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Rimsky-Korsakov: The Maid of Pskov Suite; The Legend of the Invisible City Suite; Fairy Tale; Fantasia on Serbian Themes. Igor Golovchin, Moscow Symphony Orchestra. Naxos 8.553513.(Review)
Rimsky-Korsakov: The Maid of Pskov Suite; The Legend of the Invisible City Suite; Fairy Tale; Fantasia on Serbian Themes. Igor Golovchin, Moscow Symphony Orchestra. Naxos 8.553513.
The music for The Maid of Pskov is incidental to the play on which Rimsky-Korsakov based his troubled opera (1872). The suite, frankly, left me bored. Perhaps I was expecting Sheherazade or the Russian Easter Festival Overture. In any event, most of the five movements are Entr'actes, meant to set various scenes rather than elaborate upon them. The second work, The Legend of the Invisible City, from 1903, is much more evocative and has an especially elaborate and fanciful finale that is, in fact, reminiscent of the composer's earlier Sheherazade. Probably the best piece on the disc, however, is Fairy Tale (1880), a brief, 13-minute tone poem for which Rimsky had to be forced to suggest a few guide lines to listeners, like sounds of the forests, the call of a ...
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