Excellent performances of some captivatingly colourful music. Russian easter festival splendidly exuberant playing from players who naturally have the stuff of the music in their bones... Marvellous gravity and resonance.... Dubinushka only a trifle, but quite a rare one. Rimsky korsakov heard the song during the 1905 revolution both his liberal instincts and his musical invention were fired... Scored by the master hand and very effective the golden cockerel excellently played under svetlanov he has a marvellously strangled trumpet for the cock crow . ­ gramophone    dubinushka 444 suite from coq d’or  tsar dodon at his palace 1108  tsar dodon on the march 440  tsar dodon at the queen of shemakha’s home 753  dodon’s wedding and unhappy end 616 suite from “snow maiden”  birds’ dance 302  tsar berendei’s procession 200  dance 325 two pieces from “pan voyevoda”  nocturne 430  polonaise 618 from “the maid of pskov”  in the woods, tsar’s hunt and storm 758  russian easter festival overture 1418