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Rimsky-Korsakov

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Rimsky-Korsakov
Nikolai Andreyevich . 1844--1908, Russian composer; noted for such works as the orchestral suite Scheherazade (1888) and the opera Le Coq d'or (first performed in 1910)


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Children will relate to Bumble's problems and will respond to the illustrations and wonderful music of The Flight of the Bumblebee by Rimsky-Korsakov on the CD.
Rimsky-Korsakov based his musical fantasy on the tales from “One Thousand and One Nights” with movements titled “The Sea and Sinbad’s Ship,” “The Kalendar Prince,” “The Young Prince and the Young Princess,” and “Festival at Baghdad.
Too much context, one might add, since the Violin Concerto was the only piece in their two concerts that was genuine Tchaikovsky: the rest consisted of music by his rival Rimsky-Korsakov, his pupil Sergei Taneyev, and his talented, but doomed successor Vasily Kalinnikov.
 
 
 
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