JPO | Happy Birthday Glinka! | Ruslan and Ludmilla Overture | Cond. Nicholas Cleobury скачать в хорошем качестве

JPO | Happy Birthday Glinka! | Ruslan and Ludmilla Overture | Cond. Nicholas Cleobury

This week, we celebrate Mikhail Glinka’s birthday with this recording of the Ruslan and Ludmilla Overture. Glinka was born on 1 June 1804 and was known as the ‘father of Russian music’ - he became the musical inspiration for generations of composers and listeners who followed him. Ruslan and Ludmilla is an opera based on the poem by Alexander Pushkin. The première took place in Saint Petersburg in 1842, and the initial lack of enthusiasm for this Russian-inspired production has been attributed to the Saint Petersburg's audience's growing taste at the time for Italian opera. Four years later, the opera was given its Moscow première and has been a mainstay of the Bolshoi, having staged over 700 performances in 9 different productions over the past 165 years. The recording was performed by the JPO at the Linder Auditorium in May 2006, under the baton of Nicholas Cleobury.