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ID: IMLCD137
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Vocal and Opera Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra
Orchestra of the USSR "Bolshoy Theatre" - Kirill Kondrashin, (1-2) Leo Steinberg (4-5) Alexander Melik-Pashayev (3,8-9) Orchestra of the USSR Radio Committe - Alexander Orlov (12-14)
Matvey Sakharov, piano (15) |
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ID: MELCD1001630
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Ballet Music
Subcollection: Orchestra
Conductor - Algis Zhuraytis (tracks: 14 to 22), Gennady Rozhdestvensky (tracks: 1 to 13) |
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ID: MELCD1001860
CDs: 5
Type: CD
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Collection: Great Performers
Subcollection: Piano and Cello
The International Tchaikovsky Competition symbolises the prestige of world class art and is a true apotheosis of Russian culture. These are the Competition’s first-ever releases featuring the gold winners in each of the four disciplines. Listeners will appreciate exquisite performances by genius musicians.
CD 1 - V. Cliburn, piano / CD 2 - J. Marsh, soprano / CD 3 - V. Atlantov, tenor / CD 4 - V. Klimov, violin / CD 5 - N. Shakhovskaya, cello /
Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57 'Appassionata' (Rec.1958) - Van Cliburn (piano)
Bizet - La fleur que tu m'avais jetée (from Carmen) - (Rec.1966) - Vladimir Atlantov (tenor) / Bolshoi Theater Orchestra, Mark Ermler
Borodin -Medlenno den ugasal (Slowly the day has faded) (from Prince Igor) (Rec.1966) -Vladimir Atlantov (tenor) / Bolshoi Theater Orchestra, Mark Ermler
Brahms -Cello Sonata No. 1 In E Minor, Op. 38 -(Rec.1982) -Natalia Shakhovskaya (cello), A Amentaeva (piano)
A. Gurilyov - Monotonously Rings the Little Bell -(Rec.1973)- Vladimir Atlantov (tenor) / State Academic Bolshoi Theatre Sextet
Haydn - Cello Concerto No. 1 in C major, Hob. VIIb:1 -(Rec.1969) -Natalia Shakhovskaya (cello) /
Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Maxim Shostakovich
Leoncavallo - Recitar!...Vesti la giubba (from I Pagliacci) - (Rec.1966) - Vladimir Atlantov (tenor) / Bolshoi Theater Orchestra, Mark Ermler
Liszt- Liebestraum, S541 No. 3 (Nocturne in A flat major) - (Rec.1958) - Van Cliburn (piano)
Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 -(Rec.1967) -Valery Klimov (violin) / USSR State Symphony Orchestra, Maxim Shostakovich
Mozart - Ach, ich fühl's (from Die Zauberflöte, K620) -(Rec.1966) -Jane Marsh (soprano) / Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, Mark Ermler
Nápravník - I tak, vse koncheno, sud'boy neumolimoy (So, everything, is over) (from Dubrovsky, Op. 58) - (Rec.1966) - Vladimir Atlantov (tenor) / Bolshoi Theater Orchestra, Mark Ermler
Puccini - Tu che di gel sei cinta (from Turandot) - (Rec.1966) - Jane Marsh (soprano) / Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, Mark Ermler
Puccini - E lucevan le stelle (from Tosca) - (Rec.1973) - Vladimir Atlantov (tenor) / Bolshoi Theater Orchestra, Mark Ermler
A. Sheremetiev - Ya vas ljubil (I Loved You) -(Rec.1973) -Vladimir Atlantov (tenor) / State Academic Bolshoi Theatre Sextet
Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23 -(Rec.1958) - Van Cliburn (piano) / Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Kirill Kondrashin
Tchaikovsky - Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35 - (Rec.1977) -Valery Klimov (violin) / Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Dmitri Kitayenko
Tchaikovsky - Zabït tak skoro (So soon forgotten) - (Rec.1966) - Jane Marsh (soprano), L Farr (piano)
Tchaikovsky - Puskay pogibnu ya 'Tatiana's Letter Scene' (from Eugene Onegin) -(Rec.1966) - Jane Marsh (soprano) / USSR State Symphony Orchestra, Boris Haikin
Tchaikovsky - Den' li tsarit? (Does the day reign?), Op. 47 No. 6 - (Rec.1972) - Vladimir Atlantov (tenor), Farida Khalilova (piano)
Tchaikovsky - None but the lonely heart, Op. 6 No. 6 - (Rec.1972) - Vladimir Atlantov (tenor), Farida Khalilova (piano)
Tchaikovsky - Serenada Don-Zhuana (Don Juan's Serenade), Op. 38 No. 1 -(Rec.1971) -Vladimir Atlantov (tenor), Farida Khalilova (piano)
Tchaikovsky - Zakatilos solntse (The sun has set), Op. 73 No. 4 - (Rec.1971) - Vladimir Atlantov (tenor), Farida Khalilova (piano)
Tchaikovsky - Forgive me, loveliest of creatures (from Pique Dame) - (Rec.1966) - Vladimir Atlantov (tenor) /Bolshoi Theater Orchestra, Mark Ermler
Tchaikovsky - Chto nasha zhizn’? Igra! (The Queen of Spades) - (Rec.1966) -Vladimir Atlantov (tenor) /
Bolshoi Theater Orchestra, Mark Ermler
Tchaikovsky - Forgive me, loveliest of creatures (from Pique Dame) - (Rec.1966) -Vladimir Atlantov (tenor) / USSR State Symphony Orchestra, Boris Haikin
Verdi - Mia madre aveva...Piangea cantando...Ave Maria (from Otello) - (Rec.1966) -Jane Marsh (soprano) / Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, Mark Ermler
Verdi - Giá nella notte densa (from Otello) - (Rec.1966) - Vladimir Atlantov (tenor), Jane Marsh (soprano) / USSR State Symphony Orchestra, Boris Haikin
Verdi - Se quel guerrier io fossi!…Celeste Aida (from Aida) - (Rec.1966) - Vladimir Atlantov (tenor) /
Bolshoi Theater Orchestra, Mark Ermler / USSR State Symphony Orchestra, Boris Haikin
Total time: 277.57 |
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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: MELCD1002299
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Vocal and Opera Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra
Firma Melodiya presents a jubilee release of one of the most distinguished singers of modern times - Elena Obraztsova.
Obraztsova has sung at the world’s best opera and concert houses. Her operatic heroines are known and loved by millions of listeners on different continents. She has worked with the greatest opera directors, conductors and soloists. However, the singer still considers the Bolshoi Theatre her principal operatic home, where she debuted as Marina Mniszech in Boris Godunov more than fifty years ago.
That was the time of the Bolshoi’s golden cohort, when Obraztsova’s voice and dramatic gift shone among the other outstanding representatives of Soviet music art. That was an era of the Bolshoi’s first international triumphs when the young singer, along with the other new soloists of the troupe, was receiving rousing welcomes during the tours of Italy and the United States. That was an era when the perennial traditions existed in harmony with the spirit of newness introduced by the younger artists and the experience shared with foreign peers.
The release features fragments of Russian and foreign operas which make up just a portion of Elena Obraztsova’s extensive repertoire. Still, they largely convey the main features of her performing individuality, her mastery of musical dramatic transformation making us recognize the singer’s voice on recordings from different years.
The music by Donizetti, Verdi, Saint-Saens, Bizet, Massenet, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov and Mussorgsky is performed to the accompaniment of the USSR Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra conducted by the outstanding maestros Boris Khaikin, Odyssey Dimitriadi, Algis Žiūraitis and Mark Ermler.
Bizet -L'amour est un oiseau rebelle 'Habanera' (from Carmen)
Donizetti -O mio Fernando (from La Favorita)
Massenet - Va! Laisse couler mes larmes (from Werther)
Mussorgsky - Marfa's Prophecy (from Khovanshchina) / Skushno Marina! (from Boris Godunov)
Rimsky Korsakov - Kashcheevna's Scene (from Kashchey the Immortal)
Lioubasha's aria (from The Tsar's Bride)
Lel's Third Song (from The Snow Maiden)
All night I have waited for him in vain (from Sadko)
Saint-Saëns - Amour, viens aider ma faiblesse (Samson et Dalila)
Tchaikovsky - Da, chas nastal! (from Joan of Arc)
Podrugi milyye (from The Queen of Spades)
Countess's Scene (from Pique Dame)
Verdi - O don fatale (from Don Carlo)
Stride la vampa (from Il Trovatore) |
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ID: MELCD1002345
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Vocal and Opera Collection
"There were just a few names in domestic variety art that were able to rival the popularity of Muslim Magomayev whose delightful baritone, high artistry and sincere generosity have conquered more than one generation of listeners. The range of his capabilities is exceptional - from opera to musical, from Neapolitan songs to vocal works of Azerbaijani and Russian composers,” wrote musicologist Sviatoslav Belza in the preface to the singer’s book Melody, My Love.
For his art, the boundaries between the “high” and “low” genres seemed conditional and insignificant like never before - each of the pieces he sang was so near, in Magomayev style, the listeners’ hearts.
“Any operatic aria, any song he sang is always an expected miracle,” said Robert Rozhdestvensky, a poet and the singer’s fan and friend.
For many years, staying a great vocal master who was always true to himself, Muslim Magomayev successfully combined performances in the operatic genre with variety concerts. A soloist of the Azerbaijani Theatre of Opera and Ballet, he took a training course at La Scala and performed on many of the operatic stages of the former USSR but rejected (what a rare instance!) the invitation to join the company of the Bolshoi Theatre realizing the colossal responsibility that step would have entailed. He could not and did not want to sacrifice his versatility and openness, his contact with a huge audience, his concert, studio, acting and composing career even on such a resplendent operatic altar.
His recordings of Russian and foreign classical operatic music made in 1964 together with his friend and associate, outstanding Azerbaijani composer and conductor Niyazi Tagizade Hajibeyov sound today as fresh and impressive as they did then. Magomayev’s art of musical and dramatic transformation is striking, and the way he handles it is could make even the most distinguished operatic artists jealous. His sparkling and ever cheerful Figaro (that role in The Barber of Seville was his touchstone at La Scala) and Don Juan reveling in the might of his masculine magnetism; his Onegin, noble and somewhat listless but still sympathizing with the victim of girlish infatuation, and Prince Igor absorbed in gloomy thoughts whose soul is directed towards his beloved spouse; his Mefistofele inspiring with awe and despising human fears, bright and spectacular Escamillo, Rigoletto so terrifying in his despair… All his roles are marked with deep humanness making the listener empathize with each of the characters as though responding to the calling from the prologue to Pagliacci. Magomayev was one of the first Soviet artists who sang in the original language, but even that circumstance did not create a language barrier between him and his audience.
The arias from the classical operas Shah Ismayil by Muslim Magomayev-Sr and Koroghlu by Uzeyir Hajibeyov, Azerbaijani composers and founders of national academic music, are of particular interest indeed. These bright musical pages also found an outstanding interpreter in Magomayev.
“I always miss him and look forward to seeing him again, look forward to hearing and seeing what this remarkable talent carries to his numerous admirers,” actor Innokenty Smoktunovsky once wrote about Muslim Magomayev.
People will definitely look forward to new meeting with him today and many years from now as they will listen to the recordings of his favourite Mario Lanza, Maria Callas, Tito Gobbi and Frank Sinatra. Those who gave themselves unreservedly to their listeners, music and art.
Bizet:
Votre toast je peux vous le rendre 'Toreador Song' (from Carmen)
Leoncavallo:
Si può? (from I Pagliacci)
Verdi:
Vanne, la tua meta gia vedo…Credo in un Dio crudel (from Otello)
Muslim Magomayev (baritone) |
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ID: MELCD1002349
CDs: 10
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Piano and Orchestra
BOX set
Firma Melodiya presents a boxed set titled “International Tchaikovsky Competition. Phonographic Documents (1958-1986)”.
The first ever Soviet music tournament instantly became one of the world’s most prestigious competitions. The piano jury was chaired by Emil Gilels for many years, while David Oistrakh and Mstislav Rostropovich headed the violin and cello juries, respectively. Alexander Sveshnikov, an outstanding choirmaster and chancellor of the Moscow Conservatory, was a chairman of the vocal jury. For the fifty years of its existence, the Tchaikovsky Competition discovered numerous distinguished performers such as Van Cliburn, Vladimir Ashkenasi, Grigory Sokolov, Eliso Virsaladze, John Lill, Michail Pletnev, Viktor Tretiakov, Gidon Kremer, Vladimir Spivakov, Oleg Kagan, Natalia Gutman, Elena Obraztsova, Maria Gulegina, Vladimir Atlantov, Yevgeny Nesterenko and Paata Burchuladze to name but a few. The set captures the brightest moments of eight Tchaikovsky Competitions in all categories. The recordings, including a number of never-before-released ones, were made immediately during the competition auditions
and at the prize-winners’ recitals. The release is dedicated to the 175th anniversary of the great Russian composer. |
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ID: MKM106
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Great Performers
Subcollection: Opera
Recorded in 1978 |
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ID: MKM191
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: West European Masterpieces
Subcollection: Popular Classical Music Melodies
1, 5 - Staatskapelle Dresden, Herbert Blomstedt, conductor
2 - Maria Makarova, organ
3 - Lina Mktrchyan, contralto
4, 6 - Mikhail Pletnev, piano
7, 12, 14 - A. Shirinsky, violin
8 - Orchestra of "New Opera" theatre , Evgeni Kolobov, conductor, Soloist: M. Nekrasova
9, 18 - Dmitri Alexeev, piano
10 - Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Veronika Dudarova, conductor
11 - Nikolai Petrov, piano
13, 15, 17 - Small Symphony Orchestra, G. Chalmeau, conductor
16 - Ambrosian Choir and Orchestra, Riccardo Muti, conductor
19 - Orchestra of "La Scala" theatre, L. Maazel, conductor |
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