Oh how I’m enjoying this! Thank you David Hurwitz!

Thanks for playing excerpts from your chosen CD s ! It makes your presentations more interesting!!!

Thank you for opening our eyes and ears to more music that we should search out.

I absolutely love the Christmas Eve Suite! The Polonase is to die for!!!It sounds like The Procession of the Nobles

I have the Rotterdam collection mentioned which as said is great - and yes it's The Tale of Tsar Saltan with the fabulous sea music in Tsarina in a Barrel at Sea (what a marvelous piece of orchestral tone painting). Thanks as well for playing The Bum of the Flightal Bee, as my music teacher use to call it!

Thanks Dave for this and all your videos. I bought the Jarvi and it’s like a luxurious long bath

This is one of those videos where I can say, “I learned many new things today” 👍

Thanks - I had no idea there was so much Rimsky-Korsakov I had not heard.

Wonderful discussion. I have been collecting the operas for a long time and they are a source of inexhaustible riches.

When I was writing my textbooks on orchestration for wind band, I kept going back to Mlada (specifically Triglav) for examples. RImsky-Korsakov was doing things with the orchestra that no other composer had done before or since. It may be my favorite work of his.

Great presentation of wonderful stuff, Dave. I was so impressed by the Coq d'or suite that in the 90s I would take my copy around to stereo stores to test out amplifiers and speakers. That and solo organ music.

Now I can’t wait for the Rimsky opera talk! Especially for the Snow Maiden~

Goregous music! I fondly remember a fabulous production of the Tale of Tsar Saltan at the Komische Oper in Berlin in the early 1990s - the run was sold out each night and got extended for a few extra nights, delighting lots of kids and adults alike.

Thank you. I am a bit of a Rimsky - korsakov (or as I saw one wag dub it, 'Ripshercortetsoff') fan (despite being a B-r-u-c--k--n-e--r enthusiast, too). I have been a collector of the opera suites. It reminds me of your talk on Janacek. He didn't write too much orchestral music but with the opera suites, it pretty much doubles it.

Thank you for the fantastic recommandations. Speaking of Zinman cannot forget his mentor Monteux, my ear-opener on the wonders of Golden Cockerel Suite with French National Radio from a live concert published by Montaigne, Music and Arts etc, the latter still available as a download I think. The souvenir of this opera performed in Düsseldorf a few years back comes back to my mind. Was seated by the orchestra had no fatigue. So wonderful. Not Beethoven in the bathroom, the opposite (Axel Kober leading), and found the singers exquisite. Makes you feel lucky. Merci

I grew up on R-K’s fairy tale operas. Most of them were sung in very cute cartoons WHOLE! And many of us, kids, watched them. Love your cute pronunciation of Russian words, such asSnegurochka! The mount Triglav is real, located in Alpine region of Slovenia. Incredibly beautiful and tough.

Just discovered your channel David, consuming it rapidly and enjoying it immensely.

Fantastic video chat. One of my favorite composers. Don't you think Rimsky should have added some Tambourine thumb rolls at the same time the woodwinds are trilling!! What fun to demonstrate those!!

For those who may feel like they've heard The Flight of the Bumblebee too many times, it will make a world of difference to hear it within the context of the opera Tsar Saltan. So wonderful.

The Coq d’or Suite really can’t cut a break! I believe believe that was the piece the Boston Symphony was about to perform, and got nixed when the musicians were frantically handed the parts for the Eroica funeral march instead, minutes after news of the Kennedy assassination came over the wire.