Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - Quintet for Piano and Winds in B-flat Major (1876)

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@ronspin 25 күн бұрын

I recently heard a performance of this work at The Museum Of Russian Art, Minneapolis , MN. Brilliant Performance, wonderful venue.

@cassianodurandpinheiro 3 жыл бұрын

Rimsky-Korsakov wrote: "After I had completed the String Sextet, I took it into my head to write a Quintet for Piano and Winds for the same competition. I composed the Quintet in three movements. The First Movement, Allegro con brio, in the classic style of Beethoven. The Second Movement, Andante, contained a good fugue for the wind instruments with a very free accompaniment in the piano. In the finale, Allegretto vivace, I wrote in rondo form. Of interest is the middle section where I wrote cadenzas for the flute, the clarinet and the horn to be played in turns. Each was in the character of the instrument and each was interrupted by the bassoon entering by octave leaps...And what was the fate of my Sextet and Quintet? The jury awarded the prize to Napravnik for his Trio. My Sextet received an honorable mention, but my Quintet and every other work submitted by all of the other composers were disgarded without comment. I heard later that Napravnik had been lucky to have had a pianist assigned to his trio who was a superb sight reader and thus had performed his trio beautifully, whereas my Quintet was ruined by another pianist who could not sight read nor make heads or tails of it. Had my Quintet been fortunate in the pianist assigned to it, I am sure it would have attracted the jury's attention."

@Timrath 3 жыл бұрын

Maybe he would have had beeter luck if he hadn't made the piano part so insanely difficult. Nevermind sight reading it. I would struggle to play it even after a month of practicing. I always found it unfair that the winds had so much easier parts compared to the piano. Beautiful piece nonetheless. I've been enjoying it for 30 years now.

@ZAWARUD00 2 жыл бұрын

Anyway, that prize stuff is worthless. Through the centuries, a lot of composers has been prized for boring music, while the ones that are renowned today struggled to catch the attention of academics.

@steveegallo3384 2 ай бұрын

BRAVO (again).....from Acapulco!

@bobcochran2890 2 жыл бұрын

There aren’t many pianists who can play the first movement ostinato pattern without hurting their hands. I played this piece years ago a couple of times and was blessed with a tremendous pianist.

@jb1980ist 2 жыл бұрын

It's merciful in that that he doesn't have the pianist do it for long. Nothing like how torturous Erlkonig is.

@spamseller Жыл бұрын

yeah my pinky hurts

@steveegallo3384 3 ай бұрын

@@spamseller -- Doesn't your Pinky hurt a bit after the Rakhmaninov II Opening? Cheers from Acapulco!