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Gergiev, conductor; Philips 442 537–2PH3; Soloists: Galina Gorchakova (Yaroslavna), Olga Borodina (Konchakovna), Gegam Grigorian (Vladimir), Mikhail Kit (Igor), Vladimir Ognovienko (Prince Galitsky), Bulat Minzhilkiev (Khan Konchak) Personalities | Alexander Borodin | High Romantic | Opera ...

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1833–87, Russian Alexander Borodin was the illegitimate son of the Georgian Prince Luka Gedianov. As was customary in nineteenth-century Russia, his irregular birth was concealed by registering him under the name of a serf owned by the prince. Borodin was in no way deprived by this lowly status, and his talent for music was actively encouraged. Even so ...

Source: Definitive Opera Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

(A-lex-an’-der Bô-ro-den’) 1833–87 Russian composer Borodin joined Balakirev’s circle known as ‘The Five’ while an army doctor in 1861. He later became a professor of chemistry and founded a school of medicine for women in St Petersburg, yet in his spare time composed a highly polished, if small, output. His melodic style draws on folk music reworked into compelling ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

(Al-yek’-san’-der Kon-stan-te-no’-vich Gla’-zoo-nof) 1865–1936 Russian composer Glazunov was heir to the nationalism of ‘The Five’ and the cosmopolitanism of Tchaikovsky. He studied with Rimsky-Korsakov and completed many of Borodin’s works after he died, notating the overture to Prince Igor from memory. In the 1880s and 1890s he enjoyed international fame for works such as the tone-poem Stenka Razin (1885), the ballet ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

and premiered at La Scala, Milan on 1 May 1924. Introduction | High Romantic | Opera Major Operas | Mefistofele by Arrigo Boito | High Romantic Personalities | Alexander Borodin | High Romantic | Opera Houses & Companies | La Scala, Milan | High Romantic | Opera ...

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and first performed posthumously in 1924. Recommended Recording: Mefistofele, soloists, Santa Cecilia Chorus & Orchestra (cond) Tullio Serafin (Decca) Introduction | Late Romantic | Classical Personalities | Alexander Borodin | Late Romantic | Classical ...

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1832–1906, Russian Ivan Melnikov, the Russian baritone, was best known for creating the role of Boris Godunov in Mussorgsky’s opera in 1869. Trained in Russia and Italy, Melnikov had made his debut at the Maryinsky Imperial Theatre in St Petersburg only two years earlier, as Riccardo in Bellini’s I puritani. Melnikov continued to sing at the ...

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Russia and composers, even those of aristocratic birth, usually followed other careers, with music as a sideline. César Cui studied engineering. Rimsky-Korsakov was a naval officer and Borodin was a medical army officer. Mussorgsky was destined for the military and at 13 entered the School of Guards in St Petersburg as a cadet. It was here that he ...

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composer Mussorgsky was the most radical of the Russian composers known as ‘The Five’. Born to a land-owning family, he joined the army in 1856, where he encountered Borodin, then a military doctor, and Cui, who introduced him to Balakirev, with whom he studied. In 1858 he resigned to pursue a musical career, but ...

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(Ni’-ku-li Rim’-ske Kôr’-sa-kôf) 1844–1908 Russian composer Born to a land-owning family, Rimsky-Korsakov served in the Russian navy and composed the first ‘Russian’ symphony while on duty off Gravesend. He joined Balakirev’s circle, ‘The Five’, in 1861 and following the success of Sadko (1867), a tone-poem about the sea, was appointed professor at the new St Petersburg Conservatory. In addition ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

(Pi’-otr Il’-yech Chi’-kôf-ska) 1840–93 Russian composer Few composers from the second half of the nineteenth century have achieved as great a popularity as Tchaikovsky. For many listeners, the secret lies in his special gift for broad, arching melodies and his tendency towards agonized self-expression, rooted in a series of crises in his personal life, which fall easy prey ...

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the Metropolitan Opera 1997–2008, and principal conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic 1995–2008 and the London Symphony (from 2005). He has recorded most of the major nineteenth-century Russian operas (by Borodin, Glinka, Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky), as well as symphonies by Mahler, Prokofiev and Shostakovich. Introduction | Contemporary | Classical Personalities | Carlo Maria Giulini | Contemporary ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

That music has a double history – a social and a stylistic one – is amply proven by its development in the second half of the nineteenth century. Its progress was marked, though not entirely determined, by the revolutions that swept Europe in 1848. There were perceptible changes of emphasis, not only in concert and operatic life from ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

who in the 1850s and 1860s gathered around him a small coterie of like-minded artists eager to promote a truly Russian style. Mussorgsky and Cui, and later Rimsky-Korsakov and Borodin, all of whom pursued music alongside full-time careers, developed their ideas guided by their mentor Balakirev, who influenced their compositions, suggesting literary subjects and folk themes. ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

Boris Godunov, the only project out of nine that Mussorgsky completed himself, has been cited as the great masterpiece of nineteenth-century Russian opera – with its thrilling crowd scenes, historic panorama and the chilling power of its principal character. Boris was unusual in having its chief male role written for a bass voice and for the ‘sung prose’ ...

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