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D. Shostakovich - Katerina Ismailova - An Opera in 4 acts and 9 scenes Op. 29/114

 
D. Shostakovich - Katerina Ismailova - An Opera in 4 acts and 9 scenes Op. 29/114-Choir and Orchestra-Opera Collection
ID: MELCD1002050 (EAN: 4600317120505)  | 3 CD | ADD
Released in: 2013
LABEL:
Melodiya
Collection:
Opera Collection
Subcollection:
Choir and Orchestra
Composers:
SHOSTAKOVICH, Dmitry Dmitriyevich
Other info:

E. Andreyeva, E. Bulavin & V. Radziyevsky
Choir & Orchestra of the Moscow State, Gennady Provatorov

It is hard to name another opera with a fate as complicated and dramatic as that of its heroine. Shostakovich came up with the idea of composing an opera based on Nikolai Leskov’s novel Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District, perhaps the most outright and cruel work of the Russian classical literature, in the early 1930s. Finished in 1932, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District (as the opera was originally titled) was staged two years later in Leningrad and then in Moscow caused a heated controversy.

However, the opera was condemned after Stalin saw it. “A mess instead of music” - that was a title of a scathing article in the Pravda in January 1936. It marked the beginning of unfounded criticism at Shostakovich for “formalism”, while Lady Macbeth was banned from the stage. The ban was lifted as late as in the early 1960s when Shostakovich had realized the second edition of the opera under the name of Katerina Izmailova. The opera was staged in Moscow and later it took the place it deserved in Russian and foreign theatres. Melodiya presents a historically first recording of Shostakovich’s opera made at the Moscow Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre in 1964 soon after the premiere of the second edition. The premiere was conducted by a young maestro Gennady Provatorov.

In 1966, the recording was given a Grand Prix du Disquein France.

 

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