Word: liadov
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Symphonic Selections, played by the Bolshoi Theater Orchestra. The selections include pieces by Balakirev, Mussorgsky, Liadov, Rimsky-Korsakov. Although the recording is not first-rate (it sounds a little like the sound track of a Russian film), the Bolshoi orchestra itself sounds hard to beat...
...reactions from seven-and eight-year-olds such as "I like Stravinsky . . . You take nice jumps and land on your toes." As fast as Grenell could press them, kids all over the U.S. began devouring such nutritional morsels as Haydn's Toy Symphony, Mozart's Country Dances, Liadov's Russian Folk Songs and Prokofiev's A Summer...
Typical numbers were the Tchaikovsky Romance, Vassilenko Oriental Dance, Borodin Chorus from Prince Igor, Liadov Russian Folk Songs and Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee (with Ivanov playing the part of the Queen Bee). Liadov's simple Russian songs were melancholy and lovely even on these unsimple Russian machines...
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...
...Capitan," March Sousa *Overture to "Euryanthe" Weber *The Music Box Liadov *"Finlandia," Symphonic Poem Sibelius *"Hejre Kati", Hungarian Czardas Hubay *Prelude to "The Deluge" Saint-Seans Violin Solo: Julius Theodorowicz *Ouverture Solennelle, "1812" Tchaikovsky *Selection, "Maytime" Romberg *"Night and Day" Porter *Sixth Hungarian Dance Brahms...