Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR - Dmitry Kitayenko Conducts Rimsky-Korsakov & Lyadov - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

This album contains the symphonic suite InchScheherazadeInch by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and the short composition InchThe Enchanted LakeInch by his student Anatoly Lyadov. In 1887-88, after the sudden death of his brilliant friend Borodin, Rimsky-Korsakov composed those three orchestral works which crowned his Russian national period and has made his name a permanent part of the worldwide concert repertoire the InchCapriccio espagnoInchl, the symphonic suite InchScheherazadeInch, and the concert overture InchLa Grande Pâque RusseInch. With Scheherazade Rimsky-Korsakov did not tell a story, he rather set individual, unconnected episodes and images to music. Anatoly Lyadov has a reputation of being lazy - based solely on Rimsky-Korsakov's opinion of him - yet his ambition was for every piece of music he created to be flawless. One consequence of this was that his entire œuvre consists entirely of miniatures. The InchEnchanted LakeInch does not tell a story but is purely impressionistic music about a Russian forest lake, on a level with Ravel and Debussy. Conductor Dmitri Kitayenko conducted various orchestras in Moscow, became chief conductor of the Moscow Philharmonic in 1976, and took over the Symphony Orchestra of the Hessischer Rundfunk in Frankfurt am Main in 1990-96. He went on to hold principal positions with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bern Symphony Orchestra, the KBS Symphony Orchestra in Seoul and finally, in addition to his worldwide activities as a guest conductor, was appointed Honorary Conductor of the Gürzenich Orchestra in Cologne. Album Tracks 1. The Sea and Sinbad's Ship [11 29] 2. II. the Kalender Prince [14 01] 3. III. the Young Prince and the Young Princess [12 11] 4. IV. Festival at Baghdad - the Sea - the Ship Breaks Against a Cliff Surmounted By a Bronze Horseman [13 50] 5. Volshebnoye Ozero (The Enchanted Lake), Op. 62