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S. Prokofiev - Semyon Kotko, Opera in Five acts, Op. 81

S. Prokofiev - Semyon Kotko, Opera in Five acts, Op. 81
ID: MELCD1002120
Disk: 3
Type: CD
Kolekce: Opera CollectionPodkolekce: Opera

Soloists: Nikolai Gres, Tamara Yanko, Tamara Antipova, Nikolai Panchekhin, Antonina Kleshchyova, Lyudmila Gelovani, Gennady Troitsky, Daniil Demianov, Nikolai Timchenko, Mikhail Kiselyov, Tatiana Tugarinova, Mechislav Shchavinski, Leonid Neverov, Vladimir Zakharov, Boris Dobrin, Miroslav Markov, Nikolai Brilling, Antonina Savosina, Tamara Medvedeva, Nina Kulagina, Alexander Tikhonov, Ivan Kartavenko, Alexei Stepanov, Georgy Ostrovsky

All-Union Radio Choir, All-Union Symphony Orchestra, Mikhail Zhukov


Firma Melodiya presents a recording of one of Sergey Prokofiev’s least frequently performed operas, Semyon Kotko. It was the first opera Prokofiev composed after he returned to the Soviet Union. It took him a long time to find a source for the plot. “I wanted to have living people with their passions, love, hate, joy and sorrow naturally ensuing from the new conditions”, the composer remembered. Prokofiev eventually chose a novel titled “I, Son of Working People” by Valentin Katayev who agreed to rework it into an opera libretto. Vsevolod Meyerhold, a director, old friend and companion, was supposed to stage the new opera but he fell victim to the Stalinist terror.

The opera was premiered in 1940 in Moscow and, as was the case with other outstanding works of that time, was a great success with the public and severely criticized ‘from above’. Even today, bright and figurative music of Semyon Kotko, with its genuinely Gogol-esque humour and genre scenes from everyday life of a Ukrainian village, neat descriptions of the characters, passionate dramatism and monumental chorus scenes, cannot leave a keen listener indifferent.

The opera Semyon Kotko was recorded in 1960 by soloists of the Moscow opera theatres and the All-Union Radio Choir and Orchestra conducted by Mikhail Zhukov. This remarkable musician was taught by Nikolai Golovanov and Konstantin Stanislavsky. The latter acknowledged Zhukov as an “exemplary music director who was able to decrypt the life of human spirit hidden in the score and explain it to an actor”. Zhukov conducted at the premiere of Semyon Kotko at the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre, and its recording became the conductor’s last work.
39.00 eur Temporarily out of stock

Michael Nyman - OPERA

Michael Nyman - OPERA
ID: MNRCD203
Disk: 4
Type: CD
Podkolekce: Opera

This box set contains CDs that are also available separately from MN Records.

Man and Boy: Dada - an opera in two acts
Love Counts - an opera in two acts

MNRCD101-2 Man and Boy: Dada - an opera in two acts
MNRCD111-2 Love Counts - an opera in two acts

MAN AND BOY: DADA
An Opera in two acts composed by Michael Nyman
Libretto: Michael Hastings
The generously packaged, slip cased 2-CD set contains a full colour 44-page booklet with complete libretto.

Man and Boy: Dada is the first in a triptych of chamber operas written by Nyman with librettist Michael Hastings. It tells the story of the unlikely friendships between the ageing Dadaist artist Kurt Schwitters, who is exiled in war-torn London; a 12-year-old boy called Michael, who shares the artist's obsession with collecting London Transport bus tickets; and Michael's mother, widowed by the war. The recording reunites the cast from the UK premiere performance at the Almeida Theatre in July 2004 - tenor John Graham Hall as Schwitters, William Sheldon as the boy, and soprano Vivian Tierney as the boy's mother. Paul McGrath conducts the Michael Nyman Band.

LOVE COUNTS
An Opera in two acts composed by Michael Nyman
Libretto: Michael Hastings
The generously packaged, slip cased 2-CD set contains a full colour 44-page booklet with complete libretto.

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.
41.00 eur Buy

Bellini - Operas - Bonynge, Viotti, Olmi, Licata, Campanella (10 CD Set)

Bellini - Operas - Bonynge, Viotti, Olmi, Licata, Campanella (10 CD Set)
ID: BRIL92461
Disk: 10
Type: CD
Kolekce: Opera CollectionPodkolekce: Opera

60.00 eur Buy

Tony Palmer's Films for The South Bank Show

Tony Palmer's Films for The South Bank Show
ID: TPDVDBOX2
Disk: 11
Type: DVD
Podkolekce: Biography Movie

Region Code: NTSC color broadcast system : Plays in all territories

DVD1: TPDVD102 - Henryck Gorecki - The Symphony of Sorrowful Songs
DVD2: TPDVD103 - Maria Callas - La Divina - A Portrait
DVD3: TPDVD112 - Malcolm Arnold - Toward The Unknown Region
DVD4: TPDVD113 - William Walton - At The Haunted End of the Day
DVD5: TPDVD116 - Berlioz - I, Berlioz
DVD6: TPDVD123 - Michael Crawford - The Fantastic World of Michael Crawford
DVD7: TPDVD124 - Margot - story of Margot Fonteyn
DVD8: TPDVD125 - Benjamin Britten - A Time There Was...
DVD9: TPDVD126 - Stravinsky - Once, at a Border...
DVD10: TPDVD158 - John Adams - Hail Bop! A Portrait of John Adams
DVD11: TPDVD159 - Renee Fleming - Miss Renee Fleming


Melvyn Bragg has run The South Bank Show for over 30 years, producing in all over 250 films. Sadly, ITV has now decided to axe the show, so to celebrate the final season of The South Bank Show, a brilliant collection of Tony Palmer's films made for The South Bank Show is being released in a special commemorative boxset.
The eleven films include the Italia Prize-winning definitive portraits of Benjamin Britten, William Walton and Maria Callas; the New York Film & TV Festival Gold medal winners about Stravinsky, Margot Fonteyn and Malcolm Arnold; and the controversial films about Gorecki, John Adams and Berlioz. Films about the great American soprano Renée Fleming and the original 'Phantom of the Opera' Michael Crawford complete the package.
As Bragg says: "Palmer's films for me have been one of the highlights of every season since we began."
115.00 eur Buy

 
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