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    The Beecham Collection - Saint-Saens: Samson et Dalila, Op.
    SOMM Recordings

    The Beecham Collection - Saint-Saens: Samson et Dalila, Op.

    CD · 1 disc

    $20.99
    Composer
    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Camille Saint-Saens
    Artist
    Mischel Cherniavsky, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
    Released
    Apr 17, 2026
    At the Festival Hall, on 24 April, 1960, an 80-year-old Sir Thomas Beecham gave what would turn out to be the final concert he conducted with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London. SOMM Recordings is releasing the last work on that historic programme as part of it's continuing Beecham Collection of live recordings-the Bacchanale from the opera Samson et Dalila by Camille Saint-Saens. Unbeknownst to them, the audience's tumultuous reception of this performance proved to be a farewell to Beecham on the London concert platform. In June 1960, he suffered a cerebral thrombosis and never conducted again; he died on 8 March 1961. Jon Tolansky, a former musician at the Royal Opera House who has since specialised in making documentary features on composers and performers, recalls hearing this programme as an 11-year-old. "I had never heard anything remotely like it," he says, "as Sir Thomas, now standing fully upright on the podium, became a generator of electric lightning and as the Royal Festival Hall seemed to be shaking, most especially in the last two minutes or so, in a catastrophic earthquake." This historic release also includes live recordings of Saint-Saens's First Cello Concerto and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade. Once again, audio restoration is by the renowned audio recording engineer Lani Spahr, whose work has recently been honoured with four Gramophone Magazine Editor's Choice Awards-for Bruckner from the Archives Vols I and IV and, more recently, Bliss, the Composer Conducts and E.J. Moeran's music conducted by Sir Adrian Boult. Beecham was always what The Times called "a quietly persistent advocate for Saint-Saens," and he offers attentive support to the 1958 reading of Saint-Saens's First Cello Concerto by Ukrainian-born soloist Mischel Cherniavsky. The concerto is in one continuous movement with three tightly structured sections sharing interrelated ideas. Cherniavsky came from a family of nine musically gifted children, and he played in the Cherniavsky Trio with two of his brothers from 1901 until 1934, after which he was mostly based in London and France. The live performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade on this release was given at the Royal Festival Hall on 21 March, 1957. This fell right in the middle of recording sessions when the orchestra was immersed in the piece for three days, which goes some way to explaining the glorious quality of the playing in the concert. What Rimsky-Korsakov described as the "various fairy-tale wonders" he had in mind when composing the work come across in Beecham's live performance with a freshness and brilliance that make for an unforgettable experience. A 24-year-old Steven Staryk became leader of the RPO shortly before these recordings, earning the title "king of concertmasters" from The Strad magazine. About his performance on this concert The Times wrote "the solo playing of the new leader, Mr Steven Staryk, must have due acknowledgment."
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  • The Beecham Collection - Saint-Saens: Samson et Dalila, Op.

    The Beecham Collection - Saint-Saens: Samson et Dalila, Op.

    SOMM Recordings Apr 2026
    1 disc
    CD
    $20.99
    Mix & Match
    1. Rimsky-Korsakov: Christmas Eve / Weigle, Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester
    2. Rimsky-Korsakov: Christmas Eve / Weigle, Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester
    Naxos

    Rimsky-Korsakov: Christmas Eve / Weigle, Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester

    CD · 2 discs

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    Composer
    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
    Artist
    Georgy Vasiliev, Julia Muzychenko, Enkeledja Shkoza, Alexey Tikhomirov, Andrei Popov, Anthony Robin
    Released
    Nov 10, 2023

    Sebastian Weigle conducts this acclaimed Oper Frankfurt production of Rimsky-Korsakov’s operatic rarity Christmas Eve. This CD version is taken from the same live performances as the DVD/Blu-ray, released in November 2022 (2.110738 and NBD0154V). Rimsky-Korsakov blends Christian and pagan elements, Ukrainian folk songs and carols, and atmospheric orchestral interludes in this vivacious and fantastical village romance.

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  • Rimsky-Korsakov: Christmas Eve / Weigle, Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester
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    Rimsky-Korsakov: Christmas Eve / Weigle, Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester

    Naxos Nov 2023
    2 discs
    CD
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  • Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade - Smetana: Bartered Bride: Overture & Dances

    Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade - Smetana: Bartered Bride: Overture & Dances

    Vox Jun 2024
    1 disc
    CD
    $19.99
    • Yevgeny Svetlanov – Rimsky-Korsakov, Glinka (Live)
    ICA Classics

    Yevgeny Svetlanov – Rimsky-Korsakov, Glinka (Live)

    CD · 1 disc

    $16.99
    Composer
    Mikhail Glinka, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
    Artist
    Yevgeny Svetlanov, London Symphony Orchestra, USSR State Symphony Orchestra
    Released
    Sep 19, 2025
    The great Russian conductor Yevgeny Svetlanov was born in Moscow in 1928 and studied with Alexander Gauk at the Moscow Conservatory. From 1955 he conducted at the Bolshoi Theatre, becoming principal conductor (1962-1964). From 1965 he was principal conductor of the USSR State Symphony Orchestra (now the Russian State Symphony Orchestra). In 1979 he was appointed principal guest conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, music director of the Residentie Orchestra (The Hague 1992 - 2000) and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra (1997- 1999). He frequently visited the UK, France, Italy, The Netherlands, Japan, Sweden, USA, and other countries. Svetlanov was a leading interpreter of Russian composers including Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninoff, Mussorgsky, Miaskovsky and Scriabin, but also a large number of non-Russian composers ranging from Debussy to Elgar. He died in Moscow aged 73 in 2002.
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  • Yevgeny Svetlanov – Rimsky-Korsakov, Glinka (Live)

    Yevgeny Svetlanov – Rimsky-Korsakov, Glinka (Live)

    ICA Classics Sep 2025
    1 disc
    CD
    $16.99
    1. Prokofiev, Rimsky-Korsakov & Tsfasman: Works for Piano and Orchestra / Chochieva, Steffens, BBC SSO
    2. Prokofiev, Rimsky-Korsakov & Tsfasman: Works for Piano and Orchestra / Chochieva, Steffens, BBC SSO
    Naïve

    Prokofiev, Rimsky-Korsakov & Tsfasman: Works for Piano and Orchestra / Chochieva, Steffens, BBC SSO

    CD · 1 disc

    $16.99
    Composer
    Sergei Prokofiev, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Alexander Tsfasman
    Artist
    Zlata Chochieva
    Released
    Nov 15, 2024
    The pianist Zlata Chochieva is well known for creating unexpected associations. In "Chiaroscuro", her first album for naive (V7542, 2022), she had combined the worlds of Scriabin and Mozart, in whom she hears not only the same desire for clarity and weightlessness but also a similar poetic sense of rhetoric. Her next album ("i'm Freien", V7959, 2023), a homage to nature, revealed alongside Ravel's Miroirs and Schumann's Waldszenen a short cycle, so little known and graceful (Petite Histoire), by Felix Draeseke! No wonder she is now offering us, for her first album with orchestra, one of the most obscure works of Russian Romanticism, the Piano Concerto by Rimsky-Korsakov. Written in 1883 in memory of Franz Liszt, whose two opuses in the genre strongly influenced the author of Scheherazade, this Concerto, with it's monothematic structure, built on a Russian folk theme, had greatly impressed Balakirev, who was surprised to hear such an idiomatically written soloist part, from a composer who was not a pianist himself. At the age of fourteen, Zlata Chochieva had played the work under the direction of Mikhail Pletnev, then head of the Russian National Orchestra. This Concerto remains for her a "miracle of taste, poetry and inspiration". Her intelligent and limpid playing is ideally suited to the very delicate lyricism that Rimsky-Korsakov deploys throughout this astonishing score full of numerous and subtle contrasts. At the heart of this recording, where Zlata Chochieva is joined by the musicians of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the German conductor Karl-Heinz Steffens, surges the merciless ardor of Sergei Prokofiev's Second Piano Concerto. In a departure from the stormy way in which this formidable score (for the fingers) is generally approached by pianists, Zlata Chochieva prefers a certain sense of phantasmagoria, rightly recalling that Prokofiev, as a spiritual disciple of Alexander Borodin and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, enjoyed stories, old Russian fairy tales and legends. After this, we have a total change of atmosphere with the Jazz Suite for piano and orchestra by Alexander Tsfasman which concludes the album. An eminent disciple of Felix Blumenfeld, an incredibly talented pianist, to whom Shostakovich intended piano part of one of his film scores, Tsfasman introduced American jazz to the Soviet Union, and formed the first orchestra dedicated to the genre. In Russia, he premiered Rhapsody in Blue by Gershwin, a composer for whom he had the deepest admiration. A brilliantly written, comforting and sincere score, his Jazz Suite sometimes evokes the American composer but above all Hollywood and Soviet film scores. Not without a most contagious and mischievous pleasure, Zlata Chochieva and Karl-Heinz Steffens revel in it's ingenuous charms (Snowflakes). 17 July 2024
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  • Prokofiev, Rimsky-Korsakov & Tsfasman: Works for Piano and Orchestra / Chochieva, Steffens, BBC SSO

    Prokofiev, Rimsky-Korsakov & Tsfasman: Works for Piano and Orchestra / Chochieva, Steffens, BBC SSO

    Naïve Nov 2024
    1 disc
    CD
    $16.99
    • Rimsky-Korsakov: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3
    Naxos

    Rimsky-Korsakov: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3

    CD · 1 disc

    $19.99
    Composer
    RIMSKY-KORSAKOV, NIKOLAI
    Artist
    Schwarz
    Released
    Apr 08, 2016
    When the 21 year old Rimsky-Korsakov’s Symphony No.1 in E minor was premièred in December 1865 it was hailed in some quarters as the first truly Russian symphony. The leader of ‘The Five’, Balakirev, favoured the use of eastern themes in the search for a personal symphonic path for national music and Rimsky seemed to signal an alternative to the German-influenced music of Anton Rubinstein. He completed Symphony No.3 in C major in 1874. Again it was cast in a thoroughly Russian manner, full of vivacious romanticism and revealing significant technical advances on the earlier work.
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  • Rimsky-Korsakov: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3

    Rimsky-Korsakov: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3

    Naxos Apr 2016
    1 disc
    CD
    $19.99
    1. Borodin, Glazunov, Mussorgsky & Rimsky-Korsakov: Dances of Light / Masurenko, Yaruss Quartet
    2. Borodin, Glazunov, Mussorgsky & Rimsky-Korsakov: Dances of Light / Masurenko, Yaruss Quartet
    Profil

    Borodin, Glazunov, Mussorgsky & Rimsky-Korsakov: Dances of Light / Masurenko, Yaruss Quartet

    CD · 1 disc

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    Composer
    Alexander Borodin, Alexander Glasunov, Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Traditional
    Artist
    Tatjana Masurenko, Elena Kisseljow, Valerij Kisseljow, Vladislav Cojocaru, Giorgi Makhoshvili
    Released
    Jul 07, 2023

    The familiar in a new guise – Tatjana Masurenko and the Yaruss Quartet are therefore in good company when they clothe the music of the Russian Romantics in novel acoustic garments. Using viola, soprano domra and alto domra, accordion and double bass, they play 19th century works in their own arrangements, using gut strings for all of their instruments, the domras sounding somewhat like Italian mandolins. In this guise, compositions by Rimsky-Korsakov, Musorgsky, Borodin and Glazunov seem lighter, more open and agile, their music expressing a fresh elegance with different colours, taking on a completely new character.

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  • Borodin, Glazunov, Mussorgsky & Rimsky-Korsakov: Dances of Light / Masurenko, Yaruss Quartet
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    Borodin, Glazunov, Mussorgsky & Rimsky-Korsakov: Dances of Light / Masurenko, Yaruss Quartet

    Profil Jul 2023
    1 disc
    CD
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  • Opera Suites, Vol. 3

    Opera Suites, Vol. 3

    Kontrapunkt Sep 1997
    1 disc
    CD
    $22.99
    1. Rimsky-Korsakov: Romances / Prudenskaya, Garben
    2. Rimsky-Korsakov: Romances / Prudenskaya, Garben
    CPO

    Rimsky-Korsakov: Romances / Prudenskaya, Garben

    CD · 1 disc

    $18.99
    Composer
    RIMSKY-KORSAKOV, NIKOLAI
    Artist
    Prudenskaya, Garben
    Released
    Apr 07, 2017
    Over the years I and several other reviewers on this site have been bemoaning the failure of Melodiya, when reissuing their recordings of rare Russian material, to provide texts, translations or indeed adequate booklet notes of any meaningful description for their releases – a damaging omission which does little to make more accessible the excellent recordings themselves. In this selection of Rimsky-Korsakov melodies, CPO have gone to the opposite extreme. Not only do we get the full texts complete with translations, but we also are vouchsafed a lengthy essay from CPO stalwart Eckhardt van den Hoogen discoursing on the composer himself, his psychological background, his attempts to establish himself as a pedagogue, and many other peripheral issues while managing almost entirely to avoid any discussion of the music itself as featured on this disc. Now, I fully appreciate the efforts that CPO put into their booklet notes, which do indeed in many issues offer valuable insights into the music and the composers themselves. However, the turgid prose style of Professor van den Hoogen (which often seems to totally defeat Susan Marie Praeder’s attempts at English translation), are perhaps best regarded in the light of the provision of unintentional amusement. In a final footnote, the booklet essay of eight pages (in small type) notes: “The fact that the Firebird hymn is heard in the Night will be mentioned here for the sake of curiosity and registered completely free from all speculation.” If it is not the intention of the author to discuss the matter, why mention it at all? Earlier in his essay the writer attempts to turn the received opinion of the last century on its head by describing Mussorgsky in the following terms: “Ilya Repin’s famous portrait really tells us everything we need to know about the last years of this original sloth’s life: from his dishevelled hair and watery eyes to the red bulb of a nose shining like a sad lighthouse out of the rolling hills of his face.” Is this really “everything we need to know” about a composer whose output of songs has not only comprehensively outdistanced Rimsky-Korsakov’s in reputation but is also by some considerable margin the most often performed body of vocal works coming from Russia during the nineteenth century?

    Still, one has to concede that Professor van den Hoogen always gives good value for money, and he clearly values Rimsky-Korsakov’s output of songs highly. And the performances here do much to justify his enthusiasm. Maria Prudenskaya has spent most of the last ten years working in German opera houses and specialising in Wagner and Verdi, and she fully comprehends the dramatic demands that high romantic music demands of its singers. She was a superbly responsive mezzo soloist in a live Bavarian Radio recording of Verdi’s Requiem under Mariss Jansons a couple of years ago, which I reviewed enthusiastically for this site. Her Waltraute in the 2016 Bayreuth Ring was a towering highlight in an admittedly generally execrable production, and her absolute steadiness of tonal production and gleaming higher register are a real pleasure to hear – not a suspicion of Slavonic wobble here. She also displays a plentiful employment of reflective half-tone, as well as an unexpected (and beautifully floated) upper range in the oriental-sounding Op.2/2 (track 30). Her accompanist Cord Garben is a stalwart contributor to many recitals of song, and as always he relishes the challenge of unfamiliar repertoire. Rimsky-Korsakov was not himself a pianist, and his writing for the instrument was condemned during his lifetime as unidiomatic; but he always gets the effects that he wants to convey. The recording was made some three years before the aforementioned Verdi Requiem – it is not clear why it has waited so long for release – and the recorded sound is fine, even if a little more reverberation might have been welcome.

    The disc assembles a whole collection of ‘romances’ identified solely by opus numbers on the CD box, and by transliterated Russian titles at the front of the booklet. They vary in length from just under a minute to a maximum of four minutes; there are thirty individual items here. As might be expected they are all highly proficient settings, generally reflective rather than dramatic, and all have an immediate melodic appeal. Rimsky’s choice of poetic texts is admirable, with Tolstoy, Lermontov, Pushkin and Heine (in Russian translation) featured. They are not assembled in order of composition, which robs the listener of a chance to hear how the composer’s style developed over the years; but Rimsky’s opus numbers are often misleading, with earlier pieces subjected to later revision – it is a pity that the extensive booklet note did not find room to explore this development, including indeed references to songs not actually included on this disc! There are moments which occasion surprise: the clear echo of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata in Op.39/1 (track 5), for example, is an unusual reference to non-Russian material. The treatment of the theme quoted by Stravinsky in The Firebird at the outset of Op.8/2 (track 23) is totally different from that of Rimsky’s pupil.

    The songs are generally grouped by the poet whose verses are set, although Rimsky does not seem to make any real stylistic discrimination between his lyrics. Most will I suspect be totally unfamiliar to listeners, although some may have crossed the hearer’s path in miscellaneous recitals of Russian song. But since titles (let alone translations) may differ between one recording and another, there seems to be little point in itemising them here.

    So far as I can see this is the only current available single disc devoted entirely to the composer’s output in the field, although Brilliant Classics do have a three-disc compendium of his ‘complete songs’ although there appear to be some individual items omitted (77 songs are included out of some 80 apparently given in published editions), and they are distributed between a whole raft of different singers and pianists. This set suffers also from the fact that no sung texts or translations were provided, even in its original issue on Chant du Monde in 1993. Rimsky-Korsakov enthusiasts will obviously have to own the ‘complete’ set; but for lesser mortals this CD, with its judicious selection complete with transliterated text and translations into both German and English, will be more readily approachable. The music itself will certainly prove enjoyable.

    – MusicWeb International (Paul Corfield Godfrey)
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  • Rimsky-Korsakov: Romances / Prudenskaya, Garben

    Rimsky-Korsakov: Romances / Prudenskaya, Garben

    CPO Apr 2017
    1 disc
    CD
    $18.99
    • Leonard Bernstein - The Royal Edition Vol 67 - Stravinsky, Rimsky-Korsakov
    Sony Masterworks

    Leonard Bernstein - The Royal Edition Vol 67 - Stravinsky, Rimsky-Korsakov

    CD · 1 disc

    $17.99
    Composer
    RIMSKY-KORSAKOV, NIKOLAI STRA
    Artist
    Leonard, Bernstein
    Released
    Oct 08, 2010
    ..."Dance of the Firebird"...is much more nimble and airy in Leonard Bernstein's performance, possibly because the American opts for the better-known 1919 Suite which uses a reduced orchestration... Bernstein delivers a brilliant account of the score...

    -- Erik Levi, BBC Music Magazine [reviewing the Firebird Suite]

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    Bernstein treats Scheherazade as the "Symphonic Suite" it's billed as, barely pausing between movements—the old Columbia LP has no bands on either side. This was the kind of personalized, excitable interpretation that made Bernstein beloved to many, though it won't be to everyone's taste... His shaping of the violin and cello statements of the theme in "The Young Prince and the Young Princess" is exquisite. The violin solos are played warmly and effectively by John Corigliano (the composer's father and, for 23 years, concertmaster of the Philharmonic.)... It's difficult to imagine Bernstein devotees not having these performances already. But for others who have missed them in their various incarnations, or want to replace aging LPs—don't deny yourself some considerable pleasure.

    -- Andrew Quint, FANFARE [5/1999, reviewing Scheherazade]
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  • Leonard Bernstein - The Royal Edition Vol 67 - Stravinsky, Rimsky-Korsakov

    Leonard Bernstein - The Royal Edition Vol 67 - Stravinsky, Rimsky-Korsakov

    Sony Masterworks Oct 2010
    1 disc
    CD
    $17.99
  • Rimsky-Korsakov: Orchestral Suites

    Rimsky-Korsakov: Orchestral Suites

    Naxos Dec 2011
    1 disc
    CD
    $19.99
    • Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
    Danacord

    Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade

    CD · 1 disc

    $18.99
    Composer
    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Sergei Bortkiewicz
    Artist
    Etsuko Hirose
    Released
    Jan 03, 2025
    A mystic realm tinged with the scent of foreign spices, bewitching music, vivid color and sensual delights... Orientalism sparked a new wave of romanticism in Western art in the 19th century, which had a profound influence on artists. At the time, The Arabian Nights had long been popular in Russia, in a French translation by Antoine Galland that indulged the Francophile passion for all things Arabic. For Rimsky-Korsakov who had a life-long fascination with fairytales especially those from the exotic setting of the mythical Orient,"Scheherazade"was an ideal theme. Born into a family of Russian naval officers, music and the sea became his passion since childhood and he graduated from the Naval Academy of St. Petersburg to become a naval officer himself. While pursuing his musical studies, he embarked on numerous ocean voyages, visiting Brazil, America, Europe etc The Oriental Ballet Suite "Thousand and One Nights" was originally conceived as an orchestral work, first published for piano solo in 1927, and then arranged for orchestra by the composer himself. It gained popularity immediately after it's release and was broadcast on several radio stations.
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  • Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade

    Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade

    Danacord Jan 2025
    1 disc
    CD
    $18.99
  • Arensky, Rimsky-korsakov / Nash Ensemble

    Arensky, Rimsky-korsakov / Nash Ensemble

    CRD Records Jan 1991
    1 disc
    CD
    $20.99
  • Rimsky-Korsakov: 1001 Nights / Cribbins

    Rimsky-Korsakov: 1001 Nights / Cribbins

    Naxos Nov 2001
    1 disc
    CD
    $19.99
  • Rimsky-korsakov: Christmas Eve, Etc / Golovschin, Moscow So

    Rimsky-korsakov: Christmas Eve, Etc / Golovschin, Moscow So

    Naxos Feb 1998
    1 disc
    CD
    $19.99
    1. Rimsky-Korsakov: Piano Duos
    2. Rimsky-Korsakov: Piano Duos
    Linn Records

    Rimsky-Korsakov: Piano Duos

    CD · 1 disc

    $20.99
    Composer
    RIMSKY-KORSAKOV, NIKOLAI
    Artist
    Pizarro, Panomariovaite
    Released
    Jul 10, 2015
    Originally released in 2007, Artur Pizarro and Vita Panomariovaite’s ‘Rimsky-Korsakov: Piano Duos’ has been re-issued as part of Linn’s ECHO series. These two talented pianists bring to bear their skill and virtuosity in three colorful arrangements encompassing Rimsky-Korsakov’s most popular music for orchestra, Scheherazade, Sadko and Capriccio Espagnol. Mr. Pizarro’s prize-winning performance at the Leeds Piano Competition marked the beginning of his international concert career. “…wonderful… very effective, evocative and exhilarating performances.” (Int’l Record Review)
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  • Rimsky-Korsakov: Piano Duos

    Rimsky-Korsakov: Piano Duos

    Linn Records Jul 2015
    1 disc
    CD
    $20.99
    1. Dmitry Kitayenko Conducts Rimsky-Korsakov & Lyadov
    2. Dmitry Kitayenko Conducts Rimsky-Korsakov & Lyadov
    SWR

    Dmitry Kitayenko Conducts Rimsky-Korsakov & Lyadov

    CD · 1 disc

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    Composer
    Anatoly Lyadov, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
    Artist
    Natalie Cheen
    Released
    Oct 13, 2023

    This album contains the symphonic suite "Scheherazade" by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and the short composition "The Enchanted Lake" by his student Anatoly Lyadov.

    In 1887-88, after the sudden death of his brilliant friend Borodin, Rimsky-Korsakov composed those three orchestral works which crowned his Russian national period and has made his name a permanent part of the worldwide concert repertoire: the "Capriccio espagno"l, the symphonic suite "Scheherazade", and the concert overture "La Grande Pâque Russe". With Scheherazade Rimsky-Korsakov did not tell a story, he rather set individual, unconnected episodes and images to music.

    Anatoly Lyadov has a reputation of being lazy – based solely on Rimsky-Korsakov’s opinion of him – yet his ambition was for every piece of music he created to be flawless. One consequence of this was that his entire œuvre consists entirely of miniatures. The "Enchanted Lake" does not tell a story but is purely impressionistic music about a Russian forest lake, on a level with Ravel and Debussy. Conductor Dmitri Kitayenko conducted various orchestras in Moscow, became chief conductor of the Moscow Philharmonic in 1976, and took over the Symphony Orchestra of the Hessischer Rundfunk in Frankfurt am Main in 1990-96. He went on to hold principal positions with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bern Symphony Orchestra, the KBS Symphony Orchestra in Seoul and finally, in addition to his worldwide activities as a guest conductor, was appointed Honorary Conductor of the Gürzenich Orchestra in Cologne.

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  • Dmitry Kitayenko Conducts Rimsky-Korsakov & Lyadov
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    Dmitry Kitayenko Conducts Rimsky-Korsakov & Lyadov

    SWR Oct 2023
    1 disc
    CD
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    • Taneyev: Suite de Concert - Rimsky-Korsakov: Fantasia on 2 R
    Naxos

    Taneyev: Suite de Concert - Rimsky-Korsakov: Fantasia on 2 R

    CD · 1 disc

    $19.99
    Composer
    RIMSKY-KORSAKOV TANEYEV
    Artist
    Yablonsky, Gregory
    Released
    Aug 09, 2019
    Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto is the quintessential national virtuoso showpiece, but other Russian composers have contributed strongly to the genre of works for solo violin and orchestra. Tchaikovsky's student Taneyev, who rose to eminence in Moscow, wrote a memorable Suite de Concert that followed the model of the Baroque suite while infiltrating it with warm lyricism and brilliant variations. Earlier, Rimsky-Korsakov had written a Fantasia on Two Russian Themes that explored virtuoso potential in a concerto form that is both seductive and vibrant.
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  • Taneyev: Suite de Concert - Rimsky-Korsakov: Fantasia on 2 R

    Taneyev: Suite de Concert - Rimsky-Korsakov: Fantasia on 2 R

    Naxos Aug 2019
    1 disc
    CD
    $19.99
    1. Rimsky-Korsakov - Franck: Orchestral Works / Kondrashin, BRSO
    2. Rimsky-Korsakov - Franck: Orchestral Works / Kondrashin, BRSO
    BR Klassik

    Rimsky-Korsakov - Franck: Orchestral Works / Kondrashin, BRSO

    CD · 1 disc

    $19.99
    Composer
    Cesar Franck, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
    Artist
    Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
    Released
    Jan 06, 2023

    Kyrill Kondraschin and the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks: what had been planned as a happy relationship between the significant representative of the Russian conducting school and the first class Munich ensemble ended tragically with the sudden death of the conductor before he could assume the position of Chief Conductor of the orchestra. All the more significant is thus this sound document. The live recording made at concerts in Munich’s Herkulessaal comprises an exciting program that juxtaposes two late romantic works from different symphonic cultures: Rimsky Korsakov’s “Russian Easter” Overture and César Franck’s only symphony, in D minor.

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  • Rimsky-Korsakov - Franck: Orchestral Works / Kondrashin, BRSO

    Rimsky-Korsakov - Franck: Orchestral Works / Kondrashin, BRSO

    BR Klassik Jan 2023
    1 disc
    CD
    $19.99
    1. Rimsky-Korsakov: Kashchey the Immortal
    2. Rimsky-Korsakov: Kashchey the Immortal
    DUX

    Rimsky-Korsakov: Kashchey the Immortal

    CD · 1 disc

    $21.99
    Composer
    RIMSKY-KORSAKOV, NIKOLAI
    Artist
    Various
    Released
    Jul 16, 2021

    In November 1900, the music journalist Yevgeny Petro-vsky gave Rimsky-Korsakov his libretto, entitled Prince Ivan, which is loosely based on Russian folk tales about a mean and ugly wizard. Despite being initially interested in the text the composer eventually rejected it, put off by its unfathomable symbolism. However, in the summer of the following year the score of Wagner’s Siegfried pro-vided inspiration for fresh and innovative harmonic ideas, which he decided to include in a work dealing with motifs of black magic. With the help of his daughter Sofia, he wrote his own script based on Petrovsky’s original, and as early as in spring of 1902 he had a one-act opera in three scenes ready – Kashchey the Immortal – which was successfully staged in Moscow before the year had ended. The work is presented in a brilliant new interpretation on this new release.

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  • Rimsky-Korsakov: Kashchey the Immortal

    Rimsky-Korsakov: Kashchey the Immortal

    DUX Jul 2021
    1 disc
    CD
    $21.99
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