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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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ID: MELCD1002319
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Russian Romance
Subcollection: Vocal and Piano
Firma Melodiya presents an album of classical Russian romances performed by Elena Zaremba.
One of the best Russian mezzo-sopranos of her generation, the singer began her career at the Bolshoi Theatre of the USSR in the mid-1980s. She conquered the world of opera, performing at some of the best theatre and festival venues with Russian, Italian, French and German repertoire and taking part in productions with prominent soloists and conductors. Only recently has she turned to chamber vocal music for the first time.
Russian romance is a special genre demanding not only professional skills. Stage and life experience, a subtle sensation of music and poetry, complete understanding between a singer and an accompanist - all this is needed to fully grasp this sphere of vocal art. Elena Zaremba’s performances with chamber programmes confirm that romance is not respite from the operatic stage for her but a new step in her vocal and dramatic career.
The album covers a hundred years of the evolution of Russian romance - Glinka, Dargomyzhsky, Rubinstein, Cui, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Medtner.
This programme was born through collaboration with Antonina Kadobnova, a remarkable pianist and concertmaster. A prize-winner of international competitions, she is very active as both a solo performer and accompanist, performing with well-known and young vocalists.
These recordings of Russian romances were made by Elena Zaremba and Antonina Kadobnova in 2011.
Cui - The Fountain Statue at Tsarskoye Selo, Op. 57 No. 17
Dargomïzhsky - The Night Zephyr
Glinka - V krovi gorit ogon zhelania (The Fire of Longing Burns in My Heart)
Ja pomnu chudnoe mgnovenie (Oh, I recall that lovely moment)
Venetsianskaya noch
How sweet it is for me to be with you
K ney (To Her)
Medtner - Winterabend, Op. 13 No. 1
Rachmaninov - Morning, Op. 4 No. 2
I fell in love, to my sorrow, Op. 8 No. 4
Lilacs, Op. 21 No. 5
I await you, Op.14 No. 1
We shall rest, Op.26, No. 3
O, no, I beg you, do not leave, Op. 4 No. 1
She is as beautiful as midday, Op.14 No. 9
In the silence of the secret night, Op. 4 No. 3
Sing not, O lovely one (Ne poi, krasavitsa, pri mne), Op. 4 No. 4
Spring torrents, Op. 14 No.11
Rubinstein - Desire / Night
Tchaikovsky - The gypsy song, Op. 60, No. 7
O ditya, pod okoshkom tvoim (Serenade), Op. 63 No. 6
Sred' shumnogo bala (Amid the din of the ball), Op. 38 No. 3 |
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ID: NFPMA9930
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Piano
CD series “St. Petersburg Musical Archive”
“St. Petersburg Musical Archive” is a series dedicated to St. Petersburg’s 300th anniversary. Many of the works in this series will be CD premieres, and many of the recordings will introduce famous St. Petersburg musicians, composers and ensembles as well as new performing artists. The “St. Petersburg Musical Archive” series includes rediscovering forgotten works - both of the 19th and 20th centuries. |
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ID: PTC5186089
CDs: 1
Type: SACD
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Subcollection: Opera
Multichannel Hybrid SACD - DSD
Highlights of the Russian opera
During the eighteenth century, especially at the time of Catherine the Great, Russia enjoyed a lively opera life; however, it was not until the nineteenth century that the national Russian opera was created. Musical life at the court of the Czar was predominantly oriented towards the West and attracted, for example, many Italian composers to St. Petersburg. The works they wrote there were also mostly based on Italian libretti, and if a Russian opera was ever performed, it followed on musically in the tradition of the operas that could be heard in Naples, Milan or Vienna.
A slow change came about in this situation during the first half of the nineteenth century, after Russia also began to be influenced by the sense of nationhood which was spreading through great parts of Europe in that period. Furthermore, this was the time during which the well-to-do middle class began to participate increasingly in the cultural life, and therefore, it is not just a coincidence that the birth of the national Russian opera more or less concurred with the opening of the ‘Great’ or ‘Bolshoi’ Theatre in Moscow in 1825. |
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ID: RCD16030
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Russian Romance
Subcollection: Vocal and Piano
(1 - 25) - Aleksandrova, Elena (piano)
(26, 27) - Russian National Orchestra of named Osipov - Gnutov, Vitalij (conductor)
Arrangements:
Boris Shlyater (1-5, 15-22),
Rouzanna and Karina Lisitsian (6-14)
Vera Gorodovskaya (26-27)
Recordings: 1983 (1-10),1981 (11-14), 1988 (15-25), 1974 (26-27) |
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ID: RCD16033
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Russian Vocal School
Subcollection: Opera
Leonid Sobinov, tenor - (Sung in Russian)
Recorded in 1901 - 1911 |
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ID: RCD26001
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Russian Vocal School
Subcollection: Voice, Piano and Orchestra
2, 8 - Text by M. Lermontov / 4- Text by E. Diteriks / 6- Text by N.Grekov / 9- Text by K.Romanov / 10- Text by A. Plesheev / 12- Text by A. Apukhin / 13- Text by A. Strugovschikov (from Goethe) /
15- Text by Lebedev-Kumatch / 16- Text by A. Volodin / 17- Text by A. Shulgina / 18- Text by V. Maksimov |
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