Alexander Borodin - Polovtsian Dances

Alexander Borodin

Polovtsian Dances

[omarirucker]

Not a day passes where i am not completely and fully grateful for this upload!

[hawrnball]

Oh this brings back memories. My high school choir sang this with a full orchestra and it was amazing.

[emmamaldonado]

We used No.1 for my high school marching show and it was beautiful!!! It was my favorite part musically

[seakenp]

Awesome combination: Chorus and a Score. Thank you!

[remon]

Alexander Borodin.. what a mesmerizing composer!

[StefanGraz]

Introduction 0:06 // No. 1 - 0:59 // No. 2 - 2:45 // No. 3 - 3:51 // No. 4 - 6:11 // No. 1 (Reprise) - 7:20 // No. 4 (cont.) - 8:32 // No. 2 (Reprise) & Coda/Stretta - 9:41

[cgpilot]

So educational to see the sheet music as the orchestra plays and the chorus sings it! Thank you!!!

[Dylonely_]

Simply wonderful, many thanks for this video.

[lucpraslan]

Gee, the 6/8 was fast!
Thanks for uploading 👍👍

[breyannalewis]

How lovely, this composition sounds nice

[jasonzurlo]

I got an ad before the very last note of the song

[violionalan]

Thank you for the effort you made to select wonderful works (especially through providing the music scores ) which are written by great composers from different epochs,

[Skidoo]

Orchestrated by another genius, Rimsky Korsakov

[francisfarmer]

Thank you for posting. I'm working on a guitar arrangement and this helps a lot

[SSNewberry]

The choir lends a lilt, that is otherwise missing.

[joshscores]

In No. 2 why does the clarinet (especially if combined with the double reeds) sound so much like a saxophone

[trantiencaophong]

Very beautiful. Excellent. I like the chorus. Who are the performers? Which is the orchestra? Which is the chorus? Who is the conductor? Tell me please. Thanks.

[marianmrazik]

Any singer or an experienced conductor or composer here? What shoud I, when writing for voices or when conducting, do to prevent the singers to sound like the choir there? It's just a matter of taste (there were amazing parts where the choir sung really well) I'm just not fond of the operatic vibrato - as I discovered some very interestig choral pieces recentely I'm really amazed by the beauty of the pure smooth tone color the singers achieve (eg. renaissance madrigals, but also solely choral works). And i feel the potencial of such beauty is lost when too much vibrato is used - especially in soft pasages like the first entery of the choir here - the beatiful melody. Is the vibrato really necessary? What I mean is that pehaps it becomes needed when the orchestra is playing in forte and the singers would be otherwise not heard clearly enough, but I dunno. I fully understand that it's also matter of the context of the 20th century Soviet era - it"s heard in all orchestra - the full-sounded clarinets, the majestic brass section - which has it's own magic and I like it. But I would like to discover something new, leave the Opera. I enjoy far more when the singer achieves purity then the most pompous vibrato.

[nick_culhane]

Why so fast? I feel like the instrumentalists are dying in this recording.

[Thespirit]

This is not a performance, it`s an execution! Svetlanov; NO!