performed by the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra under Gennady Rozhdestvensky (or in the other recording below by Concertgebouw under Karel Mark Chichon) Heaven forbid! Do not touch it; alter nothing. Your modulations are neither extravagant nor faulty. Your artistic instinct … Continue reading Borodin Symphony no. 2 in B minor
performed by the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra under Gennady Rozhdestvensky At this point, it’s incredible to believe the blog has been going for more than two years. I have been planning for some time to get around to revisiting some … Continue reading Revisit: Borodin Symphony No. 1 in E flat major
performed by the Gothenburg Symphony Ochestra under Neeme Järvi or as below by the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra under Boris Khaikin mvt. 2 mvt. 3 mvt. 4 Opus one! If you read Tuesday’s Wikipedia-heavy article about Rimsky-Korsakov, you’ll hopefully remember … Continue reading Rimsky-Korsakov Symphony no. 1 in Em, op. 1
Ilya Repin’s work is amazing; he also painted RK. From Wikipedia So this is perhaps the first name of the bunch that people might recognize. The only thing of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov which we have discussed so far is his piano … Continue reading Influential People: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
performed (again) by the Russian State Symphony Orchestra under Igor Golovschin I have to say with this symphony that, while I don’t care much for the man who wrote it (after preparing this week’s article on him), of the first … Continue reading Mily Balakirev: Symphony no. 1 in C major,
The younger, less round Balakirev In talking about Russian music, even people who don’t listen to classical music might be able to name Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, even Prokofiev or Shostakovich, and we will surely get to them all. But this week, … Continue reading Influential People: Mily Balakirev
Fugue for Thought 