Gavriil Popov - Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 (Gennady Provatorov)

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Composer: Gavriil Popov

• (01) Symphony No. 1, Op. 7
• (04) Symphony No. 2, Op. 39 'Motherland'

Moscow State Symphony Orchestra

USSR Radio & TV Symphony Orchestra

Gennady Provatorov, conductor

Date: 1995

Label: Olympia

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Gavriil Popov (12 September 1904 – 17 February 1972) was a Soviet Russian composer. He studied at the Leningrad Conservatory from 1922 until 1930, and was considered to have the raw talent of his contemporary Dmitri Shostakovich. His early works were impressively powerful and forward-looking. Not surprisingly, he ran afoul of the authorities in 1936 and began writing in a more conservative idiom in order to avoid charges of formalism. Despite his alcoholism, Popov produced many works for orchestra, including six completed symphonies and several film scores. He was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1946.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavriil_Popov_(composer)

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Gennady Provatorov (Moscow, 11 March 1929 - Minsk 4 May 2010) was a Soviet and Belarusian conductor. He was a Belarus State Award holder and a National Artist of RSFSR.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gennady_Provatorov

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