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ID: MELCD1002344
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Type: CD
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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: MELCD1001472
CDs: 1
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Kolektion: Vocal CollectionSubkolektion: Voice and Choir
Alexander Lazarevich Lokshin (1920-1987) is one of the most talented and original composers of the 20th century. Having remained aloof from the confrontation between the various musical trends, which had erupted so acutely in the musical life of the former Soviet Union during the 1960s and 1970s - the rivalry between the radically avant-garde and the traditional-national trends, the composer was able to create his individual style, in which a contemporary musical language is combined with a foundation on traditions of the high art of the past. Emotional saturation, melodic abundance, harmonical and timbral expressivity, a compositionally-dramaturgical plasticity and freedom, as well as a structural unity - these are all qualities, due to which the music of Lokshin authoritatively attracts the listener to itself and could be recognized and remembered. Of the great conductors of our time, Rudolf Barshai is surely the one most closely associated with the contemporary composers whose music he conducts. He studied composition with Shostakovich discussed orchestration with Prokofiev, and established himself as a forceful advocate of the music of Alexander Lokshin. In 1955 Barshai has founded the Moscow Chamber Orchestra. It was he who first acquainted Russian audiences with Shostakovich’s Fourteenth Symphony, Weinberg’s Symphony No. 7 in C major for strings and harpsichord, Music for chamber orchestra of Sviridov.
(1 - 2) - Text by Johann Goethe, Boris Pasternak
(1 - 23) - Moscow Chamber Orchestra - Rudolf Barshai, conductor
(1 - 7) - Luydmila Sokolenko, soprano
(8 - 23) Nina Grigorieva, contralto
(16 - 23) Moscow Youth Choir- Boris Tevlin, conductor |
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ID: MELCD1002247
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Kolektion: Opera CollectionSubkolektion: Oper
Artur Eisen (Vaskov), Nina Grigorieva (Kirianova), Galina Borisova (Ovsyanina Rita), Olga Teryushnova (Komelkova Zhenya), Galina Kalinina (Brichkina Liza), Klara Kadinskaya (Gurvich Sonya), Lidiya Kovalyova (Yolkina), Kira Leonova (Maria), Eleonora Andreyeva (Polina), Vladimir Malchenko (Guitarist), Kirill Molchanov (piano), I. Orlova (organ)
Orchestra and Choir of the USSR Bolshoi Theatre, Alexander Lazarev
Firma Melodiya presents a recording of Kirill Molchanov’s opera The Dawns Here Are Quiet.
The composer of the opera attained his nationwide fame thanks to, first of all, his lyrical songs, which are now considered a golden repertoire for academic and popular singers alike (There Are So Many Golden Lights, No Hiding from People in the Village, Here Come the Soldiers, Heart, Be Quiet and many others).
Meanwhile, Kirill Molchanov wrote eight operas to his own librettos, ballets Macbeth and Three Cards, and music for theatre productions and motion pictures, including true gems of the domestic cinematograph (It Happened in Penkovo, On Seven Winds, We’ll Live Till Monday).
The opera is based on Boris Vasiliev’s short novel of the same name. It is a stirring story of a tragic demise of young female anti-aircraft gunners first published in 1969, which is still one of the most widely read books about the Great Patriotic War. In 1972, Stanislav Rostotsky’s famous film with music by Kirill Molchanov premiered in cinemas across the country.
The opera is composed in a simple and accessible language. However, Zhenya’s romance to the poem 'Wait for Me' by Konstantin Simonov is the most popular piece from the opera - without any direct link to the plot, this fragment is a generalized symbol of millions of people whose lives and feelings were cut short by the war.
This recording of the opera was made in 1976 by the artists, choir and orchestra of the USSR Bolshoi Theatre featuring leading soloists of the opera company - Galina Kalinina, Galina Borisova, Klara Kadinskaya, Artur Eisen and others. Conducted by Alexander Lazarev.
CD1 1. Here Comes the Night Over Sleepy Fields 2. Don't Feel Sorry for Us, for We Didn't Feel Sorry for Anyone 3. Day Was Breaking, Day Was Breaking in the Sky 4. O Warrior, You Live By Your Service... 5. My Loved One, My Prince, My Fiancé 6. Rita's Reminiscence 7. Ah, Crush My Immortality 8. The Girls Got Polina's Gramophone 9. Zhenya, Sing for Us 10. Wait for Me, and I'll Return 11. It's So Good, Isn't It, Girls? 12. Zhenya's Reminiscence 13. Sit Down, Comrade Sergeant Major 14. War, War, War, I'm Beaten By You 15. Watch Out, Take Care! 16. I Can't Make Contact With Them 17. I Married Exactly Before the Finnish War 18. Rita's Entrance 19. Alert 20. Assembly 21. Seeing the Girls Off CD 2 1. Introduction 2. On the Lake Shore 3. Scene of Vaskov and Liza 4. Liza's Reminiscence 5. Scene of Vaskov and Sonya 6. Sonya's Reminiscence 7. Germans Are Coming 8. Scene of the Girls and Vaskov and Liza's Departure 9. Liza's Demise 10. Chorus and Scene of the Girls and Vaskov 11. Sonya's Demise 12. Before the Fight 13. The Fight 14. Epilogue |
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