The Mighty fistful

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Explains that until the nineteenth century fashionable Russian audiences preferred Western music. Covers the distance from the folk tradition to the founding of the Russian style of music by Glinka...

Explains that until the nineteenth century fashionable Russian audiences preferred Western music. Covers the distance from the folk tradition to the founding of the Russian style of music by Glinka. Includes excerpts from Glinka's Russlan and Ludmilla overture, Tcheshnikov's Let us give prayer, Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, Coronation scene, Borodin's Quartet no. 2 in D major, Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the bumblebee and A bride for the Czar, Tchaikovsky's Violin concerto, Swan lake, and Symphony no. 6 (Pathetique), Scriabin's Prometheus, and Stravinsky's The firebird.

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