song of india, hymn to the sun, flight of the bumblebee
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GREATEST HITS Song of India, Hymn to the Sun, Flight of the Bumblebee, Capriccio Espagnole: Fandango,
Scheherazade: The Young Prince and the Young Princess, and others
Leonard Bernstein Andre Kostelanetz Eugene Ormandy New York Philharmonic Columbia Symphony Philadelphia Orchestra
Produced by John McClure and Thomas Frost MS 7509
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV'S GREATEST HITS
Side 1
THE FLIGHT OF THE BUMBLEBEE (Arr.: Arthur Harris) (bmi—1.21)
THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA, EUGENE ORMANDY, Conductor
THE YOUNG PRINCE AND THE YOUNG PRINCESS from "SCHEHERAZADE," Op. 35 (p.d.-h:12)
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC, LEONARD BERNSTEIN, Conductor; John Corigliano, Violin Solo
PROCESSION OF THE NOBLES from "MLADA" SUITE (p.d.-4:44)
THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA, EUGENE ORMANDY, Conductor
HYMN TO THE SUN from "LE COQ DOR" (bmi-4.35)
THE COLUMBIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, ANDRE KOSTELANETZ, Conductor
Side 2
DANCE OF THE TUMBLERS from "THE SNOW MAIDEN" (p.d.-3:24)
THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA, EUGENE ORMANDY, Conductor
SONG OF INDIA from "SADKO" (Arr.: Arthur Harris) (bmi—3:28)
THE COLUMBIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, ANDRE KOSTELANETZ, Conductor
THE SEA AND SINBAD'S SHIP from "SCHEHERAZADE," Op. 35 (p.d.-h:04)
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC, LEONARD BERNSTEIN, Conductor; John Corigliano, Violin Solo
CANTO GITANO AND FANDANGO ASTURIANO from "CAPRICCIO ESPAGNOL," Op. 34 (PD-5 53)
THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA, EUGENE ORMANDY, Conductor
In his introduction to Rimsky-Korsakov's autobiography,
"My Musical Life," the noted American author and critic
Carl Van Vechten described the great Russian composer
as "an adept at arranging instruments in subtle juxtaposi¬
tion, a skilled workman at setting folk-jewels in operatic
platinum, an artist without a peer in spreading nervous
shots of color through his orchestration. . .
It is precisely because of these "shots of color" that the
music of Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-
1908) has survived so successfully in the overcrowded
19th-century repertory of today's symphony orchestras.
Any work by tfiis Russian master is a virtual rainbow of
sonic splendor—strong, radiant colors, as brilliantly ex¬
otic as the Slavic culture that inspired so many of them.
For Rimsky-Korsakov was, indeed, a skilled workman
at setting folk-jewels in platinum. As a leader of the Na¬
tionalist movement, he helped turn music away from
German Romanticism toward the rich lore of the folk
idioms of his own beloved country. With Mily Balakirev,
Alexander Borodin, Cesar Cui and Modest Mussorgsky,
he formed the "Russian Five" to create a new music that
enriched the musical life of the Western world.
A fellow countryman, the great Peter Ilyich Tchaikov¬
sky, expressed his opinion of the "Five" in a letter of
2877: "All the new St. Petersburg composers are very
talented, but they are all permeated with horrible pre¬
sumptuousness and wholly amateurish conviction of
superiority to all other musicians in the universe. The
sole exception is Rimsky-Korsakov."
Tchaikovsky, who was then considered to be outside
the mainstream of "Russian" music, continued to admire
the works of Rimsky-Korsakov, for in 1887 he wrote to
him: "Your Spanish Capriccio is a colossal masterpiece
of instrumentation, and you may regard yourself as the
greatest master of the present day." And again: "I am a
mere artisan in music, but you will be an artist in the
fullest sense of the word."
Although Rimsky-Korsakov wrote some fifteen operas,
most of them based upon Slavic or Oriental folk elements,
only "Le Coq d'or" continues to hold the stage outside of
Russia. And "Scheherazade" and "Capriccio Espagnol," in
addition to their unfading appeal to concert audiences,
have served as the basis for brilliant ballets. But any work
by this great composer contains moments of unparalleled
beauty that reveal not only exquisite craftsmanship but
also the distinctive musical personality that made Rim¬
sky-Korsakov an artist in the fullest sense of the word.
Library of Congress catalog card number 78-750048 applies to MS 7509.
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and more ORMANDY
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MS 7502 MS 7503
CHOPIN’S GREATEST HITS:
Minute Waltz/Military Polonaise Fantaisie Impromptu and others
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Philippe Entremont
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MOZART’S GREATEST HITS
including the theme from “Elvira Madigan, Don Giovanni Minuet, Rondo Alla Turca, Marriage of Figaro Overture,
and others
MS 7507
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MONO RECORDS PLAYED ON THE SAME EQUIPMENT, YET WILL REVEAL FULL STEREO SOUND WHEN PLAYED ON STEREO RECORD FLAYERS.
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