Anton Rubinstein - Symphony No. 1 Op. 40 (1850)
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- Anton Rubinstein (1829-1894)
Symphony No. 1 Op. 40 (1850)
I. Allegro con fuoco [0:00]
II. Allegro [10:29]
III. Moderato [17:24]
IV. Allegro [28:19]
Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra Kosice
conducted by Robert Stankovsky
Recorded 22 - 28 February 1989 - Hudba
È sempre un piacere sentire questa musica,sublime,tecnicamente perfetta,assolutamente non drammatica, rilassante..
Grande Rubinstein.
La tonalità è La Maggiore.
Been listening to nothing but Rubinstein's symphonies in the past few days. Just heard the 6th for the first time today. Along with his first, I believe these are two of his best symphonies.
Bravo bravo bravo fantastic brilliance grandiose music symphony super wow
Musique sublime! Et les photos sont superbes : merci pour cette vidéo!!!!
2nd movement is delightfull
That symfony listening more intresting from Mendelsons first, from Shumans first and second, and from a lot of famouse romantic symfonies. Beautifull theemes, not so easy composithional structure, all other - possible to sorry for 20 year old composer, than create in this symfony THE FIRST SYMFONY IN HISTORY OF RUSSIAN CLASSICAL MUSIC...
Rubinstein's distinctive accents enliven this first symphonic effort. It has a good flow and agreeable melody recalling Schumann, its' lack of maturity betrayed however by unimaginative passages and development. I recently read a negative review of this work dismissing it with not even faint praise, but what it lacks in sophistication it gains in pure likeability. It's not a work I could hear very often without tiring of, however. Rubinstein's talent as a composer developed later, producing works of ingenuity, and some truly great and inspired ones.
Although certainly not a great symphony, none the less a very delightfull start to Rubinstein's symphonic cycle. The highlight of symphony no. 1 is certainly the excellent 3rd (moderato) movement, which on its own makes this symphony worth listening to again.
The finale is accompanied by a photograph of a large church in the "Russian style", that is, the style of the 19th century, which revived the style of the Moscow church backyard of the 17th century (in Russia, this style is commonly called "Naryshkin baroque").
In the photo we see the Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ, that is, the Easter church. It stands in St. Petersburg and was built on the site of the mortal wound of Emperor Alexander II (the Sovereign died from an explosion of a homemade bomb on March 13 (according to the Gregorian calendar), 1881, it was a terrorist act), and since Alexander was born on Easter on April 29, 1818 in Moscow (the date of Easter is calculated by the Russian Orthodox Church based on the Julian calendar), the cathedral dedicated to his memory was consecrated in the name of this holiday.
The total height of the cathedral is 81 meters, since the Emperor died in 1881, and the height of the bell tower is 62 meters, since he was 62 years old.
The cathedral was built for a very long time and was consecrated only in August 1907.
All images both on the facade and inside the cathedral are mosaic, the mosaic occupies over seven square kilometers, it has been laid out for 12 years!
The appearance of this temple was greeted very ambiguously: it was called tasteless, lurid and non-Petersburg in style; after the revolution, the cathedral was sentenced to destruction three times, and during the Second World War, a 600 kg bomb hit it, broke through the roof, got stuck in it and did not explode. During the Leningrad blockade, in this cathedral, as in many other surviving churches (already closed, that is, worship services were no longer held in them, the priests were arrested and, basically, shot), the corpses of the dead residents of the city were stored, since there were not enough morgues. After the war, the cathedral was no longer demolished and was used as a warehouse: either a scenery warehouse for one of the city's opera houses (the Mikhailovsky Theatre), or, later, as a warehouse for vegetables.
It was only under Gobachev that they decided to begin restoration and museumification of this wonderful monument.
Someday the terrible Russian-Ukrainian war will end, someday Russia will return to the path of civilized human development. Perhaps it will break up into its component parts and Ingermanland with its capital in St. Petersburg will become a small European state in the Baltic region? And we will again have guests from all over the world. And if you come to our modest town, then take the time and visit this inconspicuous church - by God, it's worth it !!
This is the first Russian symphony! Ever!
Yes and there's something more Western Europe in Rubinstein's music.
Didn't Glinka write a Symphony on Russian Themes?
@@eAcetaldehyd Yes but that's correctly considered a symphonic poem.
Ah, the glorious Pine Ridge res.!
is this the pianist Rubenstein
This is Anton Rubinstein, which has no relation to the pianist Arthur Rubinstein