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Those are the orgies on WHRB, here in town. And that's a load of Russian music!
My conclusion: Glazounov was the better composer, but Rimsky hit more high notes (as it were).
The Rimsky operas became quite tedious, all that stern declaiming in Russian. But then occasionally along would come something like the passage we know as Flight of the Bumblebee, right there in the middle. Brilliant. And it had singing, too.
Glazounov could be turgid -- too much homophony, especially in chamber works -- but then brilliant, in forms few listeners know: A late set of preludes and fugues for piano, and then his final work, a Fantasy for Organ!
In the historic performances sidebar, we heard him conducting his own The Seasons, the only extant recording of his own, and it was marvelous.
clark
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