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ID: MELCD1001621
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection: Ballet Music
Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra
“Giselle” was shown on the Bolshoi Theatre stage in 1843 after it had charmed the Parisian audience surviving the triumphant birth at the Grand Opera and gaining popularity among Saint Petersburg residents. The ballet was to the taste of Russian music lovers, and since then it has never left the main Moscow stage. The music of the ballet presented on the disks corresponds to Grigorovich production that was performed in cooperation with the conductor Alexander Kopylov. The fragments that had not been issued by Adolphe Adam’s pen were still preserved and within the 19th century they were considered an inseparable part of the music of the ballet. The name of a little known composer Adolphe Adam (1803-1856) became famous due to “Giselle” that won the international recognition. The idea seemed so intriguing to him that he managed to compose music to the ballet within a week. Adolphe Adam (1803-1856) “GISELLE” (“Wilis”), Ballet in Two Acts. Characters: Giselle, a peasant girl Count Albrecht Berthe, Giselle’s mother Bathilde, betrothed to Albrecht Duke of Courland, Bathilde’s father Wilfred, sword-bearer to the Duke Hans, a gamekeeper Giselle’s friends Myrtha, the Queen of the Wilis Two Wilis. Soloists: Sergei Amidyan, oboe (No. 13), Leonid Kaplan, alt (No.15) The Bolshoi Theatre Symphony Orchestra. Conductor - ALEXANDER KOPYLOV Recorded in 1987. Sound engineer: P. Kondrashin |
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ID: MELCD1002301
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection: Baroque
Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra
For the anniversary of maestro Vladimir Spivakov, Firma Melodiya presents a unique, previously unreleased recording of the Moscow Virtuosi chamber orchestra made on 28 December 1988 in the Big Hall of the Moscow Conservatory.
From the first years of their existence, the Moscow Virtuosi, founded by Vladimir Spivakov, lived up to the highest standards of mastery on both domestic and global scales. It was a genuine 'orchestra of soloists' comprising prize-winners of domestic and international competitions, concertmasters of the best orchestras of Moscow many of whom could count on a brilliant solo career.
Although the Virtuosi spent a lot of time in the studio, it is the orchestra’s concert recordings that convey the atmosphere of a living, inspired contact with the audience.
The charitable activities Vladimir Spivakov has been involved in for many years now are evidence of his great human responsiveness, his desire to support talented children and his empathy for people’s suffering. The pre-New Year concert of 1988 was a fundraising event to benefit the Armenian children who suffered in the earthquake.
The concert, comprising music of Johann Sebastian Bach, featured other prominent musicians as well - Mikhail Pletnev, Araxia Davtian, an Honoured Artist of the Armenian SSR, and Bernard Soustrot, a world renowned French trumpeter. However, Adagio from the Easter Oratorio for oboe and orchestra performed instead of an encore by Alexei Utkin, an oboist and future founder of the Hermitage Ensemble, was a genuine climax of the event. The music reflecting upon passions of Christ’s earthly life sounded like a requiem for the tens of thousands of people who were buried alive in Spitak and Leninakan.
J.S. Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major, BWV1048
Cantata BWV51 'Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen'
Araxia Davtian (soprano) & Bernard Soustrot (trumpet)
Easter Oratorio, BWV249: Adagio (sinfonia)encore (presented by V. Spivakov)
Alexei Utkin (oboe)
Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in D minor, BWV1052
Mikhail Pletnev (piano)
Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV1068
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Moscow Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra - Vladimir Spivakov |
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ID: IMLCD077
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection: Opera Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra
A Musical Trilogy in 3 parts and 8 scenes
Libretto by A. Wenkstern, based on the trilogy by Aeschylus.
CD1 (64:24)
CD2 (68:44)
Characters and Performers:
Agamemnon, King of Argos - Victor Morozov, bass
Clytemnestra, his wife - Sophia Preobrazhenskaya, mezzo-soprano
Aegisthus, his cousin - Konstantin Laptev, baritone
Orestes, son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra - Mikhail Dovenman, tenor
Elektra, daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra - Nina Serval, soprano
Pallas Athena - Tatiana Lavrova, soprano
Judge of the Areopagites - Ivan Melentiev, bass
The Leningrad Radio Choir (chorus master Yury Slavnitsky)
The Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Gemal Dalgat
Recording dates: 8 and 15 January, 1958
Bonus track
Part 2. Scene 1
12. Oh, my soul is filled with horror (Clytemnestra)
Sophia Preobrazhenskaya, mezzo-soprano
The Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Edouard Grikurov
Recorded in 1951 |
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ID: IMLCD076
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection: Opera Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra
Recorded live 19.01.1958
Pique Dame (The Queen Of Spades) - Opera in 3 Acts after A.Pushkin
Countess - Sofia Preobrazhenskaya, mezzo-soprano Herman - Matvey Gavrilkin, tenor Liza - Ludmila Revina, soprano Prince Yeletsky Konstantin Laptev, baritone Count Tomsky Lipa Solomiak, baritone |
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ID: DVD985
CDs: 1
Type: DVD
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Collection: Opera & Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra
Picture Format: 16:9
Sound Format: Dolby Digital Stereo
Subtitles: none
Region Code: 0 (wordwide)
DVD Format: DVD 5
Duration: 67 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: UP0140
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection: Opera Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra
The world premiere recording of the opera Alfred, by central Czech musical figure and composer of the New World Symphony, Antonín Dvořák, is a monumental event of great scholarly interest for experts and the general public alike.
This Wagnerian-style opera originated in 1870, and was performed and recorded for the first time as written (i.e. in the German language) in Prague's premiere acoustical venue: the Dvořák Hall at the Rudolfínum. The critical edition of the score and materials were prepared by a team of leading Dvořák scholars.
The recording features premiere Wagnerian singers, as well as the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic Choir, and conductor Heiko Mathias Förster.
Alvina - Petra Froese, soprano
Harald - Ferdinand von Bothmer, tenor
Alfred - Felix Rumpf, bass
Gothron - Jorg Sabrowski, vocals
Sieward - Peter Mikuláš, bass
Dorset / Bote - Tilmann Unger, tenor
Rowena - Jarmila Baxova, soprano |
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ID: AQVR405-2
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection: Opera Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra
Opera in four acts
Libretto by L. Illica and G. Giacosa based on «Scènes de la vie de Bohème» by H. Murger
Rodolfo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ivan Kozlovsky
Mimì . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Elizaveta Shumskaya
Marcello . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ivan Burlak
Musetta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alexandra Yakovenko
Colline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alexei Korolev
Schaunard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alexander Tikhonov
Benoit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Daniil Demyanov
Parpignol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sergei Fomichev
Alcindoro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gennady Troitsky
Sergente dei doganieri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Boris Dobrin
Una Ragazza . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tatiana Vorobieva
Recorded in 1955
Bonus tracks
15. E.Shumskaya (Mimí), I.Kozlovsky (Rodolfo), Andrei Ivanov (Marcello), K. Terekhin (Schaunard), V. Malyshev (Colline)
16. (Ivan Kozlovsky, Andrei Ivanov) 4:37
Orchestra of the Bolshoi theatre, conductor - Samuil Samosud
Recorded in 1950 |
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