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The Year 1812, Solemn Overture, Op. 49, popularly known as the 1812 Overture, [1] is a concert overture in E ♭ major written in 1880 by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The piece commemorates Russia 's successful defense against the French invasion of the nation in 1812.
The original version of the song, written by Vasily Zhukovsky and Egor Fyodorovich Rozen, [1] [2] praised the Tsar and the Russian Tsardom, while the latter version by Sergey Gorodetsky was one of a patriotic form and is even sometimes regarded as a patriotic anthem of the Russia in the 20th century and today. It is one of the more popular ...
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The overture finishes with a virtuoso coda for the full orchestra. The piece is frequently paired in performance with Tchaikovsky's " 1812 Overture ," which also quotes "God Save the Tsar." In Russia, during the Soviet era , the imperial anthem was replaced in both pieces with the chorus " Glory, Glory to you, holy Rus'!
This version had its first performance at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, in 1997, under Valery Gergiev. [1] [11] He also prepared a version of Delius's opera A Village Romeo and Juliet, with reduced orchestration. [12] The Los Angeles Conservatory awarded him an Honorary Doctorate. [3] In his later years Igor Buketoff lived in Manhattan.
Songs from the Heart is the fifth studio album and fourth on-stage production by all-female Irish musical ensemble Celtic Woman, released on 16 January 2010.. Performers in Songs from the Heart are vocalists Chloë Agnew, Lynn Hilary, Lisa Kelly, Alex Sharpe and fiddler Máiréad Nesbitt.
Rab Noakes and Kathleen MacInnes constructed an arrangement in 2013 joining a Scots/English version and a Scots Gaelic version back-to-back. Rab recorded his Scots/English part of it on his I'm walkin' here album, released on Neon Records in 2015. Folk rock band Steeleye Span recorded "Two Sisters" on their 2016 album Dodgy Bastards.
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