Word: murometz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
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