Five Publishers
With Richard Baker. Mitrofan Belaiev was an amateur pianist and string player with no experience of the music publishing business. He invested the family fortune (from the timber trade) in championing young Russian composers, especially
Glazunov and Scriabin. Music includes:
Glazunov Symphony No 1
USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra, conductor
Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
Musorgsky A Night on the Bare Mountain Berlin Philharmonic, conductor Claudio Abbado
Rimsky-Korsakov Symphony No 2
(Antar) (excerpt) Bergen Philharmonic, conductor Dmitri Kitaenko
Scriabin Piano Sonata No 4
Gordon Fergus-Thompson (piano)