Gennady Rozhdestvensky, USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra - Glazunov: Symphony No. 6, Scenes de Ballet op. 52 (1987)
Gennady Rozhdestvensky, USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra - Alexander Glazunov: Symphony No. 6, Scenes de Ballet op. 52 (1987)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 322 Mb | Total time: 68:30 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Melodia | # MEL 46005-2 | Recorded: 1987
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 322 Mb | Total time: 68:30 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Melodia | # MEL 46005-2 | Recorded: 1987
While the Symphony No. 6 in C minor, Op. 58, of 1896 by Alexander Glazunov is not the most personally characteristic of his eight completed symphonies – the optimistic Third or the Olympian Fifth are more typical of his confident symphonic aesthetic – it is arguably the most typically Russian of his symphonies. Part of the reason for this is the scoring – violins in octaves above massed brass at its climaxes à la Tchaikovsky and gorgeously colorful woodwind writing in its central movements – part of it is the themes – ardent and powerful with a yearning quality characteristic of fin de siècle Russian symphonies – but most of it is the furious tone of the opening movement. With the darkly unfolding Adagio leading into a Allegro appassionato that balances a passionately despairing first theme with a fervently supplicating second theme, Glazunov's Sixth sounds like a Russian symphony composed after the death of Tchaikovsky. But the Sixth is more than the work of a symphonic epigone. While the tone of the opening movement sounds typically Russian, its chromatic melodic and cogent harmonic structure makes it sound much more modern than contemporary symphonies by Kalinnikov or even Rachmaninov. Even more modern are the Sixth's second and fourth movements. The second movement is a theme and seven variations that slowly transmutes the tone of the symphony from the fury of the opening movement to one of calm acceptance. The brief third-movement Intermezzo that precedes the Finale is lighter in tone than anything else in the symphony. The Finale itself is one of Glazunov's most successful closing movements. With its magisterial Andante maestoso introduction announcing the chorale theme that will ultimately cap the movement, its highly contrasted themes – the first confidently striding in the winds Moderato maestoso, the second a lilting Scherzando theme for the flutes, horns, and strings – the Finale seems at first too episodic to cohere. Glazunov's superb technical skills, however, form all the Finale's material into an organic whole and the tone of the Finale – powerfully positive – is altogether Glazunov's own.–James Leonard
Performer:
USSR Ministry Of Culture Symphony Orchestra (1-4)
USSR Radio Symphony Orchestra (5-12)
Gennady Rozhdestvensky, conductor
Track List:
Symphony No. 6 in C minor, Op. 58
01. I. Adagio
02. II. Tema con Varazioni
03. III. Intermezzo
04. IV. Finale
Scene de Ballet, Op. 52
05. I. Introduction
06. II. Marionettes
07. III. Mazurka
08. IV. Scherzino
09. V. Pas d`Action
10. VI. Danse
11. VII. Valse
12. VIII. Polonaise
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Gennady Rozhdestvensky, USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra - Glazunov: Symphony No. 6, Scenes de Ballet op. 52 (1987)
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