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World music CD DVD shop and Classic distribution
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ID: MELCD1002126 (EAN: 4600317121267) | 1 CD | ADD Released in: 2013
- LABEL:
- Melodiya
- Collection:
- Opera Collection
- Subcollection:
- Voices and Orchestra
- Composers:
- BUTSKO, Yuri
- Ensembles:
- Big Symphony Orchestra of All-Union Radio and Television
- Conductors:
- ROZHDESTVENSKY, Gennady
- Other info:
Galina Pisarenko (Nastenka) & Anatoly Mishchevsky (The Dreamer)
“The best traditions of domestic music culture live on in Yuri Butsko’s deeply national music,” wrote Music in the USSR magazine.
When a student of the Moscow Conservatory, Butsko composed the opera Diary of a Mad Man after Nikolai Gogol (1963) which subsequently became generally recognized. Firma Melodiya presents a recording of Yuri Butsko’s opera White Nights based on a novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
Giving his opera a subtitle “sentimental”, the composer emphasized its lyric and intimate orientation as if continuing the line of Tchaikovsky’s “lyric scenes”. Moreover, White Nights is a chamber opera where the events are given through a lyric narration and the monologues of its two characters Nastenka and Dreamer who is in love with her create a basis of the dramatic concept. Following Mussorgsky’s and Prokofiev’s traditions, the composer preserved Dostoyevsky’s original prosaic text revealing a peculiar poetic musicality of the great writer’s early romantic novel.
White Nights was premiered in Dresden in 1968 to a great success, however it has never been staged in this country.
The recording was made by Gennady Rozhdestvensky, a recognized interpreter of 20th century music, and the All-Union Radio Big Symphony Orchestra in 1973 with the participation of Galina Pisarenko and Anatoly Mishchevsky, People’s Artists of the RSFSR and soloists of the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre.
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