Nicolai Gedda Sadko

[SuperLuckydream]

Both Nikolais are brilliant here :-) Thank you very much for posting, dear Janja.

[Herur22]

@SuperLuckydream

Thank you for listening, Tamara.

[ekszentrikful]

Вот это произношение!!! И у коренных россиян такое редко сыщешь! Не оговоря уже обо все остальном!!!

[DonPaolissimo]

One of the truly greatest tenors of all time!

[DmitriyD71]

Нis Russian language is beautiful.

[DmitriyD71]

Нет слов!

[Kievest]

Rimsky-Korsakov was a master colorist

vocally and in orchestrations. Gedda uses his beautiful voice with a painter's

pallet here and it is quite wonderful.

Thank you.

[Lenochka1107]

That's excellent perfomance!!! Thank you very much!

[klokheten]

What a congenial and total understanding.

Such a noble delivery of this gorgeous piece!

[seancoxen]

Gorgeous! One of the most hauntingly beautiful Russian tenor arias sung by a master.

[aguacun]

Great post!!!

[Herur22]

If you question was meant for the "West", it was perhaps not a very good idea to write in cyrrilic. But what is the situation in Russia? Is Čajkovski there played less than Rimski-Korsakov?

[Yasmund]

@Herur22 a little bit belated;) Not at all, Chaikovski is played in Russia not less than Rimski-Korsakov. Concerning the situation in Russia you can watch for example what Valery Gergiev conducts. There are Beethoven, Wagner, Maler, Mussorgski, Chaikovski - and Rimski-Korsakov ("Sadko" in Novgorod, May 2011).

[Ivanov101]

Удивляюсь почему на западе известен только Чайковский, а Римский-Корсаков незаслуженно забыт?

[vstasov]

Rimsky is one of the greatest opera composers, if only people can accept him on his own terms and not compare him to Wagner or Verdi.  He's not a dramatist, although his music is deeply moving.