Rivers

This montage from our Podcast Vault revisits a post from August 3rd, 2012. It can be found in our archives at  https://archive.org/details/Rivers_483

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This past Friday, we began programming montages from our musical passport series as daily podcasts. Today’s foray into the Podcast Vault features another selection from that series, with our 2012 look at rivers.

The montage features works inspired by rivers from birth the Old and New World: rhe Rhine, the Danube, the Nile, the St-Lawrence and the Mississippi are some of the well-known rivers illustrated here. The composers vary from the Romantic all the way to the modern.

When I went looking for filler material, I started thinking of other great rivers that may have inspired other classical works and in doing so, I stumbled onto this page. Some of the works overlap  with ours, but there were some from Russian composers that are worth honourable mention, From that page, I retained Dawn on the Moscow River which opens Mussorgsky’s unfinished opera Khovanshchina. The recording feaures Shostakovich’s orchestration of the passage, performed by the USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra under Evgeni Svetlanov in a vintage Meloidiya recording.

I think you will (still) love this music too.