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ID: MELCD1002431 CDs: 10 Type: CD |
Collection: Symphony Subcollection: Voices and OrchestraDmitri Shostakovich’s creations constitute a musical chronicle of the epoch. What we hear in his music is something that continues to alarm minds and souls of millions of people. His fifteen symphonies captured not only the great musician’s evolution - as if the entire 20th century with its great discoveries and perturbations, unprecedented progress and terrifying catastrophes breathes in their scores. These are unique documents of human spirit that will stay with us for good to tell us about their time, to stir heated theoretical and aesthetic disputes, to give us a reason for very different interpretations, and to command our admiration or sharp rejection. Whatever the case may be, they will never find an indifferent listener.
Firma Melodiya is preparing a number of large-scale projects for the Shostakovich anniversary year. We present the first of them - a set of the composer’s symphonies performed by the greatest masters of the Soviet conducting school and brightest interpreters of Shostakovich’s music - Evgeny Mravinsky, Kirill Kondrashin, Evgeny Svetlanov and Gennady Rozhdestvensky. The set also includes recordings made by Konstantin Ivanov, a predecessor of Evgeny Svetlanov as chief conductor of the country’s principal orchestra - the USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra; Yuri Temirkanov, a successor of Evgeny Mravinsky, a great representative of the St. Petersburg conducting school; Rudolf Barshai, a founder of the first Soviet chamber orchestra and the one who inspired Shostakovich’s Fourteenth Symphony; and Maxim Shostakovich, the composer’s son who presented the world premiere of the last, Fifteenth Symphony.
The live and studio recordings of Shostakovich’s symphonies were made by Firma Melodiya from 1961 to 1984. The studio recording is peculiar for the fact it was realized shortly after the world premiere in the presence and under supervision of the composer. An unconfirmed legend among the former members of the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra has it that the recording was to be erased together with the other ones after Maxim Shostakovich defected from the Soviet Union. However, it survived among the Melodiya phonograms.
The edition comprises a lidded hard box made from lined cardboard, 9 digipacks and a thick hardcover booklet in English and Russian.
CD 1 - Symphonies Nos. 1-3
CD 2 - Symphony No. 4
CD 3 - Symphonies Nos. 5 - 6
CD 4 - Symphony No. 7
CD 5 - Symphony No. 8
CD 6 - Symphonies Nos. 9 - 10
CD 7, CD 8 - Symphonies Nos. 11 - 13
CD 9 - Symphony No. 14
CD 10 - Symphony No. 15 |
150.00 eur Temporarily out of stock |
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ID: AQVR382-2 CDs: 2 Type: CD |
Collection: Opera Collection Subcollection: Voices and OrchestraOpera in 5 acts. Libretto by V. Shirkov, K. Bakhturin and M. Glinka
with the assistance of N. Markevich, N. Kukolnik and M. Gedeonov,
based on A.Pushkin's poem of the same name
Ruslan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Victor Nechipailo
Lyudmila . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Galina Oleinichenko
Svetozar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mark Reshetin
Gorislava . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eugenia Smolenskaya
Ratmir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maria Mityukova
Farlaf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alexei Geleva
Finn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vladimir Petrov
Naina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vera Smirnova
Bayan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nikolai Timchenko
Choir and orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre
Conductor - Boris Khaikin
Recorded live at the Bolshoi theatre on December 20th, 1961
This premiere release of Glinka's «Ruslan and Lyudmila» is from one of the best productions of this opera. It was first performed for the stage of the Bolshoi Theatre in 1948 with direction by R. Zakharov, conducted by A. Melik-Pashaev and designed by the artist V.Dmitriev. In this radio broadcast from 1961, we have the opportunity of hearing some of the soloists who joined the Bolshoi Theatre during the 1950's - the dramatic baritone Victor Nechipailo, Galina Oleinichenko, Alexei Geleva, and Maria Mityukova. In addition, this recording also features one of the Bolshoi Theatre's best dramatic sopranos, Eugenia Smolenskaya, who performed on that stage from 1947. Due to staging constraints, this production of the opera was performed in an abridged version (for example the first scene from Act V was omitted). |
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