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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.
Tracklist 5 tracks
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1 I. The Sea and Sinbad's Ship 11:29
- Track
- 1
- Title
- I. The Sea and Sinbad's Ship
- Duration
- 11:29
- Composer
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
- Performer
- Natalie Chee
- Ensemble
- Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR
- Conductor
- Dmitri Kitayenko
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2 II. The Kalender Prince 14:01
- Track
- 2
- Title
- II. The Kalender Prince
- Duration
- 14:01
- Composer
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
- Performer
- Natalie Chee
- Ensemble
- Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR
- Conductor
- Dmitri Kitayenko
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3 III. The Young Prince and the Young Princess 12:11
- Track
- 3
- Title
- III. The Young Prince and the Young Princess
- Duration
- 12:11
- Composer
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
- Performer
- Natalie Chee
- Ensemble
- Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR
- Conductor
- Dmitri Kitayenko
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4 IV. Festival at Baghdad - The Sea - The Ship Breaks against a Cliff Surmounted by a Bronze Horseman 13:50
- Track
- 4
- Title
- IV. Festival at Baghdad - The Sea - The Ship Breaks against a Cliff Surmounted by a Bronze Horseman
- Duration
- 13:50
- Composer
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
- Performer
- Natalie Chee
- Ensemble
- Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR
- Conductor
- Dmitri Kitayenko
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5 Volshebnoye ozero (The Enchanted Lake), Op. 62 08:18
- Track
- 5
- Title
- Volshebnoye ozero (The Enchanted Lake), Op. 62
- Duration
- 08:18
- Composer
- Anatoly Lyadov
- Ensemble
- Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR
- Conductor
- Dmitri Kitayenko