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Firma Melodiya presents a set of symphonic works by the classical Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. A wizard of the orchestra!.. A magician of orchestral sounds!.. How many unforgettable pages from Rimsky-Korsakovs scores arise as I say it! The wonderful composer created a bright orchestral style which we with good reason call Rimsky-Korsakovs orchestra, wrote the patriarch of the 20th century Russian conducting school Evgeni Svetlanov. The composer developed various genres of symphonic music for forty-five years. Conventional four-movement symphonic cycles; one-movement programme overtures, fantasia on folk themes and symphonic pictures in the vein of the founder of the New Russian School Mily Balakirev; Capriccio espagnol continuing Glinkas line; individual orchestra pieces composed in case Rimsky-Korsakov did not come at once to the genre of symphonic suite, the most organic for his creative individuality, in which he created Antar and Scheherazade, two masterpieces of Russian orchestra music. Rimsky-Korsakovs works are performed by the USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra conducted by Evgeni Svetlanov. The recordings were made in the late 1960s early 1980s in the heyday of the orchestra and its outstanding leader.
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