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ID: MELCD1002344 (EAN: 4600317423446) | 1 CD | ADD Released in: 2015
- LABEL:
- Melodiya
- Collection:
- Opera Collection
- Subcollection:
- Opera
- Composers:
- RIMSKY-KORSAKOV, Nikolay Andreyevich
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Interprets:
- CHASOVENNAYA, V. (piano) | FEDIN, Alexander (tenor) | GIRSHENKO, S. (violin) | GRIGORIEVA, Nina (contralto) | KARIMOV, Vladimir (bass) | MILASHKINA, Tamara (soprano) | NESTERENKO, Eugene (bass) | TERYUSHNOVA, Olga (mezzo-soprano)
- Ensembles:
- State Academic Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre | USSR State Choir
- Conductors:
- AGAFONNIKOV, Igor
- Other info:
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.
| RIMSKY-KORSAKOV, Nikolay Andreyevich (1844-1908) | | | A room | | | 1. | Some people say: there is no right on earth / Salieri | 7:54 | | | 2. | Aha! You saw me! / Mozart, Salieri | 1:48 | | | 3. | And you can laugh? / Salieri, Mozart | 2:00 | | | 4. | Picture… well, whom should you? / Mozart | 3:24 | | | 5. | You were bringing this to me and could just stop and listen at some inn / Salieri, Mozart | 2:06 | | | 6. | No, I cannot withstand it any longer / Salieri | 5:47 | | | Scene 2 - A special room at an inn; a piano | | | 7. | You seem a little down today / Salieri, Mozart | 2:10 | | | 8. | About three weeks ago, I came back home / Mozart, Salieri | 2:17 | | | 9. | Enough! What is this childish terror? / Salieri, Mozart | 3:15 | | | 10. | Mozart's Requiem / Choir | 1:30 | | | 11. | You weep? / Mozart, Salieri | 1:23 | | | 12. | The world could not exist / Mozart | 1:41 | | | 13. | You will sleep for long, Mozart / Salieri | 2:13 | | | The Noblewoman Vera Sheloga, a musical and dramatic prologue to Lev Mey's drama The Maid of Pskov, Op. 54 | | | 14. | Overture | 4:59 | | | Prologue. Scene 1 | | | 15. | These pearls are so beautiful, milady / Vlasyevna, Nadezhda | 5:58 | | | 16. | Lullaby Bye baby, bye baby, bye my Olenka / Vera | 3:07 | | | Scene 2 | | | 17. | Olenka fell asleep to your song? / Nadezhda, Vera | 6:34 | | | 18. | I got married against my will… Then I got used to it… (Vera's story) / Vera, Nadezhda | 4:43 | | | 19. | How did you survive! It scares me when you speak / Nadezhda, Vera | 4:27 | | | 20. | I woke up at night in my bed / Vera, Nadezhda | 4:36 | | | Scene 3 | | | 21. | Did you expect dear guests? / Boyar Sheloga, Vera, Nadezhda | 1:50 | | | Total time | |
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