"as well as shorter works, Beethoven's First Symphony, Violin Concerto and Triple Concerto, Rimsky-Korsakov's ""Scheherazade"" and his operas ""Sadko"" and ""Christmas Eve"", Mussorgsky's ""Boris Godunov"" and ""Pictures at an Exhibition"", Rachmaninoff's Second and Third symphonies, the opera ""Aleko"" and other compositions, Glazunov's Fifth, Sixth and Seventh symphonies, and scores by Grieg, Mozart and others. Based upon the evidence of his recordings, Golovanov's characteristic performance mode was full-blooded and nearly vehement in tone, with a powerful, almost overloaded sense of sonority, and extreme flexibility in matters of tempo, phrasing and dynamics. Golovanov was also a composer; his works include the opera"
"Dmitri Shostakovich (in his late symphonies) and Sergei Prokofiev (in his operas). In 1868/1869 he composed the opera ""Boris Godunov"", about the life of the Russian tsar, but it was rejected by the Mariinsky Opera. Mussorgsky thus edited the work, making a final version in 1874. The early version is considered darker and more concise than the later version, but also more crude. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov re-orchestrated the opera in 1896 and revised it in 1908. The opera has also been revised by other composers, notably Shostakovich, who made two versions, one for film and one for stage. The opera ""Khovanshchina"""
"Alexander Alyabyev Alexander Aleksandrovich Alyabyev (; ), also rendered as Alabiev or Alabieff, was a Russian composer known as one of the fathers of the Russian art song. He wrote seven operas, twenty musical comedies, a symphony, three string quartets, more than 200 songs, and many other pieces. Born to a wealthy family in Tobolsk in Siberia, Alyabyev learned music in his early years. He joined the Russian Army in 1812, during the Napoleonic War, and fought as an officer until 1823. He participated in the entry of the Russian forces into Dresden and Paris, and he won two awards."
"Music critic and composer Alexander Serov dedicated to Sariotti creativity several articles and called him not only a great Opera singer, but also a great actor. Mikhail Sariotti became the first performer in operas of Alexander Serov: Olofern – opera ""Judith"", 1863; Vladimir Krasnoye Solnyshko – opera ""Rogneda"", 1865; Yeryomka – opera ""The Power of the Fiend"", 1871. Mikhail Sariotti worked as a vocalist on the stage and simultaneously he did a lot of musicological work. He wrote many articles about Opera performances. He wrote an important article about the opera ""Boris Godunov"" in 1874 (he played himself ""Police Officer"
"Union, and for which he was known by contemporaries as ""the soldier-patriot"". In 1937 he wrote the operetta Wedding in Malinovka which contained patriotic themes: revolutionaries, soldiers, peasants and folk music. Other operettas include ""The Girl from Barcelona"" (1942) about Russian partisans and a female Spanish co-combatant; ""My Gyuzel"" (1946), ""Near You"" (1949) and ""The One Hundred and First Wife"" (1957). Ballets include ""Young Friendship"" and ""Southpaw"" (1955). He also wrote cantatas including ""Cantata of the Party"" (1955), the oratorio ""October Soldier Defending the World"" (1967), ""Book of the Motherland"" (1979), plus the suite ""Guarding"" (1981) Alexandrov composed the song"
"Music School under Rimsky-Korsakov's direction. In 1880 he composed the popular symphonic poem ""In the Steppes of Central Asia"". Two years later he began composing a third symphony, but left it unfinished at his death; two movements of it were later completed and orchestrated by Alexander Glazunov. In 1868 Borodin became distracted from initial work on the second symphony by preoccupation with the opera ""Prince Igor"", which is seen by some to be his most significant work and one of the most important historical Russian operas. It contains the ""Polovtsian Dances"", often performed as a stand-alone concert work forming what"
"August break with his family in the more peaceful Crimea, he performed at nearby Yalta on 5 September, which was to be his final concert in Russia. On his return to Moscow, the political tension surrounding the October Revolution found the composer keeping his family safe indoors as often as possible and being involved in a collective at his apartment building, attending committee meetings and carrying out civil guard duties at night. He completed revisions to his Piano Concerto No. 1 among gunshots and rallies outside. Amidst such turmoil, Rachmaninoff received an unexpected offer to perform ten piano recitals across"
"at Mitrofan Belyayev's expense, conducted by the Rimsky-Korsakov pupil Georgi Ottonovich Dutsch. Stenka Razin (Glazunov) Stenka Razin, Op. 13, is a symphonic poem composed by Alexander Glazunov in 1885. Dedicated to the memory of Alexander Borodin, it is one of the few compositions written by Glazunov on a nationalist subject and is composed in a style reminiscent of Borodin and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Glazunov's composition dramatizes and romanticizes the career of the Cossack Stenka Razin. After leading raids against the Tsarist regime, Razin was captured and given amnesty in exchange of an oath of allegiance. He broke his promise, leading"
"act of ""Boris Godunov"" and the folk scene 'Near Kromy.' I orchestrated and finished my ""Maid of Pskov""."" In 1871, the 27-year-old Rimsky-Korsakov became Professor of Practical Composition and Instrumentation (orchestration) at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, as well as leader of the Orchestra Class. He retained his position in active naval service, and taught his classes in uniform (military officers in Russia were required to wear their uniforms every day, as they were considered to be always on duty). Rimsky-Korsakov explained in his memoirs that Mikhaíl Azanchevsky had taken over that year as director of the Conservatory, and wanting new"
"the Decembrist Uprising. Upon meeting with Tsar Nicholas I Pushkin obtained his release from exile and began to work as the tsar's Titular Counsel of the National Archives. However, because insurgents in the Decembrist Uprising (1825) in Saint Petersburg had kept some of Pushkin's earlier political poems the tsar retained strict control of everything Pushkin published and he was unable to travel at will. During that same year (1825), Pushkin also wrote what would become his most famous play, the drama ""Boris Godunov"", while at his mother's estate. He could not however, gain permission to publish it until five years"
"Alexander Godunov Alexander Borisovich Godunov (Russian: ; November 28, 1949 – May 18, 1995) was a Russian-American ballet dancer and film actor. He was a member of the Bolshoi Ballet and became the troupe's Premier danseur. In 1979, he defected to the United States. Soviet overseers for the troupe immediately put his wife on a flight back to the Soviet Union. Initially the United States did not allow the flight to leave, resulting in a diplomatic incident between the two nations. Godunov was born in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk (Sakhalin, Russian SFSR, USSR), in the Russian Far East. Godunov began his ballet studies"
"Russian State"". Among major operas, ""Boris Godunov"" shares with Giuseppe Verdi's ""Don Carlos"" (1867) the distinction of having an extremely complex creative history, as well as a great wealth of alternative material. The composer created two versions—the Original Version of 1869, which was rejected for production by the Imperial Theatres, and the Revised Version of 1872, which received its first performance in 1874 in Saint Petersburg. ""Boris Godunov"" has seldom been performed in either of the two forms left by the composer, frequently being subjected to cuts, recomposition, re-orchestration, transposition of scenes, or conflation of the original and revised versions."
"Stenka Razin (Glazunov) Stenka Razin, Op. 13, is a symphonic poem composed by Alexander Glazunov in 1885. Dedicated to the memory of Alexander Borodin, it is one of the few compositions written by Glazunov on a nationalist subject and is composed in a style reminiscent of Borodin and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Glazunov's composition dramatizes and romanticizes the career of the Cossack Stenka Razin. After leading raids against the Tsarist regime, Razin was captured and given amnesty in exchange of an oath of allegiance. He broke his promise, leading an army of several hundred thousand in an attempt to overthrow the"
"the most of Russian composers. Glinka was followed by Alexander Dargomyzhsky (1813–1869) with his Rusalka (1856) and revolutionary The Stone Guest (""Kamenny gost"", completed by Rimsky-Korsakov and premiered in 1872). Other composers were: Russian opera reached its apogee with the works by Modest Mussorgsky and his antipode Pyotr Tchaikovsky. Modest Mussorgsky's (1839–1881) Boris Godunov remains the greatest masterpiece of Russian opera, despite what many consider to be serious technical faults and a bewildering array of versions (Original Version of 1869, Revised Version of 1872, Rimsky-Korsakov Edition of 1908, Shostakovich Edition of 1940, etc.). His other operas were left unfinished: Pyotr"
"an officer in the Imperial Russian Navy during World War I. With the outbreak of the Russian Revolution in 1917 he resigned his naval commission and began studying singing seriously with his mother, Vera Cehanovska, a violinist, pianist and voice teacher. He made his professional debut as a concert singer in Saint Petersburg in 1920, and spent the next couple years performing with a small opera company in that city. In 1922 Vera, concerned with the political state of her country, fled Russia through Tiflis and ultimately settled in Istanbul, Turkey. Cehanovsky joined her later that year and began performing"
"Khovanshchina Khovanshchina (, ""Hovánščina"", sometimes rendered The Khovansky Affair; since the ending -ščina is pejorative) is an opera (subtitled a 'national music drama') in five acts by Modest Mussorgsky. The work was written between 1872 and 1880 in St. Petersburg, Russia. The composer wrote the libretto based on historical sources. The opera was unfinished and unperformed when the composer died in 1881. Like Mussorgsky's earlier ""Boris Godunov"", ""Khovanshchina"" deals with an episode in Russian history, first brought to the composer's attention by his friend the critic Vladimir Stasov. It concerns the rebellion of Prince Ivan Khovansky, the Old Believers, and"
"of its tour to Japan in the same year With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded ""Great October Holiday"" (music: Boris Alexandrov; lyrics: S. Bencken), ""Song of the Dnieper"" (music: M. Fradkin music: E. Dolmatovskaya), ""The Red Cavalry"" (Civil War song: D. Pokrass) ""Song of the Fatherland"", ""Song of the Golden Calf"" from the opera ""Faust"" (1995), ""Soldiers' Song"" (1983) See image here. (Russian: Валерий Гавва), fine Russian bass. (b. Donetsk, Ukraine, 1947). He is descended from an old Cossack family. He attended the Industrial University of Rostov, and did military service in the Urals. After that, he studied music at"
"opera-melodrama to the text by Yakov Knyazhnin (1792), and ""The Americans"" (""Amerikantsy"", comic opera, 1800). In 1746 the first public concert took place in Russia. This soon became a tradition. Concert life was dominated by foreign musicians before Russian virtuosos appeared in the 1780–1790s; these included the violinist Ivan Khandoshkin and singer Elizaveta Sandunova. The senator Grigory Teplov was also an amateur musician who printed in 1751 the collection of his songs entitled ""Idle Hours Away from Work"". Publishing music business, sales of foreign sheet music, and music lovers' periodicals flourished from the 1770s onward. The overture and songs from"
"combined his composition and teaching with a career in the Russian military—at first as an officer in the Imperial Russian Navy, then as the civilian Inspector of Naval Bands. He wrote that he developed a passion for the ocean in childhood from reading books and hearing of his older brother's exploits in the navy. This love of the sea may have influenced him to write two of his best-known orchestral works, the musical tableau ""Sadko"" (not to be confused with his later opera of the same name) and ""Scheherazade"". Through his service as Inspector of Naval Bands, Rimsky-Korsakov expanded his"
"Mariinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg, Russia. Boris Godunov (play) Boris Godunov (, Borís Godunóv; variant title: ""Драматическая повесть, Комедия o настоящей беде Московскому государству, o царе Борисе и о Гришке Отрепьеве"", ""A Dramatic Tale, The Comedy of the Distress of the Muscovite State, of Tsar Boris, and of Grishka Otrepyev"") is a closet play by Alexander Pushkin. It was written in 1825, published in 1831, but not approved for performance by the censor until 1866 . Its subject is the Russian ruler Boris Godunov, who reigned as Tsar from 1598 to 1605. It consists of 25 scenes and is written predominantly"
"the premiere. DC 22128 S Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Tushmalov/Rimsky-Korsakov); Scherzo; Intermezzo in modo classico; Ceremonial March. Marc Andreae, Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. (Acanta Records, 1974) Mikhail Tushmalov Mikhail Tushmalov ""(Tushmalishvili, Georgian:თუშმალიშვილი)"" (1861 - 1896) was a Russian Georgian opera conductor who held posts in Warsaw and Tiflis (Tbilisi). He died in what is now the nation of Georgia. Tushmalov is most widely discussed today as the first person to have prepared an orchestral version of Modest Mussorgsky's 1874 piano suite ""Pictures at an Exhibition"". Tushmalov's version sets an abridged version of the piece. It may have been completed"
"of ""Free Artist"". In the late 1850s, he toured Germany and became a corresponding member of the """". He settled in Saint Petersburg in 1858, after the death of his second wife, who had become ill during their travels. In 1861, he was named an ""Academician"" for his portrayal of a Ukrainian khorovod. From 1871 to 1881, he served as an inspector for the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture then, once again, returned to his estate where he created numerous oils, watercolors and drawings of the landlord class, as well as the peasants. He continued to exhibit abroad;"
"and De Nederlandse Opera; the title role in ""Boris Godunov"" with the Komische Oper Berlin, Budapest Festival, and with the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de México; King Dodon in Tchaikovsky’s ""Le Coq d’Or"" with the Mariinsky Theatre; and Bedyai in Rimsky-Korsakov’s ""The Invisible City of Kitezh"" with De Nederlandse Opera. Nikita Storojev Nikita Storojev is a Russian bass opera singer. Nikita was born in 1950 in Harbin, China. His family moved back to Russia in 1955. He studied philosophy at the University of Sverdlovsk from 1970-1972, but then turned to music, studying voice at the Mussorgsky Conservatory of Yekaterinburg from 1972-1975,"
"historical operas, ""The Maid of Pskov"" (1873) and ""Boris Godunov"" (1874). This period also marks the creation of two new characters, the deserters Skula and Yeroshka, who have much in common with the rogue monks Varlaam and Misail in ""Boris Godunov"". In his memoirs, Rimsky-Korsakov mentions an 1876 concert at which Borodin's ""closing chorus"" was performed, the first public performance of any music from ""Prince Igor"" identified by him: The idea of a choral epilogue in the original scenario was no doubt inspired by the example of ""A Life for the Tsar"" by Mikhail Glinka, to whose memory ""Prince Igor"""
"the Soviet Union singing the role of Boris Godunov in Finnish National Opera in Helsinki on January 28 and 30 and February 2. He also visited Helsinki in 1956 with performances on October 21 and 24. Alexander Pirogov Alexander Stepanovich Pirogov (; 1899–1964), PAU, was a Russian bass opera singer. Pirogov was born in Ryazan, one of five sons of a musical father. Four of the five brothers became singers, most notably Grigory, also a bass. From 1924 through 1954, he was one of the main bass soloists of the Bolshoi Theatre along with Mark Reizen, and Maxim Mikhailov. He"
"collected by playwright Alexander Ostrovsky on a River Volga steamer in 1856. This collection was used by, among other composers, Rimsky-Korsakov in his ""By the gate a pine tree was swaying"" and other songs. Vilboa wrote three operas, but only one, ""Natasha"", was staged in St. Petersburg, and left the repertoire after a few weeks. Konstantin Vilboa Konstantin Petrovich Villebois (Вильбоа Константин Петрович) (1817–1882) was a Russian composer. The name Villebois (translitterated sometimes in Vilboa) is of French origin (Villebois). Vilboa was an autodidact who never received any musical education. He became a friend of Glinka around 1850. Vilboa wrote"
"Mikhail Tushmalov Mikhail Tushmalov ""(Tushmalishvili, Georgian:თუშმალიშვილი)"" (1861 - 1896) was a Russian Georgian opera conductor who held posts in Warsaw and Tiflis (Tbilisi). He died in what is now the nation of Georgia. Tushmalov is most widely discussed today as the first person to have prepared an orchestral version of Modest Mussorgsky's 1874 piano suite ""Pictures at an Exhibition"". Tushmalov's version sets an abridged version of the piece. It may have been completed as early as 1886, when Tushmalov was a student of Rimsky-Korsakov. Reports circulate that Rimsky-Korsakov sketched the beginning of his own orchestration of Mussorgsky's piece, but abandoned"
"Alexander Glazunov Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov (, 10 August 1865 – 21 March 1936) was a Russian composer, music teacher, and conductor of the late Russian Romantic period. He served as director of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory between 1905 and 1928 and was instrumental in the reorganization of the institute into the Petrograd Conservatory, then the Leningrad Conservatory, following the Bolshevik Revolution. He continued heading the Conservatory until 1930, though he had left the Soviet Union in 1928 and did not return. The best-known student under his tenure during the early Soviet years was Dmitri Shostakovich. Glazunov was significant in that"
"Symphony. As a result, this symphony took several years to complete. Immediately after the successful premiere of his first symphony in E-flat conducted by Mily Balakirev at the Imperial Russian Music concert in 1869, Borodin began writing the Second Symphony in B minor. That summer, he left off work on the piece in order to work on ""Prince Igor"" (Knyaz Igor), an opera based on a 12th-century epic ""the Story of Igor's Army,"" suggested by his friend and first biographer Vladimir Stasov. Borodin suddenly decided to abandon ""Prince Igor"" in March 1870, criticizing his own inability to write a libretto"
"Vladimir Fontikov Vladimir Karnikovich Fontikov (May 17, 1941 – October 12, 1987) was a Soviet opera singer best known for his interpretation of Modest Mussorgsky's ""Boris Gudunov"". Born in Novorossiysk, Russian SFSR, to a Russian father and an Armenian mother, Fontikov moved to Yerevan, Armenian SSR in 1943 and lived there until 1962, when he began his studies at the Moscow Conservatory. He studied under the direction of prominent Soviet singer and teacher Lev Arakelov and made his debut in Moscow in 1971 under the role of Boris Gudunov, in Moddest Mussorgsky's famous opera, a role he would perform once"
"the curtain falls. Suite from the opera ""Pan Voyevoda"", Op. 59 (1903)<br> Сюита из оперы ""Пан воевода"", соч. 59 Audio Recordings (""Mainly studio recordings"") Pan Voyevoda Pan Voyevoda (, transliteration ""Pan vojevoda""; Polish ""Pan wojewoda""—literally ""The Gentleman Provincial Governor""), is an opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. It is based on a libretto by Ilya Tyumenev. The work was completed in 1903, was first performed in October 1904, and has proved to be one of Rimsky-Korsakov's least-successful works. This is due to the ramshackle, melodramatic plot rather than the quality of the music, which at its best (notably in the woodland scenes"
"Borodin died suddenly in 1887, leaving ""Prince Igor"" incomplete. Rimsky-Korsakov and Stasov went to Borodin's home, collected his scores, and brought them to Rimsky-Korsakov's house. The often-repeated account that Glazunov reconstructed and orchestrated the overture from memory after hearing the composer play it at the piano is true only in part. The following statement by Glazunov himself clarifies the matter: Central to the opera is the way the Russians are distinguished from the Polovtsians through melodic characterization. While Borodin uses features of Russian folk music to represent his compatriots, he uses chromaticism, melismas and appoggiaturas—among other techniques—represent their 'heathen' opponents."
"E. Belyaev (music: F. Bogoroditsky; lyrics: Ya Repninsky), ""Shooting Kommunarov"" duet with E. Belyaev (music: V.Tan-Bogoraz), a duet with Abramov, ""Execution of the Warrior Revolution"" duet with E. Belyaev, ""Marching song"" duet with I.A. Didenko, ""Song of the Red Army Cavalry"" (recorded 1954), ""Travel Far"" duet with V.V. Puchkov See images here, here and here. (b.Kazakhstan 24 July 1938). (Russian: Эдуард Максович Лабковский), bass soloist. Honoured Artist of Russia (1978); People's Artist of Russia (1988). He moved to Moscow aged 3yrs, after his father, a Soviet official, died. There he worked in an aircraft factory as a fitter-assembler before attending"