On Saturday, January 9, 1999 at 12:00:00 AM UTC-8, David Spence wrote:
: Over the holidays, I gave myself a small listening project that
: has now spilled over into the new year. I come to a stopping
: point, in the quest for good recordings of May Night and Snow
: Maiden. The Fedoseev of the former on DGG, as I have heard
: some of it on LP, is not so well recorded, and the
: quintessentially important part of the Mayor is a bit sloughed
: off (created by no less than Fyodor Stravinsky, father of Igor.
: What are your favorite recordings of any of the Rimsky-Korsakov
: operas? Is the Lazarev recording of May Night a worthy
: investment, or does perhaps the Golovanov rise to the
: high standards set later on his highly well realized and cast
: recording of Sadko? The transition to writing as kaleidoscopic
: tone pictures, in other words, music devoid of dramatic
: characterization of individual characters, seems under way
: with Snow Maiden. How, in this way or otherwise, does
: compare with the several earlier operas, and the later works?
: There are very notable exceptions to the rule, later on, of
: of course, most notably the yurodivy type character, Grishka
: in Kitezh. Seeking further comments. ; - )
Ever heard SNOW MAIDEN in English?:
(2022 Y. upload):
"Elizabeth Harwood, Patricia Kern sing Rimsky-Korsakov's Snow Maiden [Snegurochka] (1968, in English)"
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