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Composer of the Week

Music: Classical

An informative guide to composers' lives and their music.

An informative and accessible guide to composers' lives and their music.

Composer of the Week: Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908): A Revised Legacy

Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)

A Revised Legacy

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Donald Macleod explores Rimsky-Korsakov’s legacy

Donald Macleod explores Rimsky-Korsakov’s legacy, and how much the composer was a conscious architect of his own music’s reputation and Russian music’s reception overseas

Donald Macleod delves into the life and work of one of the most important Russian composers of his age – Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.  Rimsky-Korsakov’s music is filled with lush orchestration and hints of orientalism and folk music. These elements and his role as a leading member of “The Mighty Handful” of composers who sought to forge a truly nationalistic music has led him to be regarded as the main architect of the Russian style of composition we know today. In the final programme of the week, Donald explores Rimsky-Korsakov’s legacy, and to what degree the composer was a conscious architect of his own music’s reputation via the countless revisions he made of his works. Donald also examines the impact which Rimsky-Korsakov had on the reception of other Russian composers’ music overseas.

Flight of the Bumblebee (Tsar Saltan)
Wynton Marsalis, trumpet
Eastman Wind Ensemble
Donald Hunsberger, director

Maid of Pskov – Overture
Chorus of the Kirov Opera
Kirov Orchestra
Valery Gergiev, conductor

Night on the Bare Mountain
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
Mariss Jansons, conductor

Polonaise (Christmas Eve Suite)
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Eugene Ormandy, conductor

Mlada: Act III, Scenes 2 and 3
Nina Kulagina (Morena)
Chorus & Orchestra of Moscow State Broadcasting
Evgeny Svetlanov, conductor

Mozart & Salieri: Scene 2 (extract)
Nikita Storojev, bass
Vladimir Bogachov, tenor
I Musici de Montreal Choir
I Musici de Montreal
Yuli Turovsky, conductor

Upon the hills of Georgia, Op.3
Vladimir Bogachov, tenor
I Musici de Montreal Choir
I Musici de Montreal
Yuli Turovsky, conductor

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Composer of the Week: Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)

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Donald Macleod surveys the life of Russian composer Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov.

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