Liadov: Baba Yaga / Enchanted Lake / Kikimora

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Cat No: 8555242

Release Date: 09 January 2001

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

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Barcode: 747313524228

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: LIADOV

Description
Anatol Liadov belongs to the younger generation of Russian nationalist composers, one of the first to attend the musical Friday evenings of Belyayev that were to replace in popularity the Tuesdays of Balakirev, self-appointed guide of Stasov's Mighty Handful. He was born into a musical family. His grandfather had been a musician and his father was for eighteen years, until 1868, conductor at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, where his son was born in 1855. Conservatories had been established in St Peterburg and in Moscow by the Rubinstein brothers in the 1860s, against the opposition of Stasov, who took exception to Anton Rubinstein's description of his favourite musicians as amateurs, and feared the regimentation that German-style conservatories might impose.Liadov's first lessons were from his father, followed, in 1870, by admission to St Petersburg Conservatory, where he initially studied piano and violin. These interests were soon to be replaced by lessons from Johannsen in counterpoint, an abiding interest, and composition classes with Rimsky-Korsakov, from the second of which he was expelled after unexcused absences. Composition classes were resumed in 1878 and Liadov graduated with a setting of part of Schiller's Bride of Messina as his graduation composition. After completing his studies, Liadov was employed at the Conservatory as a teacher of elementary theory, later taking over classes in counterpoint. He resigned in 1905 at the time of Rimsky-Korsakov's dismissal, after the student disturbances of that year, with which Rimsky-Korsakov had expressed sympathy. He resumed his position, as did other members of staff, when Rimsky-Korsakov was reinstated, with Glazunov replacing Bernhard as director of the establishment. Even in the 1870s Liadov had made an impression on the Five, with whom his name was to be associated. Mussorgsky described him as an original and Russian young talent, and his collaboration with Borodin, Cui, Rimsky-Korsakov and Shcherbachov in a light-hearted set of variations, Parafrazi, on a common-place theme, had delighted Liszt, who used the work as a demonstration piece for his pupils.At first Liadov had received encouragement from Balakirev, emerging from a period of silence, but still inspired with uncomfortable religious zeal. In the 1880s he became one of the first to join Belyayev's group, serving as an adviser on the publications that the latter paid for and sharing the responsibility for the concern with Rimsky-Korsakov and Glazunov after Belyayev's death in 1904. As a composer Liadov was less hard-working that he might have been. It was his tendency to procrastinate that was to win Stravinsky his chance with Dyagilev, when the score commissioned for The Firebird was not finished in time, although the work had already been advertised for performance in Paris. It was on that occasion that he was asked by Dyagilev how the music was progressing, and replied that things were going very well and that he had ju
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