Showing posts with label Russian music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Russian music. Show all posts

30 April 2010

Prince Igor



The Polovtsian Dances is one of the best known selections from the Prince Igor, an opera composed by Alexander Borodin at the end of the nineteenth century.
This is a sound of true Russia, which includes the silences echoing from Siberia (that 'ocean of snow') and the poetry of Pushkin. Pushkin, who was of African (Abyssinian) descent on his mother's side.

15 June 2009

Of Stalin and tenor voices



Druzhba (orig. Дружба, transl. Company), a 1938 song by Vadim Kozin (orig. Вадим Козин). A song not of Stalin, because, as Kozin himself explained, songs of Stalin are badly suited for tenor voices.