Russian Spectacular / Shui, Singapore Symphony

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Label
BIS
Release Date
April 9, 2021
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BALAKIREV BORODIN MUSSORGSKY
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Singapore Symphony Chorus, Singapore Symphony Youth Choir, Singapore Symphony Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Shui
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      April 09, 2021
    • UPC
      7318599924120
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BIS-2412
    • LABEL
      BIS
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. St. John's Night on Bald Mountain, "A Night on the Bare Mountain" (arr. N. Rimsky-Korsakov for orchestra)

      Composer: Modest Mussorgsky

      Ensemble: Singapore Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Lan Shui

    2. Promenade

      Composer: Modest Mussorgsky

      Ensemble: Singapore Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Lan Shui

    3. I. The Gnome

      Composer: Modest Mussorgsky

      Ensemble: Singapore Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Lan Shui

    4. Promenade

      Composer: Modest Mussorgsky

      Ensemble: Singapore Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Lan Shui

    5. II. The Old Castle

      Composer: Modest Mussorgsky

      Ensemble: Singapore Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Lan Shui

    6. Promenade

      Composer: Modest Mussorgsky

      Ensemble: Singapore Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Lan Shui

    7. III. Tuileries

      Composer: Modest Mussorgsky

      Ensemble: Singapore Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Lan Shui

    8. IV. Bydlo

      Composer: Modest Mussorgsky

      Ensemble: Singapore Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Lan Shui

    9. Promenade

      Composer: Modest Mussorgsky

      Ensemble: Singapore Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Lan Shui

    10. V. Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks

      Composer: Modest Mussorgsky

      Ensemble: Singapore Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Lan Shui

    11. VI. Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle

      Composer: Modest Mussorgsky

      Ensemble: Singapore Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Lan Shui

    12. VII. The Market Place at Limoges

      Composer: Modest Mussorgsky

      Ensemble: Singapore Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Lan Shui

    13. VIII. Catacombae: Sepulchrum romanum

      Composer: Modest Mussorgsky

      Ensemble: Singapore Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Lan Shui

    14. Cum mortuis in lingua mortua

      Composer: Modest Mussorgsky

      Ensemble: Singapore Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Lan Shui

    15. IX. The Hut on Fowl's Legs (Baba-Yaga)

      Composer: Modest Mussorgsky

      Ensemble: Singapore Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Lan Shui

    16. X. The Great Gate of Kiev

      Composer: Modest Mussorgsky

      Ensemble: Singapore Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Lan Shui

    17. Islamey (arr. S.M. Lyapunov for orchestra)

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Ensemble: Singapore Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Lan Shui

    18. Act II: Introduction - Polovtsian Dances: Ulẽtay na krïlyah vẽtra (Female Captives)

      Composer: Alexander Borodin

      Ensemble: Singapore Symphony Chorus, Singapore Symphony Youth Choir, Singapore Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Lan Shui

    19. Act II: Polovtsian Dances: Wild Dance of the Men

      Composer: Alexander Borodin

      Ensemble: Singapore Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Lan Shui

    20. Act II: Polovtsian Dances: Poytẽ pẽsni slavï khanu! Poy! (Polovtsians)

      Composer: Alexander Borodin

      Ensemble: Singapore Symphony Chorus, Singapore Symphony Youth Choir, Singapore Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Lan Shui

    21. Act II: Polovtsian Dances: Slavoy dẽdam ravẽn khan nash (Men)

      Composer: Alexander Borodin

      Ensemble: Singapore Symphony Chorus, Singapore Symphony Youth Choir, Singapore Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Lan Shui

    22. Act II: Polovtsian Dances: Ulẽtay na krïlyah vẽtra (reprise) (Female Captives)

      Composer: Alexander Borodin

      Ensemble: Singapore Symphony Chorus, Singapore Symphony Youth Choir, Singapore Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Lan Shui

    23. Act II: Polovtsian Dances: Slavoy dẽdam ravẽn khan nash (reprise) (Men)

      Composer: Alexander Borodin

      Ensemble: Singapore Symphony Chorus, Singapore Symphony Youth Choir, Singapore Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Lan Shui

    24. Act II: Polovtsian Dances: Plyaskoy vashey tẽshtẽ khana (All)

      Composer: Alexander Borodin

      Ensemble: Singapore Symphony Chorus, Singapore Symphony Youth Choir, Singapore Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Lan Shui

    25. Act II: Polovtsian Dances: Plyaskoy tẽshtẽ khana, chagi, khana svoyevo (All)

      Composer: Alexander Borodin

      Ensemble: Singapore Symphony Chorus, Singapore Symphony Youth Choir, Singapore Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Lan Shui


This album of orchestral showpieces features four of the five members of the Mighty Handful, a group of Russian composers who, during the second half of the 19th century, collaborated to create a distinct national style. The recorded works illustrate different aspects of their endeavors – both in terms of the musical means they employ and their subject matter. Orientalism is one of the typical features of the music of the group, as witness Balakirev’s Islamey – employing material from the Caucasus Mountains – and Borodin’s Polovtsian Dances, describing the revels of a nomadic eastern tribe during a 12th-century raid into the Russian lands. The most individual of the group was Modest Mussorgsky, with a musical language both powerful and startlingly vivid in imagination. His celebrated Pictures from an Exhibition was composed in 1874 as a tribute to a recently deceased artist friend, and takes in such specifically Russian elements as the fairy-tale witch Baba Yaga and the Great Gate of Kiev. Originally written for the piano it is here performed in the 1922 orchestration by Maurice Ravel. Also by Mussorgsky, the opening Night on the Bare Mountain paints a witch’s Sabbath in bold brushstrokes, and was re-orchestrated by Rimsky-Korsakov after the composer’s death. It is his version, with more sumptuous orchestral textures and a tighter formal plan that is heard here, performed by the Singapore Symphony Orchestra and Lan Shu