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ID: MELCD1001775
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection: Opera Collection
Subcollection: Opera
The Prince - Ivan Kozlovsky, tenor
The Princess - Veronika Borisenko, mezzo-soprano
The Miller - Alexei Krivchenya, bass
Natasha, his daughter, later a Rusalka - Evgenia Smolenskaya, soprano
Olga - Margarita Miglau, soprano
Matchmaker - Ivan Skobtsov, baritone
Little Rusalka, 12 years old non singing - Vera Tumanova |
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ID: MELCD1002432
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection: Opera & Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Opera
Recorded in 2015
Firma Melodiya presents a recording of Leonid Desyatnikov’s opera The Children of Rosenthal.
It wouldn’t be an overstatement to say that the premiere of the opera (2005, staged by Eimuntas Nekrošius) became one of the most significant events of Russian musical culture of the 21st century. It was the first time when the Bolshoi Theatre commissioned a new opera from a contemporary composer. The “experiment,” a result of collaboration between Leonid Desyatnikov and writer Vladimir Sorokin, left a bright footmark in the history of the country’s major music theatre.
The composer has showed his worth in very different academic genres - opera, ballet, symphony, concerto and chamber music, and yet his style can hardly be defined and arbitrarily forced into a Procrustean bed of stylistic designations unless the composer doesn’t mind the term “post-modernism.”
The renowned music critic Alexander Matusevich named the opera a “musical and stage realization of the ideas of modern culture.” It’s a story of five great composers (Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, Tchaikovsky and Mussorgsky) cloned by German scientist Rosenthal who fled to the USSR. The composers find themselves amidst the social landscape of post-Soviet Russia. It’s a story that gives birth to a peculiar play upon styles without any direct citations and adoptions, but with numerous musical, dramatic and other analogies that are unmistakably recognizable by the listener and create a fanciful mosaic of senses with a pseudoironic implication.
The opera was recorded in 2015 by the soloists, choir and orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia led by Alexander Vedernikov, a chief conductor of the theatre in 2001 to 2009. |
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ID: DVD916
CDs: 1
Type: DVD
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Collection: Opera Collection
Subcollection: Opera
Region Code: Region 0, Plays in all territories
Color mode: Colour
Screen Format: 16:9
DVD Format: DVD 5
Duration: 65 mins
Subtitles: none
Sound Format: Dolby Digital Stereo |
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ID: CAP107
CDs: 2
Type: DVD
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Collection: Movies
Composer Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900) and librettist W. S. Gilbert (1836-1911)
Written and Presented by Sinon Butteriss
Producted and Directed by Tony Britten
Over five 30 minute episodes, produced in 2010 for Sky Arts, internationally renowned G&S performer and authority Simon Butteriss explores the topsy turvy world created by W.S Gilbert and so memorably set to music by Arthur Sullivan, through narration, specially filmed dramatic excerpts and conversations with devotees of G&S.
Contributors to the series include Michael Ball, Germaine Greer, Sir Nicholas Hytner, Dame Felicity Lott, Sir Charles Mackerras, Valerie Masterson and Sir Jonathan Miller. It contains archive extracts from performances at the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival in Buxton as well as over sixty staged extracts performed by well loved G&S stars: Victoria Byron, Bruce Graham, Gareth Jones, Charlotte Page, Jill Pert, Oliver White and, of course, Simon Butteriss himself. They are joined by a specially selected chorus and studio orchestra, conducted by Tony Britten, who also produced and directed the series.
Disc 1: Episode 1: If you want to know who we are
Episode 2: The very models of the modern major musical
Episode 3: Monarchs of all they Savoy
Episode 4: Night after night to the wicked Theayter
Episode 5: Deputy Deities (2h 30min)
Disc 2: Bonus Disc: A Salaried Wit - Grossmith, Gilbert and Sullivan (59 min)
Region Code: NTSC all regions
Screen (Picture) Format: 16:9
DVD Format: DVD 9 and DVD 5
Menu screens: English
Color mode: Colour
Sound Format: AC3 5.1, stereo
Duration: 5 x 30 min, 150 mins |
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ID: MNRCD121_122
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Opera
Track Listing:
Act 1
Prelude/Dogs drowning in sand
How do I know you know?
Lavater
Leonardo says
The size of the brain
Weigh the brain
Act 2
The theory of proportions
Stand up and be counted
Measure my body
Galton
Goya’s snub nose
Lombroso
And Goya cried
Act 3
Where is Goya?
The sequence of the gene
A man impaled
The risky gene
Mutation
Brilliant body
Take its DNA
Give me Goya’s skull
Tortured prisoner
Act 4
That day decided
We’ve cracked the genome
I wanted rid of it
And cloning is here to stay
How can you be so stupid?
Forgive me
Box Set includes Full Libretto and extensive booklet notes.
This three cd digipack and booklet box set includes a free bonus cd containing selections from Michael’s two other operas available on MN Records, Man and Boy: Dada and Love Counts
Facing Goya puts science on the cultural stage through the music of Michael Nyman and the inspiration of one of the world’s greatest painters.
Facing Goya is a taut thriller that follows one woman’s passionate search for the 18th Century Spanish artist Goya’s missing skull. Her journey takes us into the dangerous world of racial stereotyping, gene therapy, cloning and humankind’s follies as seen through Goya’s paintings, etchings and captions. The idea for the opera arose from Michael Nyman’s fascination with the insidious study of craniometry that developed in the 1870s. Goya was regarded as one of the greatest painters of his time. Buried in Bordeaux, legend has it that he asked friends to ensure his head was removed prior to burial to prevent the early craniometrists and researchers of eugenics from getting hold of his brain.
“Facing Goya asks the question ‘if Goya’s skull was found, and if indeed, Goya was cloned, what would happen?’” |
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ID: MNRCD111_112
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Opera
The tenth release on MN Records, and the second opera recording for the label, Love Counts is a love story between the unlikeliest of couples: Avril, a lecturer in mathematics at a major college who has divorced a man who physically abused her, and Patsy, a middle-weight fighter at the end of his career who cannot read or recognise numbers.
Michael Nyman uses Riemenschneider's collection of 371 Bach chorale harmonisations to help Patsy find his voice - they are harmonically fragmented, sped up, slowed down, overlaid with themselves. Just as Dr P, the Alzheimer's suffering protagonist of Nyman's The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat, has 'his' Schumann, so, in Love Counts, Patsy, a parallel sufferer, has 'his' Bach.
Award-winning writer Michael Hastings had previously worked with Nyman on the libretto for the opera Man and Boy: Dada, also available on MN Records.
Love Counts was commissioned by the Badisches Staatstheater, Karlesruhe, Germany and first performed there on 12th March 2005, directed by Robert Tannenbaum. This is a recording of the Almeida Theatre (London) production of Love Counts where it was performed in July 2006 by the Michael Nyman Band, bass baritone Andrew Slater and soprano Helen Williams, designed by Peter McKintosh and directed by Lindsay Posner. |
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ID: AV2200105
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection: Renaissance
Regie: Siegfried Wittlich
Hildegard Alex (Performer), Ursula Werner (Performer), Barbara Dittus (Performer) |
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ID: GM1.0072
CDs: 3
Type: CD
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Collection: Opera Collection
Subcollection: Opera
Wolfgang Windgassen (Lohengrin), Aase Nordmo-Lovberg (Elsa), Astrid Varnay (Ortrud), Gustav Neidlinger (Friedrich von Telramund), Theo Adam (König Heinrich), Eberhard Wächter (Der Heerrufer)
Orchestra & Chorus of the Bayreuth Festival, Lorin Maazel
Recorded live at the Bayreuth Festival in 1960 |
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ID: VLD136
CDs: 1
Type: DVD
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Collection: Opera Collection
Ferenc Erkel (1810-1893) was a Hungarian composer and is today regarded as the father of Hungarian grand opera. His opera ‘King Stephen’ was first performed in 1885 and is based on the life of Stephen, later St Stephen, first King of Hungary. Erkel also composed the music of "Himnusz", which has been the Hungarian National Anthem since 1844.
Artist: Simandy, Takacs, Horvath, Palc
Region Code: 0, Plays in all territories, PAL
Color mode: Colour
Screen (Picture) 4:3
Subtitles: Deutsch, English, Italien, France
Sound Format: Dolby Digaital
Time: 107 min |
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ID: VLD137
CDs: 1
Type: DVD
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Collection: Opera Collection
Ferenc Erkel (1810-1893) was a Hungarian composer and is today regarded as the father of Hungarian grand opera. His opera ‘King Stephen’ was first performed in 1885 and is based on the life of Stephen, later St Stephen, first King of Hungary. Erkel also composed the music of "Himnusz", which has been the Hungarian National Anthem since 1844.
Artists: Chorus and Orchestra of the Hungarian Radio, Lazlo Kovacs
Region Code: 0, Plays in all territories, NTSC
Color mode: Colour
Screen (Picture) 4:3
Subtitles: Deutsch, English
Sound Format: Dolby Digaital 5.0
Time: 96 min. |
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