Word: glazunov
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then follow a number of movements from Schumann's "Carnaval," a set of short piano pieces here given in a workmanlike, never unduly colorful orchestration made by Rimsky-Korsakov, Glazunov, Liadov, and Nicolas Chereprin for the Russian Ballet. The most pleasant piece, "Reconnaissance," is omitted; but the rest is good to hear nevertheless. The final march in three-quarter time may puzzle some people...
...music festival. Blustery Red music was played in the Tsar's old palace at Detskoye Selo, in the old Mariinsky Theatre, in the Philharmoniya concert hall and in the famed old opera house. Special excitement came when Violinist Efrem Zimbalist marked his homecoming by soloing in the Glazunov Concerto. But the festival's high mark was the Opera's performance of Prince Igor, because the festival was given to commemorate the birthday centenary of Prince Igor's composer- Alexander Porfirievitch Borodin. Soviets approve Borodin's music as vigorous, direct, heroic, with a true Russian flavor...
...Sabajno captains an evenly matched team. Symphonic: Stravinsky's Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra by Igor Stravinsky and the Orchestra des Concerts Straram under Ernest Ansermet (Columbia, $6)-The composer provides the lace work for the Caprice which was played with great success this winter by Sergei Koussevitzky. Glazunov's Seasons by a Symphony Orchestra under Alexander Glazunov (Columbia, $7.50)-An old-school Russian who stayed on after the Revolution to head the Leningrad Conservatory offers more substance than the majority of his bright young countrymen. Beethoven's Second Symphony by the Berlin Staatsoper Orchestra under Erich...