Les Fleurs Russian Orchestral Favorites CD 11 Tracks 1990 Used CD 15 636

Les Fleurs Russian Orchestral Favorites CD 11 Tracks 1990 Used CD 15 636

Russian Orchestral Favorites

The CD has the following 11 tracks.

1 Mussorgsky: Night On The Bare Mountain 11:19 János Sändor Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra Modest Mussorgsky
2 Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin, OP. 25 - Waltz 6:44 Hans Vonk: Staatskapelle Dresden Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
3 Glinka: A Life For The Czar - Mazurka 5:58 Rouslan Raichev Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra Mikhail Glinka
4 Glinka: A Life For The Czar - Polonaise 4:20 Rouslan Raichev Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra Mikhail Glinka
5 Stravinsky: Circus Polka 3:55 Herbert Kegel: Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra lgor Stravinsky
6 Prokofiev: Peter & The Wolf, OP. 67 - March 4:05 Leopold Hager: RTL Symphony Orchestra Luxembourg Sergei Prokofiev
7 Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Op. 71 - Overture 3:29 Hans Vonk: Staatskapelle Dresden Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
8 Mussorgsky: Khovanshtchina - Ad 4: Intermezzo 3:45 Rouslan Raichev Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra Modest Mussorgsky
9 Khachaturian: Gayaneh - Sabre Dance 2:31 Adam Fischer Hungarian State Symphony Orchestra Aram Khachaturian
10 Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Op. 71 - March 2:50 Hans Vonk: Staatskapelle Dresden Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
11 Borodin: Prince Igor - Polovtsian Dances 11:47 Boris Hinchev: Sofia National Opera Chorus & Orchestra Alexander Borodin

From the front of the CD case:

Les Fleurs
Russian Favorites

Sabre Dance
Polovtsian Dances – A Night on the Bare Mountain
Dances From: “Eugene Onegin”, “A Life for the Tsar”, Chovanshschina”

Digital DDD Recording

15 636
Laser Light
Digital
60 Min

From the rear of the CD case:

Russian Orchestral Favorites

15 636
Stereo
℗ 1990 Delta Music Inc.

UPC: 0 1811-15636-2 8

From the Cover Sheet:

Famous Russian Orchestral Works

Music lovers in Russia rarely had the opportunity to become acquainted with new compositions by their compatriots in orchestral concerts in public. Despite the fact that it was part of the prestige of every royal court in a Europe under absolutist rule to employ as large an orchestra as possible, it was the church which remained the most important vehicle of culture in Russia up into thc nineteenth century. Its strict censorship prevented any deviation from the official liturgical music centred around the Byzantine rites and which dispensed with any instrumental accompaniment. As late as 1636, figtey carriages containing musical instruments were burned on the banks of the Moskva as being the work of the devil. It was not until Peter the Great (1682 - 1725) came to power that any change took place in the assessment of instrumental music. In his forced effort to Europeanise the gigantic, poorly-developed empire, more and more western European musical styles, composers and musicians were imported. In 1740, a school of music was annexed to Czarina Anna’s court orchestra, in which ten young people were given tuition as orchestral musicians. Nonetheless, the empire, in which only eighteen per cent of the population lived in the towns and cities, retained the status of a developing country under foreign influence as far as music was concerned. The Petersburg Philharmonic Society, founded in 1802, played a total precisely 205 concerts over a one hundred year period. Had it not been for the Petersburg Music Society (1859) and the “Free Music School” being established, the outlook for an independent musical culture developing in Russia would have been even bleaker. Some of the works presented here were first performed by one of the three associations .- only the “Circus Polka” for a young elephant belongs clearly to the USA. It was written by Stravinsky in 1942, having been commissioned by the Barnum and Bailey Circus — the choreography war performed by George Balanchine, and the composer gave this musical just a particular punch-line by working a quotation from a military march by Schubert into the polka at the end.

The CD comes in the original jewel CD case with original artwork.

The CD & Case measures approximately 5-5/8 X 4-7/8 X 3/8 inches (14 X 12.4 X 1 cm) and weighs 3.3 oz (95 gr) Shipping weight will be 125 gr.

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