- aka Николай Андреевич Римский-Корсаков
[nʲɪkəˌlaj ˌrʲim.skʲɪj ˈkorsəkəf]
(1844 – 1908)
A Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as The Five, he was a master of orchestration.
His best-known orchestral compositions — Capriccio Espagnol, the Russian Easter Festival Overture, and the symphonic suite Scheherazade — are staples of the classical music repertoire.
(1844 – 1908)
A Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as The Five, he was a master of orchestration.
His best-known orchestral compositions — Capriccio Espagnol, the Russian Easter Festival Overture, and the symphonic suite Scheherazade — are staples of the classical music repertoire.
The Flight of the Bumblebee, from The Tale of Tsar Saltan opera, played in many different ways:
* Bumble bees flying over the piano keys
* On piano in the Shine (1996 movie) - highly recommended
* Bumble bees flying over the piano keys
* On iPad !
A symphonic suite based on 'One Thousand and One Nights' (aka 'The Arabian Nights'), this orchestral work combines two features common to Russian music and of Rimsky-Korsakov in particular:
(1) dazzling, colorful orchestration and
(2) an interest in the East, which figured greatly in the history of Imperial Russia, as well as orientalism in general.
It is considered Rimsky-Korsakov's most popular work.
The music was used in a ballet by Michel Fokine.
Mvt.1 The Sea and Sinbad's Ship
Mvt.2 The Kalendar Prince
Mvt.3 The Young Prince and the Young Princess
Mvt.4 Festival at Baghdad. The Sea. The Ship Breaks against a Cliff Surmounted by a Bronze Horseman.
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