This is a fabulous one for me to wake up to this morning. 1923/24 but to all intents and purposes sounding as if it was written thirty or forty years earlier. A few impressionistic moments aside, the composition has, for me, the feel of a kind of homage to the likes of Rimsky, Balakirev, Mussorgsky, Borodin and Glazunov. Lovely dramatic, stirring, colourful and lyrical orchestration with a fine cameo appearance for soprano. Splendid stuff!
This is a fabulous one for me to wake up to this morning. 1923/24 but to all intents and purposes sounding as if it was written thirty or forty years earlier. A few impressionistic moments aside, the composition has, for me, the feel of a kind of homage to the likes of Rimsky, Balakirev, Mussorgsky, Borodin and Glazunov. Lovely dramatic, stirring, colourful and lyrical orchestration with a fine cameo appearance for soprano. Splendid stuff!