Symphony No. 2, Three Russian Songs

Album by Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff & Valery Kuzmich Polyansky & Russian State Symphony Orchestra & Государственная академическая симфоническая капелла России

This release pairs Sergei Rachmaninoff's Second Symphony, completed in 1907, with a later short choral set composed in 1926. The symphony is late-Romantic in style with broad melodies and rich orchestration, while the choral set draws on Russian folk material and modal harmonies, and both works are part of Rachmaninoff's mature output and show his approach to melody and large-scale form.

Symphony No. 2, Three Russian Songs by Sergei Rachmaninoff - album cover

First released: August 1998

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1.
Symphony no. 2, op. 27 in E minor: I. Largo - Allegro moderato - Moderato
19:55
2.
Symphony no. 2, op. 27 in E minor: II. Allegro molto
10:14
3.
Symphony no. 2, op. 27 in E minor: III. Adagio
15:50
4.
Symphony no. 2, op. 27 in E minor: IV. Allegro vivace
13:56
5.
Three Russian Songs, op. 41: I. Over the Stream, the Swift Stream
4:21
6.
Three Russian Songs, op. 41: II. Ah, Vanka, You Are so Dashing
6:24
7.
Three Russian Songs, op. 41: III. My Cheeks, so White, so Rosy!
4:00