Gliere and Goedicke Recording Premieres on Wartime Music Series

[TerraEpon]

No, jasthill. Since volume 17 or 18 they hasn't rely on Northern Flower to publish the albums, and the rest albums are on their official website for free streaming and downloading only. The previous releases by Northern Flowers are still available on streaming platforms, though.

Damn, so only Mp3s are available? That sucks. Especially since it looks like the Gliere is messed up and track 5 is missing as a download.

[jasthill]

Damn, so only Mp3s are available? That sucks. Especially since it looks like the Gliere is messed up and track 5 is missing as a download.

TerraEpon: with a little bit of Google Chrome trickery I was able to get the links to the five files (mp3) of the Entry 29. Reinhold Glière set - They are:
1. https://spb-orchestra.ru/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/01-Druzhba-narodov-uvertjura.mp3
2. https://spb-orchestra.ru/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/02-Zaveshhanie-simf-poema.mp3
3. https://spb-orchestra.ru/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/03-Uvertjura-na-slavyanskie-temy.mp3
4. https://spb-orchestra.ru/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/04-Ferganskij-prazdnik-uvertjura.mp3
5. https://spb-orchestra.ru/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/05-Pobeda-uvertjura.mp3

[Mark Thomas]

Can anyone shed any light on why Glière's Victory Overture quotes the American folk song "Oh Shenandoah" so prominently? For example, it appears note-for-note at 04:35, and thereafter in variation, and again around 06:10 - followed by more than a nod to "When the Saints go marching in". A tribute to US aid in WWII, perhaps? I wonder how Stalin felt about that?

[Christopher]

No, jasthill. Since volume 17 or 18 they hasn't rely on Northern Flower to publish the albums, and the rest albums are on their official website for free streaming and downloading only. The previous releases by Northern Flowers are still available on streaming platforms, though.

Damn, so only Mp3s are available? That sucks. Especially since it looks like the Gliere is messed up and track 5 is missing as a download.

I can download it normally @Terrapon - has this problem persisted for you?

[jasthill]

I snagged a portion of the program notes (detailed annotation to the disk) relating to the "Victory Overture", Op. 86 and ran them through ChatGPT translation and found out that the quotation of Shenandoah and The Battle Hymn of the Republic (not When the Saints go Marching in) are indeed related to a celebration of the Allies contribution to victory in WWII.  Gliere mistakenly attributed Shenandoah as an English folk song, but also quoted the Battle Hymn of the Republic as American.  There might even be a sniplet of Yankee Doodle passing by.  Sort of an Quodlibet Overture.  A translation of the program notes give a better explanation of all of the works on this disk.

[Mark Thomas]

Thanks, that's interesting. "The Battle Hymn of the Republic", of course, my mistake. So, are the programme notes available somewhere?

[tuatara442442]

You can see it on every page of an installment of the series, Mark. Marked by a pdf icon.
The link to the booklet of the Gliere volume: https://spb-orchestra.ru/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Buklet_dlya_diska_Glier.pdf

[Mark Thomas]

Thanks very much indeed. Here's the link to the Goedicke booklet: https://spb-orchestra.ru/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Buklet_dlya_diska_Gedike.pdf.

[TerraEpon]

I can download it normally @Terrapon - has this problem persisted for you?

The issue isn't downloading it, it's that the link for track 5 is the same as track 4.

[tuatara442442]

Oops, this is really an existing problem.
So you can learn to use Internet Download Manager to download the file that is streamed when playing...

[Holger]

Or you just use the links jasthill kindly provided...

[tuatara442442]

I also discovered that the download button of the extracts (first two movements, "Introduction"
and "At the Bazaar of Janiabad") of Uzbek Suite by Vasilenko (Vol. 26) was linked to the file of Cossack March. The correct link should be:
https://spb-orchestra.ru/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/07-Uzbekskaya-sjuita.mp3

[CelesteCadenza]

Thanks but that leads to a 404 error: Ой, страница не найдена 404
Adding a ".mp3" file spec at the end resolves the issue: https://spb-orchestra.ru/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/07-Uzbekskaya-sjuita.mp3

[tuatara442442]

Thanks for correcting me. Now I've added the .mp3 suffix.