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|Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev
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''Stabat Mater''
''Stabat Mater''
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|Dmitri Shostakovich
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Symphony No. 7 in C major
Symphony No. 7 in C major
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|Sergei Prokofiev
|[[Sergei Prokofiev]]


Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major
Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major
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ODE 1180-2D
ODE 1180-2D
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|Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
|[[Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov]]


''Schéhérazade''
''[[Scheherazade (Rimsky-Korsakov)|Schéhérazade]]''


''Capriccio espagnol''
''Capriccio espagnol''
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|Alexander Glazunov: Complete Concertos
|[[Alexander Glazunov]]: Complete Concertos


Violin Concerto in A minor
Violin Concerto in A minor
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Méditation in D major for Violin and Orchestra
Méditation in D major for Violin and Orchestra


Soloists: Rachel Barton Pine, Alexander Romanovsky, Wen-Sinn Yang, Marc Chisson, Alexey Serov
Soloists: [[Rachel Barton Pine]], Alexander Romanovsky, Wen-Sinn Yang, Marc Chisson, Alexey Serov
|José Serebrier
|José Serebrier
|Warner Classics
|Warner Classics
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2564-67946-5 (2CD)
2564-67946-5 (2CD)
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|Sergei Rachmaninov
|[[Sergei Rachmaninoff|Sergei Rachmaninov]]


''The Isle of the Dead'', Symphonic Poem
''The Isle of the Dead'', Symphonic Poem
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''The Bells''
''The Bells''


Sergei Taneyev
[[Sergei Taneyev]]


''John of Damascus'', Cantata for Chorus and Orchestra after a poem by A. Tolstoy
''John of Damascus'', Cantata for Chorus and Orchestra after a poem by A. Tolstoy
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! colspan="3" |2010
! colspan="3" |2010
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|Sergei Rachmaninov
|[[Sergei Rachmaninoff|Sergei Rachmaninov]]


''Festive Overture''
''Festive Overture''
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|Peter and the Wolf / Wolf Tracks [in Mandarin]
|Peter and the Wolf / Wolf Tracks [in Mandarin]


Sergei Prokofiev
[[Sergei Prokofiev]]


''Peter and the Wolf''
''[[Peter and the Wolf]]''


Xiao Lu and Geng Chun, narrators in Mandarin
Xiao Lu and Geng Chun, narrators in Mandarin


Jean-Pascal Beintus
[[Jean-Pascal Beintus]]


''Wolf Tracks''
''[[Wolf Tracks and Peter and the Wolf|Wolf Tracks]]''


Pu Cunxin, narrator in Mandarin
Pu Cunxin, narrator in Mandarin


Sergei Prokofiev
[[Sergei Prokofiev]]


''Peter and the Wolf''
[[Peter and the Wolf|''Peter and the Wolf'']]


Jean-Pascal Beintus
[[Jean-Pascal Beintus]]


''Wolf Tracks''
''Wolf Tracks''


Sophia Loren, Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev, narrators in English
[[Sophia Loren]], [[Bill Clinton|Bill Clinton,]] [[Mikhail Gorbachev]], narrators in English
|Kent Nagano
|Kent Nagano
|[[Pentatone (record label)|Pentatone]]
|[[Pentatone (record label)|Pentatone]]
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|Gershwin and Bernstein
|Gershwin and Bernstein


George Gershwin
[[George Gershwin]]


Concerto in F
Concerto in F


Leonard Bernstein
[[Leonard Bernstein]]


''The Age of Anxiety''
''The Age of Anxiety''


Ingrid Jacoby, piano
[[Ingrid Jacoby]], piano
|Dmitry Liss
|Dmitry Liss
|Ondine
|Ondine
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ODE 1163-2
ODE 1163-2
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|Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
|[[Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov]]


Suite from ''The Snow Maiden''
Suite from ''The Snow Maiden''
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! colspan="3" |2009
! colspan="3" |2009
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|Dmitri Shostakovich
|[[Dmitri Shostakovich]]


Symphony No. 15 in A major
Symphony No. 15 in A major
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! colspan="3" |2008
! colspan="3" |2008
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|Modest Mussorgsky
|[[Modest Mussorgsky]]


''Pictures at an Exhibition''
''[[Pictures at an Exhibition]]''


''Night on the Bare Mountain''
''[[Night on Bald Mountain|Night on the Bare Mountain]]''


''The Sorochinsky Fair''
''The Sorochinsky Fair''
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|[[Pentatone (record label)|Pentatone]] 5186330
|[[Pentatone (record label)|Pentatone]] 5186330
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|Ludwig van Beethoven
|[[Ludwig van Beethoven]]


Piano Concertos No. 1-5
Piano Concertos No. 1-5


Mikhail Pletnev, piano
[[Mikhail Pletnev]], piano
|Christian Gansch
|Christian Gansch
|Deutsche Grammophon
|Deutsche Grammophon
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|Ludwig van Beethoven
|[[Ludwig van Beethoven]]


Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major
Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major


Mikhail Pletnev, piano
[[Mikhail Pletnev]], piano
|Christian Gansch
|Christian Gansch
|Deutsche Grammophon
|Deutsche Grammophon
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! colspan="3" |2007
! colspan="3" |2007
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|Sergei Prokofiev
|[[Sergei Prokofiev]]


Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major
Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major
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|Ludwig van Beethoven
|[[Ludwig van Beethoven]]


Symphonies No. 1-9
Symphonies No. 1-9
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|Ludwig van Beethoven
|[[Ludwig van Beethoven]]


Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major
Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major
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Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major
Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major


Mikhail Pletnev, piano
[[Mikhail Pletnev]], piano
|Christian Gansch
|Christian Gansch
|Deutsche Grammophon
|Deutsche Grammophon
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JAM-0635-CD
JAM-0635-CD
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|Ludwig van Beethoven
|[[Ludwig van Beethoven]]


Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major
Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major
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|Dmitri Shostakovich
|[[Dmitri Shostakovich]]


Symphony No. 5 in D minor
Symphony No. 5 in D minor
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|Peter and the Wolf / Wolf Tracks [in Spanish]
|Peter and the Wolf / Wolf Tracks [in Spanish]


Sergei Prokofiev
[[Sergei Prokofiev]]


''Peter and the Wolf''
''Peter and the Wolf''


Jean-Pascal Beintus
[[Jean-Pascal Beintus]]


''Wolf Tracks''
''Wolf Tracks''


Sophia Loren, narrator (in English)
[[Sophia Loren]], narrator (in English)


Antonio Banderas, narrator (in Spanish)
[[Antonio Banderas]], narrator (in Spanish)
|Kent Nagano
|Kent Nagano
|[[Pentatone (record label)|Pentatone]] SACD
|[[Pentatone (record label)|Pentatone]] SACD
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''Souvenir d'un lieu cher''
''Souvenir d'un lieu cher''


Julia Fischer, violin
[[Julia Fischer]], violin
|Yakov Kreizberg
|Yakov Kreizberg
|[[Pentatone (record label)|Pentatone]] SACD
|[[Pentatone (record label)|Pentatone]] SACD
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|Dmitri Shostakovich
|[[Dmitri Shostakovich]]


Symphony No. 8 in C minor
Symphony No. 8 in C minor
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|[[Pentatone (record label)|Pentatone]] SACD
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|Dmitri Shostakovich
|[[Dmitri Shostakovich]]


Symphony No. 1 in F minor
Symphony No. 1 in F minor
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|[[Pentatone (record label)|Pentatone]] SACD
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|Dmitri Shostakovich
|[[Dmitri Shostakovich]]


Symphony No. 11 – “The Year 1905”
Symphony No. 11 – “The Year 1905”
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|[[Pentatone (record label)|Pentatone]] SACD
|[[Pentatone (record label)|Pentatone]] SACD
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|Maurice Ravel
|[[Maurice Ravel]]


Piano Concerto in G major
Piano Concerto in G major


Sergei Prokofiev
[[Sergei Prokofiev]]


Piano Concerto No. 5 in G major
Piano Concerto No. 5 in G major


Francesco Tristano Schlimé
[[Francesco Tristano Schlimé]]


''3 Improvisations''
''3 Improvisations''


Francesco Tristano Schlimé, piano
[[Francesco Tristano Schlimé]], piano
|[[Mikhail Pletnev]]
|[[Mikhail Pletnev]]
|[[Pentatone (record label)|Pentatone]] SACD
|[[Pentatone (record label)|Pentatone]] SACD
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Suite No. 3 in G major
Suite No. 3 in G major


Igor Stravinsky
[[Igor Stravinsky]]


''Divertimento'' – Ballet Suite from ''Le baiser de la fée''
''Divertimento'' – Ballet Suite from ''Le baiser de la fée''
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|Young America
|Young America


Choral Works by Gordon Getty
Choral Works by [[Gordon Getty]]


''Young America''
''Young America''
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''Jerusalem''
''Jerusalem''


San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and Russian National Orchestra, Eric Ericson Chamber Choir, San Francisco Symphony Chorus
[[San Francisco Symphony|San Francisco Symphony Orchestra]] and Russian National Orchestra, [[Eric Ericson Chamber Choir]], [[San Francisco Symphony Chorus]]
|Michael Tilson Thomas, Alexander Vedernikov
|Michael Tilson Thomas, Alexander Vedernikov
|[[Pentatone (record label)|Pentatone]] SACD
|[[Pentatone (record label)|Pentatone]] SACD
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|Russian Violin Concertos
|Russian Violin Concertos


Aram Khachaturian
[[Aram Khachaturian]]


Violin Concerto in D minor
Violin Concerto in D minor


Sergei Prokofiev
[[Sergei Prokofiev]]


Violin Concerto No. 1 in D
Violin Concerto No. 1 in D


Alexander Glazunov
[[Alexander Glazunov]]


Violin Concerto in A minor
Violin Concerto in A minor


Julia Fischer, violin
[[Julia Fischer]], violin
|Yakov Kreizberg
|Yakov Kreizberg
|[[Pentatone (record label)|Pentatone]]
|[[Pentatone (record label)|Pentatone]]
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|Sergei Taneyev
|[[Sergei Taneyev]]


''At the Reading of a Psalm''
''At the Reading of a Psalm''
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|Russian Ballet Suites
|Russian Ballet Suites


Sergei Prokofiev
[[Sergei Prokofiev]]


''Romeo and Juliet'', Suite No. 1
''Romeo and Juliet'', Suite No. 1


Aram Khachaturian
[[Aram Khachaturian]]


Suite from ''Spartacus''
Suite from ''Spartacus''
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|Peter and the Wolf / Wolf Tracks [in English]
|Peter and the Wolf / Wolf Tracks [in English]


Sergei Prokofiev
[[Sergei Prokofiev]]


''Peter and the Wolf''
''Peter and the Wolf''


Jean-Pascal Beintus
[[Jean-Pascal Beintus]]


''Wolf Tracks''
''Wolf Tracks''


Sophia Loren, Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev, narrators
[[Sophia Loren]], [[Bill Clinton]], [[Mikhail Gorbachev]], narrators
|Kent Nagano
|Kent Nagano
|[[Pentatone (record label)|Pentatone]] SACD
|[[Pentatone (record label)|Pentatone]] SACD
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|Peter and the Wolf / Wolf Tracks [in Russian]
|[[Peter and the Wolf]] / [[Wolf Tracks and Peter and the Wolf|Wolf Tracks]] [in Russian]


Sergei Prokofiev
[[Sergei Prokofiev]]


''Peter and the Wolf''
''Peter and the Wolf''


Oleg Tabakov, narrator
[[Oleg Tabakov]], narrator


Jean-Pascal Beintus
[[Jean-Pascal Beintus]]


''Wolf Tracks''
''Wolf Tracks''


Sergei Bezrukov, narrator
[[Sergey Bezrukov|Sergei Bezrukov]], narrator


Bonus track: ''Peter and the Wolf,'' Sophia Loren, narrator
Bonus track: ''Peter and the Wolf,'' [[Sophia Loren]], narrator
|Kent Nagano
|Kent Nagano
|[[Pentatone (record label)|Pentatone]]
|[[Pentatone (record label)|Pentatone]]
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|Gordon Getty
|[[Gordon Getty]]


''Joan and the Bells'', Cantata for Soprano, Baritone, Chorus & Orchestra
''Joan and the Bells'', Cantata for Soprano, Baritone, Chorus & Orchestra
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Eric Ericson Chamber Choir
Eric Ericson Chamber Choir


Sergei Prokofiev
[[Sergei Prokofiev]]


''Romeo and Juliet'', Suite No. 2
''Romeo and Juliet'', Suite No. 2
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|[[Pentatone (record label)|Pentatone]]
|[[Pentatone (record label)|Pentatone]]
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|Frédéric Chopin
|[[Frédéric Chopin]]


Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor
Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor


Carl Loewe
[[Carl Loewe]]


Piano Concerto No. 2 in A
Piano Concerto No. 2 in A


Mari Kodama, piano
[[Mari Kodama]], piano
|Kent Nagano
|Kent Nagano
|[[Pentatone (record label)|Pentatone]]
|[[Pentatone (record label)|Pentatone]]
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Violin Concerto in D major
Violin Concerto in D major


Christian Tetzlaff, violin
[[Christian Tetzlaff]], violin


Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor
Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor


Nikolai Lugansky, piano
[[Nikolai Lugansky]], piano
|Kent Nagano
|Kent Nagano
|[[Pentatone (record label)|Pentatone]]
|[[Pentatone (record label)|Pentatone]]
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|-
|Sergei Prokofiev
|[[Sergei Prokofiev]]


Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major
Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major


Sergei Rachmaninov
[[Sergei Rachmaninoff|Sergei Rachmaninov]]


Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor
Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor


Mikhail Pletnev, piano
[[Mikhail Pletnev]], piano
|Mstislav Rostropovich
|Mstislav Rostropovich
|Deutsche Grammophon 471476
|Deutsche Grammophon 471476
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|Dave Brubeck Returns to Moscow
|Dave Brubeck Returns to Moscow


Dave Brubeck
[[Dave Brubeck]]


DVD/Video of Brubeck's 1997 trip to Moscow to perform with the RNO and Dave Brubeck Quartet. Includes his mass, ''To Hope! A Celebration'' and ''Blue Rondo à la Turk''
DVD/Video of Brubeck's 1997 trip to Moscow to perform with the RNO and Dave Brubeck Quartet. Includes his mass, ''To Hope! A Celebration'' and ''Blue Rondo à la Turk''
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|Encore! The Russian National Orchestra Live in Concert
|Encore! The Russian National Orchestra Live in Concert


Overture, ''The Marriage of Figaro''
Overture, ''[[The Marriage of Figaro]]''


''Waltz of the Flowers'' (from ''The Nutcracker'')
''Waltz of the Flowers'' (from ''[[The Nutcracker]]'')


''Spanish Dance'' from ''Raimonda''
''Spanish Dance'' from ''Raimonda''
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''Hungarian Dance'' No. 1 in G minor
''Hungarian Dance'' No. 1 in G minor


Prelude to Act III of ''Lohengrin''
Prelude to Act III of ''[[Lohengrin (opera)|Lohengrin]]''


Dance from Ballet Suite No. 1
Dance from Ballet Suite No. 1
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''Waltz-Joke'' from Ballet Suite No. 1
''Waltz-Joke'' from Ballet Suite No. 1


''In the Hall of the Mountain King'', from ''Peer Gynt Suite,'' No. 1
''In the Hall of the Mountain King'', from ''[[Peer Gynt suite|Peer Gynt Suite]],'' No. 1


''Young Prince and the Young Princess'', from ''Schéhérezade''
''Young Prince and the Young Princess'', from ''[[Scheherazade (Rimsky-Korsakov)|Schéhérezade]]''


''Slavonic Dance'', No. 2 in E minor
''Slavonic Dance'', No. 2 in E minor
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Violin Concerto in D major
Violin Concerto in D major


Jules Conus
[[Julius Conus|Jules Conus]]


Violin Concerto in E minor
Violin Concerto in E minor


David Garrett, violin
[[David Garrett (musician)|David Garrett]], violin
|[[Mikhail Pletnev]]
|[[Mikhail Pletnev]]
|Deutsche Grammophon
|Deutsche Grammophon

Revision as of 16:25, 28 March 2019

Russian National Orchestra
Russian National Orchestra

The Russian National Orchestra (Russian: Российский национальный оркестр) was founded in Moscow in 1990 by pianist and conductor Mikhail Pletnev.[1]

It was the first Russian orchestra to perform at the Apostolic Palace, Vatican and in Israel.[2]

The RNO's first recording (1991) was Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6, Pathétique, released on Virgin Classics. Since then, the orchestra has made over 80 recordings for Deutsche Grammophon, Pentatone, Ondine, Warner Classics and other labels, and with conductors that include RNO Founder and Artistic Director Mikhail Pletnev, Vladimir Jurowski, Paavo Järvi,Kent Nagano, Carlo Ponti, José Serebrier and Vasily Petrenko. Notable releases include the complete Beethoven symphonies and piano concertos on Deutsche Grammophon, Tchaikovsky’s six symphonies for Pentatone, and the RNO Shostakovich project, also on Pentatone.[3]

The RNO’s recording of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf and Beintus's Wolf Tracks, conducted by Kent Nagano and narrated by Sophia Loren, Bill Clinton and Mikhail Gorbachev, was the winner of a 2004 Grammy Award, making the RNO the first Russian orchestra ever to win this honor.[4] A Spanish-language version narrated by Antonio Banderas was released in 2007, following a Russian version narrated by actors Oleg Tabakov and Sergei Bezrukov, with a Mandarin edition following in 2011. Narrators in concert versions of these works have included actors Danny Glover, Diana Douglas, Sean Dill and Debbie Allen, model Tatiana Sorokko, Singaporean violinist Min Lee, and BBC anchor Seva Novgorodsev.

Touring annually, the RNO appears in the music capitals of Europe, Asia and the Americas, and is a frequent guest at festivals such as Edinburgh, the BBC Proms, Festival Napa Valley, and Festival of the Arts BOCA. In 2009 the RNO launched its own annual festival, the RNO Grand Festival, held each September to open the Moscow season. The tenth anniversary festival was held from September 10 to October 4, 2018.[5]

RNO concerts are often aired on National Public Radio, the European Broadcasting Union, and Russia’s Kultura channel.[6]

In 2008, a panel of international critics assembled by Gramophone named the Russian National Orchestra as one of the world's top orchestras.[7]

The RNO maintains two outreach programs in the US and Russia: Cultural Allies, encompassing exchanges between artists in Russia and the West and the commissioning of new works; and the Magic of Music, bringing RNO musicians to play for children in Moscow’s orphanages, special facilities for the mentally and physically disabled, and bringing school children to concert halls in Moscow for RNO children's concerts. In the two decades since the Magic of Music program was created, it has expanded to the US with Russian National Orchestra musicians performing for school children while on tour.[8]

The Russian National Orchestra is a private institution supported by individuals, corporations and foundations in Russia and throughout the world. Organizations that support the RNO include the Russian Arts Foundation, Prince Michael of Kent Foundation, Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation, Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation, and the Trust for Mutual Understanding.

Awards


Recording Award
Beethoven: Piano Concertos No. 2 and No. 4 Best Concerto Recording 2007, Tokyo Record Academy
Beethoven: The Nine Symphonies WGUC Top CD of 2007; Recording of the Month, MusicWeb
Glazunov: Complete Concertos Classical CD of the Week, The Telegraph; Recording of the Month, MusicWeb; CD of the Week (Colorado and Minnesota Public Radio); CD of the Week (WQZR New York, WETA Washington)
Prokofiev: Cinderella Top Recordings of the 1990s, Gramophone Magazine
Prokofiev & Beintus: Peter and the Wolf / Wolf Tracks GRAMMY Award, 2004
Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 3, Symphonic Dances Romantic Record of the Year (Classic FM Magazine), 1998
Scriabin: Symphony No 3, The Poem of Ecstasy Classical CD of the Week: The Telegraph, London
Shostakovich: Symphonies No. 1 and No. 6 Editor's Choice, Gramophone; Diapason d'Or de l'année; Choc du monde de la Musique de l'année; Double 10, Classics Today; Best of 2006, Soundstage
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11, "The Year 1905" Classical CD of the Week, The Telegraph, London; Best of 2006, Soundstage
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 15 & Hamlet BBC Music Choice of the Month
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 8 Supersonic Award, Pizzicato, (Luxembourg)
Shostakovich: Symphonies No. 5 and No. 9 Choc du monde de la Musique (May 2007); Edison Award Nominee, 2008 (Netherlands)
Taneyev: At the Reading of a Psalm Classical CD of the Week: The Telegraph, London
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 (Virgin Classics) Gramophone List: The 100 Greatest Recordings
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D (Julia Fischer) BBC Music Magazine, Best Recording of Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto

2007 Gramophone Artist of the Year

Echo Klassik Award, Best Instrumental Performance of 2007

Best Recording of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto (ClassicalMusic.com)

Best of 2006, Audiophile Audition

Editor's Choice, Gramophone Magazine (April 2007)

Financial Times Critics Choice

Tchaikovsky: Suite No. 3; Stravinsky: Divertimento Classical CD of the Week: The Telegraph, London
Tchaikovsky: Hamlet & Romeo and Juliet Recording of the Month, Gramophone Magazine (March 2009)
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 & Francesca da Rimini (Pentatone) Disc of the Month, BBC Music Magazine (October 2011)
Russian Violin Concertos (Julia Fischer) Editor's Choice, Gramophone Magazine (January 2005); 2005 Echo Klassik Award, Concerto Record of the Year
Ravel & Prokofiev: Piano Concertos (Francesco Tristano Schlimé) Choc du monde de la Musique (July/Aug 2006); Editor's Choice, Gramophone Magazine (September 2006); Classical CD of the Week, The Daily Telegraph
Chopin & Loewe: Piano Concertos (Mari Kodama) Best of 2004, Audiophile Audition
Prokofiev, Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos No. 3 (Mikhail Pletnev) Nominated for GRAMMY Award, 2004

Recordings

Since 1990, the RNO has released over 80 recordings on CD and SACD. These include:

Description Conductor Label/Number
2018
Dmitri Shostakovich

Symphony No. 4 in C minor

Symphony No. 10 in E minor

Mikhail Pletnev Pentatone

5186647

2017
Johann Sebastian Bach

Ich ruf zu Dir, Herr Jesu Christ

Ich habe genug

Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor

Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev, Stephan Genz Pentatone

5186593

2016
Divine Art

Vyacheslav Artyomov

Symphony: Gentle Emanation

Tristia II

Teodor Currentzis, Vladimir Ponkin Divine Art Records

DDA 25143

Tchaikovsky Selections

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Coronation March

Capriccio italien

Francesca da Rimini: Fantasy for Orchestra after Dante

Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasia

Marche slave

Mikhail Pletnev Pentatone

5186550

2015
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: The Symphonies and “Manfred” Symphony Mikhail Pletnev Pentatone

5186489

Alexander Scriabin

Symphony No. 1 in E major

The Poem of Ecstasy (Symphony No. 4)

Svetlana Shilova, soprano

Mikhail Gubsky, tenor

Vladislav Lavrik, trumpet

Norbert Gembaczka, organ

Chamber Choir of the Moscow Conservatory

Mikhail Pletnev Pentatone

5186514

Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev

Stabat Mater

Concerto Grosso

Fugue on the B-A-C-H Motif

Canciones de la muerte

De profundis

Soloists: Svetlana Kasyan, Artyom Dervoed, Tatiana Porshneva, Maxim Khokholkov, Sergei Dubov, Alexander Gotgelf,Moscow Synodal Choir

Pentatone

5186486

Dmitri Shostakovich

Symphony No. 7 in C major

Paavo Järvi Pentatone

5176511

2014
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

“Manfred” Symphony

Mikhail Pletnev Pentatone

5186387

2012
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Symphony No. 3 in D major

Coronation March

Mikhail Pletnev Pentatone

5186383

Sergei Prokofiev

Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major

Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor

Sonata for Solo Violin in D major

Arabella Steinbacher, violin

Vasily Petrenko Pentatone

5186395

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Symphony No. 2 in C Minor – Little Russian

Symphony No. 2 in C Minor (Original First Movement)

Mikhail Pletnev Pentatone

5186382

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Symphony No. 1 in G minor – Winter Daydreams

Marche slave

Mikhail Pletnev Pentatone

5186381

2011
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Symphony No. 6 in B minor – Pathétique  

Capriccio italien

Mikhail Pletnev Pentatone

5186386

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

The Nutcracker – Ballet in Two Acts

Vesna Children's Choir

Mikhail Pletnev Ondine

ODE 1180-2D

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Schéhérazade

Capriccio espagnol

Neapolitan Song

Tatiana Porshneva and Alexei Bruni, violin

Carlo Ponti Pentatone

5186 378

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Symphony No. 5 in E minor

Francesca da Rimini: Fantasy for Orchestra after Dante

Mikhail Pletnev Pentatone

5186 385

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Symphony No. 4 in F minor

Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasia (Final version of 1880)

Mikhail Pletnev Pentatone

5186384

Alexander Glazunov: Complete Concertos

Violin Concerto in A minor

Chant du ménestrel

Piano Concerto No. 2 in B major

Concerto in E-flat major for Alto Saxophone and String Orchestra

Piano Concerto No. 1 in F minor

Rêverie in D-flat major for Horn and Orchestra

Concerto Ballata in C major for Cello and Orchestra

Méditation in D major for Violin and Orchestra

Soloists: Rachel Barton Pine, Alexander Romanovsky, Wen-Sinn Yang, Marc Chisson, Alexey Serov

José Serebrier Warner Classics

2564-67946-5 (2CD)

Sergei Rachmaninov

The Isle of the Dead, Symphonic Poem

Symphony No. 1 in D minor

Symphony No. 2 in E minor

The Rock – Fantasy

Symphony No. 3 in A minor

Symphonic Dances

The Bells

Sergei Taneyev

John of Damascus, Cantata for Chorus and Orchestra after a poem by A. Tolstoy

Mikhail Pletnev Deutsche Grammophon

477 9505 6

2010
Sergei Rachmaninov

Festive Overture

Chant du ménestrel

The Bells

Entr’acte (Act IV) from Khovanshchina, orchestrated by Leopold Stokowski

Vocalise, orchestrated byJosé Serebrier

Lyubov Petrova, soprano

Andrei Popov, tenor

Sergei Leiferkus, baritone

Moscow State Chamber Choir

José Serebrier Warner Classics 2564-68025-5
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Swan Lake – Ballet in Four Acts

Mikhail Pletnev Ondine

ODE 1167-2D

Peter and the Wolf / Wolf Tracks [in Mandarin]

Sergei Prokofiev

Peter and the Wolf

Xiao Lu and Geng Chun, narrators in Mandarin

Jean-Pascal Beintus

Wolf Tracks

Pu Cunxin, narrator in Mandarin

Sergei Prokofiev

Peter and the Wolf

Jean-Pascal Beintus

Wolf Tracks

Sophia Loren, Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev, narrators in English

Kent Nagano Pentatone

5186311

Gershwin and Bernstein

George Gershwin

Concerto in F

Leonard Bernstein

The Age of Anxiety

Ingrid Jacoby, piano

Dmitry Liss Ondine

ODE 1163-2

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Suite from The Snow Maiden

Suite from Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya

Nuit sur le Mont Triglav – 3rd Act of the Ballet Opera Mlada

Mikhail Pletnev Pentatone

5186 362

2009
Dmitri Shostakovich

Symphony No. 15 in A major

Hamlet – Selections from the Incidental Music

Mikhail Pletnev Pentatone

5186 331

2008
Modest Mussorgsky

Pictures at an Exhibition

Night on the Bare Mountain

The Sorochinsky Fair

Khovanshchina – Prelude and Dance of the Persian Slave Girls

Carlo Ponti Pentatone

SACD 5186332

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Hamlet – Overture and Incidental Music

Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasia

Vladimir Jurowski Pentatone 5186330
Ludwig van Beethoven

Piano Concertos No. 1-5

Mikhail Pletnev, piano

Christian Gansch Deutsche Grammophon

477 7475

Ludwig van Beethoven

Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major

Mikhail Pletnev, piano

Christian Gansch Deutsche Grammophon

477 6417

2007
Sergei Prokofiev

Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major

Ode to the End of the War

Vladimir Jurowski Pentatone

5186083

Ludwig van Beethoven

Symphonies No. 1-9

Angela Denoke, soprano

Marianna Tarasova, mezzo-soprano

Endrik Wottrich, tenor

Matthias Goerne, baritone

The Moscow State Chamber Choir conducted by Vladimir Minin

Mikhail Pletnev Deutsche Grammophon

477 6409

Ludwig van Beethoven

Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major

Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major

Mikhail Pletnev, piano

Christian Gansch Deutsche Grammophon

477 6416

Lee Johnson

Dead Symphony

Lee Johnson Jammates

JAM-0635-CD

Ludwig van Beethoven

Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major

Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor

Mikhail Pletnev, piano

Christian Gansch Deutsche Grammophon

477 6415

Dmitri Shostakovich

Symphony No. 5 in D minor

Symphony No. 9 in E-flat major

Yakov Kreizberg Pentatone

5186 096

Peter and the Wolf / Wolf Tracks [in Spanish]

Sergei Prokofiev

Peter and the Wolf

Jean-Pascal Beintus

Wolf Tracks

Sophia Loren, narrator (in English)

Antonio Banderas, narrator (in Spanish)

Kent Nagano Pentatone SACD
2006
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Violin Concerto in D major

Sérénade mélancolique

Valse – Scherzo

Souvenir d'un lieu cher

Julia Fischer, violin

Yakov Kreizberg Pentatone SACD
Dmitri Shostakovich

Symphony No. 8 in C minor

Paavo Berglund Pentatone SACD
Dmitri Shostakovich

Symphony No. 1 in F minor

Symphony No. 6 in B minor

Vladimir Jurowski Pentatone SACD
Dmitri Shostakovich

Symphony No. 11 – “The Year 1905”

Mikhail Pletnev Pentatone SACD
Maurice Ravel

Piano Concerto in G major

Sergei Prokofiev

Piano Concerto No. 5 in G major

Francesco Tristano Schlimé

3 Improvisations

Francesco Tristano Schlimé, piano

Mikhail Pletnev Pentatone SACD
2005
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Suite No. 3 in G major

Igor Stravinsky

Divertimento – Ballet Suite from Le baiser de la fée

Vladimir Jurowski Pentatone SACD
Young America

Choral Works by Gordon Getty

Young America

Three Welsh Songs

Annabel Lee

Victorian Scenes

Jerusalem

San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and Russian National Orchestra, Eric Ericson Chamber Choir, San Francisco Symphony Chorus

Michael Tilson Thomas, Alexander Vedernikov Pentatone SACD
2004
Russian Violin Concertos

Aram Khachaturian

Violin Concerto in D minor

Sergei Prokofiev

Violin Concerto No. 1 in D

Alexander Glazunov

Violin Concerto in A minor

Julia Fischer, violin

Yakov Kreizberg Pentatone
Sergei Taneyev

At the Reading of a Psalm

Cantata No. 2

St. Petersburg State Academic Capella Choir and the Chernushenko Boys Choir of the Glinka Choral College

Mikhail Pletnev Pentatone
Russian Ballet Suites

Sergei Prokofiev

Romeo and Juliet, Suite No. 1

Aram Khachaturian

Suite from Spartacus

Dmitri Shostakovich

Suite from The Bolt

Alexander Vedernikov Pentatone SACD
2003
Peter and the Wolf / Wolf Tracks [in English]

Sergei Prokofiev

Peter and the Wolf

Jean-Pascal Beintus

Wolf Tracks

Sophia Loren, Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev, narrators

Kent Nagano Pentatone SACD
Peter and the Wolf / Wolf Tracks [in Russian]

Sergei Prokofiev

Peter and the Wolf

Oleg Tabakov, narrator

Jean-Pascal Beintus

Wolf Tracks

Sergei Bezrukov, narrator

Bonus track: Peter and the Wolf, Sophia Loren, narrator

Kent Nagano Pentatone
Gordon Getty

Joan and the Bells, Cantata for Soprano, Baritone, Chorus & Orchestra

Lisa Delan, soprano

Vladimir Chernov, baritone

Eric Ericson Chamber Choir

Sergei Prokofiev

Romeo and Juliet, Suite No. 2

Alexander Vedernikov Pentatone
Frédéric Chopin

Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor

Carl Loewe

Piano Concerto No. 2 in A

Mari Kodama, piano

Kent Nagano Pentatone
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Violin Concerto in D major

Christian Tetzlaff, violin

Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor

Nikolai Lugansky, piano

Kent Nagano Pentatone
Sergei Prokofiev

Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major

Sergei Rachmaninov

Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor

Mikhail Pletnev, piano

Mstislav Rostropovich Deutsche Grammophon 471476
2002
Dave Brubeck Returns to Moscow

Dave Brubeck

DVD/Video of Brubeck's 1997 trip to Moscow to perform with the RNO and Dave Brubeck Quartet. Includes his mass, To Hope! A Celebration and Blue Rondo à la Turk

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Symphony No. 6 in B minor – Pathétique

Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasia

Mikhail Pletnev Deutsche Grammophon

471 7422

Encore! The Russian National Orchestra Live in Concert

Overture, The Marriage of Figaro

Waltz of the Flowers (from The Nutcracker)

Spanish Dance from Raimonda

Hungarian Dance No. 1 in G minor

Prelude to Act III of Lohengrin

Dance from Ballet Suite No. 1

Waltz-Joke from Ballet Suite No. 1

In the Hall of the Mountain King, from Peer Gynt Suite, No. 1

Young Prince and the Young Princess, from Schéhérezade

Slavonic Dance, No. 2 in E minor

Lezghinka

Mikhail Pletnev RNO 100
2001
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Violin Concerto in D major

Jules Conus

Violin Concerto in E minor

David Garrett, violin

Mikhail Pletnev Deutsche Grammophon

4714282

2000
Sergei Rachmaninov

The Bells

Sergei Taneyev

John of Damascus

Mikhail Pletnev Deutsche Grammophon

471 029-2

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Symphony No. 6 in B minor – Pathétique

The Seasons

Sleeping Beauty

Mikhail Pletnev Virgin Classics
1999
Sergei Rachmaninov

Symphony No. 1 in D minor

The Isle of the Dead

Mikhail Pletnev Deutsche Grammophon

463 075-2

1998
Rodion Shchedrin

Carmen Suite

Concertos for Orchestra No. 1 – Naughty Limericks

Concertos for Orchestra No. 2 – The Chimes

Mikhail Pletnev Deutsche Grammophon

471 136-2

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

A Tale of Dance and Music – The Nutcracker

Moscow State Academy of Choreography

Mikhail Pletnev RNO 2000

Video CD

Alexander Scriabin

Le poème de l’extase

Symphony No. 3 – Le divin poème

Mikhail Pletnev Deutsche Grammophon 459 6812
1997
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

The Sleeping Beauty

Mikhail Pletnev Deutsche Grammophon

457 6342

Ludwig von Beethoven

Clarinet (Violin) Concerto in D major (arr. Mikhail Pletnev)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Clarinet Concerto in A major

Michael Collins, clarinet

Mikhail Pletnev Deutsche Grammophon

457 6522

1996
Carl Maria von Weber

Invitation to the Dance

Konzerstück for Piano and Orchestra in F minor

Overture, Abu Hassan

Overture, Der Freischütz

Overture, Die drei Pintos

Overture, Euryanthe

Overture, Oberon

Overture, The Ruler of the Spirits

Mikhail Pletnev Deutsche Grammophon

453 4862

Alexander Glazunov

Violin Concerto in A minor

Dmitry Kabalevsky

Violin Concerto in C major

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Souvenir d' un lieu cher

Valse-Scherzo

Gil Shaham, violin

Mikhail Pletnev Deutsche Grammophon

457 0642

Sergei Rachmaninov

Symphony No. 3 in A minor

Symphonic Dances

Mikhail Pletnev Deutsche Grammophon

457 5982

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

DISC 1

Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasia

Francesca da Rimini: Symphonic Fantasy after Dante

The Voyevoda

The Tempest

DISC 2

Marche slave

Festival Overture on the Danish National Hymn

Fatum

Hamlet Overture-Fantasia

Capriccio italien

DISC 3

Hamlet Overture-Fantasia

“Manfred” Symphony

1812 Overture

Mikhail Pletnev Deutsche Grammophon
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Festival Overture on the Danish National Anthem

Marche slave

Symphony No. 1 in G minor – Winter Daydreams

Mikhail Pletnev Deutsche Grammophon

453 4452

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

1812 Overture

Symphonic Fantasy – Fate

Symphony No. 2 in C minor – Little Russian

Mikhail Pletnev Deutsche Grammophon

453 4462

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasia

Symphony No. 3 in D major – Polish

Mikhail Pletnev Deutsche Grammophon

453 4472

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Francesca da Rimini: Symphonic Fantasy after Dante

Symphony No. 4 in F minor

Mikhail Pletnev Deutsche Grammophon

453 4482

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Hamlet Overture-Fantasia

Symphony No. 5 in E minor

Mikhail Pletnev Deutsche Grammophon

453 4492

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky 

Capriccio italien

Symphony No. 6 in B minor – Pathétique

Voyevoda

Mikhail Pletnev Deutsche Grammophon

453 4502

Igor Stravinsky

Canon on a Russian Popular Tune

Scherzo à la russe

Symphony in E-flat major

Suite from The Firebird

Mikhail Pletnev Deutsche Grammophon

453 4342

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Symphony No. 1 in G minor – Winter Daydreams

Symphony No. 2 in C minor – Little Russian

Symphony No. 3 in D major

Symphony No. 4 in F minor

Symphony No. 5 in E minor

Symphony No. 6 in B minor – Pathétique

Mikhail Pletnev Deutsche Grammophon

449 9672

1995
Nikolai Miaskovsky

Cello Concerto in C minor

Sergei Prokofiev

Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Cello and Orchestra

Mischa Maisky, cello

Mikhail Pletnev Deutsche Grammophon

449 8212

1994
Sergei Prokofiev

Cinderella – Ballet in Three Acts

Summer Night, Suite for Orchestra from Betrothal in a Monastery

Mikhail Pletnev Deutsche Grammophon

445 8302

Antonin Dvořák

Slavonic Dances

Mikhail Pletnev Deutsche Grammophon

447 0562

The Enchanted Kingdom

Anatoly Liadov

Baba-Yaga

Kikimora

The Enchanted Lake

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

The Golden Cockerel, Suite for Orchestra

Alexander Tcherepnin

The Distant Princess

The Enchanted Kingdom

Mikhail Pletnev Deutsche Grammophon

447 0842

Sergei Rachmaninov

Symphony No. 2 in E minor

The Rock – Fantasy

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

The Tempest

Overture in F major

Anatoly Liadov

Baba-Yaga

Kikimora

The Enchanted Lake

Mikhail Pletnev Deutsche Grammophon

459 0592

1993
Sergei Rachmaninov

The Rock – Fantasy

Mikhail Pletnev Deutsche Grammophon

439 8882

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

“Manfred” Symphony

The Tempest

Mikhail Pletnev Deutsche Grammophon

439 8912

Russian Overtures

Alexander Borodin

Overture, Prince Igor

Alexander Glazunov

Solemn Overture

Mikhail Glinka

Overture, Ruslan and Ludmila

Dmitry Kabalevsky

Overture, Colas Breugnon

Modest Mussorgsky Overture, Khovanshchina

Sergei Prokofiev

Overture, Semyon Kotko

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Overture, The Tsar's Bride

Dmitri Shostakovich

Festive Overture

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Overture in F major

Mikhail Pletnev Deutsche Grammophon

439 8922

1991
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Symphony No. 6 in B minor – Pathétique

Marche slave

Mikhail Pletnev Virgin

759 66121


External links

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