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Balakirev Russia symphonic poem Hamilton Harty LPO
The following extract is from The Gramophone November 1933:
\\\Balakirev (1836-1910) was the inspirer and teacher of Russian nationalists. The conception of Russia was that of a celebration of the thousandth anniversary of individuality as a nation—though the men who in 862 drove back the Finns and Lithuanians, and heaven knows what invading races, were Scandinavians—\\\ Rus,\\\ in the old name. Rurik, their chief, and his descendants, consolidating from Kiev and Novgorod, colonised across the plains, and a nation was born. Here are the familiar strains (the opening one reminding us of the Volga song) standing in the composer\\\s mind for stirring scenes of Russian history and aspects of the national spirit. There are folky tunes serious and gay, with a little Easternism, and something that seems borrowed from the general European culture ; winding up with what Mr. Newmarch (Grove) tells us is said to \\\ breathe a prayer for the future welfare of the country.\\\ I wonder how that has been answered? There is little development, and that of no importance. The tunes are the thing, and whatever of faith and fullfilment they stood for in the composer\\\s mind. All easy to hear, genial, respectworthy for its purpose rather than as a musical structure warmly played and recorded by a new process which, rightly, is much praised.
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