Solor Posted March 5, 2006 Share Posted March 5, 2006 (edited) does anyone know if any recording exsists of Rimsky-Korsakov's Mlada with Minkus' ballet music? I found some on Amazon.com, but they dont credit Minkus anywhere, as I figured they probably wouldnt, yet all articles I found on the work credit Minkus as having written the dance section of the work. Edited March 5, 2006 by Solor Link to comment
rg Posted March 5, 2006 Share Posted March 5, 2006 in brief MLADA has had a checkered career: the original plan was to have a production on this theme with at least four? composers: rimsky and minkus among them. this plan failed to be realized. petipa then produced a ballet with music by minkus (his memoirs often indicate that the Shades scene of Mlada had a strong influence on his subsequent stagings of the Shades in BAYADERE). subsequent to all this rimsky did his own opera, w/ his own ballet music, for the maryinsky. it's this version that the bolshoi op. toured to nyc w/ ananiasvili in 1991 and which is now on tape/dics. as noted, this is all vague, i explored these particulars more particularly when i was assessing the bolshoi prod. but now the facts/sequences have grown fuzzy. Link to comment
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