Glazunov: 5 Novelettes / String Quintet in A Major
9/27/2007, 9 Tracks, 1:03:25
Featuring
Ralph Evans
Efim Boico
Yuri Gandelsman
Wolfgang Laufer
Nathaniel Rosen
Fine Arts Quartet
Alexander Glazunov
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Composer Biography
Glazunov, the composer, became director of the St. Petersburg Conservatory in 1905 and remained in that position until 1930.
Compositional Technique
Glazunov's String Quintet, Op. 39, like Schubert's, is scored for two cellos, an instrument for which Glazunov had a particular fondness.
Composer Biography
Alexander Glazunov, the composer, was born in St. Petersburg in 1865, the son of a publisher and bookseller.
Performer Biography
Nathaniel Rosen, the cellist on this recording, is the only American cellist ever to win the Gold Medal at the Tchaikovsky International Competition, which he achieved in 1978.
Composer Biography
Glazunov, the composer, was recommended to Rimsky-Korsakov by Balakirev, his mother's teacher, and later played a significant role in educating new Russian composers like Shostakovich.
Instruments
Nathaniel Rosen, the cellist on this recording, plays a 1738 Montagnana cello.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Glazunov, the composer, found fault with Stravinsky's ear and could not abide the music of Richard Strauss, while the student Prokofiev shocked him with the discords of his Scythian Suite.
