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KUZMIN, M.A.: Sacred Songs / The Society of Honoured Bell Ringers / Masquerade (Shkirtil, Karelia State Symphony, Serov)
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KUZMIN, M.A.: Sacred Songs / The Society of Honoured Bell Ringers / Masquerade (Shkirtil, Karelia State Symphony, Serov)
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The great twentieth-century Russian poet, Mikhail Alexeevich Kuzmin, was for much of his early life also passionately devoted to composition. Masterpieces of the vocal miniature, his Sacred Songs for voice and orchestra are settings of his own words based on studies of ancient Russian music. His incidental music for Masquerade is notable for a heartfelt Romance and a closing chorus which draws upon traditional Russian church music. The Society of Honoured Bell Ringers displays Mahlerian and Mozartian influences whilst greater harmonic complexity can be savoured in Kuzmin’s edgier music for Der deutsche Hinkemann.
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Kuzmin, Mikhail Alekseevich

The Society of Honoured Bell Ringers
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Act I: Introduction: Adagio
00:02:21
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Interlude: Con moto
00:01:58
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3.
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Appearance: Adagio
00:00:55
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Act III: Introduction
00:01:15
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Act III: Interlude: Allegro
00:02:58
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Act IV: Interlude: Moderato
00:01:45
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Final March: Allegretto
00:00:40
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Kuzmin, Mikhail Alekseevich Lermontov, Mikhail, lyricist(s)

Masquerade (excerpts)
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Polka
00:01:25
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Nina's Romance
00:02:34
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Waltz
00:02:35
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Final Chorus
00:03:36
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Kuzmin, Mikhail Alekseevich Kuzmin, Mikhail Alekseevich, lyricist(s)

Sacred Songs for Voice and Orchestra
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Descent Of The Virgin Into Hell
00:10:44
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The Old Man And The Lion
00:06:28
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Doomsday
00:05:36
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Kuzmin, Mikhail Alekseevich Toller, Ernst, lyricist(s)

Hinkemann the German
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Introduction - Soldiers' Chorus
00:04:26
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Pastoral
00:01:27
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Interlude - Waltz
00:01:49
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Act II: Introduction
00:01:04
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Country Dance
00:01:08
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Procession
00:02:52
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Tango
00:01:59
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Final March
00:00:44
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Total Playing Time:
01:00:19
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