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A. Rubinstein - The Demon - Opera in Three Acts

A. Rubinstein - The Demon - Opera in Three Acts
ID: MELCD1002102
CDs: 2
Type: CD
Collection:
Opera Collection
Subcollection: Choir and Orchestra

Firma Melodiya presents a recording of Anton Rubinstein’s opera The Demon. This wonderful work, which was inspired with the poem of the same name by Mikhail Lermontov and then inspired the likes of Mikhail Vrubel and Feodor Chaliapin, became a milestone in the history of music theatre. Unfortunately, the opera was almost forgotten by the public and musicians, and only a few of its fragments were widely known. It is only lately that Russian and foreign opera houses have been showing a new interest in it.

Rubinstein finished the opera in 1871. One of the greatest pianists of the 19th century nicknamed “tsar of the stage”, a composer and conductor, the founder of the first ever Russian conservatory in St Petersburg, he stood at the summit of glory and in full possession of his composing mastery.

The Demon combined traditions of Russian and West European music art and did justice to the colour of Caucasus. The opera was a great success with the public and accepted enthusiastically even by the composers of The Five, Rubinstein’s ideological 'opponents'. “A superb artist”, wrote Modest Mussorgsky in a letter to Vladimir Stasov.

Of all recorded versions of The Demon, we offer the one realized in 1974 by the soloists, choir and orchestra of the All-Union Radio lead by the outstanding maestro Boris Khaikin. Alexander Polyakov, a young bass-baritone and future soloist of the Bolshoi Theatre performed the main part. Nina Lebedeva, a Bolshoi soloist and remarkable performer of Russian and foreign operatic repertoire sang the part of Tamara. Alexei Usmanov (tenor), a soloist of the All-Union Radio, performed the part of Sinodal.


Alexander Polyakov (Demon), Nina Lebedeva (Tamara), Evgeny Vladimirov (Gudal), Alexey Usmanov (Sinodal), Nina Grigorieva (Nanny), Nina Derbina (Angel), Yury Elnikov (Messenger), Boris Morozov (Old Servant)

Academic Choir of the USSR All-Union Radio, USSR State Radio Symphony Orchestra, Boris Khaikin
29.00 eur Temporarily out of stock

Mozart - Don Giovanni (complete opera)

Mozart - Don Giovanni (complete opera)
ID: OPD7080
CDs: 3
Type: CD
Subcollection: Opéra

Live performance, Rome, May 12, 1970. Features original artwork by Rafal Olbinski, re-mastered sound, and 76-page booklet with historic photos. Complete Italian-English libretto newly translated for this release, with an extensive essay on the history and interpretation of the opera. Don Giovanni is commonly considered Mozart’s finest opera, and is often nominated by connoisseurs as the greatest of all operas. The music is of the highest quality throughout; there is hardly a number from beginning to end that is not memorable in some way. And although there are facets of the story that have sparked ongoing controversy, the wide spectrum of its humanity is paramount.
Featured Artists Nicolai Ghiaurov, Gundula Janowitz, Alfredo Kraus, Sena Jurinac, Sesto Bruscantini: vocal soloists RAI Symphony Orchestra & Chorus of Rome Carlo Maria Giulini: conductor
30.00 eur Temporarily out of stock

Facing Goya - an opera in four acts composed by Michael Nyman with libretto by Victoria Hardie

Facing Goya - an opera in four acts composed by Michael Nyman with libretto by Victoria Hardie
ID: MNRCD121_122
CDs: 2
Type: CD
Subcollection: Opéra

Track Listing:
Act 1
Prelude/Dogs drowning in sand
How do I know you know?
Lavater
Leonardo says
The size of the brain
Weigh the brain

Act 2
The theory of proportions
Stand up and be counted
Measure my body
Galton
Goya’s snub nose
Lombroso
And Goya cried

Act 3
Where is Goya?
The sequence of the gene
A man impaled
The risky gene
Mutation
Brilliant body
Take its DNA
Give me Goya’s skull
Tortured prisoner

Act 4
That day decided
We’ve cracked the genome
I wanted rid of it
And cloning is here to stay
How can you be so stupid?
Forgive me

Box Set includes Full Libretto and extensive booklet notes.

This three cd digipack and booklet box set includes a free bonus cd containing selections from Michael’s two other operas available on MN Records, Man and Boy: Dada and Love Counts

Facing Goya puts science on the cultural stage through the music of Michael Nyman and the inspiration of one of the world’s greatest painters.

Facing Goya is a taut thriller that follows one woman’s passionate search for the 18th Century Spanish artist Goya’s missing skull. Her journey takes us into the dangerous world of racial stereotyping, gene therapy, cloning and humankind’s follies as seen through Goya’s paintings, etchings and captions. The idea for the opera arose from Michael Nyman’s fascination with the insidious study of craniometry that developed in the 1870s. Goya was regarded as one of the greatest painters of his time. Buried in Bordeaux, legend has it that he asked friends to ensure his head was removed prior to burial to prevent the early craniometrists and researchers of eugenics from getting hold of his brain.

“Facing Goya asks the question ‘if Goya’s skull was found, and if indeed, Goya was cloned, what would happen?’”
32.00 eur Buy

Michael Nyman - An opera in two acts (Libretto by Michael Hastings)

Michael Nyman - An opera in two acts (Libretto by Michael Hastings)
ID: MNRCD111_112
CDs: 2
Type: CD
Subcollection: Opéra

The tenth release on MN Records, and the second opera recording for the label, Love Counts is a love story between the unlikeliest of couples: Avril, a lecturer in mathematics at a major college who has divorced a man who physically abused her, and Patsy, a middle-weight fighter at the end of his career who cannot read or recognise numbers.

Michael Nyman uses Riemenschneider's collection of 371 Bach chorale harmonisations to help Patsy find his voice - they are harmonically fragmented, sped up, slowed down, overlaid with themselves. Just as Dr P, the Alzheimer's suffering protagonist of Nyman's The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat, has 'his' Schumann, so, in Love Counts, Patsy, a parallel sufferer, has 'his' Bach.

Award-winning writer Michael Hastings had previously worked with Nyman on the libretto for the opera Man and Boy: Dada, also available on MN Records.

Love Counts was commissioned by the Badisches Staatstheater, Karlesruhe, Germany and first performed there on 12th March 2005, directed by Robert Tannenbaum. This is a recording of the Almeida Theatre (London) production of Love Counts where it was performed in July 2006 by the Michael Nyman Band, bass baritone Andrew Slater and soprano Helen Williams, designed by Peter McKintosh and directed by Lindsay Posner.
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Mussorgsky - Boris Godunov - Choir and the Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre - N. Golovanov

Mussorgsky - Boris Godunov - Choir and the Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre - N. Golovanov
ID: AQVR177-2
CDs: 3
Type: CD
Collection:
Opera Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra

Musical Drama in 4 acts and prologue
Libretto by M.Mussorgsky after drama of Alexander Pushkin and the chronicle of Nikolai Karamzin
Version revised by N.Rimsky-Korsakov

Boris Godounoff . . . . . . . . . . . . Mark REIZEN, bass
Ksenia, his daughter. . . . . . . . . . . Elizaveta SHUMSKAYA, soprano
Tsarievitch Fiodor Borissovich . . . . . . Bronislava ZLATOGOROVA, contralto
Ksenia's nurse . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yevgenia VERBITZKAYA, contralto
Boyar Vassily Shuisky . . . . . . . . . Nikandr KHANAEV, tenor
Tschelkalov, clerk of Duma . . . . . . . Ilya BOGDANOV, baryton
Pimen, chronicler, hermit . . . . . . . . Maxim MIKHAILOV, bass
Gregory Otrepiev, false-Dimitri. . . . . . . . Georgy NELEPP, tenor
Marina Mniszek, daugter of Sandomir's Voievode . . Maria MAKSAKOVA, mezzo-soprano
Varlaam, pilgrim . . . . . . . . . . . . Vassily LOUBENTZOV, bass
Missail, pilgrim . . . . . . . . . . . . Vassily YAKOUSHENKO, tenor
Hostess of a tavern . . . . . . . . . Alexandra TOURTCHINA, mezzo-soprano
Yurodivy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ivan KOZLOVSKY, tenor
Police-officer . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sergei KRASSOVSKY, bass
Khroustschov, boyar of Duma. . . . . . . Alexander PEREGOUDOV, tenor
Mitioukha, peasant . . . . . . . . . . . Ivan SYPAEV, baryton-bass

Chorus & orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow
Conductor: Nikolai GOLOVANOV
Recorded in Moscow, March 1948.


BONUS TRACKS:
Mark REIZEN in scenes of Pimen and Varlaam
Varlaam- M. REIZEN, bass / Hostess -Y. VERBITZKAYA, contralto / Missail- V. SHEVTZOV, tenor / Gregory -G. NELEPP, tenor / Police Officer- S. KRASSOVSKY, bass / Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra - Vasily NEBOLSIN (1951)

ACT 1 Scene 1. The Monastery cell of Pimen near Moscow
Pimen: M.REIZEN, bass /Gregory - G. NELEPP, tenor /Choir & orchestra of Bolshoi Theatre - Vasily NEBOLSIN (1953)


Pavel JOURAVLENKO, Varlaam
ACT 1 Scene 2. Scene at the Inn, at Lithuanian frontier
Varlaam - Pavel JOURAVLENKO, bass / Hostess - Ksenia KOMISSAROVA, mezzo-soprano / Missail - Alexander GONTAREV, tenor / Gregory - Mikhail KROUTYAKOV, tenor / Police Officer - Andrew ATLANTOV, bass / Theatre S.Kirov’s Orchestra - Edouard GRYGOROV (1947)
35.00 eur Buy

Tchaikovsky - Enchantress - Choir of the USSR Radio- S.Samossud

Tchaikovsky - Enchantress - Choir of the USSR Radio- S.Samossud
ID: AQVR179-2
CDs: 3
Type: CD
Collection:
Opera Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra

Complete version

Opera in four acts. Libretto by I. Shpazhinsky after his tragic story of the same name.

Prince Nikita Danilitch Kourlatieff - Mikhaïl KISSELIOFF, baryton
Grand-duc du Gouvernement de Novgorad
Princesse Yevpraksia Romanovna, son épouse - Vieronika BORISSENKO, mezzo-soprano
Prince Youri Nikititch, leur fils - Georgy NELEPP, ténor dramatique
Nastassya, surnommée Kouma, aubergiste - Natalya SOKOLOVA, soprano lyrique
Mamyroff, un vieux diacre - Aleksei KOROLEV, baryton-basse
Niénila, sa soeur. Femme de chambre de la Princesse -Anna MATIOUCHINA, mezzo-soprano
Ivan Jouran, Valet du Prince Nikita - Mikhaïl SKAZIN, baryton-basse
Foka, Oncle de Nastassya - Anatoly TIKHONOFF, baryton
Polya, une amie de Nastassya - Varvara GRADOVA, soprano
Balakin, un habitué venant de Novgorad - Sergueï SLADKOPEVTZEFF, ténor comprimario
Potap, un jeune gars - Levon KHATCHATOUROFF, baryton-basse
Loukach, autre jeune gars - Alexei Usmanov, ténor
Kitchiga, un pugiliste de foire - Guennadi TROITSKY, basse
Païssi, moine vagabond à peau noire - Pavel PONTRYAGUIN, ténor comprimario
Koudma, un sorcier - Pavel KOROBKOV, baryton

Choeurs de la Radio d'URSS
Philharmonie d'Etat de Moscou dirigés par Samouïl SAMOSSOUD
Moscou, Janvier 1954

BONUS:
Vladimir SLIVINSKIY - baritone
Eleonora ANDREYEVA - soprano
Aleksey IVANOV - baritone
Evgenia SMOLENSKAYA, soprano
Natalia SHPILLER, soprano
35.00 eur Temporarily out of stock

Glinka: Ruslan and Lyudmila (complete opera, original version)

Glinka: Ruslan and Lyudmila (complete opera, original version)
ID: PTC5186034
CDs: 3
Type: SACD
Collection:
Opera Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra

Multichannel Hybrid SACD - DSD

Taras Shtonda - bass-baritone
Ekaterina Morozova - soprano
Vadim Lynkovsky - bass
Aleksandra Durseneva - contralto
Vitaly Paniflov - tenor
Maria Gavrilova - soprano
Valery Gilmanov - bass
Maksim Paster - tenor
Irina Dolzhenko - mezzo-soprano

Chorus and Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow • Alexander Vedernikov - conductor
35.00 eur Buy

Rimsky-Korsakov - Snegurochka (Snow Maiden). Spring Fairy Tale. - Bolshoi Theatre Choir and Orchestra -K. Kondrashin

Rimsky-Korsakov - Snegurochka (Snow Maiden). Spring Fairy Tale. - Bolshoi Theatre Choir and Orchestra -K. Kondrashin
ID: VVCD-00180-3
CDs: 3
Type: CD
Collection:
Opera Collection
Subcollection: Opéra

Libretto by N. Rimsky-Korsakov after A.Ostrovsky
First performance - January 29 (February 10) 1882 at the Mariinsky Theatre in St.-Petersburg.
Вolshoi Theatre Choir and Orchestra. Conductor: Kirill Kondrashin
CAST:
Tsar Berendei - Sergei Lemeshev, tenor
Snegurochka - Irina Maslennikova, soprano
Lell (Sheppard) - Maria Maxakova
Mizgir - Alexei Ivanov
Spring - Nadezhda Obukhova
Bobyl-Vakoula - V. Shevtsov
Bobylikha - M.Levina
Bermyata - S. Krasovsky
Ded-Moroz (Father Frost) - Maxim Mikhailov
Leshy - F. Godovkin
Maslenitsa - M.Skazkin, bass
Kupava - S.Panova

Recording: 1952
There are no recordings of the following: 1) Tsar Berendei Cavatina from the Act 3; 2) Scene of Lell, Kupava and Snegurochka; 3) part of the Snegurochka and Mizgir duet from the Act 4.
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Rimsky-Korsakov - Snow Maiden - (A Spring fairy-tale)

Rimsky-Korsakov - Snow Maiden - (A Spring fairy-tale)
ID: AQVR268-2
CDs: 3
Type: CD
Collection:
Opera Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra

A Spring fairy-tale
Libretto by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov after the piece of Alexander Ostrovsky

Tsar Berendei - Sergey Lemeshev
Bermyata - Sergey Krassovsky
Beautiful Spring - Nadezhda Obukhova
Father Christmas - Maxim Mikhailov
Snow-Maiden - Irina Maslennikova
Lel', shepherd - Maria Maksakova
Kupava - Sofia Panova
Mizgir - Alexey Ivanov

Choir & orchestra of Bolshoi theatre, USSR. Conductor: Kirill Kondrashin
Recorded in 1946
35.00 eur Buy

Mussorgsky - "Khovanshchina" - Choir and Orchestra of the Bolshoi theatre - V. Nebolsin

Mussorgsky - "Khovanshchina" - Choir and Orchestra of the Bolshoi theatre - V. Nebolsin
ID: AQVR370-2
CDs: 3
Type: CD
Collection:
Opera Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra

GPT - Gramplasttrest
Ivan Khovansky - Vassily Lubentsov (4, 11), Marfa - Maria Maksakova (5, 6, 15), Shaklovity - Alexei Ivanov (7, 8), Scribe - Dmitriy Marchenkov (10),
Kuzka - Sergei Koltypin (10), Andrei Khovansky, Dosifei - artists unknown (15)
Choir and Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre. Conductor - Lev Steinberg. Chorus Master - Max Cooper
Recorded in 1939 (4, 9-11, 13, 14), 1940 (5-8, 12, 15)


National historic music drama in five acts (six scenes)
Libretto by Modest Mussorgsky, edition by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Prince Ivan Khovansky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ALEXEI KRIVCHENYA
Prince Andrei Khovansky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GRIGORI BOLSHAKOV
Prince Vassily Golitsyn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NIKANDR KHANAEV
Dosifei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MARK REIZEN
Marfa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MARIA MAKSAKOVA
Boyar Shaklovity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ALEXEI IVANOV
Pastor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SERGEI KRASSOVSKY
Scribe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TIKHON TCHERNYAKOV
Emma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NADEZHDA KOSITSYNA
Varsonofiev, Golitsyn's confidant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . VSEVOLOD TYUTYUNNIK
Kuzka, strelyets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MIKHAIL SKAZIN
1st Strelyets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SERGEI KOLTYPIN
2nd Strelyets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LEONID KTITOROV
Streshnev, a young herald . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ALEXEI BOLSHAKOV
Choir and Orchestra of the Bolshoi theatre - Conductor - Vassily Nebolsin
Choirmaster - Alexander Rybnov. Stage Orchestra - Conductor - Sergei Gosatchinsky. Recorded 1953

Bonus: “Khovanshchina” at the Bolshoi theatre in 1939. The complete collection
of the surviving fragments of this recording. Conductor - Lev Steinberg.
Artists - V. Lubentsov M. Maksakova, Al. Ivanov, D. Marchenkov, S. Koltypin
35.00 eur Buy

 
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