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10-06-2016, 06:27 PM
Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances
Vladimir Ashkenazy and The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
I personally love these peices and thought I would share with you all. I noticed that there has previously been a share of this disc, but the links are dead. So here they are again from my own cd
I recently heard Marin Alsop at the BBC proms perform this work and found hear reading of the dances interesting, however I feel Ashkenazy really finds the drama and the lush romantic sweep from this world class Orchestra.
The Symphonic Dances, Op. 45, is an orchestral suite in three movements. Completed in 1940, it is Sergei Rachmaninoff's last composition. The work summarizes Rachmaninoff's compositional output.
The work is fully representative of the composer's later style with its curious, shifting harmonies, the almost Prokofiev-like grotesquerie of the outer movements and the focus on individual instrumental tone colors throughout (highlighted by his use of an alto saxophone in the opening dance).[1] The opening three-note motif, introduced quietly but soon reinforced by heavily staccato chords and responsible for much of the movement's rhythmic vitality, is reminiscent of the Queen of Shemakha's theme in Rimsky-Korsakov's opera The Golden Cockerel,[2] the only music by another composer that he had taken out of Russia with him in 1917.
The Dances allowed him to indulge in a nostalgia for the Russia he had known, much as he had done in the Third Symphony,[3] as well as to effectively sum up his lifelong fascination with ecclesiastical chants. In the first dance, he quotes the opening theme of his First Symphony, itself derived from motifs characteristic of Russian church music. In the finale he quotes both the Dies Irae and the chant "Blessed be the Lord" (Blagosloven yesi, Gospodi) from his All-Night Vigil.[1]
1.Non allegro (C minor – C major)
2.Andante con moto (Tempo di valse) (G minor)
3.Lento assai – Allegro vivace – Lento assai. Come prima – Allegro vivace. (D minor – D major)
Enjoy and don't forget to say Thanks!
https://mega.nz/#F!xgRzBA5C!SAyWlUY2dp7SSakRuhrIhw
Vladimir Ashkenazy and The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
I personally love these peices and thought I would share with you all. I noticed that there has previously been a share of this disc, but the links are dead. So here they are again from my own cd
I recently heard Marin Alsop at the BBC proms perform this work and found hear reading of the dances interesting, however I feel Ashkenazy really finds the drama and the lush romantic sweep from this world class Orchestra.
The Symphonic Dances, Op. 45, is an orchestral suite in three movements. Completed in 1940, it is Sergei Rachmaninoff's last composition. The work summarizes Rachmaninoff's compositional output.
The work is fully representative of the composer's later style with its curious, shifting harmonies, the almost Prokofiev-like grotesquerie of the outer movements and the focus on individual instrumental tone colors throughout (highlighted by his use of an alto saxophone in the opening dance).[1] The opening three-note motif, introduced quietly but soon reinforced by heavily staccato chords and responsible for much of the movement's rhythmic vitality, is reminiscent of the Queen of Shemakha's theme in Rimsky-Korsakov's opera The Golden Cockerel,[2] the only music by another composer that he had taken out of Russia with him in 1917.
The Dances allowed him to indulge in a nostalgia for the Russia he had known, much as he had done in the Third Symphony,[3] as well as to effectively sum up his lifelong fascination with ecclesiastical chants. In the first dance, he quotes the opening theme of his First Symphony, itself derived from motifs characteristic of Russian church music. In the finale he quotes both the Dies Irae and the chant "Blessed be the Lord" (Blagosloven yesi, Gospodi) from his All-Night Vigil.[1]
1.Non allegro (C minor – C major)
2.Andante con moto (Tempo di valse) (G minor)
3.Lento assai – Allegro vivace – Lento assai. Come prima – Allegro vivace. (D minor – D major)
Enjoy and don't forget to say Thanks!
https://mega.nz/#F!xgRzBA5C!SAyWlUY2dp7SSakRuhrIhw