Best known for his extremely popular Polovtsian Dances and his great opera Prince Igor, Alexander Borodin was a major Russian composer of the nineteenth century. His Symphony No. 2, which he took seven years to complete, is among his most important orchestral works and is much studied as an example of Russian nationalist music of the Romantic period.
During the lengthy composition process, Borodin received encouragement from no less an authority than Liszt, who advised the composer to make no changes and disregard unfavorable criticism. After a disastrous debut, Borodin rescored the work, and subsequent performances affirmed its excellence. Its four move-ments offer a unified construction of dramatic contrasts in mood, color, and tempo, and it has come to be regarded as one of the most beloved symphonies
of its era. Moussorgsky declared, "The strength of a lion is behind this sym-phony. Of all previous music I could at most place Beethoven's Eroica beside it." |
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