The legendary double-album “OREGON in Moscow” combines the best qualities of a live recording with those of a studio production.

The formation OREGON has surely been well-known to most jazz and classical music enthusiasts. During the past 50+ years of band history, OREGON has become a synonym for genre-crossing music of the finest. Emerging in 1970 from the legendary Paul Winter Consort, OREGON combined elements of jazz with those of symphonic classical music and what is known today under the makeshift term ‘world music’. Despite their music defying classification OREGON has not only persevered until today but has also long become a legend of its own. In the late 1990s, the core trio set out to realize an ambitious project which they had often thought about, but not yet put to action: an OREGON album accompanied by a symphony orchestra. After a long search and several dead-end plans the ‘Great Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio in the Name o