"Lavish Prisoner Entertainment and Barrel Puberty": Borodin & Rimsky-Korsakov

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🗓️ 21 February 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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WHEN I SAY THE WORDS "MIGHTY HANDFUL", WHAT EXACTLY COMES TO MIND? ACTUALLY ON SECOND THOUGHT PLEASE DON'T ANSWER THAT QUESTION. To summarise, today we're talking about two prominent members of that mightiest of handfuls - Alexander Borodin and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov! Gird your loins for 60-second biographies, poorly summarised operas and puberty in a barrel at sea. Enjoy! Music Featured in this Episode: "Prince Igor: Act II: Polovtsian Dances" - Alexander Borodin "String Quartet No. 2 in D Major: III. Nocturne" - Alexander Borodin "Scheherazade, Op. 35: The Sea and Sinbad's Ship" - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov "Tsar Saltan, Op. 57: Flight of the Bumblebee" - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov ***Follow us on Twitter (@thatclassical) and on Instagram (@thatclassicalinsta) for some top notch social media entertainment. We promise it won't just be jokes about Mozart. N.B. we can make no promises it won't just be jokes about Mozart.***

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 13 of that classical podcast. This time, Borodin and Rimski Korsakov.
0:12.0	Hello! Yeah, I know that now that. Hello, I'm Kelly Harlock.
0:16.0	I'm Chris Bland.
0:17.0	And you're listening to episode 13, yes, 13 of that classical podcast.
0:22.0	Yes, you are. Welcome back. It's going to be a... of that's a classical podcast.
0:22.6	Yes you are.
0:23.6	Welcome back.
0:24.6	It's going to be a total corker today.
0:26.6	Because we're going to talk about two composers
0:29.7	from the mighty handful.
0:31.4	This might ring a bell in our listener's ears because last
0:34.4	episode we referred to them when we were talking about Lisees a group of
0:37.7	Parisian composers in the early 1900s and so today let's talk about the mighty handful.
0:43.0	They were...
0:44.0	Can we just address though like this will continue to be a hilarious nickname?
0:46.0	It will never stop being funny and I will always think of breasts and that's what is going to happen.
0:50.0	I might giggle just a whole bunch of times.
0:52.0	Just move on.
0:53.0	Forgive and forget.
0:54.0	So it was a bunch of five Russian dudes in the 19th century who made what we'd now call I guess distinctly Russian classical music, right?
1:03.0	And so the leader of the gang was a guy called Mili Balakirev.
1:07.0	Then you got Seza Kui, modest Mzotsky, Nikolay Rimsky Korsakov, who we will talk about today, and Alexander Borodin, who we will also talk about today.
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