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ID: MELCD1001775
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Kolekce: Opera CollectionPodkolekce: Opera
The Prince - Ivan Kozlovsky, tenor
The Princess - Veronika Borisenko, mezzo-soprano
The Miller - Alexei Krivchenya, bass
Natasha, his daughter, later a Rusalka - Evgenia Smolenskaya, soprano
Olga - Margarita Miglau, soprano
Matchmaker - Ivan Skobtsov, baritone
Little Rusalka, 12 years old non singing - Vera Tumanova |
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ID: MELCD1002129
Disk: 2
Type: CD
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Kolekce: Opera CollectionPodkolekce: Choir and Orchestra
Soloists: Georgy Nelepp (Vakula), Elizaveta Antonova (Solokha), Andrei Ivanov (Devil), Maxim Mikhailov (Chub), Elena Kruglikova (Oksana), Sergei Krasovsky (Pan Golova), Fyodor Godovkin (Panas), Alexandr Peregudov (Schoolmaster), Olga Insarova (Tsarina), Alexei Ivanov (His Highness), I Ionov (Master of Ceremonies), Veniamin Shevtsov (Attendant), Ivan Sipayev ( Old Cossack), Mikhail Skazin (Wood Goblin)
Bolshoi Theatre Choir and Orchestra, Alexander Melik-Pashayev
Firma Melodiya presents a recording of a wonderful but now so rarely performed lyric and comic opera - Tchaikovsky’s Cherevichki.
The opera was initially named 'Vakula the Smith'. In 1874, Tchaikovsky won a competition announced by the Russian Music Society for the best opera to a libretto by Yakov Polonsky based on the famous story 'Christmas Eve' by Nikolai Gogol from his collection 'Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka'. However, Tchaikovsky was left displeased with his piece and reworked it in 1887. The opera was then staged at the Bolshoi Theatre, and the first night of Cherevichki became Tchaikovsky’s debut as a conductor.
Gogol was one of Tchaikovsky’s favourite authors. The composer liked to stay in the Ukraine, in his sister’s manor Kamenka. Tchaikovsky brought to life the characters from Gogol’s story, their lives, legends and emotions, with the help of folk tunes, dance rhythms and expressive lyric intonations. The opera also has a gallant intermezzo - the scene at St Petersburg court in the 18th century which also attracted the composer in a later opera, 'The Queen of Spades'.
This recording of Cherevichki was realized in the late 1940s by the Bolshoi troupe led by the outstanding conductor Alexander Melik-Pashayev and featured some of the best performers of the Bolshoi of the time, such as Elena Kruglikova, Elizaveta Antonova, Georgy Nelepp, Andrei Ivanov, Maxim Mikhailov and others. |
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ID: MELCD1002320
Disk: 6
Type: CD
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Kolekce: Orchestral WorksPodkolekce: Orchestr
Firma Melodiya presents a boxed set dedicated to the 75th anniversary of one of the outstanding contemporary Russian conductors, Dmitri Kitayenko.
“Today he can be undoubtedly considered one of the five or six best conductors of the world. This phenomenon is out of the ordinary”, Herbert von Karajan wrote about Kitayenko after the young Soviet conductor gave a brilliant performance at the international competition in Vienna, receiving the second prize and winning the hearts of the Viennese audience and media. Evgeny Svetlanov also greeted his younger colleague on the pages of the Soviet press as a talented and promising conductor.
A graduate of the Leningrad Conservatory who also completed a postgraduate course at the Moscow Conservatory and a training course at the Vienna Academy of Music, Dmitri Kitayenko had a brilliant start to his conducting career. From 1976 to 1990 he headed the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Moscow Philharmonic Society. Under his leadership the celebrated orchestra substantially expanded its repertoire and actively toured.
During recent decades, the conductor worked with the orchestras of Western Europe, Japan, South Korea and the United States and regularly recorded.
This 6 CD set includes recordings made by Dmitri Kitayenko in the studio and in the concert hall between 1975 and 1987 with the orchestra of the Moscow Philharmonic Society and the USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra. The repertoire included showcases the conductor’s stylistic diversity and highest mastery.
These recordings will be of interest to those who remembers Kitayenko’s performances of the past years and to a new generation of listeners as well.
Brahms -Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op. 45
Corelli -Suite for Strings
Donizetti - Miserere
Grieg - Holberg Suite, Op. 40
Prokofiev - Symphony No. 1 in D major, Op. 25 'Classical'
Puccini - Messa di Gloria
Rachmaninov - The Bells, Op. 35
Respighi - Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite No. 3, P. 172
Shostakovich - Symphony No. 10 in E minor, Op. 93
R. Strauss - Tanzsuite aus Klavierstücken von François Couperin
Tchaikovsky - Concert Fantasy, Op. 56
Choir of the Latvian Philharmonic Society, The State Republican A Yurlov Russian Choir, Latvian SSR State Academic Choir, Choir of the USSR Bolshoi Theatre, Dmitri Kitayenko |
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ID: MELCD1002359
Disk: 2
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Kolekce: Opera CollectionPodkolekce: Opera
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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