First Sunday Music - Rimsky-Korsakov

Rimsky-Korsakov

[HoosierHawk]

Nicholay Rimsky-Korsakov

Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov, (1844-1908), was a Russian composer and musical theorist, one of the greatest composers of the Russian nationalist school, and a great master of orchestration.

Rimsky-Korsakov was born on March 18, 1844, in Tikhvin, near Novgorod. He studied piano as a child. In 1856 he was enrolled at the Naval Academy at Saint Petersburg but continued his musical studies. In 1861 Rimsky-Korsakov became an associate of the Russian composer Mily Balakirev, the dominant figure of a group of young, nationally conscious Russian composers including Aleksandr Borodin, Modest Mussorgsky, and César Cui. Together with Rimsky-Korsakov this group of composers became known as The Five.

After his retirement from active service in the navy in 1873, Rimsky-Korsakov was made inspector of naval bands. The knowledge that he gained in this capacity was subsequently employed to advantage in the scoring of his compositions. From 1871 to his death he was professor of practical composition and instrumentation at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory (now the N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory), and from 1886 to 1890 he conducted the Russian Symphony concerts in St. Petersburg. He also completed Borodin's unfinished opera Prince Igor in 1889 and reorchestrated Mussorgsky's opera Boris Godunov in 1896 after the deaths of the composers. Rimsky-Korsakov himself died on June 21, 1908, in St. Petersburg.

Rimsky-Korsakov is remembered today more for the freshness and brilliance of his instrumentation than for the originality of his musical ideas. His influence as an orchestrator was exercised directly on his pupils, notably the Russian composers Igor Stravinsky and Aleksandr Glazunov, and indirectly through his treatise, The Foundations of Instrumentation, published posthumously in 1913.

Rimsky-Korsakov - Sheherezade

Borodin - Polovtsian Dances

Sir Thomas Beecham conducting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

[mylife]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdFBA2r-FiE

[mylife]

Sarah Brightman

[HoosierHawk]

Thanks. And Ms. Fleming’s a beautiful woman as well. IMO

[laurenmarlowe]

Thank you HoosierHawk, very nice!

[gcruse]

He’s okay. I prefer Moussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain/Pictures at an Exhibition

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[mylife]

Sarah Brightman~ Beautiful Day

[mylife]

Sarah Brightman anytime anywhere~Variations on Pachabel's Canon in D

[mylife]

Oops... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AI83gQBVOc

[kitkat]

“Take my hand, I’m a stranger in Paradise....”

We once walked into a hotel on Paradise Island in the Bahamas as a very good pianist was playing Borodin to welcome visitors.

Thank you for my Sunday evening music.

[Dante3]

Yes!

[HoosierHawk]

I’m glad you enjoyed.

[HoosierHawk]

Nice videos. Thanks.

[mylife]

Glad ya liked em

[mylife]

Too Many Notes

[mylife]

the fires of war

[MrsPatriot]

Dvorak’s eigth symphony is wonderful.

[mylife]

Vaughn Williams~ The Lark Ascending

[mylife]

I like his work

[johniegrad]

Completely off topic but I just purchased the entire works of Bach on CD (155 discs) for $109. Shipping was $3.95.