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Opera Collection, page 11

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Robert Saxton - The Wandering Jew - BBC Symphony Orchestra - de Ridder

Robert Saxton - The Wandering Jew - BBC Symphony Orchestra - de Ridder
ID: NMCD170
CDs: 2
Type: CD
Collection:
Opera Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra

The Cast:
Roderick Williams, baritone · Tim Mirfin, baritone
Teresa Cahill, soprano · Hilary Summers, mezzo-soprano
Louise Winter, mezzo-soprano · Jeffrey Lloyd Roberts, tenor
Brindley Sherratt, bass · Graeme Danby, bass
Jeremy White, bass
Actors: Simon Paisley Day · Jennie Stoller
Lydia Kalian · Rudi Goodman
BBC Symphony Orchestra
BBC Singers
André de Ridder, conductor

Roderick Williams (Wandering Jew), Tim Mirfin (Jesus/Beggar), Teresa Cahill (Widowed Mother), Hilary Summers (Fortune Teller), Louise Winter (Kundry), Jeffrey Lloyd Roberts (Faust), Brindley Sherratt (Mephistopheles), Graeme Danby (Odin), Jeremy White (Old Man)


Robert Saxton’s long-awaited radio opera, commissioned by the BBC, is a modernist take on the tale of the Wandering Jew - the shoe-mender condemned by Jesus to wander the Earth until the Second Coming after he refused to help him on his way to his Crucifixion. The opera introduces many legendary characters, following medieval and other myths, including Faust, Mephistopheles, Kundry and Wotan. Underneath its surface lies a structure relating to the annual cycle of Jewish and Christian festivals in eight scenes of sweeping orchestral and choral music, enhanced by studio post-production from Antony Pitts.
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Judith Weir - A Night at the Chinese Opera

Judith Weir - A Night at the Chinese Opera
ID: NMCD060
CDs: 2
Type: CD
Collection:
Opera Collection
Subcollection: Opéra

Judith Weir's colourful tale of 14th-century China is by turns comic, melodramatic and tragic. Set during the invasion of China by Genghis Khan, it tells the story of orphaned Chao Lin.
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John Casken: Golem - an opera

John Casken: Golem - an opera
ID: NMCD113
CDs: 2
Type: CD
Collection:
Opera Collection
Subcollection: Opéra

John Casken's powerfully moving opera Golem, winner of the first Britten Award for Composition, is reissued in NMC's Ancora series.

This recording was originally released on Virgin Classics.
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B. Ferneyhough: Shadowtime, opera

B. Ferneyhough: Shadowtime, opera
ID: NMCD123
CDs: 2
Type: CD
Collection:
Opera Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra

Described as a "thought opera", Brian Ferneyhough's Shadowtime sets Charles Bernstein's inventive and complex libretto based on the work, life and imagined death of philosopher and cultural critic Walter Benjamin: it includes a movement for a speaking pianist - Opus contra naturam, the opera's fourth scene - a guitar concerto (Scene II) and ends in an ethereal haze of voices and electronics, Stelae for Failed Time. The performers are all internationally known for their commitment to contemporary music.

Shadowtime is an opera told in seven scenes across 2 CDs and a little over 2 hours of complex and fascinating music. Described as a "thought opera", it is based on the work and life of Walter Benjamin, one of the greatest philosophers and cultural critics of the twentieth century.
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Gerald Barry - The Intelligence Park

Gerald Barry - The Intelligence Park
ID: NMCD122
CDs: 2
Type: CD
Collection:
Opera Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra

The Intelligence Park, recorded in the 1990 Almeida Opera production and setting Vincent Deane's libretto of 18th-century Dublin, explores the relationship between an opera composer and the increasingly independent life of the characters he has created.

Set in 1753, (although the music is not fashioned on that of the era) the story is an old-fashioned ‘opera-seria’ on the subject of conflict between head and heart, duty and inclincation, based around a composer who falls in love with a castrato.
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Davies, Maxwell: Taverner

Davies, Maxwell: Taverner
ID: NMCD157
CDs: 2
Type: CD
Collection:
Opera Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Chamber Ensemble

Significant concert activity planned to mark Sir Peter Maxwell Davies 75th birthday in 2009, including concert performances of Taverner in November by BBC SSO (UK).
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies was appointed Master of the Queen’s Music in 2004.
Maxwell Davies and Harrison Birtwistle studied together at the Royal Northern College of Music where they founded the contemporary music touring ensemble the Pierrot Players (later renamed The Fires of London).
Maxwell Davies Lives in Sanday in the Orkney Islands which are located off the northern tip of Scotland where the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean meet. Orkney is an archipelago of 70 or so islands; just 21 of them are inhabited.
This is Peter Maxwell Davies’ first release on the NMC label. To mark Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’s 75th birthday NMC issue the long-awaited release of his seminal opera, Taverner.
This release is of the landmark 1997 BBC recording featuring an astonishing line up of the cream of British contemporary music interpreters, alongside specialist period instrument ensembles Fretwork and His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts, conducted by Oliver Knussen. Although what is now known about the 16th-century English composer John Taverner differs considerably from the plot of this opera, the piece is both a fascinating study of an artist as a man for all seasons and an extraordinary indictment of the horrors inflicted on humanity by religion, or religious zealotry.
The Taverner of the opera abandons music to become a persecutor of the Catholic faith and thus betrays all that is good in himself. In Act 1 we see him being tried for heresy by the White Abbot and pardoned by the Cardinal (Wolsey) because of his music. In Act 2, which is a parody of the first, Taverner is trying the White Abbot, who is burned at the stake. That is the bare outline. A sub-plot is Henry VIII’s wish for a break with Rome in order to divorce Catherine of Aragon and the machinations of a Jester, otherwise Death, who controls Taverner’s fate.
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L. FRANCESCONI - Ballata

L. FRANCESCONI - Ballata
ID: STR57012
CDs: 2
Type: CD
Subcollection: Opéra

A new chapter in the Ricordi Oggi series, the collection that enacts the strong partnership between Stradivarius and the prestigious Casa Ricordi publishing house.
This world première recording is dedicated to Luca Francesconi and his Ballata, a two-act opera whose libretto, by Umberto Fiori, is based upon S. T. Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Francesconi confirms his particular confidence for large-scale musical thought, rather than merely show a flair for illustrative brilliance.
"Coleridge’s Mariner confronts a natural world that is implacably adverse, one that [...] remains magnificently indifferent to its needs. To respond to that requires a sense of pacing, of large-scale dynamic proportion, that must prevail over any proclivity to exuberant detail.[...] That sense of scale [...] is everywhere in Francesconi’s recent work. [...] Fiori’s fine libretto is so constructed as to allow for the enchained series of numbers that are integral to that form of dramaturgy, because they pace the opera’s progress through a sequence of images and actions whose synopsis could be presented in a few, trite sentences, but whose power and resonance can only be felt when worked through at the slow, remorseless pace common to Francesconi’s opera, and Coleridge’s poem” David Osmond-Smith, liner notes.

Thanos Adamopoulos, concertmaster
Renato Balsadonna, chorus- master
28.00 eur Temporarily out of stock

G. PUCCINI - La BOHÈME

G. PUCCINI - La BOHÈME
ID: AQVR405-2
CDs: 2
Type: CD
Collection:
Opera Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra

Opera in four acts
Libretto by L. Illica and G. Giacosa based on «Scènes de la vie de Bohème» by H. Murger

Rodolfo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ivan Kozlovsky
Mimì . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Elizaveta Shumskaya
Marcello . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ivan Burlak
Musetta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alexandra Yakovenko
Colline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alexei Korolev
Schaunard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alexander Tikhonov
Benoit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Daniil Demyanov
Parpignol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sergei Fomichev
Alcindoro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gennady Troitsky
Sergente dei doganieri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Boris Dobrin
Una Ragazza . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tatiana Vorobieva
Recorded in 1955

Bonus tracks
15. E.Shumskaya (Mimí), I.Kozlovsky (Rodolfo), Andrei Ivanov (Marcello), K. Terekhin (Schaunard), V. Malyshev (Colline)
16. (Ivan Kozlovsky, Andrei Ivanov) 4:37
Orchestra of the Bolshoi theatre, conductor - Samuil Samosud
Recorded in 1950
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G. Rossini - La Cenerentola - Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra - Onissim Bron, coductor

G. Rossini - La Cenerentola - Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra - Onissim Bron, coductor
ID: AQVR135-2
CDs: 2
Type: CD
Collection:
Opera Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra

Complete version
28.00 eur Buy

Tchaikovsky - Tcherevichki - Choir and the Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre - A. Melik-Pashaev

Tchaikovsky - Tcherevichki - Choir and the Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre - A. Melik-Pashaev
ID: AQVR176-2
CDs: 2
Type: CD
Collection:
Opera Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra

Complete version.
Comic-fantastic opera in four acts
Recorded in 1948

VAKULA, A BLACKSMITH- Georgy NELEPP, tenor
SOLOKHA, VAKULA'S MOTHER, A WITCH - Elizaveta ANTONOVA, mezzo-soprano
A DEVIL FROM THE STOVE - Alexei IVANOV, baritone
CHUB, AN ELDERLY COSSACK- Maxim MIKHAILOV, bass
OKSANA, CHUB'S DAUGHTER - Elena KRUGLIKOVA, soprano
PAN GOLOVA, THE VILLAGE HEAD - Sergei KRASOVSKY, bass
PANAS - Fyodor GODOVKIN, tenor
DEACON - Alexander PEREGUDOV, tenor
HIS HIGHNESS - Andrei IVANOV, baritone
CATHERINE II - Olga INSAROVA, mezzo-soprano
MASTER OF CEREMONIES - Ivan IONOV, bass
SENTRY - Veniamin SHEVTSOV, tenor
AN OLD ZAPOROZHIAN COSSACK - Ivan SIPAEV, bass
FOREST SPRITE (LESHIY) - Mikhail SKAZIN, baritone
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