Taken from the Dublin In international Piano Spectacular
All seven previous winners in a once-off performance.
PHILIPPE CASSARD (1988),
PAVEL NERSESSIAN (1991),
DAVIDE FRANCESCHETTI (1994),
MAX LEVINSON (1997),
ALEXEI NABIOULIN (2000),
ANTTI SIIRALA (2003)
ROMAIN DESCHARMES (2006)
and featuring
JOHN O'CONOR (Artistic Director)
This piece: NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV (1844-1908)
Flight of the Bumble Bee (The Tale of Tsar Saltan)
Performed by : All of the above
About this piece:
The full title of Rimsky-Korsakov's tenth opera is: "The Tale of Tsar Saltan, of his son the famous and mighty hero
Prince Gvidon Saltanovich and of the beautiful Swan Princess." It had its première in Moscow in November 1900. The
story is by Pushkin and was chosen as a centenary tribute to the great Russian poet. In this exotic fairy story the Tsar is
persuaded to cast his wife and their new son into the sea in a cask, believing the child to be a monster. They land on
an island where Gvidon rescues a swan from a hawk; the swan is in fact a princess under a spell. She turns him into
a bumble bee and he flies off to find the Tsar. This provides the famous interlude "The Flight of the Bumble Bee". He
stings his wicked aunts who had hatched the plot and are trying to prevent the Tsar visiting the island. Gvidon then
frees the Swan Princess from her enchantment and the Tsar arrives to bless the happy couple and reclaim his wife.
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7 фев 2011
