Alexander Glazunov : From the Middle Ages, Suite for orchestra Op. 79 (1902)

Amazing!!

Amazing 😋😊

The prelude to this work, as played by Fedoseyev, has a breadth and grandeur to it. Other recordings I have of it seem to rush fences. Good ambience for an analogue recording.

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Really fascinating music! He has has unique style... Undoubtedly, very underrated, though beautiful and insiring!

Just love those spacious, gigantic and sweeping Russian symphonies that you would find in Mussorgorsky, Borodin, Tanayev, Gliere, and Rimski-Korsokov.

This piece is exceptionally well orchestrated.  Glazunov was certainly a master of orchestration.

How was I to know that on this very ordinary day I was going to get abundantly lucky and blessed by hearing with my very little ears this miraculous music by Glazunov?

Hi, does anyone know the name of the album cover artist?

Glazunov wrote beautiful music and we owe him a lot for orchestrating and completing some of Borodin's music when he passed away. But i have wondered why is Glazunov not quite recognized on the same stature as even more dominant composers. Listening to this beautiful piece, i think i have the answer. He excelled in every area of composition but seemed to have neglected one most important aspect : rhythm. Rhythm is what miraculously gives birth to unexpected melodies and polyphonic morphing opening doors to musical miracles and makes the harmony breathe and alive when some important notes fall off beat in a musical line . He seemed to have overlooked working on developing that aspect. Everything else he was a master at.

Merveilleuse oeuvre avec ce prélude si émouvant, tellement proche par son lyrisme de Rachmaninov. Merci Rodders pour ce beau cadeau !
Marvelous piece with this prelude so moving, so close by his lyricism Rachmaninov. Thank you Rodders for this beautiful gift!

Majestic opening! Melodic conclusion. Music for the mind, the emotions, and the will. Thanks for posting this!

He is so underrated, in both orchestral and piano music. I've come to the conclusion that people who program music for orchestras don't know the literature very well.

Glazunov was a prolific composer and why he is not considered to be Russia's top composer (even over Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov) is beyond me. It believe he truly defines the "Russian sound" throughout his magnificent repertoire.

Amazing Dear. Many thanks for to share this dear Fantastic

Superb, beautiful piece. Very gifted composer.
The 60s were quite the hefty decade; a working list of known / fine / great composers (no particular order):
Debussy, Delius, Parker, Pierne, R. Strauss, Dukas, Glazunov, Nielsen, Sibelius, Kalinnikov, Satie, Beach,
Koechlin, Bantock, Roussel; Joplin, Albeniz, Granados, Charpentier, Mahler, MacDowell, Wolf, Jan Paderewski, Arensky, ... ?

I do believe this to be Glazunov’s best work, more consistently satisfying then even his best symphonies. Perhaps one of the finest Russian orchestral suites of all times. His gorgeous themes, and treatment of them, are second to none. It makes me wonder why Glazunov is not considered on a par with, say, Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov. Not fair ! Damn good recording from these Russian forces too, though I would dearly want to hear this from e.g. the Concertgebouw Orchestra.

Such compositions remind me that Glazunov deserves more credit than he generally recives, especially as concerns his role of reconciling opposing trends in Russian music. Hoomeyow!!

I regard this as a symphony. As such , it's the finest one this composer has written. Yes, I know it's not a symphony but that's the way I approach it when listening to it.

Outstanding work-- yet underrated.

Glazunov wrote very amazing suites no matter other culture-driven or Russian-driven... First movement has sublime passages. Thank you for uploading.

Incredible!

What a magnificent aural tale.

Haven't listened to this in quite a while. I like many of the Glazunov suites I know; but there are a lot of others I haven't tried yet. Thanks

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At the beginnin of the scherzo you can hear the music of the Fantástica from Héctor Berlioz

Nice

Its simply sublime

Only yesterday i heard of this magnificent composer on classic radio. Só lucky i did, I’m intrigued and absolutely love what i have discovered so far 😍.

The second part of the Prelude reminds a little of the last five minutes of Sergey Taneyev - Overture "Oresteia", Op. 6 (1889).

Rodders, I wish we had connected back in the late '70s whean I finally was making enough bucks to collect all these works. I may have material in LPs that you could feature in my stash...how could we share it?

I regret that I have but one Like to give for this album!

A very fine piece by a favourite composer of mine. Why do so many people commenting always want to draw comparisons with other composers, instead of extolling the merits of the work in question?

В Аллегро Ассаи ясный привет Сен-Сансу с его "Пляской смерти" и даже Чайковскому с его Шестой (буквально одним тактом или двумя)) Может, и ещё есть)

Love the mysterious music. Lovers hidden away in the time of plague in the first movement is wondrous.

Majestuoso, lo acabo de descubrir ahora....

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I’m not the greatest admirer of Glazunov’s symphonies, however, I’m inclined to think that the Prelude to this work is among the most glorious music ever written.

It was a raft in a dark ocean of lonelyness of my first heart break.

Listening to this piece for the first time... wow. AMAZING.

Absolutely Brilliant 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏