Igor Golovschin, Moscow Symphony Orchestra - Alexander Glazunov: Orchestral Works Vol. 10: Suite Caractéristique (1999)
Igor Golovschin, Moscow Symphony Orchestra - Alexander Glazunov: Orchestral Works Vol. 10: Suite Caractéristique, Le Chant du Destin, Préludes (1999)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 277 Mb | Total time: 75:26 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.553857 | Recorded: 1996
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 277 Mb | Total time: 75:26 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.553857 | Recorded: 1996
The Song of Destiny is a dramatic overture dating from 1907 and in it and the Two Preludes on this disc Glazunov commands attention strongly. The Song uses the famous Fate theme from Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and in a spirit of well-orchestrated gloom bites and strikes outwards and upwards. The atmosphere is very strong indeed and a far from obviously superior soul-mate would be Rachmaninov's Isle of the Dead. One of his most powerful scores lit by Rimskian flashes.
Suite Caractéristiqe is an epic-scaled work spanning almost 38 minutes in eight movements. It has in the past been coupled with the Middle Ages Suite. Glazunov was rather good at these character pieces. Sometimes he hit gold at other times … well this suite is an example of one of his lower key inspirations - much too relaxed and low key. Highlights include the Intermezzo scherzando and a well-constructed innocent Pastorale. The Danse Orientale had already been established as a genre in Russia by the likes of Glinka and Balakirev and latterly Rimsky-Korsakov. This is another of the same ilk and good it is as well, rather in the spirit of Balakirev's First Symphony than Borodin's Polovtsian Dances. There is a reserved Tchaikovskian Elegie and a laid-back Cortège rather like the central section in Bax's 'flat beer' Coronation March. Despite some very nice work for high woodwind the final movement is not quite the satisfying conclusion it should be. Perhaps these lighter genre pieces suffer in the exalted company on this disc.
Inspiration is certainly at work in the Stassoff Prelude. It is dignified, dark, fantastic (listen to the work for the high flutes) and sorrowing with a positively grown-up and angry sense of bereavement. The shudders in the music suggest that Glazunov had learnt lessons from the volcanic tumult of Tchaikovsky's Francesca da Rimini. This is an excellent work in which Glazunov seems to be reaching out in new and possibly unnerving directions. It is well worth the modest price of the disc. A work too easy to overlook especially given its literal but plodding title.
The same darkness that makes such an impact in the Stassoff work also drives the much longer Rimsky Prelude. If in this context we sometimes think of Waxman's music for The Bride of Frankenstein I think we can be forgiven. The Rimini-like fumaroles and convulsions are lightened by some oriental colouring presented with reserve and avoiding Glazunov's own earlier models. It is marked andante lugubre and lugubrious it is in the long central section. The conciseness of the first prelude certainly pays off but it is only a slight shading of preference. The woodwind and horns call out in the most affecting and fresh style at 11.21.–Rob Barnett
Performer:
Moscow Symphony Orchestra
Igor Golovschin, conductor
Tracklist:
Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov (1865–1936)
01. Le Chant du Destin, Op. 84: Moderato
Suite Caractéristique, Op. 9
02. I. Introduction
03. II. Danse rustique
04. III. Intermezzo scherzando
05. IV. Carneval
06. V. Pastorale
07. VI. Danse orientale
08. VII. Élégie
09. VIII. Cortège
10. Prélude, Op. 85, No. 1, "A la mémoire de Wladimir Stassoff": Andante
11. Prélude, Op. 85, No. 2, "A la mémoire de Rimsky-Korsakow": Andante lugubre
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Igor Golovschin, Moscow Symphony Orchestra - Alexander Glazunov: Orchestral Works Vol. 10: Suite Caractéristique (1999)
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