Glazounov: The Seasons Ballet Suite/Rimsky-Korsakov: Le Coq D'Or Suite Capriccio Espagnol

Glazunov (Artist), Rimsky-Korsakov (Artist), Desormiere (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 2, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: EMI Classics
• ASIN: B000006OGQ
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #655,864 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Le Coq d'Or (The Golden Cockerel; Zolotoy petushok), opera in 3 acts with a prologue & epilogue: Suite

2. Le Coq d'Or (The Golden Cockerel; Zolotoy petushok), opera in 3 acts with a prologue & epilogue: Suite

3. Le Coq d'Or (The Golden Cockerel; Zolotoy petushok), opera in 3 acts with a prologue & epilogue: Suite

4. Le Coq d'Or (The Golden Cockerel; Zolotoy petushok), opera in 3 acts with a prologue & epilogue: Suite

5. Capriccio espagnol (Kaprichchio na ispankskiye temï), for orchestra, Op. 34

6. The Seasons, ballet, Op. 67: Suite

7. The Seasons, ballet, Op. 67: Suite

8. The Seasons, ballet, Op. 67: Suite

9. The Seasons, ballet, Op. 67: Suite

10. The Seasons, ballet, Op. 67: Suite

11. The Seasons, ballet, Op. 67: Suite

12. The Seasons, ballet, Op. 67: Suite

13. The Seasons, ballet, Op. 67: Suite

14. The Seasons, ballet, Op. 67: Suite

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16. The Seasons, ballet, Op. 67: Suite

17. The Seasons, ballet, Op. 67: Suite

18. The Seasons, ballet, Op. 67: Suite

19. The Seasons, ballet, Op. 67: Suite

20. The Seasons, ballet, Op. 67: Suite

See all 21 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful old material, grateful for the reissue!, August 9, 2000

By 

Mark McCue (Denver, CO USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Glazounov: The Seasons Ballet Suite/Rimsky-Korsakov: Le Coq D'Or Suite Capriccio Espagnol (Audio CD)

I find it wonderful that this material has been reissued, and such a nice job of it done, too. Over the years I've invested in quite a few vinyl copies of the Seasons/Coq D'Or...and have yet to get a decent pressing. So this one's been relegated to my "kennel" for a long, long time. It was just too good take in to the pound.

On the vinyl I could tell it had nice sound...and on the CD it DOES have good sound. Desormiere's Seasons performance is so danceable, so balletic, so tonally and texturally worked out, nicely and idiomatically played that this becomes an historical reissue that eloquently attests to those qualities that made the maitre so famous. The Coq D'Or could probably be considered the first really good performance that came out on LP, and the Rapsodie, while less forceful than Paray's of the same period, emrges with a balletic danceability also that is striking.

All told, this is a unique document of Desormiere at his characteristic best that serves as an outstanding testament to Desormiere's greatness...and blessedly provides those who know him with a good, clean production for the first time!