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Saturday, February 17, 2018

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - Overtures & Suites from the Operas (Neeme Järvi)


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Composer: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

CD1:
  • (01) May Night, opera: Overture
  • (02-05) The Snow Maiden, opera suite
  • (06-10) Mlada, opera suite
  • (11-15) Christmas Eve, opera suite
CD2:
  • (01-03) The Tale of Tsar Saltan, opera suite
  • (04) The Tale of Tsar Saltan, opera: The Flight of the Bumble-bee (Interlude from Act III)
  • (05-08) The Invisible City of Kitezh, opera suite
  • (09-12) The Golden Cockerel, opera suite

Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Neeme Järvi, conductor

Date: 1984
Label: Chandos
https://www.chandos.net/products/catalogue/CHAN%2010369

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Review

ARTISTIC QUALITY: 9 / SOUND QUALITY: 9

Chandos has wisely reduced this original, expensive three-disc set to a moderately priced twofer, without losing any music at all. The performances are wonderful: this recording was made in the first flush of Neeme Järvi’s relationship with Chandos, when their recordings with the Scottish National Orchestra were winning accolades the world over for their sonic brilliance. At the time, much of this music was also difficult to find (particularly the suites from Christmas Eve and The Invisible City of Kitezh), and so were additionally welcome in such glittering interpretations. Even now they hold up extremely well: Järvi’s strength always was his willingness to let the orchestra cut loose in the big moments, especially the march music in Le coq d’or, or the Dance of the Tumblers from The Snow Maiden. Also as usual, the string playing lacks that last ounce of precision and rhythmic clarity (the galloping rhythms in Christmas Eve, for example), but few will complain. BIS’s ongoing series of Rimsky’s orchestral music with the Malaysian Philharmonic has even finer sonics, but if you’re looking for just the opera suites, you can hardly do better than this. [6/22/2006]

-- David Hurwitz, ClassicsToday

More reviews:
http://www.gramophone.co.uk/review/rimsky-korsakov-suites
http://www.amazon.com/Overture-Suites-From-Operas-Rimsky-Korsakov/dp/B000F9SZBW

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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (18 March [O.S. 6 March] 1844 – 21 June [O.S. 8 June] 1908) was a Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as The Five. He was considered a master of orchestration. His best-known orchestral compositions are staples of the classical music repertoire, along with suites and excerpts from some of his 15 operas. Rimsky-Korsakov shaped a generation of younger composers and musicians during his decades as an educator, and is considered "the main architect" of what the classical music public considers the Russian style of composition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Rimsky-Korsakov

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Neeme Järvi (born June 7, 1937 in Tallinn) is an Estonian conductor. He studied at the Leningrad Conservatory under Yevgeny Mravinsky and Nikolai Rabinovich, among others. Järvi was Principal Conductor and Music Director of the Gothenburg Symphony (1982-2004), Royal Scottish National Orchestra (1984-1988), Detroit Symphony Orchestra (1990-2005) and Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (2012-2015), among others. He made over 400 recordings for labels such as BIS, Chandos and Deutsche Grammophon and best known for his interpretations of Romantic and 20th century classical music.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neeme_J%C3%A4rvi

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