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Symphony No. 1, in C played by the BBC Scottish Orchestra
(Leader J. Mouland Begbie )
Conductor, Ian Whyte
Balakirev, besides guiding and inspiring the Russian nationalist musicians (including Mussorgsky, Borodin, and Rimsky-Korsakov), was an important composer in his own right. His Symphony in C was produced in 1898. It opens with an introduction marked Largo based on the main theme of the Allegro vivo that follows. The Scherio, in A minor, is succeeded by an Andante in D flat in which a solo clarinet has an appealing melody accompanied by harp and strings. The finale, Allegro moderato, contains several folk-tunes. one of which Balakirev heard sung by a blind beggar while he was travelling on the Finnish railway. Harold Rutland

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Leader:
J. Mouland Begbie
Conductor:
Ian Whyte

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