For me, there are numerous Russian composers whose music I love, but none more than Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky. With also an honourable mention to Taneyev.

Others are Prokofiev, Rimsky-Korsakov, Glazunov, Borodin, Mussorgsky, Rachmaninov, Stravinsky.

 

Sorely missing: Gubaidulina, Taneyev, Weinberg. That's just FTTOMH.

ETA: and Myaskovski

 

Tchaikovsky, Taneyev, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Glazunov, Rachmaninov

 

My personal dozen:

1. Shostakovich
2. Gubaidulina
3. Tchaikovsky, PI
4. Stravinsky
5. Prokofiev
6. Weinberg
7. Scriabin
8. Mussorgsky
9. Myaskovski
10. Gretchaninov
11. Taneyev
12. Glazunov

 

Great to see a few others mentioning Taneyev.

 

My others: Balakirev, Gliere, Glazunov, Lyadov, Khachaturian...

 

I'm the only one who likes Scriabin? What's wrong with all of you??

 

He was my #2 on Art Rock’s recent 30 favorite composers poll. I’ve long since admired him, not just for his brilliant piano music but also his surprising and inventive orchestral writing—after all his 1st symphony was the first work of his I heard and I was hooked from that first melodic line.

 

I picked Stravinsky. Pure personal favoritism, sorry. The Firebird, Rite of Spring, and his Octet will always hold sway over me. Then again, I'll always have a spot reserved in my heart for Tchaikovsky's 4th, Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain + Pictures at an Exhibition, and Prokofiev's March, Opus 99. (I know, Prokofiev's more famous for other stuff, but I love that March...)

 

Favourites:

Shostakovich/Schnittke/Stravinsky/Prokofiev/Skryabin.

 

Veniamin Fleishman could have been one of the great opera composers had he not died in the war
Bortniansky, Gretchaninov, Kastalsky, Kalinnikov, Ippolitov-Ivanov wrote some fine liturgical music, as did Rachmaninoff

 

1. Shostakovich
2. Prokofiev
3. Schnittke
4. Gubaidulina
5. Denisov
6. Medtner
7. Scriabin
8. Stravinsky
9. Juon
10. Myaskovsky

 

Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Stravinsky and Schnittke.

 

Alexey Rybnikov - modern Russian composer. The best works - Symphony № 6, Concerto grosso "The Blue Bird", Concerto grosso "The Northern Sphinx", and also very beautiful melodies from movies and two rock operas.
Vasily Kalinnikov symphony № 1 , № 2

Valeri Kikta modern Russian composer. The best works - Frescoes of St-Sophia of Kiev ,concertos.
Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky modern Russian composer. The best works - Maithuna,Le récit de voyage .
All these works are on YouTube.

 

Nikolai Korndorf symphony № 3 - Epic and philosophical symphony.
Alexander Knaifel - Agnus dei

 

How Russian composers performed in the "The TC Top 100 most favourite composers based on the personal preferences of 64 TC members (2024)":

008 (008) Shostakovich, Dmitri
009 (007) Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich
015 (011) Prokofiev, Sergei
017 (013) Stravinsky, Igor
024 (024) Rachmaninoff, Sergei
039 (049) Scriabin, Alexander
041 (045) Mussorgsky, Modest
043 (040) Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai
048 (042) Schnittke, Alfred
057 (073) Glazunov, Alexander
060 (044) Borodin, Alexander
071 (084) Weinberg, Mieczyslaw
079 (053) Gubaidulina, Sofia

 

My top five in rough order is:

1. Scriabin
2. Shostakovich
3. Prokofiev
4. Weinberg
5. Tchaikovsky

 

My top 5:
1. Rachmaninoff
2. Shostakovich
3. Tchaikovsky
4. Rimsky-Korsakov
5. Myaskovsky

Others I like (meaning I listen to at least some of their works on a recurring basis) - Mussorgsky, Prokofiev, Glazunov, Medtner, Scriabin, Borodin, Balakirev, Taneyev, Glinka, Lyadov, Khachaturian, Rubenstein, Kalinnikov, Grechaninov, Svetlanov

 

Alexander Tcherepnin, Nikolai Roslavets, Daniele Amfitheatrof & Vyacheslav Artyomov.

 

Great shouts for both Tcherepnin and Roslavets. I’m a huge fan of Roslavets’ Chamber symphony and solo piano works.

 

My short selection:

Rachmaninov
Tchaikovsky
Glazunov
Gubaidulina
Shostakovich
Prokofiev

 

Thanks for the inspiration.

Alexander Tcherepnin: Piano concertos Nr.2 and Nr.5

 

1. Glazunov, Alexander (1865 - 1936)
2. Rachmaninov, Sergei (1873 - 1943)
3. Gretchaninov, Alexander (1864 - 1956)

 

I think I see a typo in your list. Kasputin.You meant Rasputin, right?.

 

Kasputin, Russia’s greatest classical jazz fusion machine.

 

Prokofiev, Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky on my top 3.

Followed by Rachmaninov, Stravinsky, Glazunov, Schnittke, Kabalevsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Taneyev, Juon, Tchaikovsky (Boris), Weinberg, Glière, Myaskovsky, Arensky, Popov, Tcherepnin (Alexander), Steinberg, Eshpai and Shchedrin.

 

My Baker's Dozen:

1. Tchaikovsky
2. Rimsky-Korsakov
3. Borodin
4. Kalinnikov
5. Glazunov
6. Mussorgsky
7. Rachmaninoff
8. Khachaturian
9. Shostakovich
10. Balakirev
11. Ippolitov-Ivanov
12. Kabalevsky
13. Myaskovsky