Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Russian composer (1844–1908)
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His orchestral showpieces—Scheherazade, Capriccio Espagnol, the Russian Easter Festival Overture—remain concert-hall standards a century later, built from Russian folk melody and the kind of shimmering exoticism that made Western audiences hear the East in sound.
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Rimsky-Korsakov came to composition as a naval officer, his childhood passion for the sea fed by books and his brother's stories; that love may have seeded Sadko and Scheherazade. A member of The Five, he initially pursued a nationalistic Russian style rooted in folk song and orientalist color, rejecting Western methods. But in 1871, newly appointed professor at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, he undertook three years of rigorous self-teaching to master the techniques he'd once dismissed, fusing them with the influences of Glinka and later Wagner. As Inspector of Naval Bands he deepened his…
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- The Romantic Piano Concerto, Volume 5: Balakirev: Piano Concerto no. 1 in F-sharp minor / Piano Concerto no. 2 in E-flat major / Rimsky-Korsakov: Piano Concerto in C-sharp minor1993
- Russian Trios, Volume 21993
- Musik aus Rußland I: Bilder einer Ausstellung / Polowetzer Tänze / Ouvertüre 'Russische Ostern'1993
- Intégrale des mélodies1992
- Kastchei l'immortel (solistes et orchestre du théàtre bolchoï de Moscou; chœur académique Yourslov feat. conductor Andreï Tchistiakov)1992
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