Lyadov’s arrangements for orchestra of Russian folk songs
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Lyadov folk song settings
Posted in Apropos of the 19th century..., music and visual arts, tagged music, nationalism on January 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
‘Night on a Bare Mountain’
Posted in Apropos of the 19th century..., music and visual arts, tagged folk culture, music, nationalism on January 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Mussorgsky’s amazing evocation of a witches’ sabbath, ‘Ночь на Лысом горе’…
Balakirev overture
Posted in Apropos of the 19th century..., music and visual arts, tagged music, nationalism on January 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Balakirev’s ‘Overture on 3 Russian Themes’ – not what we heard in class (that was ‘Русь’), but similar feel and colours…
Borodin 2nd quartet
Posted in Apropos of the 19th century..., tagged music, nationalism on January 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is the beautiful 3rd movement from Borodin’s second string quartet…
Руслан и Людмила
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged music, nationalism, Pushkin on January 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Overture to Glinka’s ground-breaking opera setting of Pushkin’s mock-folk tale, “Руслан и Людмила”
Boris Godunov
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged music, nationalism, Russian history on January 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Boris Christoff starring as Boris in a clip from Mussorgsky’s opera…
Khandoshkin
Posted in Apropos of the 19th century..., tagged folk culture, music, nationalism on January 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s a link for some violin music by Khandoshkin, Russian violin virtuoso of the late 18C…