Russian Easter Overture--Rimsky Korsakov

[Bandito]

This is the real life version of the fictional "Halley's 5th Concerto" from Atlas.

Damn, I wish my stereo wasn't in storage, so I could listen to it properly. But it's still inspriring on a bloody computer and Youtube. The louder the better.

She sat listening to the music. It was a symphony of triumph. The notes flowed up, they spoke of rising and they were the rising itself, they were the essence and the form of upward motion, they seemed to embody every human act and thought that had ascent as its motive. It was a sunburst of sound, breaking out of hiding and spreading open. It had the freedom of release and the tension of purpose. It swept space clean, and left nothing but the joy of an unobstructed effort. Only a faint echo within the sounds spoke of that from which the music had escaped, but spoke in laughing astonishment at the discovery that there was no ugliness or pain, and there never had had to be. It was the song of an immense deliverance.

(Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, p13)

[Rich]

Thanks Bandito. I do so love Rimsky-Korsakov. This is one I need to add to my collection.

[skb12172]

My favorite composer...even more so than Beethoven.

[Aglifter]

Very nice - for those of ya';ll that like it, you might like Rites of Spring as well.

[Bandito]

...This is one I need to add to my collection.

You might want to try to research some reviews of the various recordings, unless you already have one in mind.

For years I listened only to a Deutsche Grammophone recording with Daniel Barenboim conducting the CSO. (It was a sampler of russian stuff--not all Rimsky.) It might not be the best, but it's often the case that the first recording I get used to ends up being amongst my favorites.

I also have one by Antal Dorati on Mercury, which is probably considered to be one of the better efforts.

For other recordings like the Dorati likely to be considered classics, you'd probably want to see what is out there by the likes of Fritz Reiner, Ernest Ansermet, Von Karajan, Eugene Ormandy, etc.