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ID: MELCD1002359
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Kolektion: Opera CollectionSubkolektion: Oper
Opera in three acts - Libretto by Luigi Illica, Giuseppe Giacosa
One of the most popular operas of the world repertoire, Tosca was finished in the last year of the 19th century. It was based on the French playwright Victorien Sardou’s drama written for Sarah Bernhardt. The premiere of the opera that took place in 1900 in Rome was not accepted with much enthusiasm, and only the performance at La Scala under Arturo Toscanini became a true triumph. The story of singer Floria Tosca and her beloved painter Mario Cavaradossi who fell victim to bloody despot Baron Scarpia on the background of the revolutionary events in Italy of the early 19th century is still able to move to the innermost of one’s heart as the heat of dramatic fervour is masterfully captured in the music. Numerous audio and video recordings of the opera featuring the world’s best singers and conductors were made in the previous century.
This recording was realized by the USSR Bolshoi Theatre in 1974. The celebrated internationally recognized soloists of the opera company of the 1970s Tamara Milashkina, Vladimir Atlantov, Yuri Mazurok and others perform the opera in the original language under the prominent conductor Mark Ermler.
Characters and performers:
Floria Tosca, a celebrated singer -Tamara Milashkina, soprano
Mario Cavaradossi, a painter -Vladimir Atlantov, tenor
Baron Scarpia, chief of police -Yuri Mazurok, baritone
Cesare Angelotti, former Consul of the Roman Republic - Valeri Yaroslavtsev, bass
Sacristan - Vitali Nartov, baritone
Spoletta, a police agent - Andrei Sokolov, tenor
Sciarrone, another agent - Vladimir Filippov, bass
A Jailer - Мikhail Shkaptsov, bass
A Shepherd boy - Alexander Pavlov, alto
Cardinal, scribe, soldiers, police agents, altar boys, noblemen and women, townsfolk, artisans
Choir and orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre - Conductor - Mark Ermler
Recorded in 1974. |
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ID: MELCD1002344
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Kolektion: Opera CollectionSubkolektion: Oper
Firma Melodiya presents an album with two rare operas of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - The Noblewoman Vera Sheloga and Mozart and Salieri.
Both of the one-act operas were written in the second half of the 1890s, in the period of the great Russian composer’s new heyday. Mozart and Salieri continued a peculiar tradition that was begun by Alexander Dargomyzhsky in The Stone Guest, a musical incarnation of Alexander Pushkin’s Little Tragedies. Similar to its predecessor, Rimsky-Korsakov did not change anything in Pushkin’s text turning the opera into a continuous dialogue of two characters. The citation from Mozart’s Requiem wonderfully fits into the musical development of the opera that is based on a striking contrast between the descriptions of the symbolically generalized figures - the Genius and the Envious One.
The Noblewoman Vera Sheloga emerged as an addition (prologue) to Rimsky Korsakov’s opera The Maid of Pskov that he worked on in those years. The scale and certain independence of this musical and dramatic picture that tells a story of secret love between the young Ivan the Terrible and a young boyarynia, as well as the difference in the author’s musical style that evolved over twenty years of his artistic career, induced him publish The Noblewoman Vera Sheloga as an individual work.
Rimsky-Korsakov’s operas were recorded in 1986 by the company of the USSR Bolshoi Theatre led by the prominent conductor Mark Ermler starring Tamara Milashkina, Nina Grigorieva, Evgeny Nesterenko, Alexander Fedin and other leading soloists of the theatre.
Characters and performers:
Mozart - Alexander Fedin, tenor
Salieri - Evgeny Nesterenko, bass
A blind fiddler
S. Girshenko, violin solo
V. Chasovennaya, piano
The USSR State Choir conducted by I. Agafonnikov
The Orchestra of the USSR StateAcademic Bolshoi Theatre
Conductor - Mark Ermler
Recorded in 1986.
Characters and performers:
Boyar Ivan Semyonovich Sheloga -Vladimir Karimov, bass
Vera Dmitriyevna, his wife - Tamara Milashkina, soprano
Nadezhda Nasonova, Vera’s sister -Olga Teryushnova, mezzo-soprano
Prince Yuri Ivanovich Tokmakov -Vladimir Karimov, bass
Vlasyevna, Nadezhda’s nurse -Nina Grigorieva, contralto
The Orchestra of the USSR StateAcademic Bolshoi Theatre
Conductor - Mark Ermler
Recorded in 1985. |
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ID: MELCD1002361
CDs: 6
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Kolektion: Russischen RomanzenSubkolektion: Voices
Recorded in 1962, 1963, 1967, 1969,
1971, 1972, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1983,
1986, 1990.
Firma Melodiya presents a complete collection of romances and songs by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky timed to the great Russian composer’s 175th anniversary.
“As a matter of fact, poetry and music are so close to each other,” Tchaikovsky wrote to Nadezhda von Meck. Chamber vocal music has a very special place
in the extensive legacy of the composer who was a symphonist of genius, a creator of operatic and ballet masterpieces, and a prominent master of the concerto genre. It accompanied Tchaikovsky throughout his artistic life being his “lyrical diary” and at the same time an creative laboratory where he sought for and found images for his very different works. The 17-year-old student of the Imperial School of Jurisprudence started off his composing career with
timid attempts to set poetic texts to music. In the romances of Op. 6, the composer appears as a mature master, while the numerous vocal pieces of the 1870s anticipate the artistic imagery and musical drama of Eugene Onegin. Op. 73, the composer’s last chamber vocal work, which immediately preceded the writing of the Sixth Symphony (Pathétique), is surprisingly similar to the symphony in terms of images and emotions. The set features all of the composer’s 103 romances for voice and piano, including rare cycles such as 16
Songs for Children, Op. 54, and 6 romances after French poets, Op. 65. The recordings were made on Firma Melodiya in the 1960s to 1980s as part of
a grandiose project of complete recorded collection of Tchaikovsky’s works. It involved the talents of the best Soviet vocalists such as Zara Dolukhanova, Irina
Arkhipova, Elena Obraztsova, Tamara Milashkina, Sergei Lemeshev, Ivan Petrov, Yuri Mazurok, Muslim Magomaev and other singers/soloists of the USSR Bolshoi Theatre and All-Union Radio. |
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ID: IMLCD154
CDs: 1
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Kolektion: Vocal and Opera CollectionSubkolektion: Voices and Orchestra
Valery Malishev, bass (1-20)
Tamara Milashkina, soprano (20)
Irina Golovneva, piano (1)
Olga Slepnyova, piano (8, 15)
Eugeny Shenderovich, piano (2-7, 9-14, 16-18)
Orchestra of the State Kirov Opera and Ballet Theatre - Gennady Provatorov (19-20) |
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ID: IMLCD155
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Kolektion: Songs from RussiaSubkolektion: Vocal and Piano
Seven romances by Rachmaninov.
Russian folk songs.
Opera arias (Borodin, Rachmaninov, Rimsky-Korsakov)
Valery Malishev, bass (1 - 22)
Tamara Milashkina, soprano (20)
Eugeny Shenderovich, piano (1-7)
Russian Folk Instruments Orchestra - George Doniyakh (10-14, 18) and Avenir Mikhailov (15-16)
Leningrad Radio and TV Chorus - Grigory Sandler (17)
Kirov Opera and Ballet Theatre Orchestra - Gennady Provatorov (19-20)
Leningrad Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra - Nikolai Rabinovich (21-22) |
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ID: AQVR202-2
CDs: 2
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Kolektion: Opera CollectionSubkolektion: Voices and Orchestra
Complete version
Choirmaster: K.Ptitsa.
Opera in four acts
Libretto by Pyotr Tchaikovsky after the same named tragedy by Ivan Lazhechnikov
Prince Zhemchuzhny Evgeny Vladimirov (bass)
Natalia, his daughter Tamara Milashkina (soprano)
Molchan Mit’kov, betrothed of Natalia Vladimir Matorin (bass)
Boyarynia Morozova, widow Larisa Nikitina (mezzo-soprano)
Andrei Morozov, her son Lev Kuznetsov (tenor)
Basmanov, young oprichnik Raisa Kotova (mezzo-soprano)
Prince Vyazminsky Oleg Klyonov (baritone)
Zakharyevna, the nurse of Natalia Nina Derbina (mezzo-soprano)
People, oprichniks, servant-girls, Zhemchuzhny’s servants - soloists of Moscow musical theatres, children's choir
The Great academic choir of the Central Television and the All-Union Radio
Artistic Director - Clavdii Ptitsa
The Symphony orchestra of the Central Television and the All-Union Radio
Conductor - Gennady Provatorov |
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