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[[File:RNO-2018-2 credit Sergei-Demidov.jpg|alt=Russian National Orchestra|thumb|300x300px|Russian National Orchestra]]
The '''Russian National Orchestra''' has been in demand throughout the music world ever since its 1990 Moscow premiere. Of the orchestra's 1996 debut at the BBC Proms in London, the Evening Standard wrote, "They played with such captivating beauty that the audience gave an involuntary sigh of pleasure." More recently, they were described as "a living symbol of the best in Russian art" (Miami Herald) and "as close to perfect as one could hope for" (Trinity Mirror).
The '''Russian National Orchestra''' ({{langx|ru|Российский национальный оркестр}}) was founded in [[Moscow]] in 1990 by pianist and conductor [[Mikhail Pletnev]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://russiannationalorchestra.org/about/|title=About the Orchestra - Russian National Orchestra|website=russiannationalorchestra.org|access-date=2019-03-17}}</ref> It was the first Russian orchestra to perform at the [[Apostolic Palace]], [[Vatican City]] and in [[Israel]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://russiannationalorchestra.org/about/|title=About the Orchestra - Russian National Orchestra|website=russiannationalorchestra.org|access-date=2019-03-17}}</ref>


== History ==
The first Russian orchestra to perform at the [[Apostolic Palace|Vatican]] and in Israel, the RNO maintains an active international tour schedule, appearing in Europe, Asia and the Americas. Popular with radio audiences worldwide, RNO concerts are regularly aired by [[National Public Radio]] in the United States and by the European Broadcasting Union.
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 Classics|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 (conductor)|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 (record label)|Pentatone]], and the RNO Shostakovich project, also on Pentatone.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://russiannationalorchestra.org/about/|title=About the Orchestra - Russian National Orchestra|website=russiannationalorchestra.org|access-date=2019-03-17}}</ref>


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.<ref>{{cite web|title=RNO Scores a Grammy Win|url=http://www.russianarts.org/rno/pressrelease.cfm?prid=020904.cfm|work=RNO Press Release|access-date=21 November 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120506042908/http://www.russianarts.org/rno/pressrelease.cfm?prid=020904.cfm|archive-date=6 May 2012}}</ref> 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]].
Gramophone magazine called the first RNO CD (1991) "an awe-inspiring experience; should human beings be able to play like this?" and listed it as the best recording of Tchaikovsky's Pathétique in history. Since then, the orchestra has made over 50 recordings for Deutsche Grammophon and PentaTone Classics, with conductors that include RNO Founder and Artistic Director [[Mikhail Pletnev]], Principal Guest Conductor [[Vladimir Jurowski]], [[Kent Nagano]], [[Alexander Vedernikov]] and [[Paavo Berglund]].


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 [[The Proms|BBC Proms]], [[Festival Napa Valley]], and [http://festivalboca.org 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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rno.ru/fest10|title=Российский национальный оркестр|website=www.rno.ru|access-date=2019-03-19}}</ref>
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 the recording industry's highest honor. 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 Mandarin and other editions to follow.


RNO concerts are often aired on [[National Public Radio]], the [[European Broadcasting Union]], and Russia's [[Kultura (TV channel)|Kultura]] channel.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://russiannationalorchestra.org/about/|title=About the Orchestra - Russian National Orchestra|website=russiannationalorchestra.org|access-date=2019-03-17}}</ref>
The orchestra’s ongoing Shostakovich cycle on PentaTone Classics is being widely acclaimed as “the most exciting cycle of the Shostakovich symphonies to be put down on disc, and easily the best recorded.” (SACD.net)


In 2008, a panel of international critics assembled by [[Gramophone (magazine)|Gramophone]] named the Russian National Orchestra as one of the world's top orchestras.<ref>{{cite web|title=The World's Greatest Orchestras|url=http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page/December%202008/36/999327/#header-logo|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090704145948/http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page/December%202008/36/999327/#header-logo|url-status=dead|archive-date=4 July 2009|work=Gramophone|access-date=21 November 2011}}</ref>
Unique among the principal Russian ensembles, the RNO is independent of the government and has developed its own path-breaking structure. Artistic policy is shaped and guided by the RNO Conductor Collegium, a group of internationally renowned conductors led by Artistic Director Mikhail Pletnev. Another RNO innovation is Cultural Allies, an ongoing program encompassing exchanges between artists in Russia and the West, and the commissioning of new works.


The RNO maintains two outreach programs in the US and Russia: [http://russianarts.org/programs/cultural-allies/ Cultural Allies], encompassing exchanges between artists in Russia and the West and the commissioning of new works; and the [http://russianarts.org/programs/magic-of-music/ 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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://russianarts.org/programs/magic-of-music/|title=Magic of Music - Russian Arts Foundation|website=russianarts.org|access-date=2019-03-19}}</ref>
A frequent guest at major festivals, the RNO is the founding orchestra of the [[Festival del Sole]] in the Napa Valley, Festival of the Arts BOCA in Florida, and the Singapore Sun Festival, and is resident orchestra of the Tuscan Sun Festival in Cortona, Italy.


The Russian National Orchestra is supported by private funding and is governed by a distinguished multinational board of trustees. Affiliated organizations include the RNO New York Council, the Russian National Orchestra Trust (UK), the [[Russian Arts Foundation]] and American Council of the RNO.
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 [http://russianarts.org Russian Arts Foundation], [http://www.princemichael.org.uk/charities-and-organisations/ Prince Michael of Kent Foundation], Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation, [[Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation]], and the [http://www.tmuny.org/ Trust for Mutual Understanding].


==External links==
==Awards==
<br />
[http://www.russianarts.org/rno/index.cfm Official Website (English)]
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Recording
! Award
|-
|[[Ludwig van Beethoven|Beethoven]]: Piano Concertos No. 2 and No. 4
| Best Concerto Recording 2007, Tokyo Record Academy
|-
|[[Ludwig van Beethoven|Beethoven]]: The Nine Symphonies
| WGUC Top CD of 2007; Recording of the Month, MusicWeb
|-
|[[Alexander Glazunov|Glazunov]]: Complete Concertos
| Classical CD of the Week, [[The Telegraph (London)|The Telegraph]]; Recording of the Month, MusicWeb; CD of the Week (Colorado and Minnesota Public Radio); CD of the Week ([[WQXR-FM|WQZR]] New York, [[WETA-TV|WETA]] Washington)
|-
|[[Sergei Prokofiev|Prokofiev]]: Cinderella
| Top Recordings of the 1990s, [[Gramophone (magazine)|Gramophone Magazine]]
|-
|[[Sergei Prokofiev|Prokofiev]] & [[Jean-Pascal Beintus|Beintus]]: Peter and the Wolf / Wolf Tracks
|[[Grammy Award|GRAMMY]] Award, 2004
|-
|[[Sergei Rachmaninoff|Rachmaninov]]: Symphony No. 3, Symphonic Dances
| Romantic Record of the Year ([[Classic FM Magazine]]), 1998
|-
|[[Alexander Scriabin|Scriabin]]: Symphony No 3, The Poem of Ecstasy
| Classical CD of the Week: [[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]], London
|-
|[[Dmitri Shostakovich|Shostakovich]]: Symphonies No. 1 and No. 6
| Editor's Choice, [[Gramophone (magazine)|Gramophone Magazine]]; Diapason d'Or de l'année; Choc du monde de la Musique de l'année; Double 10, Classics Today; Best of 2006, Soundstage
|-
|[[Dmitri Shostakovich|Shostakovich]]: Symphony No. 11, "The Year 1905"
| Classical CD of the Week, [[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]], London; Best of 2006, Soundstage
|-
|[[Dmitri Shostakovich|Shostakovich]]: Symphony No. 15 & Hamlet
|[[BBC]] Music Choice of the Month
|-
|[[Dmitri Shostakovich|Shostakovich]]: Symphony No. 8
| Supersonic Award, Pizzicato, (Luxembourg)
|-
|[[Dmitri Shostakovich|Shostakovich]]: Symphonies No. 5 and No. 9
| Choc du monde de la Musique (May 2007); [[Edison Award]] Nominee, 2008 (Netherlands)
|-
|[[Alexander Taneyev|Taneyev]]: At the Reading of a Psalm
| Classical CD of the Week: [[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]], London
|-
|[[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|Tchaikovsky]]: Symphony No. 6 (Virgin Classics)
| Gramophone List: The 100 Greatest Recordings
|-
|[[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|Tchaikovsky]]: Violin Concerto in D ([[Julia Fischer]])
|''[[BBC Music Magazine]]'', Best Recording of Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto


2007 [[Gramophone (magazine)|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)|Gramophone Magazine]] (April 2007)


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


==Recordings==
[[Category:Musical groups established in 1990]]
Since 1990, the RNO has released over 80 recordings on CD and SACD. These include:
[[Category:Russian orchestras]]
{| class="wikitable"
!'''Description'''
!'''Conductor'''
!'''Label/Number'''
|-
! colspan="3" |2018
|-
|[[Dmitri Shostakovich]]


Symphony No. 4 in C minor
[[de:Russisches Nationalorchester]]

[[fr:Orchestre national de Russie]]
Symphony No. 10 in E minor
[[nl:Russisch Nationaal Orkest]]
|[[Mikhail Pletnev]]
[[ja:ロシア・ナショナル管弦楽団]]
|[[Pentatone (record label)|Pentatone]]
[[ko:러시아 내셔널 오케스트라]]

[[ru:Российский национальный оркестр]]
5186647
[[zh:俄羅斯國家管弦樂團]]
|-
! colspan="3" |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 (record label)|Pentatone]]

5186593
|-
! colspan="3" |2016
|-
|Divine Art

[[Vyacheslav Artyomov]]

Symphony: ''Gentle Emanation''

''Tristia II''
|[[Teodor Currentzis]], [[Vladimir Ponkin]]
|Divine Art Records

DDA 25143
|-
|Tchaikovsky Selections

[[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|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 (record label)|Pentatone]]

5186550
|-
! colspan="3" |2015
|-
|[[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky]]: The Symphonies and “Manfred” Symphony
|[[Mikhail Pletnev]]
|[[Pentatone (record label)|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 (record label)|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 (record label)|Pentatone]]

5186486
|-
|[[Dmitri Shostakovich]]

Symphony No. 7 in C major
|[[Paavo Järvi]]
|[[Pentatone (record label)|Pentatone]]

5176511
|-
! colspan="3" |2014
|-
|[[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky]]

“Manfred” Symphony
|[[Mikhail Pletnev]]
|[[Pentatone (record label)|Pentatone]]

5186387
|-
! colspan="3" |2012
|-
|[[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky]]

Symphony No. 3 in D major

''Coronation March''
|[[Mikhail Pletnev]]
|[[Pentatone (record label)|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 (record label)|Pentatone]]

5186395
|-
|[[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky]]

Symphony No. 2 in C Minor – ''Little Russian''

Symphony No. 2 in C Minor (Original First Movement)
|[[Mikhail Pletnev]]
|[[Pentatone (record label)|Pentatone]]

5186382
|-
|[[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky]]

Symphony No. 1 in G minor – ''Winter Daydreams''

''Marche slave''
|[[Mikhail Pletnev]]
|[[Pentatone (record label)|Pentatone]]

5186381
|-
! colspan="3" |2011
|-
|[[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky]]

Symphony No. 6 in B minor – ''Pathétique''

''Capriccio italien''
|[[Mikhail Pletnev]]
|[[Pentatone (record label)|Pentatone]]
5186386
|-
|[[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky]]

''The Nutcracker –'' Ballet in Two Acts

Vesna Children's Choir
|[[Mikhail Pletnev]]
|[[Ondine (record label)|Ondine]]

ODE 1180-2D
|-
|[[Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov]]

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

''Capriccio espagnol''

''Neapolitan Song''

Tatiana Porshneva and Alexei Bruni, violin
|[[Carlo Ponti (conductor)|Carlo Ponti]]
|[[Pentatone (record label)|Pentatone]]

5186 378
|-
|[[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky]]

Symphony No. 5 in E minor

''Francesca da Rimini: Fantasy for Orchestra after Dante''
|[[Mikhail Pletnev]]
|[[Pentatone (record label)|Pentatone]]

5186 385
|-
|[[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky]]

Symphony No. 4 in F minor

''Romeo and Juliet'' ''Overture-Fantasia'' (Final version of 1880)
|[[Mikhail Pletnev]]
|[[Pentatone (record label)|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 Rachmaninoff|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
|-
! colspan="3" |2010
|-
|[[Sergei Rachmaninoff|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
|-
|[[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky]]

''Swan Lake'' – Ballet in Four Acts
|[[Mikhail Pletnev]]
|[[Ondine (record label)|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 and Peter and the Wolf|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 (record label)|Pentatone]]

5186311
|-
|Gershwin and Bernstein

[[George Gershwin]]

Concerto in F

[[Leonard Bernstein]]

''The Age of Anxiety''

[[Ingrid Jacoby]], piano
|[[Dmitry Liss]]
|[[Ondine (record label)|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 (record label)|Pentatone]]

5186 362
|-
! colspan="3" |2009
|-
|[[Dmitri Shostakovich]]

Symphony No. 15 in A major

''Hamlet'' – Selections from the Incidental Music
|[[Mikhail Pletnev]]
|[[Pentatone (record label)|Pentatone]]

5186 331
|-
! colspan="3" |2008
|-
|[[Modest Mussorgsky]]

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

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

''The Sorochinsky Fair''

''Khovanshchina – Prelude and Dance of the Persian Slave Girls''
|[[Carlo Ponti (conductor)|Carlo Ponti]]
|[[Pentatone (record label)|Pentatone]]
SACD 5186332
|-
|[[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky]]

''Hamlet –'' Overture and Incidental Music

''Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasia''
|[[Vladimir Jurowski]]
|[[Pentatone (record label)|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
|-
! colspan="3" |2007
|-
|[[Sergei Prokofiev]]

Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major

''Ode to the End of the War''
|[[Vladimir Jurowski]]
|[[Pentatone (record label)|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 (record label)|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 (record label)|Pentatone]] SACD
|-
! colspan="3" |2006
|-
|[[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky]]

Violin Concerto in D major

''Sérénade mélancolique''

''Valse – Scherzo''

''Souvenir d'un lieu cher''

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

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

Symphony No. 1 in F minor

Symphony No. 6 in B minor
|[[Vladimir Jurowski]]
|[[Pentatone (record label)|Pentatone]] SACD
|-
|[[Dmitri Shostakovich]]

Symphony No. 11 – “The Year 1905”
|[[Mikhail Pletnev]]
|[[Pentatone (record label)|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 (record label)|Pentatone]] SACD
|-
! colspan="3" |2005
|-
|[[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky]]

Suite No. 3 in G major

[[Igor Stravinsky]]

''Divertimento'' – Ballet Suite from ''Le baiser de la fée''
|[[Vladimir Jurowski]]
|[[Pentatone (record label)|Pentatone]] SACD
|-
|Young America

Choral Works by [[Gordon Getty]]

''Young America''

''Three Welsh Songs''

''Annabel Lee''

''Victorian Scenes''

''Jerusalem''

[[San Francisco Symphony|San Francisco Symphony Orchestra]] and Russian National Orchestra, [[Eric Ericson Chamber Choir]], [[San Francisco Symphony Chorus]]
|[[Michael Tilson Thomas]], [[Alexander Vedernikov]]
|[[Pentatone (record label)|Pentatone]] SACD
|-
! colspan="3" |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 (record label)|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 (record label)|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 (record label)|Pentatone]] SACD
|-
! colspan="3" |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 (record label)|Pentatone]] SACD
|-
|[[Peter and the Wolf]] / [[Wolf Tracks and Peter and the Wolf|Wolf Tracks]] [in Russian]

[[Sergei Prokofiev]]

''Peter and the Wolf''

[[Oleg Tabakov]], narrator

[[Jean-Pascal Beintus]]

''Wolf Tracks''

[[Sergey Bezrukov|Sergei Bezrukov]], narrator

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

Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor

[[Carl Loewe]]

Piano Concerto No. 2 in A

[[Mari Kodama]], piano
|[[Kent Nagano]]
|[[Pentatone (record label)|Pentatone]]
|-
|[[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|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 (record label)|Pentatone]]
|-
|[[Sergei Prokofiev]]

Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major

[[Sergei Rachmaninoff|Sergei Rachmaninov]]

Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor

[[Mikhail Pletnev]], piano
|[[Mstislav Rostropovich]]
|[[Deutsche Grammophon]]471476
|-
! colspan="3" |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''
|
|
|-
|[[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|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 (opera)|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|Peer Gynt Suite]],'' No. 1

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

''Slavonic Dance'', No. 2 in E minor

''Lezghinka''
|[[Mikhail Pletnev]]
|RNO 100
|-
! colspan="3" |2001
|-
|[[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky]]

Violin Concerto in D major

[[Julius Conus|Jules Conus]]

Violin Concerto in E minor

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

4714282
|-
! colspan="3" |2000
|-
|[[Sergei Rachmaninoff|Sergei Rachmaninov]]

''The Bells''

[[Sergei Taneyev]]

''John of Damascus''
|[[Mikhail Pletnev]]
|[[Deutsche Grammophon]]

471 029-2
|-
|[[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky]]

Symphony No. 6 in B minor – ''Pathétique''

''The Seasons''

''Sleeping Beauty''
|[[Mikhail Pletnev]]
|Virgin Classics
|-
! colspan="3" |1999
|-
|[[Sergei Rachmaninoff|Sergei Rachmaninov]]

Symphony No. 1 in D minor

''The Isle of the Dead''
|[[Mikhail Pletnev]]
|[[Deutsche Grammophon]]

463 075-2
|-
! colspan="3" |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
|-
|[[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|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
|-
! colspan="3" |1997
|-
|[[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky]]

''The Sleeping Beauty''
|[[Mikhail Pletnev]]
|[[Deutsche Grammophon]]

457 6342
|-
|[[Ludwig van 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
|-
! colspan="3" |1996
|-
|[[Carl Maria von Weber]]

''Invitation to the Dance''

Konzertstück 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

[[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky]]

''Souvenir d' un lieu cher''

Valse-Scherzo

[[Gil Shaham, violin]]
|[[Mikhail Pletnev]]
|[[Deutsche Grammophon]]

457 0642
|-
|[[Sergei Rachmaninoff|Sergei Rachmaninov]]

Symphony No. 3 in A minor

''Symphonic Dances''
|[[Mikhail Pletnev]]
|[[Deutsche Grammophon]]

457 5982
|-
|[[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|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]]
|-
|[[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|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
|-
|[[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky]]

''1812 Overture''

''Symphonic Fantasy – Fate''

Symphony No. 2 in C minor – ''Little Russian''
|[[Mikhail Pletnev]]
|[[Deutsche Grammophon]]

453 4462
|-
|[[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky]]

''Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasia''

Symphony No. 3 in D major – Polish
|[[Mikhail Pletnev]]
|[[Deutsche Grammophon]]

453 4472
|-
|[[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky]]

''Francesca da Rimini: Symphonic Fantasy after Dante''

Symphony No. 4 in F minor
|[[Mikhail Pletnev]]
|[[Deutsche Grammophon]]

453 4482
|-
|[[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky]]

''Hamlet Overture-Fantasia''

Symphony No. 5 in E minor
|[[Mikhail Pletnev]]
|[[Deutsche Grammophon]]

453 4492
|-
|[[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|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
|-
|[[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|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
|-
! colspan="3" |1995
|-
|[[Nikolai Myaskovsky|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
|-
! colspan="3" |1994
|-
|[[Sergei Prokofiev]]

''Cinderella'' – Ballet in Three Acts

''Summer Night,'' Suite for Orchestra from ''Betrothal in a Monastery''
|[[Mikhail Pletnev]]
|[[Deutsche Grammophon]]

445 8302
|-
|[[Antonín Dvořák|Antonin Dvořák]]

''Slavonic Dances''
|[[Mikhail Pletnev]]
|[[Deutsche Grammophon]]

447 0562
|-
|The Enchanted Kingdom

[[Anatoly Lyadov|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 Rachmaninoff|Sergei Rachmaninov]]

Symphony No. 2 in E minor

''The Rock – Fantasy''

[[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky]]

''The Tempest''

Overture in F major

[[Anatoly Lyadov|Anatoly Liadov]]

''Baba-Yaga''

''Kikimora''

''The Enchanted Lake''
|[[Mikhail Pletnev]]
|[[Deutsche Grammophon]]

459 0592
|-
! colspan="3" |1993
|-
|[[Sergei Rachmaninov]]

''The Rock – Fantasy''
|[[Mikhail Pletnev]]
|[[Deutsche Grammophon]]

439 8882
|-
|[[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|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''

[[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky]]

Overture in F major
|[[Mikhail Pletnev]]
|[[Deutsche Grammophon]]

439 8922
|-
! colspan="3" |1991
|-
|[[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky]]

Symphony No. 6 in B minor – ''Pathétique''

''Marche slave''
|[[Mikhail Pletnev]]
|[[Virgin Media|Virgin]]

759 66121
|}

==References==
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== External links ==
*[http://www.rnor.ru/ Official Website (Russian)]
*[https://rnor.ru/radio RNO Radio Online]

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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 City and in Israel.[2]

History

[edit]

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

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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 Magazine; 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

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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 Grammophon471476
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 van 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

Konzertstück 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

References

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  4. ^ "RNO Scores a Grammy Win". RNO Press Release. Archived from the original on 6 May 2012. Retrieved 21 November 2011.
  5. ^ "Российский национальный оркестр". www.rno.ru. Retrieved 2019-03-19.
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