Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) was a prolific composer of orchestral works and many other forms of music, including chamber works and art songs. He also wrote many operas, excerpts from which are featured in this collection.
Contents include the famous orchestral interlude "The Flight of the Bumblebee" as well as the suite from "The Tale of Tsar Saltan." This fanciful opera was based on Aleksandr Pushkin's poem, "The Tale of Tsar Saltan, of His Son the Renowned and Mighty Bogatyr Prince Gvidon Saltanovich and of the Beautiful Princess-Swan." Additional selections include the suite from another work inspired by Pushkin's poetry, " The Golden Cockerel," a controversial satire of the disastrous effects of the tsarist regime. Nikolai Gogol's "Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka" served as the basis for" Christmas Eve," a tale of magical doings on Christmas Eve. The final suite is from "Dubinushka," Op. 62, a work rooted in a song the composer overheard protesters singing during the 1905 revolution. Musicians and music lovers will appreciate this inexpensive collection of popular works, all reproduced from authoritative sources.

Marc Albrecht conducts the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra in this 2012 production of Rimsky-Korsakov's opera. Svetlana Ignatovich stars as Fevroniya, a young peasant who prays that the city of Kitezh will become invisible so that it will be saved from the invading Tatars. Though her wish is granted, Svetlana is taken by the enemy. The rest of the cast includes John Daszak, Vladimir Vaneev and Maxim Aksenov.

Valery Gergiev conducts the Mariinsky Orchestra and Chorus in this performance of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's opera, directed by Anna Matison. The cast includes Vladimir Feliauer as King Dodon, Andrei Ilyushnikov as Vladislav Sulimsky, Aida Garifullina as the Queen of Shemakha and Andrei Popov as the Astrologer.

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Rimsky-Korsakov's second excursion into the symphonic form came early in his career (1869) but underwent two major revisions, in 1875 and 1897. The second version of 1875 was modified in 1903 due to his publisher Bessel's refusal to engrave the new plates required for the final version of 1897. This 1875/1903 revision became the most popular version for many decades, as the final version of 1897 did not appear in print until nearly a decade after the composer's death. This colorful, exotic symphony - later termed a "symphonic suite" by its composer, is easily the best known of the three composed by the great Russian master of orchestral writing . The study score offered here is a digitally-enhanced reprint of the one issued around 1947 by the Soviet State publishing house, Muzgiz.

Borodin started composing his first excursion into the symphonic form in 1862, while studying with Mily Balakirev. He worked on it sporadically for the next five years, making revisions in the wake of an informal orchestral reading in 1867. The official premiere, at a concert of the Russian Musical Society on 23 December 1868 conducted by his tutor Balakirev, successfully established Borodin as a major force in Russian orchestral music. The score presented here is a digitally-enhanced reprint of the one issued ca.1946 by the Soviet State Publisher Muzgiz, itself a re-engraving of the score edited by Rimsky-Korsakov and Glazunov which was published by V. Bessel after the composer's death in 1887.