CRIT STUDY RIMSKY-KORSAKOV (Outstanding Dissertations in Music from British Universities) [Hardcover]

Griffiths (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Music-Garland; 1 edition (January 1, 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0824001974
• ISBN-13: 978-0824001971
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 8 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,673,646 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4.0 out of 5 stars Sadko -phew what a scorcher!, May 22, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: CRIT STUDY RIMSKY-KORSAKOV (Outstanding Dissertations in Music from British Universities) (Hardcover)

I thought Rimsky was a boring old Russian with a big beard till I read this. This is certainly the most excting volume on a composer since Robert Craft interviewed Stravinsky (one of Rimsky's pupils, after all). It takes a composer previously known only for a colourful oriental fantasy and opens up a whole world of Slavonic exuberance and melancholy such as had only previously been associated with Tchaikovsky.

Anyway, I thought it was a bloody good read and I'm now going to search the catalogues for recordings of obscure Russian operas and songs - I can't get enough of them!