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...Rimsky-Korsakov: May Night (Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Bolshoi Opera, conducted by Vassily Nebolsin; Vanguard, 3 LPs). For opera lovers looking for a new but basically old-fashioned work. The plot, derived from Gogol stories, is full of romantic love and farcical confusion, but has a happy ending...
...releases: Beethoven: Leonore No. 3, Egmont and Coriolanus Overtures (Joseph Keilberth conducting the Berlin Philharmonic and Bamberg Symphony Orchestras; Capitol-Telefunken); Liszt: Spanish Rhapsody (Miklos Schwalb; Academy); Mozart: Requiem (Hilde Gueden, Rosette Anday, Julius Patzak, Josef Greindl, Salzburg Dome Choir; Mozarteum Orchestra conducted by Josef Messner; Remington); Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade (Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra conducted by Antal Dorati; Mercury) ; Schubert: A Song Recital (Herman Schey, bass-baritone; Poly music); Tchaikovsky: "Pathétique" Symphony (Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy...
...Summer Symphony (Sat. 6:45 p.m., NBC). Laszlo Halasz conducts music of Mozart, Borodin, Rimsky-Korsakov...
Later, Borodin wrote a funeral march and a mazurka around the tune, which he called the Coteletten Polka* and proudly showed the pieces to his musical friends. Rimsky-Korsakov promptly added several variations; other composer friends chipped in too, and before long there were 16 paraphrases. All were written for piano duet, the lower part for a skilled player, the upper for two fingers. In 1879, when the collection was published, Liszt got a copy, and added a paraphrase...
...paraphrases, suggested to Conductor Werner Janssen that he orchestrate it. Columbia Records heard about it, suggested a recording with Janssen conducting the Columbia Symphony. A little research revealed that half of the paraphrases had already been orchestrated, under the title Tati-Tati, by a pupil of Rimsky-Korsakov's, Nicolai Tcherepnine. Columbia put Tcherepnine's version on one side of an LP disc, Janssen's on the other...