Word: sadko
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...until last year known to the world only in a prettified version as unlike that of the original as if Murillo had painted over an El Greco, as if Tennyson had rewritten William Blake. Rimsky-Korsakov, good friend of Moussorgsky, composer of Sheherazade, La Coq d'Or and Sadko, professor and purist, had been the one to perform this doubtful service for Boris. He ironed out the harshnesses, modified the harmonies, polished the scoring. Moussorgsky's way of writing music, he said, "was the bumptiousness of the amateur." To revise it was an "unspeakable satisfaction." Condescendingly he added...
...program follows: Military March No. 2 Schubert-Casella Suite "From Holberg's Time" Grieg Intermezxo from "Goyescas" Granados "Sadko," Tone Poem Rimsky-Korsakoff "Ball Scene" and "March to the Scaffold from the Fantastic Symphony Berlioz The Swan of Tuonela Sibelius "Pacific 231," Orchestral Movement Honegger Sixth Hungarian Dance Brahms Scherzo from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Mendelssohn Overture Solennelle, "1812" Tchaikovsky
Rimsky-Korsakov, "Sadko," a Tone Picture...
...Sadko", composed by Rimsky Korsakow in 1867, has been called the first Russian symphonic poem. It was the germ from which the opera of the same name sprang in 1896. Korsakow re-orchestrated the tone-poem in 1891, the new version of which is always played. How it recalled the unforgettable Diaghileff Ballet Russe, and the gorgeous Bakst settings and costumes! Korsakow is always remarkably effective with the orchestra, no matter if at times he sounds banal on the pianoforte. The combination of the barbaric splendor or Russian folk-music and oriental sensuousness never fails to charm; his orchestration will...
...They did not know he was a Hungarian of only eighteen years of age. His playing of Liszt's pyrotechnic concerto was superb, and he surpassed both previous performances in Boston. His technique was flawless; his control of tone in the more sentimental passages was in excellent taste. Fortunately "Sadko" had sufficiently aroused a decidedly frigid audience to give him the warm applause he merited...