Mariinsky (Kirov) Orchestra (Orchestra)
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Recording of the Week,
Tchaikovsky's Moscow Cantata
12th October 2009
Valery Gergiev conducts the Mariinsky orchestra in a punchy, exciting account of the 1883 work written in honour of the coronation of Tsar Alexander III, plus the 1812 Overture, and the ‘Danish Overture’, composed for Alexander’s marriage.