Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov (1865 - 1936)
The Seasons, Opus 67
Scene 1 - Winter Scene 2 - Spring
Scene 3 - Summer Scene 4 - Autumn
Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901)
I Vespri Siciliani: The Four Seasons (Ballet Music)

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921)
Bacchanale from "Samson & Delilah", Opus 47

Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov has not fared well at the hands of later critics, although in his own time he enjoyed considerable success. In 1905 he became Director of the St Petersburg Conservatory and was to retain that position through all the difficulties of the next twenty-five years, before leaving Russia to spend his final years in Paris. A composer of great facility, with a phenomenal musical memory, he worked closely with Rimsky- Korsakov, assisting him in that debt of honour he fulfilled in editing the music left by those other members of the Mighty Handful, Borodin and Mussorgsky. To immediate contemporaries he seemed to