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00:00 - I. Allegro moderato 05:29 - II. Scherzo: Vivaccisimo 08:50 - III. Largo 14:01 - IV. Allegro con spirito _____ Bassoon: Helman Jung Clarinet: Manfred Lindner Piano: Thomas Duis Year of Recording: 2009 _____ “Mikhail Glinka is often considered the father of Russian Nationalist music. He was the first composer in Russia to write operas and chamber music based on Russian folk melodies. Born into a noble family in Smolensk, near the border of Belarus, Glinka was educated for a life in government. He studied his real interest, music, informally from childhood, even working briefly with the Irish virtuoso pianist John Field, who was living in Petersburg. But it wasn’t until he was 26 that Glinka was able to study music more seriously, which he did living in Italy and Germany for several years. Glinka was an inspiration to many of the Russian composers that followed him, including The Mighty Five, a group of Russian composers (Balakirev, Borodin, Cui, Mussorgsky, and
