#Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov

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Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov - 4 Songs from Op. 21, 22, 45 (1897/1913)

1. From 6 Romances, Op. 21 (1897) #3. Отблеск далекой зари (Reflection of distant dawn) (0:00) Poem by Danil Rathaus 2. From Romances, Op. 22 (1897) #7. Где жить? (Where to live?) (1:45) Poem by Jean Richepin (1849-1926) 3. Two songs from 10 Shakespeare Sonnets, Op. 45 (1913) Dedication: Nazary Raisky #1. Когда умру, сонет Шекспира (You see, I have attained) (3:17) #6. Ты видишь, я достиг (When I will die) (4:23)

Librettist: Nikolay Gerbel (1837-1883), after William Shakespeare

Konstantin Pluzhnikov, tenor and Maria Mishuk piano

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I wonder if Jerry Goldsmith, when composing the main title to Star Trek: Voyager (1995), was influenced by the first movement (“In a Mountain Pass”) of Caucasian Sketches, Suite № 1 (1894), by Mikhail Ippolitov‐Ivanov (d. 1935).

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I am now no longer accepting submissions as I need time to set up the tournament to start on the 1st of December (first poll will be scheduled for midnight GMT that day). I will have a little more information about the tournament structure soon when I release the bracket. Thank you so much everyone for your submissions, the following 58 suites will be included:

Lincolnshire Posy (Percy Grainger)

First Suite in E-flat for Military Band (Gustav Holst)

Second Suite in F for Military Band (Gustav Holst)

The Planets (Gustav Holst)

The Firebird Suite (Igor Stravinsky)

English Folk Song Suite (Ralph Vaughan Williams)

Children’s Corner Suite (Claude Debussy)

Le tombeau de Couperin (Maurice Ravel)

Jazz Suite no. 2 (Dmitri Shostakovich)

Daphnis et Chloe Suite no. 2 (Maurice Ravel)

Peer Gynt Suite no. 1 (Edvard Grieg)

The Nutcracker Suite (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)

The Carnival of the Animals (Camille Saint-Saens)

Cello Suite in G Major (Johann Sebastian Bach)

Lieutenant Kije Suite (Sergei Prokofiev)

Romeo and Juliet Suite No. 2 (Sergei Prokofiev)

Romeo and Juliet Suite No. 2 (Sergei Prokofiev)

Pictures at an Exhibition (Modest Mussorgsky orch. Maurice Ravel)

Capriccio Espagnol (Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov)

Swan Lake Suite (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)

Sleeping Beauty Suite (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)

Giselle Ballet Suite (Adolphe Adams)

Masquerade Suite (Aram Khachaturian)

Orchestral Suite no. 3 in D (Johann Sebastian Bach)

Suites for Solo Viola, op.131d (Max Reger)

Dances Suite (Béla Bartók)

L’Arlésienne Suite no. 2 (Georges Bizet)

Appalachian Spring (Aaron Copland)

Der Rosenklavier Suite (Richard Strauss)

Suite Española no. 1 op. 47 (arr. for guitar) (Isaac Albéniz)

Carmen Suite no. 2 (Georges Bizet)

Papillons Suite (Robert Schumann)

Mother Goose Suite (Maurice Ravel)

Holberg Suite (Edvard Grieg)

Scheherezade (Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov)

Má Vlast (Bedřich Smetana)

Magnificant in Bb Major (Francesco Durante)

Suite for Recorder and Strings (Gordon Jacob)

Symphonic Dances (Sergei Rachmaninoff)

Suite in Old Style (Nikolai Kapustin)

Livre de Guitarre dédie au roy, Suite no. 3 in D Minor (Robert de Viseé)

American Suite (Antonín Dvořák)

Caucasian Sketches Suite no. 1 (Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov)

Petrushka Suite (Igor Stravinsky)

Peter and the Wolf (Sergei Prokofiev)

A Time There Was… (Benjamin Britten)

Suite from Incidental Music from the Film “The Golden Mountains” (Dmitri Shostakovich)

Suite from Hamlet (Dmitri Shostakovich)

Violin Partita no. 2 (Johann Sebastian Bach)

Violin Partita no. 3 (Johann Sebastian Bach)

Keyboard Partita no. 2 (Johann Sebastian Bach)

Keyboard Partita no. 6 (Johann Sebastian Bach)

Dances in the Canebrakes (Florence Price)

Mountain Roads (David Maslanka)

A Moorside Suite (Gustav Holst)

Lemminkäinen Suite (Jean Sibelius)

Danish Folk Music Suite (Percy Grainger)

St Paul’s Suite (Gustav Holst)

This number does mean that some suites will have a bye in the first round, however the draw (including byes) will be drawn randomly to make it fair.

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OTD in Music History: Soviet composer and pedagogue Reinhold Gliere (1875 - 1956) is born in what is now the Ukraine. In 1894, the young Gliere entered the Moscow Conservatory, where he studied counterpoint with Sergei Taneyev (1856 - 1915), composition with Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov (1859 - 1935), and harmony with Anton Arensky (1861 - 1906). When he graduated in 1900, Gliere was awarded a coveted gold medal in composition. The following year, he accepted a teaching post at the Moscow Gnesin School of Music, and the year after that his former professor Taneyev sent two very important private pupils his way: Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881 - 1950), and a startling eleven-year-old prodigy named Sergei Prokofiev (1891 - 1953). In 1920, following the Russian Revolution, Gliere relocated to the Moscow Conservatory, where he taught intermittently until 1941. His students there included noted Armenian composer and conductor Aram Khachaturian (1903 - 1978). During his own lifetime, Gliere enjoyed a very high status within the Soviet musical world -- largely because of his pronounced interest in exploring the ethnic folk music traditions that were native to various Soviet satellite states. He also directed committees of both the Moscow Union of Composers and Union of Soviet Composers, and was generally feted as something of a cultural celebrity within the USSR. Today, however, only Gliere's so-called "Russian Sailors' Dance," an arrangement of the traditional folk song "Yablochko" ("Little Apple") that closes the first act of his ballet "Krasny mak" ("The Red Poppy," 1927), is still played with any frequency. It seems clear that Gliere's lasting musical legacy lies in his substantial pedagogic impact, rather than his own creative output... PICTURED: A c. 1910 real photo postcard showing the young Gliere sporting an impressive mustache.

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film reviews: Dreams (1990, Akira Kurosawa)

Synopsis: This anthology film, which draws on Japanese folklore and history, and themes of art and environmentalism, comprises eight segments, each based on a dream director Akira Kurosawa had in his life. In Sunshine Through the Rain, a young boy sneaks out from home during a sunshower to spy on a kitsune wedding, but is caught, enraging the foxes. In The Peach Orchard, a family is celebrating Hinamatsuri, or Doll Day. The young son follows a mysterious girl out of the house to the family's orchard, where he is confronted by the spirits of the peach trees cut down. In The Blizzard, four adventurers are caught in a blizzard while ascending a mountain, and fall asleep from exhaustion. One of the men wakes up to find a beautiful yuki-onna wrapping him in blankets of snow. In The Tunnel, an army commander returning home passes through a tunnel and is confronted by the ghosts of his dead regiment. In Crows, the only segment in English, an artist falls into the world of Van Gogh's paintings and ends up in 1880s France, where he meets Van Gogh himself. In Mount Fuji in Red, a nuclear power plant on the slopes of Mt. Fuji erupts, spelling toxic doom for everyone in the area. In The Weeping Oni, a young man in an apocalyptic wasteland meets a man with a horn growing out of his head in heavenly punishment for the sins he committed in his life. He shows the young man a gathering of demons, all with horns growing from their heads, howling in pain. In Village of the Watermills, the same young man arrives in a picturesque village whose inhabitants have eschewed modern conveniences for a more earthly, honest way of living, and witnesses a funeral parade celebrating the deceased's long life.

Review: I last saw this film many years ago so I wasn't sure how it would hold up, but on rewatching it I found it every bit as beautiful and moving as I did the first time. Kurosawa was a painter in his youth before he joined the film industry, and his color films made late in his life are bursting with color and imagery, every frame a master painting. Dreams, like Ran and Kagemusha, is visually stunning, and the film makes good use of makeup and costumes to achieve an ethereal, dreamlike effect in all of its segments. I can't recommend the film enough for lovers of Japanese culture and/or art films.

Additional comments: It's thought that the segment The Cherry Orchard was inspired by a sister of Kurosawa's who died young. In the segment Crows, Martin Scorsese plays Van Gogh. Village of the Watermills was filmed at a real location, Daio Wasabi Farm in Honshu, Japan. I love the way Mount Fuji in Red and The Weeping Oni are followed by Village of the Watermills, contrasting the apocalyptic worst-case scenarios for how modern society might end up with a vision of a better alternative. And I love the final shot of the film, of overflowing, bountiful nature overlaid with such melancholy, heartrending music. The music used is "In a Village" from Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov's "Caucasian Suite", although the arrangement removes the fast section and repeats the slow sections several times.

The film is on YouTube, and you can watch it here.

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My Journey with the Trumpet: Caucasian Sketches Suite 1 (Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov) - French Horn Cover.

Have a Great Day & Wonderful Weekend 🙂 

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Caucasian Sketches, Suite No. 1: II. In a Village ⋆࿐໋₊

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Vox Satanae - Episode 414 - Week of November 12, 2018

Vox Satanae – Episode 414 – Week of November 12, 2018

Vox Satanae – Episode 414 – 172 Minutes – Week of November 12 2018

This week we hear works by Nicolas Gombert, Adam Jarzębski, Jean-François Dandrieu, Joseph Touchemoulin, Hector Berlioz, Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, and Sofia Gubaidulina with performances by The Huelgas Ensemble, Paul Van Nevel, Bruce Dickey, Charles Toet, Jacques Ogg, Michael Fentross, Alberto Grazzi, Lucy van Dael, Jean-Patrice…

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Happy birthday Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov

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January 28: On This Day in Music

January 28: On This Day in Music

. 1722 ~ Johann Ernst Bach, German composer of the Bach family . 1791 ~ Ferdinand Herold, French composer . 1887 ~ Artur Rubinstein, Polish-born American pianist, played solo for the Berlin Symphony at the age of 12. Read quotes by and about Rubinstein More information about Rubinstein . 1904 ~ Enrico Caruso signed his first contract with Victor Records. He had debuted at the Metropolitan Opera…

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Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov (1859 - 1935): Symphony Nº1 in E minor, Op.46(1908).

I. Adagio.Allegro risoluto: 00:00 II. Scherzo:Allegro: 14:58 III. Elegia:Larghetto: 21:45 IV. Finale:Allegro moderato: 28:58

Singapore Symphony Orchestra Choo Hoey

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Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov - Caucasian Sketches Suite No. 2, Op. 42 “Iveria”: III. Lesghinka

Performed by the Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Arthur Fagen

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Holberg Suite (Edvard Grieg):

3 Submissions

Last win - Lemminkäinen Suite (Sibelius)

THE string orchestra piece of all time. Takes such care of all of its lines throughout the entire piece, with some of the best viola melodies I've had the privilege of playing. The pairing of the romantic texture and melodies with this baroque idea works so well especially in the 3rd movement, and the way Grieg manages to introduce slightly neoclassical ideas is really cool.

Caucasian Sketches Suite no. 1 (Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov):

1 Submission

Last win - Suites for Solo Viola (Reger)

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OTD in Music History: Important Russian composer, conductor, and pedagogue Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov (1859 – 1935) is born just outside St. Petersburg. Ippolitov-Ivanov studied music at home and served as a choirboy at a local cathedral before entering the St. Petersburg Conservatory in 1875, and, ultimately, completing his studies as a composition pupil of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 - 1908). Ippolitov-Ivanov's first professional appointment following his graduation as the Director of a music academy and the conductor of a local orchestra in Tbilisi, Georgia, where he spent almost a decade living and working -- and where he also cultivated as strong and enduring interest in the native folk music of that region. (It was also in Tbilisi that he was given the honor of conducting the world premiere of the third and final version of Pytor Tchaikovsky's [1840 - 1892] famous "Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasia," in 1886.) In 1893, Ippolitov-Ivanov was awarded a professorship at the famed Moscow Conservatory, where he went on to serve as Director from 1905 - 1924. It was in that position that he taught fellow notable Russian composer Reinhold Gliere (1875 - 1956). After his retirement from the Conservatory, Ippolitov-Ivanov spent his final years serving as the Director of the equally famous Bolshoi Theatre. Ippolitov-Ivanov's original output includes operas, orchestral music, chamber music, and a large number of songs -- but with the exception of his orchestral suite "Caucasian Sketches" (1894), which includes the much-excerpted "Procession of the Sardar", his own music is rarely heard today. His greatest and most lasting legacy is his work as a notable pedagogue and a highly capable arts administrator who helped to foster the development of Russian "classical" music at a pivotal point in history. PICTURED: A real photo postcard showing the middle-aged Ippolitov-Ivanov, which he signed in 1913.

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FINALLY managed to get a recording of me playing something, where I sound reasonably good, up on the internet.

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Stenka Razin, the Cossack who rebelled against the Tsar in 1670

Stenka Razin (Стенька), was a Cossack leader who led a major uprising against the nobility and tsarist bureaucracy in southern Russia in 1670-1671.

In 1667, Razin gathered a small group of Cossacks and left the Don for an expedition in the Caspian Sea. He aimed to set up a base in Yaitsk (now known as Oral, located in Kazakhstan on the Ural River) and plunder villages from there. However, Moscow learned of Razin's plans and attempted to stop him.[7] As Razin traveled down the Volga River to Tsaritsyn, the voivodes of Astrakhan warned Andrei Unkovsky (the voivode or governor of Tsaritsyn) of Razin's arrival and recommended that he not allow the Cossacks to enter the town.

In 1670 Razin, while ostensibly on his way to report at the Cossack headquarters on the Don, openly rebelled against the government, capturing Cherkassk and Tsaritsyn. After capturing Tsaritsyn, Razin sailed up the Volga with his army of almost 7000 men. The men traveled toward Cherny Yar, a government stronghold between Tsaritsyn and Astrakhan. Razin and his men swiftly took Cherny Yar when the Cherny Yar streltsy rose up against their officers and joined the Cossack cause in June 1670.[11] On June 24 he reached the city of Astrakhan. Astrakhan, Moscow's wealthy "window on the East," occupied a strategically important location at the mouth of the Volga River on the shore of the Caspian Sea.[12] Razin plundered the city despite its location on a strongly fortified island and the stone walls and brass cannons that surrounded the central citadel. The local streltsy's rebellion allowed Razin to gain access to the city.[13]

 After massacring all who opposed him (including two Princes Prozorovsky) and giving the rich bazaars of the city over to pillage, he converted Astrakhan into a Cossack republic, dividing the population into thousands, hundreds and tens, with their proper officers, all of whom were appointed by a veche or general assembly, whose first act was to proclaim Razin their gosudar (sovereign).

 After a three-week carnival of blood and debauchery, Razin quit Astrakhan with two hundred barges full of troops.[citation needed] His aim was to establish the Cossack republic along the whole length of the Volga as a preliminary step towards advancing against Moscow. Saratov and Samara were captured, but Simbirsk defied all efforts, and after two bloody encounters close at hand on the banks of the Sviyaga River (October 1 and 4), Razin was ultimately routed by the army of Yuri Baryatinsky and fled down the Volga, leaving the bulk of his followers to be extirpated by the victors.

In 1671 Stepan and his brother Frol Razin were captured at Kagalnik fortress (Кагальни��кий городок) by a Cossack starshina. They were given over to Tsarist officials in Moscow, where Stepan was tortured then quartered alive at Lobnoye Mesto. However, the rebellion did not end with Razin's death. The rebels in Astrakhan held out until November 26, 1671, when Prince Ivan Miloslavsky restored government control.

Razin is the subject of a symphonic poem by Alexander Glazunov, a cantata by Shostakovich; The Execution of Stepan Razin (1964), a poem by Yevgeny Yevtushenko, and a novel, I Have Come To Give You Freedom, (ru:Я пришёл дать вам волю) by Vasily Shukshin.

Stenka Razin is the hero of a popular Russian folk song, Ponizovaya Volnitsa, better known by the words Volga, Volga mat' rodnaya. The words were written by Dmitri Sadovnikov (Дмитрий Николаевич Садовников) in 1883; the music is folk. The song gave the title to the famous Soviet musical comedy Volga-Volga. The melody was used by Tom Springfield in the song "The Carnival Is Over" that placed The Seekers at #1 in 1965 in Australia and the UK.The lyrics of the song were dramatized in one of the very first Russian narrative films, Stenka Razin directed by Vladimir Romashkov in 1908. The film lasts about 10 minutes. The screenplay was written by Vasily Goncharov, and the music (the first film music to be specially written to accompany a silent film) was by Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov.