A Short Ride to Vesuvius
How Polish nursery tunes remembered from the cradle and a ditty about a funicular ride up Mount Vesuvius provided two unlikely sources of inspiration for Rimsky-Korsakov.
Polish nursery tunes remembered from the cradle and a ditty about a funicular ride up Mount Vesuvius provide two unlikely sources of inspiration for the Russian composer in his final years. Plus we hear Rachmaninov's interpretation of Rimsky-Korsakov's most famous work refracted through the lens of the so-called 'reproducing piano', designed to preserve performances by the greats at the dawn of the recording age.
Neapolitan Song
Anthony Goldstone, piano
Caroline Clemmow, piano
Pan Voyevoda: Mazurka
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra
Bystrík Režucha, conductor
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op 56 No 2
Natalia Gerassimova, soprano ,
Vladimir Skanavy, piano
Dubinushka, Op 62
USSR Radio Symphony Orchestra
Vladimir Fedoseyev, conductor
The Golden Cockerel: Suite
Russian National Orchestra
Mikhail Pletnev, conductor
Flight of the Bumble Bee
Sergei Rachmaninov, reproducing piano.
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Luigi Denza
Neapolitan Song
Performer: Anthony Goldstone. Performer: Caroline Clemmow.- AMPHION: PHICD127.
- AMPHION.
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Pan Voyevoda - Suite From The Opera Op.59
Conductor: Bystrík Režucha. Orchestra: Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra.- MARCO POLO: HK8220438.
- MARCO POLO.
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
A Midsummer Night's Dream Op.56 no.2
Performer: Katia Skanavi. Singer: Наталья Герасимова.- CHANT DU MONDE : LDC 288-040.
- CHANT DU MONDE.
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Dubinushka [the Little Oat Stick] Op.62
Orchestra: Ussr R S O. Conductor: Vladimir Fedoseyev.- OCD : ocd-227.
- OCD.
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
The Golden Cockerel - Suite
Orchestra: Russian National Orchestra. Conductor: Mikhail Pletnev.- DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON : dg-447 084 2.
- DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
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Sergey Rachmaninov
(Rimsky-Korsakov) Flight Of The Bumble-Bee,
Ensemble: Sergey Rachmaninov.- TELARC : CD-80489.
- TELARC.
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