Rimsky Korssakoff & Tscha | Scheherazade-Capriccio It | CD

Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov was a Russian composer, teacher, conductor, public figure and music critic of the Romantic era. He was a member of The Five. He was born on 18 March 1844 in Tikhvin, Saint Petersburg Governorate, Russian Empire, and died on 21 June 1908 in Lubensk, now in Pskov Oblast.

This is a single CD compilation of orchestral works by Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky, including Scheherazade, Capriccio Italien and Ouvertüre 1812. Herbert von Karajan conducts the Berliner Philharmoniker, and the credits include Michel Schwalbé as violin soloist and the Don Kosaken Chor Serge Jaroff as choir. The recordings were made in Berlin in 1966 and 1967, and this reissue on Deutsche Grammophon is dated 2018, having originally been issued in 2000.