Russian National Orchestra
The Russian National Orchestra (Russian: Российский национальный оркестр) premiered in Moscow in 1990.
It was the first Russian orchestra to perform at the Apostolic Palace, Vatican and in Israel.
The RNO's first recording (1991) was Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6, Pathétique, released on Virgin Classics. Since then, the orchestra has made over 75 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, Kent Nagano, Alexander Vedernikov, Carlo Ponti Jr., José Serebrier and Vasily Petrenko.
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.[1] 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.
A regular visitor to the Schleswig-Holstein, Gstaad and Rheingau festivals, the RNO is also the founding orchestra of Napa Valley Festival del Sole, Festival of the Arts BOCA in Florida, and the Singapore Sun Festival, and resident orchestra for multiple seasons of the Tuscan Sun Festival in Cortona, Italy. The RNO launched its own annual festival in 2009, held each September in Moscow.
In 2008, a panel of international critics assembled by Gramophone named the Russian National Orchestra as one of the world's top orchestras.[2]
The Russian National Orchestra is a private institution supported by individuals, corporations and foundations in Russia and throughout the world. Affiliated organizations include the Russian National Orchestra Trust, the Russian Arts Foundation and the American Council of the RNO. Another RNO innovation is Cultural Allies, an ongoing program encompassing exchanges between artists in Russia and the West, and the commissioning of new works.
Awards
For the Orchestra and Ensembles
- Top Moscow Orchestra, Gramophone magazine, 2008
- RNO Wind Quintet, 1st Place, 2005 Osaka Chamber Music Competition
For Recordings
| 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) | 2007 Gramophone Artist of the Year; Echo Klassik Award, Best Instrumental Performance of 2007; 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 75 recordings on CD and SACD. These include:
- Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6, Pathetique
- Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker
- Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
- Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5
- Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4
- Glazunov: Complete Concertos
- Rachmaninov: Symphonies No. 1-3
- Rachmaninov: The Bells (Live in Moscow)
- Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake
- Prokofiev & Beintus: Peter and the Wolf / Wolf Tracks (in Mandarin)
- Gershwin and Bernstein
- Rimsky-Korsakov: Orchestral Suites
- Shostakovich: Symphony No. 15 & Hamlet
- Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
- Tchaikovsky: Hamlet & Romeo and Juliet
- Beethoven: The Five Piano Concertos
- Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5
- Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5
- Beethoven: The Nine Symphonies
- Beethoven: Piano Concertos No. 2 and No. 4
- Lee Johnson: Dead Symphony
- Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 3
- Shostakovich: Symphonies No. 5 and No. 9
- Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D (Julia Fischer)
- Shostakovich: Symphony No. 8
- Shostakovich: Symphonies No. 1 and No. 6
- Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11, "The Year 1905"
- Ravel & Prokofiev: Piano Concertos (Francesco Tristano Schlimé)
- Tchaikovsky: Suite No. 3; Stravinsky: Divertimento
- Getty: Young America
- Russian Violin Concertos (Julia Fischer)
- Taneyev: At the Reading of a Psalm
- Russian Ballet Suites
- Prokofiev & Jean-Pascal Beintus: Peter and the Wolf / Wolf Tracks
- Getty & Prokofiev: Joan and the Bells, Romeo and Juliet
- Chopin & Loewe: Piano Concertos (Mari Kodama)
- Tchaikovsky: Violin and Piano Concertos
- Prokofiev, Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos No. 3 (Mikhail Pletnev)
- Tchaikovsky & Conus: Violin Concertos (David Garrett)
- Rachmaninov: The Bells; Taneyev, John of Damascus
- Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 1, The Isle of the Dead
- Shchedrin: Carmen Suite, Naughty Limericks, The Chimes
- Scriabin: Symphony No 3, The Poem of Ecstasy
- Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty
- Beethoven & Mozart: Clarinet Concertos (Michael Collins)
- Glazunov, Kabalevsky & Tchaikovsky (Gil Shaham)
- Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 3, Symphonic Dances
- Tchaikovsky: Symphonic Poems / Manfred Symphony
- Stravinsky: Firebird
- Tchaikovsky: Symphonies 1-6
- Miaskovsky: Concerto for Cello & Orchestra (Mischa Maisky)
- Dvořák: Slavonic Dances Op. 46 & 72
- Prokofiev: Cinderella
- The Enchanted Kingdom: Orchestral Music by Rimsky-Korsakov, Liadov, Tcherepnin
- Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 2
- Russian Overtures
- Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6
Recordings with PENTATONE
- Tchaikovsky Selections. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Coronation March / Capriccio Italien / Francesca da Rimini / Romeo and Juliet / Slavonic March. Mikhail Pletnev, Russian National Orchestra. PENTATONE PTC 5186550 (2016).
- Alexander Scriabin - Symphony No. 1 & The Poem of Ecstasy. Mikhail Pletnev, Svetlana Shilova, Mikhail Gubsky, Vladislav Lavrik, Norbert Gembaczka, Alexander Solovyev, Russian National Orchestra, Chamber Choir of the Moscow Conservatory. PENTATONE PTC 5186514 (2015).
- Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky The Symphonies and Manfred. Mikhail Pletnev, Russian National Orchestra. PENTATONE PTC 5186489 (2015).
- Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Manfred Symphony. Mikhail Pletnev, Russian National Orchestra. PENTATONE PTC 5186387 (2014).
- Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No.15 & Hamlet. Mikhail Pletnev, Russian National Orchestra. PENTATONE PTC 5186331 (2009).
- Tchaikovsky - Hamlet & Romeo and Juliet. Vladimir Jurowski, Russian National Orchestra. PENTATONE PTC 5186330 (2008).
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Orchestral Suites. Mikhail Pletnev, Russian National Orchestra. PENTATONE PTC 5186362 (2010).
- Prokofiev - Symphony No. 5 & "Ode to the End of the War". Vladimir Jurowski, Russian National Orchestra. PENTATONE PTC 5186083 (2007).
- Maurice Ravel & Serge Prokofiev - Piano Concertos & Schlimé - 3 Improvisations. Mikhail Pletnev, Francesco Tristano Schlimé, Russian National Orchestra. PENTATONE PTC 5186080 (2006)
- Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 11 "The Year 1905" Mikhail Pletnev, Russian National Orchestra. PENTATONE PTC 5186076 (2006).
- Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphonies Nos. 1 & 6. Vladimir Jurowski, Russian National Orchestra. PENTATONE PTC 5186068 (2006).
- Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 13 "Winter Daydreams" Marche Slave Op. 31. Mikhail Pletnev, Russian National Orchestra. PENTATONE PTC 5186381 (2012).
- Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 2 in C Minor Op. 17 "Little Russian" Symphony No. 2 in C Minor. Mikhail Pletnev, Russian National Orchestra. PENTATONE PTC 5186382 (2012).
- Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Symphony No.3 in D Major, Op.29 Coronation March. PENTATONE PTC 5186383 (2012).
- Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 in F minor Op. 36 Romeo and Juliet. Mikhail Pletnev, Russian National Orchestra. PENTATONE PTC 5186384 (2011).
- Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Symphony No.5 in E minor, Op.64 Francesca da Rimini, Op.32. Mikhail Pletnev, Russian National Orchestra. PENTATONE PTC 5186385 (2011).
- Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Symphony No.6 in B minor, Op.74 "Pathétique" Capriccio italien, Op.45. Mikhail Pletnev, Russian National Orchestra. PENTATONE PTC 5186386 (2011).
- Tchaikovsky - Suite No.3 in G, Op. 55 & Stravinsky – Divertimento. Vladimir Jurowski, Russian National Orchestra. PENTATONE PTC 5186061 (2005).
- Sergei Taneyev - At the reading of a psalm. Mikhail Pletnev, Lolita Semenina, Marianna Tarassova, Mikhail Gubsky, Andrei Baturkin, Vladislav Tchernushenko, Russian National Orchestra. PENTATONE PTC 5186038 (2004).
External links
References
- ↑ "RNO Scores a Grammy Win". RNO Press Release. Retrieved 21 November 2011.
- ↑ "The World's Greatest Orchestras". Gramophone. Retrieved 21 November 2011.