhail Terian
Chamber Music - Released by EMG Classical on 21 Aug 2015
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Stamitz: Clarinet Concerto No. 1 in F Major (Digitally Remastered)
Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Alexander Korneyev, Alexander Ivanov
Concertos - Released by EMG Classical on 29 Jun 2014
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Scriabin: Andante for Strings in A Major (Digitally Remastered)
Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Igor Zhukov
Chamber Music - Released by EMG Classical on 29 Jun 2015
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Mozart: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 17 in G Major, K. 453 (Digitally Remastered)
Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Alexei Cherkasov
Classical - Released by EMG Classical on 15 Jul 2014
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J.S. Bach: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 6 in F Major, BWV 1057 (Digitally Remastered)
Classical - Released by EMG Classical on 20 Dec 2012
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El diablo suelto
Ricardo Sandoval, Joaquin Riaño, Ambar Music Group, Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Constantine Orbelian
World - Released by Delos on 26 Jan 2010
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ORBELIAN, C.: Chamber Concerto for Piano and Strings / HINDMARSCH, P.: To John, in Memoriam / 3 Idylls (Moscow Chamber Orchestra) (BRIDGE Franck)
Concertos - Released by Delos on 1 Jan 2001
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Chostakovitch - Mozart - Bach
Constantine Orbelian, Sergei Nakariakov, Jonathan Shames, Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Andrei Korsakov, Nanse Gum
Classical - Released by Delos on 5 Feb 2013
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Mozart: Symphony No. 38 in D Major, K. 504 "Prague"
Classical - Released by World Classical Music Digital on 10 Nov 2021
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Introducing: The Cello
Jörg Metzger, Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Lev Markiz
Classical - Released by Music Manager on 17 Jul 2018
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Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 17 in G major, K. 453
Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Rudolf Barshai
Classical - Released by Red Note OMP on 17 May 2010
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Bach: Sensual intensity
Bamberger Symphoniker, Moscow Chamber Orchestra
Classical - Released by Music Manager on 28 Nov 2016
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Bach: Piano Concertos Everyone Knows (Digitally Remastered)
Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Rudolph Barshai, Claudio Michelucci
Classical - Released by Fat Classics on 16 Oct 2021
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