Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - Russian Easter Festival Overture, Op. 36 (1888)
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- Опубликовано: 19 сен 2015
- Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (Russian: Никола́й Андре́евич Ри́мский-Ко́рсаков; 18 March [O.S. 6 March] 1844[a 1] - 21 June [O.S. 8 June] 1908) was a Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as The Five. He was a master of orchestration. His best-known orchestral compositions-Capriccio Espagnol, the Russian Easter Festival Overture, and the symphonic suite Scheherazade-are staples of the classical music repertoire, along with suites and excerpts from some of his 15 operas. Scheherazade is an example of his frequent use of fairy tale and folk subjects.
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Russian Easter Festival Overture, Op.36 (1887-88)
USSR Symphony Orchestra conducted by Evgeny Svetlanov
Russian Easter Festival Overture: Overture on Liturgical Themes (Russian: Светлый праздник, Svetliy prazdnik), Op. 36, also known as the Great Russian Easter Overture, is a concert overture written by the Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov between August 1887 and April 1888. It was dedicated to the memories of Modest Mussorgsky and Alexander Borodin, two members of the group of composers known in English as "The Five". It is the last of what many call his three most exceptionally brilliant orchestral works, preceded by Capriccio Espagnol and Scheherazade. The work received its premiere at a Russian symphony concert in St. Petersburg in late December 1888.
The score is prefaced by two quotations from the Old and New Testaments and a third written by the composer corresponding to each of the overture's three parts. The first part is prefaced by two verses from Psalm 68:1-2; the second from the Gospel of Mark 16:1-6; and a third which is a description of the Easter celebration written by the composer himself.
The tunes in the overture are largely from the Russian Orthodox liturgy, based on a collection of old Russian Orthodox liturgical chants called the Obikhod.
Rimsky-Korsakov said in his autobiography that he was eager to reproduce "the legendary and heathen aspect of the holiday, and the transition from the solemnity and mystery of the evening of Passion Saturday to the unbridled pagan-religious celebrations of Easter Sunday morning".[this quote needs a citation] He had always been interested in - and enjoyed - liturgical themes and music, though he was himself a non-believer.
Miloš Velimirović explained that, "The Obikhod was like the Russian's Liber usualis... In 1848 it became mandatory for all of the Churches in Russia."[this quote needs a citation] Thus the Obikhod became nationalistic in a sense. The tunes that Rimsky chose from the Obikhod would carry a certain nationalistic and religious weight to them, and the Russians would absolutely know them. The second way that the piece helps to pull on the heart strings of Russians as well as express its nationalistic appeal is by drawing on religious subject matter via word painting for the Easter Holiday.
Professor Robert Greenberg describes the Russian Easter Festival Overture as, "A narrative story of a Russian Easter day from dawn until dusk."[this quote needs a citation] In Russian, Easter is known as the "Bright Holiday".
Rimsky-Korsakov was an absolute master of the orchestra.
13:27 - the announcement of the Ressurection, and then...... 13:38 - imagine a choir of 10.000 Christian Orthodox priests singing in one voice! Such power, chills all over!
Easily one of my favorite overtures. The simplicity of this piece can be brought to high standards through the quality of the musicians who play it. This is true music played by professional musicians.
how can you say this piece is simple have you even played it lol
Borocay ' He means down to its structure and anatomy, I’ve played this lol
ah yes, 5/2 is very simple
It's a great performance of it... Russian orchestras are phenomenal..
@@sneddypie Right? lol
Apart from being a versatile artist (musician,Composer,teacher,writer & navy officer) N. R-Korsakov, stylistically,was ahead of his time. His students (Glazunov,Arensky,Stravinsky,Prokofiev) & non students(Rachmaninov), admired him equally. It's interesting to listen how the latter(S.R.), uses the same melodic ostinato effect, in his notorious 3rd piano concerto (3: finale-alla breve) just like Korsakov did in his "Russian Easter overture", imitating the sound of church bells with trombones,tuba,bassoon & strings.(pam-pa-pa-pam /pa-pa-pam pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pam...e.tc.)
That reminds me a little bit Ruslan and Ludmilla by Glinka. Maybe it was designed to..
One of my top two favorite overtures. Played it as a 2nd violin years ago; it was a work out. It's fascinating to see the overall complexity evident in the score. And, yes, I listen to this every Easter. Thanks for putting this together!
What’s another your top favorite?
I’m curious.
I’m playing 2nd violin right now! And you’re right, it is a workout
I come a year later to put 6:40 on repeat, literally a beat drop.
Ridiculously moving and enchanting.
Bravo to the person who put this video together. Soo many slides
4:55 You can just feel the excitement in the piece, as if children were playing in a courtyard. Such elegance.
Que gestual magnífico o do regente. Precisão, caráter, fraseado, enfim, tudo ali, no movimento de cada parte do seu corpo.
The 1997 Anastasia prologue sent me here.
Yes! Me too, I love this movie
The 2 themes on which the Overture is based are (1) Da voskresnet Bog (Let God arise!) and (2) Angel vopil (An Angel wailed).
Thank you so much. This is one of my most favourite pieces of music.
Thank you SO MUCH for saving me so much time by putting all that in the description box😍😍😍😍
Before I heard this piece. Someone tried to describe it as "if you get the best of Tschaikovsky and the best of Dvorak and mix them together, you kind of get the Easter festival overture " a bit of a generalisation, but I know where they're coming from... Brilliant composition even though I never heard it in the flesh, unfortunately 😢
You can hear the original at any Russian-roots Orthodox church at their Easter service. 😁🙏
Brilliant composition and orchestration! Bravo Rimsky-Korsakov!
brilliant .
Happy Easter!
My gorgeous! Still, Svetlanov is the pinnacle of conducting art, just like the RK was of composing.
May God rest their souls. ❤
Bravo
Fascinating to follow the score through. RK doesn't half expect much from the orchestra!
It takes a vocalist to conduct this well. The Chant is everything in this.
Minuto 7:56, Una forma de canto común entre las Iglesias Ortodoxa y Católica (Ortodoxa también pero occidental)❤
Georgeous!
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Христос воскресе из мертвых, смертию смерть поправ, и сущим во гробех живот даровав!
Wow first time seeing 5/2 time signature
Eli Holland dude ikr it was pretty bizarre when I first noticed it lol
There’s some parts in holst’s mars.
5/2 is just kinda annoying to read
Bagpipe tune Duncan McInnes is also in 5/4, played it recently while clearing up the morning after an Australian Bushdance.
13:40 Glockenspiel Excerpt 2
Magnifico!!
@Remo There is no horn inside the original score. I think the splendid mixture of the unison woodwinds makes this effect - especially the high/very high fagotti.
Listening exposure from my organ teacher.
I haven't heard this piece played in a concert - perhaps it is not performed that much? Or not performed much in my country anyway. I was in fact in an orchestra that performed it a bunch of times 75-100 years ago LOL! I looked at some of their old concert programs, when the conductor was a Russian guy, Gershkovitch, who was classmates of Prokofiev and I think he may have known Rimsky and some members of 'The Five' group of composers.
Hi this is great ya👍
Гениально
A favourite of one Carl Sagan, or so I've heard.
Actually Carl Sagan really liked most of the pieces chosen for the Cosmos soundtrack.
@@PianoHypnoshroom indeed. But this peice was his favourite.
It's actually a peice.
@@AetherUtopia this is a piece. We say song when it has words
Nice.
in questa profondità musicale ABBIAMO TUTTO
CARLO LAMERTI
5:04
6:40
8:55
11:40
13:04
12:07 Glockenspiel Excerpt
5:49
hhhhhhhhhhhh
Glinka anyone?
Freaking TORTURER of a symphony!!!! Just like Scheherazade. Just like Semtana with the freaking Moldau. But INCREDIBLE MUSIC. Jesus Christ. This intricacy is like building a P-51 with slide rulers and pencils. Borodin with Polovtsian Dances. Ho-Leee-Hannah. Just unbelievable.
I like you
Hello, does anyone here knows what are the names of the liturgical chants that Rimsky-Korsakov have used in this piece? I have been looking for it for a couple of weeks but to no avail. Thank you very much for your help.
I am a tonsured Orthodox chanter, and choir director, and have conducted the entire Lenten / paschal service cycle for 15 years. I can explain the melodies used in this piece.
The paschal evening service has 3 main parts (at least in parish usage): 1. Midnight office (from which I hear no melodic borrowing) , followed by 2. Matins, with the famous Canon that has the Troparion of the Resurrection, “Christ is Risen from the Dead...” which is also sung during final part in, 3. the Divine Liturgy.
The opening melody which appears as a persistent motive throughout the Overture is the Znamenny chant version of “Let God Arise” . Znamenny chant is a uniquely characteristic form of liturgical, highly melismatic plain chant which uses an ancient stolp notation system.
This hymn has a prominent place after the Praises at the end of Matins as stichera. NRK uses “Let God Arise” throughout the composition from the beginning, although liturgically is is only sung once (and usually during liturgy as the communion hymn, but this is a debatable practice), and comes after the Paschal Troparion, which is sung in many times and in many styles during the service, and for 40 days afterwards.
Here’s the text for “Let God Arise” and the other Paschal hymns whose fragments may appear in the Overture (I didn’t recognize too many, but he could have borrowed from melodies in fashion at the time, or simply ones I’m not familiar with...
Pascha (hymns)
Troparion:
Christ is risen from the dead,
Trampling down death by death,
And upon those in the tombsBestowing life.
Paschal Verse:
(Paslm 67[68]):
Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered; let those who hate him flee from before his face!
As smoke vanishes, so let them vanish; as wax melts before the fire,
So the sinners will perish before the face of God; but let the righteous be glad.
This is the day which the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it!
Glory to the Father, and the Son. and to the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen!
Hypakoe:
Before the dawn,
Mary and the women came and found the stone rolled away from the tomb.
They heard the angelic voice:
“Why do you seek among the dead as a man the One who is Everlasting Light?
Behold the clothes in the grave! Go and proclaim to the world:
The Lord is risen!”
He has slain death, as He is the Son of God, saving the race of men.
Kontakion: (Tone 8)
Thou didst descend into the tomb, O Immortal,
Thou didst destroy the power of death!
In victory didst Thou arise, O Christ God,
proclaiming “Rejoice” to the myrrhbearing women,
granting peace to Thy apostles, and bestowing
resurrection on the fallen.
PROKEIMENON (Tone 8)
(Psalm 117[118])
This is the day that the Lord has made! Let us rejoice and be glad in it!
V: O give thanks to the Lord, for He is good, for His mercy endures forever!
ALLELUIA (Tone 4)
(Psalm 101[102] and Psalm 32[33])
V: Thou didst arise and have mercy on Zion.
V: The Lord looked down from heaven and saw all the sons of men.
Hymn to the Theotokos
The Angel cried to the Lady, full of grace:
Rejoice, O pure Virgin! Again, I say:
Rejoice, your Son is risen from His three days in the tomb!
With Himself He has raised all the dead. Rejoice, O ye people!
Shine, shine, O new Jerusalem!
The glory of the Lord has shone on you.
Exult now, and be glad, O Zion!
Be radiant, O pure Theotokos,
in the Resurrection of your Son!
I hope you found this explanation useful. I would even recommend that you go to a Russian Orthodox Church, or an OCA parish and experience the service live (assuming Covid restrictions are relaxed by then... )
All the best,
Robert
Practice: 1:41
13:27 👌🏻👌🏻
hmm why do I hear a horn in the beginning ? I cannot see it in the score.
The clarinet and bassoon together in this register sounds like a soft horn.
thanks allot! great tone colors.
@@DavidLovrien Holy shit that's so fascinating! I could've sworn I heard horns
Antar and this are the best😅
Quite challenging for a conductor to keep tempo in this piece, and it seems in the development that the conductor didn't really measure up, as the orchestra ran away.
It's a fab performance all the same..
5:48/10:29
6:23/7:37
12:10
13:11
Who's conducting
I always lose the beat at 9:26
Try focusing on the basses
Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death, and to those who are in the tomb bestowing life. Pascha is coming!
Khristos voskrese! Voistinu voskrese!
Wtf do you mean
6:00 12:56
9:27 you are welcome..
6:40
10:54 and 13:12
12:05
13:35
4:50
2:06
0:52
12:08
12:00
5:04
Quien para la osim?:v
Yo quisiera, pero básicamente lo tengo prohibido ahorita porque tengo que ver lo de ingresar a la prepa :c
flute solo: 2:54
Боже, музыка просто НИКАКАЯ. Реально после Чайковского в России композиторов мирового уровня не было. Барахло.
а почему Вы так считаете?
@@worldofclassicalmusic9033 Я так чувствую
@@user-ur7ko3oe3t понятно
4:50
14:02
4:53