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ID: IMLCD137
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Vocal and Opera Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra
Orchestra of the USSR "Bolshoy Theatre" - Kirill Kondrashin, (1-2) Leo Steinberg (4-5) Alexander Melik-Pashayev (3,8-9) Orchestra of the USSR Radio Committe - Alexander Orlov (12-14)
Matvey Sakharov, piano (15) |
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ID: IMLCD153
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra
Valery Malishev, bass (1-22)
Olga Slepnyova, piano (1-10)
Eugeny Shenderovich, piano (11-18)
Leningrad State Philharmonics Symphony Orchestra - Nikolai Rabinovich (19,21)
Leningrad State Philharmonics Symphony Orchestra - Vadim Kalentiev (20, 22) |
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ID: MELCD1000764
CDs: 3
Type: CD
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Collection: Opera Collection
Subcollection: Choir and Orchestra
Libretto by the composer after the Tragedy by Alexander Pushkin.
Version and orchestration by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Opera in 4 Acts with a Prologue. Libretto by the composer after the Tragedy by Alexander Pushkin. Version and orchestration by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Boris Godunov-Ivan Petrov; Feodor-Valentina Klepatskaya; Xenia-Tamara Sorokina; Nurse to Xenia-Yevgeniya Verbitskaya; Prince Vasily Ivanovich Shuisky-Georgy Shulpin; Andrey Schelkalov-Alexey Ivanov; Pimen-Mark Reshetin; Grigory, the Pretender-Vladimir Ivanovsky; Marina Mnishek-Irina Arkhipova. Chorus and Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre of the USSR. Recorded in Moscow, 1962.
“I see the people as a single great personality inspired by one definite idea. That was my task, that was what I wanted to bring out in my opera”, said Mussorgsky of Boris Godunov. The revolutionary idea of Boris Godunov is clearly brought out in the brilliant scene of the people’s revolt (the final scene, “At Kromy”). The mighty song of the rebellious people comes as a burst of indignation against Tsar Boris and his “offsprings” whom the people hold reponsible for all their misfortunes. The idea of composing an opera after Pushkin’s historical tragedy waz suggested to Mussorgsky by his friend and admirer V. Nikolsky, a specialist in history of the Russian language. Thet was in 1868. By this time Mussorgsky’s realistic talent and interest in the life of the people had already become apparent. He accepted the idea of writing a historical opera with enthusiasm. He was absorbed in study of the historical material of the epoch. V. Stasov aided him in finding the texts of folk songs and supplied him with the information drawn from various historical sources. The opera was staged in Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre on December 16, 1888. |
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ID: MELCD1001401
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Vocal and Piano
The great Russian bass Eugene Nesterenko sings Mussorgsky’s timeless song cycles. Possibly the greatest cycles for the bass voice ever composed, Nesterenko gives full blooded Russian performances. He is joined by pianist Vladimir Ktaninev.
1, 15 - Text by Modest Mussorgsky
2 - Text by Aleksey Koltsov
3 - Text by Nikolai Nekrasov
4 - Text by Alexander Strugovshchikov
5 - 14 - Text by Arseny Golenishchev-Kutuzov |
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ID: MELCD1002100
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Instrumental
Subcollection: Piano
Firma Melodiya presents a solo album of Ekaterina Mechetina, a wonderful Russian pianist of the new generation.
A graduate of the Moscow Conservatory where she studied under associate professor Vladimir Ovchinnikov and professor Sergey Dorensky, and a laureate of the Youth Prize “Triumph” and seven prestigious international competitions, Ekaterina Mechetina began to conquer the musical Olympus at a very early age.
The young pianist’s first concert took place when she was ten. Her pianistic gift was acknowledged by some of the great masters of 20th century music art. So, Rodion Shchedrin entrusted her with the world premiere of his sixth piano concert after he heard her for the first time; Mstislav Rosropovich invited her to perform with the orchestra he conducted. Ekaterina Mechetina has won the audiences of some of the world’s best venues. Today, the pianist plays over sixty concerts annually performing at some of the largest concert hall. Her repertoire includes about fifty piano concertos and dozens of solo programmes. She has worked with outstanding soloists, conductors, symphony and choir collectives of Russia and other countries. The pianist’s perfect mastery, bright creative individuality and amazing artistic charisma have won the hearts of listeners around the world. On this album, Ekaterina Mechetina appears as an inspired interpreter of Russian classical piano music. Apart from one of then greatest cycles of Russian music of the 19th century which is Modest Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, it also includes eight of the études-tableaux from Rachmaninoff’s Op. 33 and two virtuosic pieces by Tchaikovsky - Dumka and Theme with Variations.
Mussorgsky:
Pictures at an Exhibition (piano version)
Rachmaninov:
Études-Tableaux, Op. 33 (extracts)
Tchaikovsky:
Theme & Variations (No. 6 from Morceaux (6), Op. 19)
Dumka (Russian Rustic Scene), Op. 59
Ekaterina Mechetina (piano) |
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ID: MELCD1002164
CDs: 5
Type: CD
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Collection: Opera and Ballet
Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra
Soloists: Galina Vishnevskaya, Irina Arkhipova, Elena Obraztsova, Tamara Sinyavskaya, Sergey Lemeshev, Ivan Kozlovsky, Vladimir Atlantov, Alexander Pirogov, Mark Reizen, Evgeny Nesterenko
Nikolai Golovanov, Samuil Samosud, Alexander Melik-Pashayev, Evgeny Svetlanov, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Yuri Fayer, Mark Ermler, Alexander Lazarev
Firma Melodiya presents a unique set of recordings by soloists of the USSR Bolshoi Theatre - outstanding singers who performed on the main stage of this country during 1945 to 1990.
They call it the golden age of the Bolshoi not for nothing.
The first music theatre of the country attracted undiverted attention of not just millions of spectators and listeners (getting a ticket to the Bolshoi was almost an impracticable task for a “common Soviet citizen”). The supreme leadership of the Soviet Union watched the life of the theatre as closely as real music lovers did. Nearly all the premieres took place under the sign of “special responsibility”. The theatre recruited the best artistic forces from all over the country, and in the post-war period there still were those who got their education and started their careers even before the revolution keeping the continuity of the old tradition of the Imperial Bolshoi Theatre.
Galina Vishnevskaya, Irina Arkhipova, Elena Obraztsova, Tamara Sinyavskaya, Sergey Lemeshev, Ivan Kozlovsky, Vladimir Atlantov, Alexander Pirogov, Mark Reizen, Evgeny Nesterenko are just some of 30 soloists featured in this set. They are accompanied by the Bolshoi Orchestra lead by various conductors such as Nikolai Golovanov, Samuil Samosud, Alexander Melik-Pashayev, Evgeny Svetlanov, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Yuri Fayer, Mark Ermler, Alexander Lazarev and others. Each of them made a valuable contribution to the treasury of Russian music culture of the 20th century.
The set includes fragments from Russian classical opera and ballet repertoire of the 19th and 20th centuries, and some of the most popular foreign operas and ballets staged at the Bolshoi |
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