Release Date: 01 January 2000
Label: Naxos / Naxos Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 730099457521
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: GLAZUNOV
Description
Alexander Glazunov (1865 -1936) The King of the Jews, Op. 95 (Incidental Music) 1. Introduction and Chorus 2. Song of the Disciples of Jesus 3. Entr'acte to Act II 4. Tmmpets of the Levites 5. Act II: Conclusion 6. Entr'acte to Act III, Scene 1 7. Entr'acte to Act III, Scene 2 8. Syrian Dance 9. Entr'acte to Act IV 10. Shepherd's Musette 11. Psalm of the Believers Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov has not faredwell at the hands of later critics. He enjoyed a remarkably successful careerin music, becoming Director of the St Petersburg Conservatory in 1905 in theaftermath of the political disturbances of that year, and retaining theposition, latterly in absentia, for the next twenty-five years. His earliercompositions were well received, but the very facility that had attracted theattention and friendship of his teacher Rimsky-Korsakov was to be held againsthim. A Russian critic could praise him for the reconciliation he had apparentlyeffected between the Russian music of his day and the music of Western Europe,but for a considerable time the Soviet authorities regarded his music asbourgeois, while one of the most eminent of writers in the West on Russianmusic, Gerald Abraham, considered that it had fallen to Glazunov to lead what hedescribed as the comfortable decline of Russian music into ignominiousmediocrity. Recent critics have occasionally taken a more balanced view of Glazunov'sachievement. Due respect is paid to his success in bringing about a synthesisof Russian and Western European music, the tradition of the Five and that ofRubinstein, founder of the St Petersburg Conservatory and a system ofprofessional training for musicians. Boris Schwarz has summarised thecomposer's career neatly, allowing him to have been a composer of imposingstature and a stabilising influence in a time of transition and turmoil, whileSimon Mundy, in a recent monograph, has done much to restore interest in acomposer who has been generally undervalued. Born in St Petersburg in 1865, the son of a publisherand bookseller, as a child Glazunov showed considerable ability in music and in1879 met Balakirev, who encouraged the boy to broaden his general musicaleducation, while taking lessons from Rimsky-Korsakov. By the age of sixteen hehad completed the first of his nine symphonies, a work that was performed in1882 under the direction of Balakirev, and further compositions were welcomedby both factions in Russian musical life, the nationalist and the so-calledGerman. Glazunov continued his association withRimsky-Korsakov until the latter's death in 1908. It was in his company that hebecame a regular member of the circle of musicians under the patronage of Belyayev,perceived by Balakirev as a rival to his own influence. Belyayev introduced Glazunovto Liszt, whose support led to the spread of the young composer's reputationabroad. The First Symphony was performed in Weimar in 1884, the Second directedby Glazunov at the 1889 Paris Exhibition. The Fo
Tracklisting
Dariia Lytvishko
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; Marin Alsop
Alice Di Piazza; Basel Sinfonietta; NDR Bigband; Titus Engel
Anna Alas i Jove; Miquel Villalba
David Childs; Black Dyke Band; Nicholas Childs
Yaqi Yang; Margarita Parsamyan; Robynne Redmon; Minghao Liu; Frank Ragsdale; Kim Josephson; Kevin S
Vilmos Csikos; Olivier Lechardeur; Manon Lamaison
Tomas Cotik; Martingale Ensemble; Ken Selden
