Mikhail Glinka

Overture to Ruslan and Lyudmila

            Before there was Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, and even Mussorgsky, there was Glinka.  The latter is the precursor of all the great Russian composers so familiar to today’s concertgoer, but ironically, in this country, he is known to audiences for only one composition:  the sparkling overture to his opera...

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