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Alexander Alyabiev - Orchestral & Incidental Music | Fuga Libera FUG539

Alexander Alyabiev - Orchestral & Incidental Music

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Label: Fuga Libera

Cat No: FUG539

Barcode: 5400439005396

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 29th September 2008

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Contents

Works

Alyabiev
Overture: The Three Tens

Alyabiev
Overture: The Young Mother & the 48-year old fiancé

Alyabiev
Overture: The Apostate

Alyabiev
Overture: Morning & Evening

Alyabiev
Overture & Scenes from The Magic Drum

Alyabiev
Symphony No.3

Alyabiev
Variations on The Cossack on the Danube

Alyabiev
The Tempest

Artists

Musica Viva

Conductor

Alexander Rudin

Works

Alyabiev
Overture: The Three Tens

Alyabiev
Overture: The Young Mother & the 48-year old fiancé

Alyabiev
Overture: The Apostate

Alyabiev
Overture: Morning & Evening

Alyabiev
Overture & Scenes from The Magic Drum

Alyabiev
Symphony No.3

Alyabiev
Variations on The Cossack on the Danube

Alyabiev
The Tempest

Artists

Musica Viva

Conductor

Alexander Rudin

About

Alexander Alyabiev (1787-1851) was the greatest Russian musician of his generation. His life reads like a novel: an officer with the imperial army, he was 'contaminated' by liberal ideas in Paris in 1812; got close to the Decembrist movement, was denounced in the 1820s and deported to Siberia a few years later; and finally gets back to Moscow in 1843, in pretty poor health.

His famous romance, The Lark, which was later popularised by the variations of Glinka, Liszt and Vieuxtemps, was actually written while he was in jail. But this very lark hides an astounding number of other achievements: 5 Operas, 23 Vaudevilles, Symphonic music, Chamber music (long ago lovingly recorded by the Beethoven Quartet) and piano scores.

We discover a very personal, inventive composer, reminiscent of the young Schubert, clearly worthy of rediscovery.

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