RIMSKY-KORSAKOV NIKOLAI

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(CD) SUITES AND OVERTURES
"..excellent performances of some captivatingly colourful music. (Russian Easter Festival) splendidly exuberant playing from players who naturally have the stuff of the music in their bones...marvellous gravity and resonance. ...(Dubinushka) only a trifle, but quite a rare one. Rimsky-Korsakov heard the song during the 1905 "revolution" - both his liberal instincts and his musical invention were fired ...scored by the master hand and very effective (The Golden Cockerel) excellently played under Svetlanov (he has a marvellously strangled tr...
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(3CD) THE SNOW MAIDEN
"For me there could have been no better subject, no better poetic model, than Snegurochka, the shepherd Lel and Lovely Spring: for me there could be nothing more beautiful than the realm of the strange Tsar Berendey, and no lovelier religion than that of sun worship. Motifs, themes, chord sequences occurred to me even while reading, and soon, at first vaguely and then more clearly, the moods and colours of the individual elements of the action came to mind. I sat down in front of a pile of music paper and began to write everything down in ...
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(CD) CANTATAS
As was tradition in his family, Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov trained to be a naval cadet. He continued to compose throughout his years in service and was appointed Professor of Composition and Orchestration at the St Petersburg Conservatory, despite having an extremely limited knowledge of music theory. He is now remembered as one of the most influential Russian Nationalist composers of all time, and was an integral member of 'The Five'. This disc brings together the great composer's cantatas. The Poem about Aleksey, the Man of God Op.20 origin...
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(2CD) THE GOLDEN COCKEREL
Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov showed musical promise as a child, but the pursuit of a Naval career meant that much of his grounding in musical theory was gained in between various tours of duty. Although best known in the Western world for his nationalist orchestral works, Rimsky-Korsakov brought Russian opera to the fore, so that by the end of his life, the genre was flourishing. The Golden Cockerel, written between 15 October 1906 and 29 August 1907, was inspired by Alexander Pushkin's tale and caused concern among the Russian aut...
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(25-CD BOX SET) RIMSKY-KORSAKOV EDITION
Detailing the works of one of Russia's greatest masters and full of fine, often authentically Russian performances, this fascinating 25 CD release is guaranteed to provide hours of pleasurable listening. From the orchestral virtuosity of Scheherazade to the poetic beauty of The Snow Maiden, the compilation contains all of the composer's most famous works. It also features many compositions which have not held the stage, or concert hall outside Russia, as well as they deserve, such as the littleperformed String Sextet and Quintet for Piano ...
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(2CD) THE TSAR'S BRIDE
Rimsky-Korsakov's tenth opera, The Tsar's Bride moves away from the fairytale tableaux-style of opera in which he had triumphed. This is a grand narrative in the Verdian style. That said, the musical language is unmistakably Russian, with a motif (Slava) running like a thread throughout the score. This motto can also be heard in Boris Godunov, Beethoven's second 'Razumovsky' Quartet, and Tchaikovsky's Mazeppa. The score also displays Rimsky's mastery of contrapuntal techniques, and of course his extraordinary use of the orchestra combine t...
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