If I Could Choose Only One Work By...RIMSKY-KORSAKOV

It Would Have To Be...Opera Suites (Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Järvi, cond.) Chandos 2CDs If you really want to hear the essence of Rimsky-Korsakov, then you need to consider his operas, and this is the best way to do it (without the singing). The List So Far... 1. Ravel: Ma Mère l’Oye (Mother Goose Ballet) 2. Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 3. Schubert: String Quintet in C major 4. Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4 5. Mahler: Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection” 6. Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker 7. Debussy: Preludes for Piano (Books 1 & 2) 8: Handel: Saul 9. Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro 10. Brahms: String Sextet No. 2 in G major 11. Vaughan Williams: Job 12. Bach: Goldberg Variations 13. R. Strauss: Four Last Songs 14. Berlioz: The Damnation of Faust 15. Haydn: “Paris” Symphonies (Nos. 82-87) 16. Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen 17. Beethoven: String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp minor 18. Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor 19. Chopin: Preludes 20. Verdi: Rigoletto 21. Roussel: Symphony No. 2 22. Copland: Appalachian Spring (complete original ballet) 23. Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites Nos. 1 and 2 24. Bartók: Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion 25. Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2