His tempos in the second symphony are more conventional.
This thread encouraged me to dig out a couple of discs that I remember very much enjoying but that I hadn’t listened to in years - Gliere’s own recordings of his first and second symphonies. Both were released in 1995 on the Consonance label.
Disc 81-3001 has Gliere conducting his first symphony in 1950 with the All-Union Radio Orchestra and is coupled with a 1968 performance of his harp concerto (Olga Erdeli, USSR Radio and TV Large Symphony Orchestra/Boris Khaikin).
Disc 81-3002 has Gliere conducting his second symphony in 1949 with the All-Union Radio Orchestra and is coupled with a 1974 performance of his concerto for coloratura soprano (Evgenia Miroshnichenko, Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra/Mark Ermler).
As you might well expect, the sound quality is a bit rough and ready, but the composer delivers really attractive performances, especially in the case of symphony no. 1 (which sounds here like it might almost be a Kallinikov symphony no. 3!). As far as I know, he never recorded Ilya Murometz, which is rather a shame.
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