Valentin Serov – Portrait of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, 1898.
Svetliy prazdnik, also known as the Great Russian Easter Overture) is a concert overture written by the Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov between August 1887 and April 1888, and dedicated to the memories of Modest Mussorgsky and Alexander Borodin, two members of the group of composers known in English as “The Five”. The score is prefaced by quotations from Psalm 68:1-2, Mark 16:1-6. The tunes in the overture are largely from the Russian Orthodox liturgy, based on a collection of old Russian Orthodox liturgical chants called the Obikhod. *
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Russian Easter Festival Overture, Op. 36
