Glazunov's First Symphony, composed when he was barely twenty, announces a composer already secure in his craft—a work of luminous orchestration and melodic generosity that belongs to that Russian Romantic tradition stretching from Glinka through Tchaikovsky. Vladimir Fedoseyev leads the USSR State Radio Orchestra through this score with the kind of unhurried conviction that lets the music breathe, each theme unfurling with natural phrasing rather than architectural bombast. The Mobile Fidelity pressing captures the warmth of the Soviet orchestral sound: those rich woodwind colors, the burnished brass, the full string section that Glazunov knew how to deploy like a painter layering oils. If you've encountered Glazunov mainly through his ballets or the later, denser symphonies, this youthful declaration—hopeful, uncomplicated, and strikingly assured—offers a different kind of pleasure: the sound of a young master finding his voice before the century's weight settles in.