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ID: MELCD1002212 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Vocal and Opera Collection Subcollection: Voices and OrchestraA strong voice, a bright dramatic gift, a passionate temperament, creative courage and a precise sense of a role - all these virtues are combined by the name of the unique opera singer Hibla Gerzmava, a People’s Artist of Russia and People’s Artist of the Republic of Abkhazia.
Hibla Gerzmava is an opera singer of a world scale, a remarkable actress and versatile musician. In 1994, she graduated from the Moscow Conservatory where she majored in solo singing under professors Irina Maslennikova and Evgenia Arefieva, and completed her post-graduate course under Maslennikova in 1996. Since 1995 Hibla has been a soloist of the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre in Moscow, debuting as Musetta in Puccini’s La bohème.
Today, the Russian prima donna is a guest star of the state opera houses of Vienna, Paris, Rome and Bavaria, and of the Metropolitan Opera and Royal Opera House in Covent Garden.
In 2001, Hibla Gerzmava was awarded the national theatre prize The Golden Mask and Casta Diva as the Best Singer for her Lucia in Donizetti’s 'Lucia di Lammermoor'. She is also an owner of the Moscow Prize in the field of literature and arts (2010) and Triumph Award (2011).
The distinguished violinist and conductor Vladimir Spivakov’s versatile talent has been vividly realized in many spheres of social life. In 1979, he co-founded the Moscow Virtuosi chamber orchestra with a group of musicians who shared his views and became its unchallenged artistic director, conductor and soloist. In 2003, Vladimir Spivakov became artistic director and principal conductor of the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia he created, and the president of the Moscow International House of Music.
On the initiative of Vladimir Spivakov, Hibla Gerzmava performed in Svetlanov Hall of the Moscow International House of Music on 14 October 2013, accompanied by the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia. 'Firma Melodiya' presents the program of the concert on this CD, which included both classic and less known Russian overtures, arias and scenes from operas by Mozart, Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti and Verdi.
Arsen Sogomonian, a soloist of the of the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre, and prize laureate of the Moscow International Competition 'Romansiada', also took part at the concert.
Bellini:
Ah! bello a me ritorna (from Norma)
Norma Overture
Donizetti:
Quanto amore (from L'elisir d'amore)
Regnava nel silenzio...Quando rapito in estasi (from Lucia di Lammermoor)
Mozart:
La clemenza di Tito, K621: Overture
Vesperae Solennes de Confessore, K339: Laudate Dominum
Rossini:
Largo al factotum (from Il barbiere di Siviglia)
Il barbiere di Siviglia Overture
Strauss, R:
Morgen, Op. 27 No. 4
Verdi:
Non so le tetre immagini (from Il Corsaro)
Desdemona rea (from Otello)
Mia madre aveva...Piangea cantando...Ave Maria (from Otello)
Hibla Gerzmava (soprano), Arsen Sogomonian (baritone)
Russian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Spivakov |
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ID: MELCD1002126 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Opera Collection Subcollection: Voices and OrchestraGalina 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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ID: AQVR404-2 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Vocal and Opera Collection Subcollection: Voices and OrchestraSoloists: Nadezhda Obukhova (4), Sergei Migai (6), Natalia Shpiller (soprano),
Maria Maksakova (mezzo-soprano), Bronislava Zlatogorova (contralto) (15)
The Great Symphony Orchestra of the All-Union Radio (1-5, 7, 9-14)
Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra (6, 8)
Choir and orchestra of the All-Union Radio Committee (15)
Recorded in: 1937 (6, 10, 11, 14), 1939 (4), 1941 (7), 1944 (1, 2, 5, 12),
1947 (3, 15), 1948 (9), 1949 (8), 1952 (13) |
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ID: MELCD1002062 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Vocal Collection Subcollection: Voices and OrchestraGalina Vishnevskaya (soprano)
The Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, David Oistrakh, conductor
Melodiya presents another rare recording of David Oistrakh as a conductor. The outstanding violinist realized his old dream of conducting for the first time in 1962. Oistrakh’s in-depth comprehension of the music text and indisputable authority among fellow musicians scored him firm successes in this area of performing activities. He conducted some of the well-known orchestras of Moscow, Leningrad and European cities to enthusiastic reviews of the public and music critics. |
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ID: MELCD1001983 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Symphony Subcollection: Voices and OrchestraAlexander Lokshin composed eleven symphonies, but only No.4 included here, is purely orchestral.
Symphony No. 9 was only performed once in the composer’s lifetime, conducted by Barshai.
Symphony No. 9 is a lyrical chamber work.
Lokshin:
Symphony No. 4 'Sinfonia Stretta'
Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, Rudolf Barshai
Symphony No. 9 for baritone and string orchestra, to poems by Leonid Martynov
Yuri Grigoriev (baritone)
Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Rudolf Barshai
Symphony No. 11 for soprano and orchestra, to a sonnet by Luís de Camões
Ludmila Sokolenko (soprano)
Ensemble of soloists, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
Hungarian Fantasy for violin and orchestra
Yulian Sitkovetsky (violin)
Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, Kurt Sanderling |
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ID: MELCD1000562 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Vocal and Opera Collection Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra1. Kavatina Almavivy (`Sevilskij tsirjulnik`, 1 d.)
(avtor muzyki: Dzhoakkino Rossini)
2. Barkarola (`Fra-Djavolo`, 2 d.)
(avtor muzyki: Daniel Ober)
3. Duma Ionteka (`Galka`, 4 d.)
(avtor muzyki: Stanislav Monjushko)
4. Romans Vilgelma (`Minon`, 3 d.)
(avtor muzyki: Ambruaz Toma)
5. Arija Dzheraldo (`Lakme`, 1 d.)
(avtor muzyki: Leo Delib)
6. Serenada Arlekina (`Pajatsy`, 2 d.)
(avtor muzyki: Rudzhero Leonkavallo)
7. Vtoraja pesn Bajana (`Ruslan i Ljudmila`, 1 d.)
(avtor muzyki: Mikhail Glinka)
8. Kavatina Knjazja (`Rusalka`, 3 d.)
(avtor muzyki: Aleksandr Dargomyzhskij)
9. Rechitativ i romans Sinodala (`Demon`, 1 d.)
(avtor muzyki: Anton Rubinshtejn)
10. Ariozo Lenskogo (`Evgenij Onegin`, 1 d.)
(avtor muzyki: Petr Chajkovskij)
11. Pesnja Indijskogo gostja (`Sadko`, 4 kartina)
(avtor muzyki: Nikolaj Rimskij-Korsakov)
12. Kavatina Berendeja (`Snegurochka`, 2 d.)
(avtor muzyki: Nikolaj Rimskij-Korsakov)
13. Kavatina Berendeja (`Snegurochka`, 3 d.)
(avtor muzyki: Nikolaj Rimskij-Korsakov)
14. Rechitativ i pesnja Levko (`Majskaja noch`, 3 d.)
(avtor muzyki: Nikolaj Rimskij-Korsakov)
15. Rechitativ i romans Vladimira (`Dubrovskij`, 1 d.)
(avtor muzyki: Eduard Napravnik)
16. Pesnja Pevtsa za stsenoj (`Rafael`)
(avtor muzyki: Anton Arenskij) |
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ID: MELCD1002299 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Vocal and Opera Collection Subcollection: Voices and OrchestraFirma Melodiya presents a jubilee release of one of the most distinguished singers of modern times - Elena Obraztsova.
Obraztsova has sung at the world’s best opera and concert houses. Her operatic heroines are known and loved by millions of listeners on different continents. She has worked with the greatest opera directors, conductors and soloists. However, the singer still considers the Bolshoi Theatre her principal operatic home, where she debuted as Marina Mniszech in Boris Godunov more than fifty years ago.
That was the time of the Bolshoi’s golden cohort, when Obraztsova’s voice and dramatic gift shone among the other outstanding representatives of Soviet music art. That was an era of the Bolshoi’s first international triumphs when the young singer, along with the other new soloists of the troupe, was receiving rousing welcomes during the tours of Italy and the United States. That was an era when the perennial traditions existed in harmony with the spirit of newness introduced by the younger artists and the experience shared with foreign peers.
The release features fragments of Russian and foreign operas which make up just a portion of Elena Obraztsova’s extensive repertoire. Still, they largely convey the main features of her performing individuality, her mastery of musical dramatic transformation making us recognize the singer’s voice on recordings from different years.
The music by Donizetti, Verdi, Saint-Saens, Bizet, Massenet, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov and Mussorgsky is performed to the accompaniment of the USSR Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra conducted by the outstanding maestros Boris Khaikin, Odyssey Dimitriadi, Algis Žiūraitis and Mark Ermler.
Bizet -L'amour est un oiseau rebelle 'Habanera' (from Carmen)
Donizetti -O mio Fernando (from La Favorita)
Massenet - Va! Laisse couler mes larmes (from Werther)
Mussorgsky - Marfa's Prophecy (from Khovanshchina) / Skushno Marina! (from Boris Godunov)
Rimsky Korsakov - Kashcheevna's Scene (from Kashchey the Immortal)
Lioubasha's aria (from The Tsar's Bride)
Lel's Third Song (from The Snow Maiden)
All night I have waited for him in vain (from Sadko)
Saint-Saëns - Amour, viens aider ma faiblesse (Samson et Dalila)
Tchaikovsky - Da, chas nastal! (from Joan of Arc)
Podrugi milyye (from The Queen of Spades)
Countess's Scene (from Pique Dame)
Verdi - O don fatale (from Don Carlo)
Stride la vampa (from Il Trovatore) |
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ID: MELCD1000434 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Requiem Subcollection: Voices and OrchestraKrasnaya, Gorokhovskaya, Marusin & Leiferkus
State Academic Russian Chorus & Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Yuri Temirkanov |
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