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Taras Bulba

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Taras Bulba

Rhapsody for orchestra by Janáček (after Gogol). Composed 1915–18, it was first performed at Brno on 9 October 1924 (conducted by František Neumann). The three movements are ‘Death of Andrea’, ‘Death of Ostap’, and ‘Capture and Death of Taras Bulba’.



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For example, the symphonic rhapsody Taras Bulba was recorded a very long time ago on old breakable 78 discs by the Janacek expert and conductor Bretislav Bakala--with the then still existing Brno Radio Symphony Orchestra.
Yet perhaps the most interesting program was the mixed bill, which included the magnificent Shades scene from La Bayadere (never before seen in the West); some of the famed Leonid Jacobson miniatures; and a scene from Boris Fenster's Taras Bulba, with the male dancers led enthusiastically by Sokolov and Soloviev.
There are Newman-O’s and artichoke bisque, unexpected seductions and betrayals, a violent punch delivered in the kitchen and a proposed adaptation of Taras Bulba (Gogol’s novella about “stirred-up” Cossacks).
 
 
 
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