The Tsar's Bride Nicolaj / Nicolai / Nikolay Rimskij-Korsakov / Arr. Egbert van Groningen

Titel / Title: The Tsar's Bride - Overture
Herausgeber / Publisher: Baton Music
Instrumentation: Concert Band/Harmonie
Produkttyp / Product: Partitur + Stimmen

Der russische Komponist Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) beendete 1899 seine Oper Die Zarenbraut. Diese Oper ist ein reißerisches Melodrama aus der Zeit von Iwan dem Schrecklichen, obwohl dies aus der Ouvertüre kaum zu erahnen ist. Dies war jedoch eine Zeit, in der es Rimsky darum ging, seinen Stil zu 'klassizisieren', und das Stück sollte am besten einfach als eine ordentliche Sonatenstruktur verstanden werden, die aus hochgradig abstrahierender Musik besteht, allerdings mit einer Art doppelter Reprise, gefolgt von einer wehmütigen neuen Melodie, die die sterbende Coda einführt.

Titel / Title: The Tsar's Bride
Untertitel / Subtitle: Overture
Herausgeber / Publisher: Baton Music
Instrumentation: concert band
Produkttyp / Product: Partitur + Stimmen
Serie / Series: Baton Music orchestral series
Overture

The Russian composer Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) finished his opera The Tsar's Bride in 1899. This opera is a lurid melodrama set in the time of Ivan the Terrible, though this might hardly be guessed from its overture. However, this was a period when Rimsky was concerned with 'classicizing' his style, and the piece is best taken simply as a neat sonata structure built from highly abstractive music, though with what sounds like a sort of double recapitulation followed by a wistful new melody introducing the dying coda.

The Russian composer Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) finished his opera 'The Tsar's Bride' in 1899. This opera is a lurid melodrama set in the time of Ivan the Terrible, though this might hardly be guessed from its overture. However, this was a period when Rimsky was concerned with 'classicizing' his style, and the piece is best taken simply as a neat sonata structure built from highly abstractive music, though with what sounds like a sort of double recapitulation followed by a wistful new melody introducing the dying coda.