Description
Gennadi Rozhdestvensky (b.1931) is the last living survivor of a great Russian quartet of conductors consisting of Mravinsky, Kondrashin and Svetlanov. He was the highly distinguished principal conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra from 1978 to 1981, an exciting period in the orchestraās history faithfully captured here. These recordings of Holstās Planets and Brittenās Variations & Fugue on a Theme of Purcell have never been issued before on CD.