Music for the world
Discusses the dynamic and turbulent turn of the century musical era in Russia, with its virtuoso performers like Scriabin and Heifetz, its world-class composers such as Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Prokofiev, and Rachmaninoff and Stravinsky living abroad showing that Russian music had e...
Other Authors: | Films for the Humanities (Firm) |
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Format: | VHS |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Princeton, N.J. :
Films for the Humanities,
[1989]
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Physical Description: |
1 videocassette (53 min.) : sound, color ; ¹/₂ in. |
Series: |
Man and music (Princeton, N.J.)
Russia under the tsars. |
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Summary: |
Discusses the dynamic and turbulent turn of the century musical era in Russia, with its virtuoso performers like Scriabin and Heifetz, its world-class composers such as Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Prokofiev, and Rachmaninoff and Stravinsky living abroad showing that Russian music had entered the Western world on its own terms. |
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Item Description: |
VHS format. Includes sections of Rachmaninoff: Second piano concerto; Scriabin: Poème de l'extase; Stravinsky: Petrushka; Prokofiev: First piano concerto. Discusses the dynamic and turbulent turn of the century musical era in Russia, with its virtuoso performers like Scriabin and Heifetz, its world-class composers such as Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Prokofiev, and Rachmaninoff and Stravinsky living abroad showing that Russian music had entered the Western world on its own terms. |
Physical Description: |
1 videocassette (53 min.) : sound, color ; ¹/₂ in. |