COMPOSERS: Shchedrin
LABELS: Melodiya
WORKS: Carmen-Suite; Little Humpbacked Horse
PERFORMER: Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra/Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Algis Zhuraytis
CATALOGUE NO: MEL CD 10 01630
The Bolshoi players enjoy themselves in Shchedrin’s lurid reworkings of excerpts from Bizet’s Carmen, and in his attractive ballet The Little Humpbacked Horse. Calum MacDonald