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Lyadov folk song settings

Posted in Apropos of the 19th century..., music and visual arts, tagged , on January 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Lyadov’s arrangements for orchestra of
Russian folk songs 

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‘Night on a Bare Mountain’

Posted in Apropos of the 19th century..., music and visual arts, tagged , , on January 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Mussorgsky’s amazing evocation of a witches’
sabbath, ‘Ночь на Лысом горе’…

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Balakirev overture

Posted in Apropos of the 19th century..., music and visual arts, tagged , 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…

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Borodin 2nd quartet

Posted in Apropos of the 19th century..., tagged , on January 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

This is the beautiful 3rd movement from
Borodin’s second string quartet…

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Руслан и Людмила

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on January 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

O verture to Glinka’s ground-breaking
opera setting of Pushkin’s mock-folk tale,
“Руслан и Людмила”

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Boris Godunov

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on January 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Boris Christoff starring as Boris in a
clip from Mussorgsky’s opera…

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Khandoshkin

Posted in Apropos of the 19th century..., tagged , , on January 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Here’s a link for some violin music by
Khandoshkin, Russian violin virtuoso
of the late 18C…

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