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...Telefunken, 2 sides LP). Although his Red Poppy ballet music is better known, this is probably the best work of 75-year-old Reinhold Gliere, dean of Russian composers (see above). Finished in 1911, it is based on the legend of the Paul Bunyan-like Russian folk hero, Ilya Murometz. Huge in concept, it sometimes sounds like such non-Russians as Sibelius or Bruckner. Performance and recording: good...
Reinhold Glière: Symphony No. 3 ("Ilya Murometz") (Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra; Victor; 11 sides). A Soviet composer, no modernist, writes rousingly of Ilya Murometz, a mythical Russian resembling Paul Bunyan and the classical, earth-sustained Antaeus. Stokowski gives it the works...
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