Nikolai Rimski-Korsakow
The Tsar's Bride (Overture)
Nikolai Rimski-Korsakow
The Tsar's Bride (Overture)
- Instrumentation Concert Band
- Composer Nikolai Rimski-Korsakow
- Editor Egbert van Groningen
- Series Baton Orchestral
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- Edition Score Download
- Publisher Baton Music
- Order no. BTM154SC-DL
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Description:
The Russian composer Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) finished his opera The Tsar's Bride in 1899. This opera is a lurid melodrama set in the time of Ivan the Terrible, though this might hardly be guessed from its overture. However, this was a period when Rimsky was concerned with 'classicizing' his style, and the piece is best taken simply as a neat sonata structure built from highly abstractive music, though with what sounds like a sort of double recapitulation followed by a wistful new melody introducing the dying coda. (Concert Band)