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