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Lyadov’s failure to write his planned opera may have been down to sheer lack of motivation, but the truth is, we simply do not know. All that survives of the sketches to Zoryushka, a magical tale of a princess and her suitors and wood spirits, are two orchestral tone poems: Kikimora and The Enchanted Lake. Despite their briefness both are wonderfully orchestrated

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Lyadov-Ballade (In Olden Days)

Lyadov’s failure to write his planned opera may have been down to sheer lack of motivation, but the truth is, we simply do not know. All that survives of the sketches to Zoryushka, a magical tale of a princess and her suitors and wood spirits, are two orchestral tone poems: Kikimora and The Enchanted Lake. Despite their briefness both are wonderfully orchestrated

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Lyadov-Ballade (In Olden Days)

If any composer should convince you that old age is no barrier to success, it is the American composer Elliot Carter. Throughout his life, he had been a respected modernist, but in his final decade, Carter stripped him away much of the complexity of his early music, finding a new clarity. The mercurial Flute Concerto, written at the age of 99, is a perfect example, as is the brief nut mischievous Dialogues II,