Spanish Festival Volume 1

Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (1804 - 1857)
Capriccio brillante on the Jota aragonesa
Summer Night in Madrid

Nikolay Andreyevlch Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 - 1908)
Capriccio espagnol, Opus 34

Emmanuel Chabrier (1841 - 1894)
España

Edward Elgar (1857 - 1934)
Sevillana, Opus 7

Jules Massenet (1842 - 1912)
Ballet music from Le Cid
Sevillana from Don César de Bazan

Spain exercised a curious fascination over the nationalist composers of the nineteenth century, with a particular appeal in Russia, a country that was finding again its own identity in literature and music, after the Westernisation initiated by Peter the Great.

Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka was a pioneer of Russian musical nationalism. He was born on the family estate near Smolensk in 1804 and spent much of his childhood in the care of his paternal grandmother, a woman whos