Editing Nikolai Myaskovsky (section)

===Recordings===
Myaskovsky has not been as popular on recordings as have Shostakovich and Prokofiev. Nonetheless, most of his works have been recorded, many of them more than once, including the Cello Concerto, the Violin Concerto, many of the Symphonies, and much of his chamber and solo music.

Between 1991 and 1993 the conductor [[Yevgeny Svetlanov]] realized a massive project to record Myaskovsky's entire symphonic output and most of his other orchestral works on 16 CDs,<ref>Many of them, it seems, premiere recordings in any wide distribution form. A few works do lack. An overture for orchestra, [[opus number|opus]] 9a – which originated as a piano sonata during his conservatory years... – does not appear in the series, but appears separately from the same conductor and orchestra on another record label. There also seem to be some brief works for wind band missing (e.g. some Military Marches from 1930 and 1941, the Dramatic Overture for winds Opus 60), though these are not works for full orchestra. Only the second, most often heard version of his violin concerto is included, but the first version can be heard – and compared – in the recording of the work's premiere in a Brilliant Classics CD set.</ref> with the Symphony Orchestra of the USSR and the State Symphony Orchestra of the Russian Federation. In the chaotic conditions prevailing at the breakup of the USSR, Svetlanov is rumoured to have had to pay the orchestral musicians himself in order to undertake the sessions. The recordings began to be issued in the West by Olympia Records in 2001, but ceased after volume 10; the remaining volumes were issued by Alto Records starting in the first half of 2008. To complicate matters, in July 2008, Warner Music France issued the entire 16-CD set, boxed, as volume 35 of their 'Édition officielle Evgeny Svetlanov'.

In a testimony printed in French and English in the accompanying booklet, Svetlanov describes Myaskovsky as "the founder of Soviet symphonism, the creator of the Soviet school of composition, the composer whose work has become the bridge between Russian classics and Soviet music ... Myaskovsky entered the history of music as a great toiler like [[Joseph Haydn|Haydn]], [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]] and [[Franz Schubert|Schubert]]. ... He invented his own style, his own intonations and manner while enriching and developing the glorious tradition of Russian music".  Svetlanov also likens the current neglect of Myaskovsky's symphonies to the neglect formerly suffered by the symphonies of [[Gustav Mahler]] and [[Anton Bruckner]].<ref>'Evgeny Svetlanov remembers', booklet note with Warner Music France 2564 69689-8. The non-idiomatic English version has been corrected in this quotation by reference to the French version.</ref>