Tsar Saltan

On this CD:

1. Scheherazade, symphonic suite for orchestra, Op. 35 The Sea And Sinbad's Ship
Composed by Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov
Performed by Chicago Symphony Orchestra with Sidney Harth
Conducted by Fritz Reiner

2. Scheherazade, symphonic suite for orchestra, Op. 35 The Tale Of The Kalender Prince
Composed by Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov
Performed by Chicago Symphony Orchestra with Sidney Harth
Conducted by Fritz Reiner

3. Scheherazade, symphonic suite for orchestra, Op. 35 The Young Prince And The Young Princess
Composed by Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov
Performed by Chicago Symphony Orchestra with Sidney Harth
Conducted by Fritz Reiner

4. Scheherazade, symphonic suite for orchestra, Op. 35 Festival In Bagdad/The Sea/The Ship Goes to Pieces On A Rock Surmounted By A Bronze Warrior/Conclusion
Composed by Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov
Performed by Chicago Symphony Orchestra with Sidney Harth
Conducted by Fritz Reiner

5. Russian Easter Festival Overture (Svetlïy pazdnik), for orchestra, Op. 36
Composed by Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov
Performed by Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Leopold Stokowski

6. The Tale of Tsar Saltan (Skazka o Tsare Saltane), musical pictures (suite) for orchestra, Op. 57 Flight Of The Bumblebee
Composed by Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov
Performed by London Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Andre Previn

7. The Tale of Tsar Saltan (Skazka o Tsare Saltane), musical pictures (suite) for orchestra, Op. 57 March
Composed by Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov
Performed by London Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Andre Previn

Tracks:

Tsar Saltan: Flight of the Bumblebee
Capriccio espagnol, Op. 34: Alborada. Vivo e strepitoso
Capriccio espagnol, Op. 34: Variazioni. Andante con moto
Capriccio espagnol, Op. 34: Alborada. Vivo e strepitoso
Capriccio espagnol, Op. 34: Scena e canto gitano
Capriccio espagnol, Op. 34: Fandango asturiano
Sadko: Song of India
The Snow Maiden: Dance of the Tumblers
Le Coq d'or Suite: IV. Introduction and Bridal Procession
Mlada Suite: Procession of the Nobles
Tsar Saltan Suite, Op. 57: Farewell of the Tsar
Russian Easter Overture
Sheherazade Symphonic Suite: The Young Prince And The Young Princess
Sheherazade Symphonic Suite: IV. Festival at Bagdad - The Sea - Shipwreck

Customer Reviews:

A fine sampler.......2003-04-24

I purchased this CD to sample some of the pieces of Rimsky-Korsakov that I did not already own. The CD is a compilation of recognized conductors. The performances are competent, if not really inspired. Rimsky-Korsakov offers very listenable, approachable music and very rich orchestration. But this is a sampler, where most pieces are incomplete. If you are ready to jump in with both feet, purchase Scheherazade & Russian Easter Overture by Jose Serebrier, Scherazade & Cappricio Espanol by Mackerras/LSO, and Neeme Jarvi on Chandos ($$) for the rest.

I was first put off by the sonics of this CD, particularly the dynamic range, but this varies with each of the many recorded pieces.

In its favor, this CD is inexpensive, but don't expect to receive more than what you pay.

OUTSTANDING.......2002-09-16

This is a good selection of outstanding works of one of the best Russian composers. I enjoyed it very much.

Fun CD.......2002-01-29

I really appreciated the variety on this CD, from the light, bouncy bumblebee to the more bombastic pieces. I think this makes a really good intro to Korsakov's works.

Panorama: Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov

Average customer rating:

A powerful and wonderful CD
POWERFUL , and AWESOME!!!
A must

Panorama: Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov

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ASIN: B00004W3IY
Release Date: 2000-10-17

Tracks:

Sheherazade, Op. 35: The Sea and Sinbad's Ship - Michel Schwalbe
Sheherazade, Op. 35: The Story Of The Kalander Prince - Michel Schwalbe
Sheherazade, Op. 35: The Young Prince and The Young Princess - Michel Schwalbe
Sheherazade, Op. 35: Festival At Baghdad - The Sea - Shipwreck - Michel Schwalbe
Capriccio espagnol, Op. 34: Alborada. Vivo e strepitoso - Berliner Philharmoniker
Capriccio espagnol, Op. 34: Variazioni. Andante con moto - Berliner Philharmoniker
Capriccio espagnol, Op. 34: Alborada. Vivo e strepitoso - Berliner Philharmoniker
Capriccio espagnol, Op. 34: Scena e canto gitano. Allgretto - Berliner Philharmoniker
Capriccio espagnol, Op. 34: Fandango asturiano - Berliner Philharmoniker
The Flight Of The Bumblebee - Michel Schwalbe
Russian Easter Festival Overture, Op.36 - Concertgebouw Orchestra

Tracks:

The Tale Of Tsar Saltan: Suite, Op. 57: The Tsar's Departure and Farewell - Philharmonia Orchestra
The Tale Of Tsar Saltan: Suite, Op. 57: The Tsarina In A Barrel At Sea - Philharmonia Orchestra
The Tale Of Tsar Saltan: Suite, Op. 57: The Three Wonders - Philharmonia Orchestra
Symphony No. 2 (Symphonic Suite), Op. 9 'Antar': Largo - Allegro - Largo - Allegretto - Adagio - Allegretto - Largo - Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Symphony No. 2 (Symphonic Suite), Op. 9 'Antar': Allegro - Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Symphony No. 2 (Symphonic Suite), Op. 9 'Antar': Allegro risoluto - Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Symphony No. 2 (Symphonic Suite), Op. 9 'Antar': Allegretto - Adagio - Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
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The Golden Cockerel: Suite: Wedding Procession - Death Of King Dodon - Finale - Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureax

Customer Reviews:

A powerful and wonderful CD.......2005-11-08

The performances are superb. The sound quality is excellent. It is a fine choice of works by Rimsky-Korsakov (over 2 hours and 35 minutes of music). We hear one of my favorite performances of Sheherazade. And the Capriccio Espagnol. The Flight of the Bumblebee. The Tsar Saltan Suite, the Golden Cockerel Suite, the Russian Easter Festival Overture. And the Second symphony. These are all dramatic works by a master of orchestration.

I highly recommend this two-disc set.

POWERFUL , and AWESOME!!!.......2004-07-11

The power that radiates from the instruments in Scheherezade is magnificient. Please, I know this line of CD's are expensive, but they are worth it. The sound is incredible! if you turn it up real loud, while listening through the headphones, you can hear the people taking their breaths before they play, dropping various items such as mallets, and sticks! Thats just how sensitive the sound is. Out of 10 stars, i give it Infinity stars...every time I listen to it, it gets better, and better, and better............

A must.......2002-12-14

Buy this CD. Don't think about it. Just buy it. I, personally, bought this CD because of the fact that it had Sheherazade (an incredibly moving and colorful piece). This interpretation of Sheherazade by Karajan is among the best (if not THE best). However, as I began to listen to the rest of the CD I found the other pieces to be equally brilliant and astounding. The flare of Capriccio Espagnol, the dramatic Second Symphony and the simple ingenuity and cheeriness of the Tsar Sultan suite. The piece that I found most surprising was the Russian Easter Festival Overture. This is one of music's most under appreciated pieces in music, and ranks easily belong side Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet or Brahms Academic Festival and Tragic overtures. Its relatively simplistic themes are some of the most exciting and riveting every written. This CD is a must for ANY lover (or of anybody even slightly interested in classical music in general). I would note that the sound quality is excellent as well...if that's a must for some of you.

Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade for orchestra Op35; Russian Easter Festival Overture Op36

Average customer rating:

Great mix of music though OK performance
Wow..
Colorful, Romantic, Dramatic, and Consistently Musical !
absolute magic

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ASIN: B000004241
Release Date: 1995-02-14

Tracks:

Scheherazade: The Sea And Sinbad's Ship - N. Rimsky-Korsakov
Scheherazade: The Story Of The Kalandar Prince - N. Rimsky-Korsakov
Scheherazade: The Young Prince And The Young Princess - N. Rimsky-Korsakov
Scheherazade: Festival At Baghdad - The Sea - Shipwreck - N. Rimsky-Korsakov
May Night: Overture - N. Rimsky-Korsakov
The Tale Of Tsar Saltan, Suite, Op.57: I. The Tsar's Departure And Farewell - N. Rimsky-Korsakov
The Tale Of Tsar Saltan, Suite, Op.57: II. The Tsarina And Her Son Afloat In The Cask - N. Rimsky-Korsakov
The Tale Of Tsar Saltan, Suite, Op.57: III. The Three Wonders - N. Rimsky-Korsakov
The Tale Of Tsar Saltan: The Flight Of The Bumblebee - N. Rimsky-Korsakov

Tracks:

Russian Easter Festival: Overture, Op.36 - Rimsky-Korsakov
Christmas Eve Suite - Rimsky-Korsakov
Dubinushka, Op.62 - Rimsky-Korsakov
Sadko, Musical Picture, Op.5 - Rimsky-Korsakov
The Snow Maiden Suite: Introduction- Danse des oiseaux- Cortege- Danse des bouffons - Rimsky-Korsakov

Customer Reviews:

Great mix of music though OK performance.......2007-02-07

Rimsky - Korsakov is one of the greats of Russian music who composed works for multiple genres such as ballets, operas, symphonies, overtures, concertos, etc. This two-disc set provides a good compilation of many of these works without resorting to the common method of taking 3 - 4 minute samples from multiple works that embody the most famous tunes from said works. Instead, the album includes multiple works in whole such as Scheherazade, the Tale of Tsar Saltan, Snow Maiden Suite, and The Russian Easter Festival Overture. The result is two discs with over an hour of music per disc. However, many of the works are quite unknown, and can require some patience to listen through and appreciate.

The orchestration and sound quality is only alright. For example, this album's performance of the Russian Easter Festival Overture was sub-par compared to what I have heard in other albums. Overall, a good buy, but not a great buy.

Wow.........2006-04-28

Quite possibly one of the worst Scheherazade's I have ever heard from a "professional" orchestra. There is some REALLY BAD playing on here. I still can't believe that a recording would be put out where the playing can sound completely incompetent at times. I really don't understand that. This is NOT a good recording!! Just the fact that there are so many noticeable mistakes proves that. If you are a musician, this should bother you and make you wince.

Do yourself a favor and buy a different recording, either Bernstein with New York, Temirkanov with New York, or Maazel with Cleveland, or Concertgebouw or Philly. Any other recording will definitely be of better quality.

Colorful, Romantic, Dramatic, and Consistently Musical !.......2004-03-09

In the past, I have enjoyed other Scheherazades, most notably those by Ormandy, Reiner, Monteux, Stokowski, Kondrashin and Beecham, especially the latter two. I must now include this marvelous Ansermet after re-acquainting myself with his performance after many years of neglect. While the Suisse Romande Orchestra has never been seen as having quite matched the reputations of the Philadelphia, Chicago Symphony and Concertgebouw Orchestras, it performs so magically and musically here that it seems to transport one on the proverbial flying carpet to exotic lands. Tones are rounded, sweet and golden, yet there is no slighting of drama. As conductor, Ansermet is in no hurry to impress with an eye and ear to sheer virtuosity. He proceeds with an easy flowing, characterful, sensuous style. I haven't heard many more satisfyingly rendered first movements than his. But the same holds true for the other three as well, especially the gorgeously fragrant third movement ( "The Young Prince and the Young Princess" ). Throughout the Ansermet/Suisse Romande performance there is a wonderful songfulness and a pleasing exotic ambiance. In many places, instrumental sounds simply glow....Virtually everything else on these discs is also a delicious treat, especially since such brightly varied pieces as Tale of the Tsar Saltan, The Christmas Eve Suite and The Snow Maiden have never been well represented in recordings, though I have enjoyed for some time Svetlanov's Tsar Saltan. All these works of Rimsky-Korsakov reveal one of the finest examples of a composer who possessed the wonderful ability to create splendid color and captivating tunefulness. And, I think, there were few other conductors who had Ernest Ansermet's talent to project these appealing delights with such endearing and satisfying musical expression.

absolute magic.......2000-09-21

This should be an essential part of any Russian music lover's library. Ansermet had a particular affinity with this repertoire, and the very distinctive sound of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande make this a very endearing and memorable release. It's a paradox, but though Rimsky's orchestral pallette is opulent and technicolour in the extreme, it is not particularly lush in the R.Straussian sense - the timbres separate, and the clarity of the texturing in these OSR performances make every subtlety of the orchestration apparent: listen to the different ways Rimsky scores the same E major chord in the first movement of 'Scheherazade' - on this recording every register change tells.

Tracks:

Capriccio esagnol, op.34: Alborada -Vivo e strepitoso
Variazioni -Andante con moto-
Alborada -Vivo e strepitoso-
Scena e canto gitano -Allegretto-
Fandango asturiano
The Young Prince and the Young Princess from Scheherazade, Op. 35
Flight of the Bumble-Bee from The Tale of Tsar Saltan, Op. 57
Symphony No. 2, Op. 9,
Dance of the Tumblers from The Snow Maiden
Hindu Song from Sadko
Russian Easter Festival Overture, Op. 36
Cortege from Mlada
Festival at Baghdad - The Sea from Scheherazade, Op. 35

Customer Reviews:

pretty good.......2005-09-07

much of the tracks are very common and available on other collections, however, Russion Easter is not very easy to find. valuable addition to my collection

Rimsky-Korsakov:Scheherazade/Russian Easter Overture/Tsar Saltan

Average customer rating:

Amazing Reiner
Make reservations for Reiner

Rimsky-Korsakov:Scheherazade/Russian Easter Overture/Tsar Saltan

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ASIN: B000003FZA
Release Date: 1995-08-15

Tracks:

Scheherazade, Op. 35: The Sea And Sinbad's Ship
Scheherazade, Op. 35: The Tale Of The Kalender Prince
Scheherazade, Op. 35: The Young Prince And The Toung Princess
Scheherazade, Op. 35: Festival In Bagdad - The Sea - Rock Surmounted By A Bronze Warrior - Conclusion
Russian Easter Overture, Op. 36
Tsar Saltan, Op. 57: Flight Of The Bumblebee
Tsar Saltan, Op. 57: March

Customer Reviews:

Amazing Reiner.......2004-10-27

Have no reservations about the Scheherazade on this disc. Reiner's recording of this with the CSO is the recording by which all others are judged; it alone is worth the price of this disc. That said, I'd recommend buying this recording of it on a different disc, because of the Russian Easter Overture. I don't like Stokowsky's interpretation. Everything about it (tempos, dynamics, etc) sounds grossly overdone, like a crude joke. And why did he have the trombone solo doubled? The excerpts from Tsar Sultan are acceptable, but nothing to write home about.

Make reservations for Reiner.......2000-07-18

This was always viewed as one of Reiner's best recordings. The CSO is in splendid form for him, the scenery unfolds in glorious detail without sacrificing overall structure, and the personality of Orchestra Hall comes out very strongly. Harth gives us an elegant and fleet group of solos that rank among the best.

So why am I not raving? All the time I've known this recording (a long, long time) I never feel Reiner feels this is quite an "adult" work, with all its fairy tales and what not. There's no magic here because Reiner wasn't the type to submit to it, even though he agreed to dirty his hands.

For total immersion, any Stokowski reading will do it, provided you fasten your seat-belt and go for the ride...while experiencing some instrumental combos you never saw on any page. Dorati gives you a kaleidoscope of refracted light, Rafael Druian's amazing solos and the real feeling of pages turning in a big story book, nearly a screenplay. Beecham brings you wonder and wide-eyed fascinaiton. Monteux in both his San Francisco and London accounts captures your spirit of adventure with totally involved orchestral participation! Markevitch is captivating and goes after the exotic and Arabic to great effect with no shame. Reiner gives you the book and goes by it. There's no denying the book per se is a polished and integral book and isgreat, great literature. And certainly it's not anywhere near drab and routine or in any way academic.

The fillers here are OK, the Stoky Paque Russe kind of sloppily played, but neither he or Previn make the kind of contribution in this material like Kurtz or Scherchen or either Slatkin would.