Storm interlude from the opera The Maid of Pskov, also titled Ivan the Terrible. Albert Coates and the London Symphony, 1938.
A brief but wonderfully atmospheric evocation of a winter storm from a saga of Ivan the Terrible’s Russia in 1570. Conductor Albert Coates was born in St. Petersburg and studied composition with composer Rimsky-Korsakov before the Soviet Revolution drove him to London and the conductorship of the London Symphony. Coates made many recordings and had a particular affinity for Russian composers, as he here conducts the work of his old teacher.