Caucasian Sketches Suite No. 1: “In the Village”

Composer: IPPOLITOV-IVANOV, Mikhail

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  • This movement depicts a duet between two village musicians, one young and one old, improvising on folk melodies.
  • Listen for: Ippolitov-Ivanov evokes the sound of two folk instruments, the tar (a lute-like stringed instrument found in the Middle East and Central Asia) and the duduk (an Armenian reed instrument.1

Sources

  1. Luke Howard, “Caucasian Sketches, Suite No.1, Op.10,” program notes to Stokowski Celebration at the Academy of Music, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Philadelphia: The Academy of Music, June 22, 2012, accessed October 30, 2019, https://www.philorch.org/sites/default/files/concert/pdfs/Stokowski%202.pdf.

Cut IDs

17997