Glazunov: Violin Concerto In A Minor / The Seasons

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Cat No: 8554049

Release Date: 01 January 2000

Label: Naxos / Naxos Classics

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Barcode: 636943404928

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: GLAZUNOV

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AlexanderKonstantinovich Glazunov (1865-1936)Concert Waltz, Op. 47The SeasonsViolin Concerto in AMinor, Op. 82AlexanderKonstantinovich Glazunov has not fared well at the hands of later critics. Heenjoyed a remarkably successful career in music, becoming Director of the StPetersburg Conservatory in 1905 in the aftermath of the political disturbancesof that year, and retaining the position, latterly in absentia, for the nexttwenty-five years. His earlier compositions were well received, but the veryfacility that had attracted the attention and friendship of his teacherRimsky-Korsakov was to be held against him. A Russian critic could praise himfor the reconciliation he had apparently effected between the Russian music ofhis time and the music of Western Europe, but for a considerable time theSoviet authorities regarded his music as bourgeois, while one of the mosteminent of writers in the West on Russian music, Gerald Abraham, consideredthat it had fallen to Glazunov to lead what he described as the comfortabledecline of Russian music into ignominious mediocrity. Recent critics haveoccasionally taken a more balanced view of Glazunov's achievement. Due respectis paid to his success in bringing about a synthesis of Russian and WesternEuropean music, the tradition of the Five and that of Rubinstein. Boris Schwarzhas summarised the composer's career neatly, allowing him to have been acomposer of imposing stature and a stabilising influence in a time oftransition and turmoil.Born in St Petersburgin 1865, the son of a publisher and bookseller, as a child Glazunov showedconsiderable ability in music and in 1879 met Balakirev, who encouraged the boyto broaden his general musical education, while taking lessons fromRimsky-Korsakov. By the age of sixteen he had completed the first of his ninesymphonies, a work that was performed in 1882 under the direction of Balakirev,and further compositions were welcomed by both factions in Russian musicallife, the nationalist and the so-called German.Glazunov continued hisassociation with Rimsky-Korsakov until the latter's death in 1909. It was inhis company that he became a regular member of the circle of musicians underthe patronage of Belyayev, perceived by Balakirev as a rival to his own influence.Belyayev introduced Glazunov to Liszt, whose support led to the spread of theyoung composer's reputation abroad. The First Symphony was performed inWeimar in 1884, the Second directed by Glazunov at the 1889 ParisExhibition. The Fourth and Fifth Symphonies were introduced tothe London public in 1897. In 1899 Glazunov joined the staff of theConservatory in St Petersburg and in 1905, when peace was restored to theinstitution after student demonstrations, he became Director, a position heheld, nominally at least, until 1930.In 1928 Glazunov leftRussia to fulfil concert engagements abroad, finally, in 1932, making his homein Paris, where he died four years later. These last years took him to a numberof countries, where he condu
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