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Dvořák, Berlioz, Shostakovich, Rimsky-Korsakov

Elder Conducts Shostakovich


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Sir Mark Elder, conductor

Dvořák The Golden Spinning Wheel
Berlioz Les Nuits d'été
  Alice Coote, mezzo-soprano
Shostakovich Symphony No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 10
Originally recorded at concerts on November 29, 30 and December 1, 2012

Rimsky-Korsakov Musical Pictures from The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya
Originally recorded at concerts on January 12, 13, 14 and 15, 2012

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Bio - Sir Mark Elder
Sir Mark Elder

Sir Mark Elder is Music Director of the Hallé since September 2000. He was Music Director of English National Opera between 1979 and 1993, Principal Guest Conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra from 1992 – 1995, and Music Director of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra in the USA from 1989 – 1994. Read more >

Bio - Alice Coote
Alice Coote

Renowned on the major recital, concert and opera stages of the world, Alice Coote is being regarded as one of the great artists of today. Read more >

Dvorák - The Golden Spinning Wheel
Antonín Dvorák

Antonín Dvorák learned to play the violin as a small boy, and he composed marches and waltzes for the village band. Read more >

Berlioz - Les Nuits d'été
Hector Berlioz

It’s odd that Berlioz, normally the most talkative, opinionated, and revealing of musicians (he was the first major composer to write his memoirs) had so little to say about these extraordinary songs. Read more >

Shostakovich - Symphony No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 10
Dmitri Shostakovich

Dmitri Shostakovich’s First Symphony, written when he was eighteen, inaugurated a symphonic career that spanned nearly half a century and the entirety of Shostakovich’s creative life. Read more >

Rimsky-Korsakov - Musical Pictures from The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

The story of <em>The Invisible City of Kitezh</em> is taken from Russian folklore. The two lovers, Fevroniya, who is abducted during an invasion of Tartars, and Prince Vsevolod, who is killed in battle, are reunited in the mystical city of Kitezh, which is hidden behind the clouds and visible only as a reflection in the Shining Lake. Read more >

Text and translation of Berlioz Les Nuits d'été
Hector Berlioz

SUMMER NIGHTS

VILLANELLE
When the new season comes
and the cold weather has gone,
the pair of us will go, my pretty one,
to gather lilies of the valley in
  the woods.
Shaking free beneath our feet
  the dewdrops
that one sees a-tremble in the
  early morn,
we will go to hear the blackbirds sing.
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