This work begins with a passage scored for eight cellos, playing the tune of the hymn God Preserve Thy People. Following long passage for all the stri
This work begins with a passage scored for eight cellos, playing the tune of the hymn God Preserve Thy People. Following long passage for all the strings of the orchestra, the hymn-tune reappears, followed by a folk-song like melody and another hymn, God Save the Tsar. This work uses anachronistic fragments of the Marseillaise to represent the Battle of Borodino. First performed seventy years after the events it commemorates, this work features military sound effects, including a famous use of a 'cannon'. Russia's defence of its motherland against Napoleon's Grande Armee is commemorated in which overture by Pyotr Tchaikovsky?
This work begins with a passage scored for eight cellos, playing the tune of the hymn God Preserve Thy People.