Glazunov – Overture No. 1 on Three Greek Themes, Op. 3

Alexander Glazunov (1865–1936)
Overture No. 1 in G minor on Three Greek Themes, Op. 3 (1882)

USSR State Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Evgeny Svetlanov

This is an early orchestral work by Russian composer Alexander Glazunov, a student of Rimsky-Korsakov and protégé of Mitrofan Belyayev, who later became director of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. Composed by Glazunov when he was a 16-year-old prodigy, this piece takes as its source material a collection of melodies from Greece and the Middle East published by the French composer and scholar Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray, who is also its dedicatee. The overture was premiered under the baton of the famous pianist and composer Anton Rubinstein.

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