1.   But it is hard to imagine an American company tampering so boldly with a work central to the Russian repertory.

2.   Despite flaws in some performances in these two sold-out concerts, he proved again to be one of the most impressive contemporary performers of the Russian orchestral repertory.

3.   He loves the Russian symphonic repertory, though, and his conducting career gives him an opportunity to perform it.

4.   Highlights from the standard Russian repertory are also on the Ananiashvili program.

5.   Later, with the support of her second husband, Bulgarian bass Nicolai Ghiaurov, she ventured into the Russian repertory.

6.   The choice was doubly interesting because Temirkanov is known in the West chiefly for his splendid work in Russian repertory.

7.   They were used to playing Romantic symphonies and the Russian repertory.