The Vikings sacked Paris on this date in 845. Hear Mark Reizen sing the “Song of the Viking Guest” from Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Sadko.”
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Russian Folklore Music on WPRB
Right now, we’re listening to selections from Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Sadko.”
Stay with me for musical depictions of the nefarious cossack and freebooter Stepan Razin and the heroic bogatyr Ilya Muromets, by way of the epic Symphony No. 3 by Reinhold Gliere.
It’s all music inspired by Russian folklore this morning, until 11 ET, on WPRB 103.3 FM and wprb.com.
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Early Russian Cinema Classics to Watch Online
A short while ago, I mentioned a cinematic treatment of an episode from the career of “Stenka Razin,” made in 1908, originally featuring a score by Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov (he of “Caucasian Sketches” fame). The score may very well be lost — it doesn’t appear with any of the prints I could find posted online — but the film fascinates, not only as a faithful translation of the poem, but as the very first Russian film.
Watch it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo7pSJIPdY4
Also, sample from this opulent telling of “Sadko” (1952), scored using Rimsky-Korsakov’s music, which lends to some rather grandiose moments. There’s a very cool confrontation with Vikings at around the 43 minute mark!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyUGAZZ1AEk
Finally, here’s a big screen version of “Ilya Muromets” (1956), before Roger Corman got a hold of it, reedited it and dubbed it as “The Sword and the Dragon”:
Reinhold Gliere’s Symphony No. 3, “Ilya Muromets,” begins at around 9:45 ET on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com
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