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ID: KAI0012432
CDs: 2
Type: SACD
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Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra
World premiere recording
Begehren is a “dramaturgical” and compositional spur for music theatre in the 21st century: a parable on the dialectic of isolation, a man and a woman in a no man’s land of placeless-ness and a play on the potential possibilities behind reality. With a libretto after texts by Ovid, Virgil, Hermann Broch, Cesare Pavese and Günter Eich, this production was selected by a panel of 55 critics as the best worldwide premiere of the 2002/03 season |
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ID: KAI0012532
CDs: 2
Type: SACD
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Collection: Vocal and Opera Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra
Das Theater der Wiederholungen [The Theatre of Repetitions], Bernhard Lang‘s magnum opus, is divided into three large sections, three narratives set in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries respectively. The theatre of repetitions is a reference to Gilles Deleuze and the specific compositional principle developed by Bernhard Lang, already hinting at the work‘s programmatic content („a possible story of cruelty“). (Wolfgang Reiter)
Includes booklet with texts by Wolfgang Hofer, Wolfgang Reiter and Bernhard Lang |
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ID: MKM251
CDs: 3
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra
Booklet and inlay only in russian language.
MKM248, MKM249, MKM250 |
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ID: VLD161
CDs: 1
Type: DVD
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Collection: Vocal Collection
Boito:
L'altra notte in fondo al mare (from Mefistofele)
Gounod:
Que les songes sont heureux - Berceuse (from Philemon und Baucis)
Mozart:
Madamina, il catalogo è questo (from Don Giovanni)
La ci darem la mano (from Don Giovanni)
Nicolai, C O:
Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor overture
Puccini:
Vissi d'arte (from Tosca)
O mio babbino caro (from Gianni Schicchi)
Verdi:
A te l'estremo addio ... Il lacerato spirito (from Simon Boccanegra)
Ella giammai m'amò (from Don Carlo)
Tu che la vanità (from Don Carlo)
Mirella Freni,soprano / Cesare Siepi, baritone
Orchestra della Radio Svizzera Italiana, Bruno Amaducci
Region Code: 0, Plays in all territories, PAL
Color mode: Colour
Screen (Picture) 4:3
Sound Format: Dolby Digaital
Time: 62 min. |
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ID: VLD163
CDs: 1
Type: DVD
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Collection: Vocal Collection
Recorded live in Lugano Palazzo die Congress 1991
Bizet:
Près des remparts de Séville (Séguedille) (from Carmen)
Cherubini:
Medee. Overture
Cilea:
Io son l'umile ancella (from Adriana Lecouvreur)
Massenet:
Pleurez, mes yeux (Le Cid)
Il est doux, il est bon (from Hérodiade)
Mussorgsky:
Khovanshchina: Prelude
Puccini:
Manon Lescaut: Intermezzo Act III
Rossini:
Semiramide Overture
Saint-Saëns:
Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix (from Samson et Dalila)
Verdi:
La forza del destino Overture
La traviata: Prelude to Act 3
O don fatale (from Don Carlo)
Grace Bumbry (soprano) / Orchestra della Seizer, Massimo Padilla
Region Code: 0, Plays in all territories, NTSC
Color mode: Colour
Screen (Picture) 4:3
Sound Format: Stereo
Time: 93 min. |
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ID: ERP2409
CDs: 2
Type:
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Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra
(1CD + bonus 1 DVD)
Estonian National Opera -Most popular opera arias and ensembles
Recorded in Estonia Concert Hall, Tallinn, Aug 24th-26th, 2009
Performed by Riina Airenne, Rauno Elp, Nadia Kurem, Oliver Kuusik, Andres Köster, Mart Laur, Juuli Lill, Helen Lokuta, Mart Madiste, Urmas Põldma, Aare Saal, René Soom, Janne Ševtšenko, Jassi Zahharov, Valentīna Tāluma, Heli Veskus, Priit Volmer
Estonian National Opera Chorus, chorus master Elmo Tiisvald
Estonian National Opera Orchestra -Conductor - Jüri Alperten |
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ID: MELCD1001869
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection: Opera Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra
The Voyevoda was Tchaikovsky’s first opera and was based on the comedy A Dream on the Volga, Scenes from Popular Life of the 17th Century by Ostrovsky. It was premiered at the Bolshoi Theatre in 1869 and was very well received. The Russian musicologist Odoyovsky wrote “This opera guarantees a great future for Tchaikovsky.” This performance was recorded in 1982.
Vladimir Matorin (Nechal Shalygin), Leoid Zimenko (Vlas Dyuzhol), Alexandra Fatkina (Nastasya), Galina Guznetsova (Maria Vlasyevna), Lyudmila Bondarenko (Praskovya Vlasyevna), Nina Isakova (Nedviga), Anatoly Mishchevsky (Bastryukov), Yu. Abakumovskaya (Olena), Oleg Klenov (Dubrovnin), Vyacheslav Voinarowski (Jester), Vladimir Svistov (New Voyevoda/Rezvy) |
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ID: MELCD1001876
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection: Opera Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra
In 1849, the translator, poet and playwright Lev Mey (1822-1862) wrote a drama The Tsar’s Bride based on one of the passages from the era of Ivan the Terrible’s reign. In 1868, Mily Balakirev drew Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s attention to Mey’s work. However, the composer set to creating an opera based on the plot of The Tsar’s Bride only thirty years later. He began his work in February 1898 and completed it in ten months. Almost without changing Mey’s plot, Rimsky-Korsakov enhanced the dramatic qualities of The Tsar’s Bride with his musical means. The opera was premiered in the autumn of 1899 at a Moscow theatre of the industrialist and patron Savva Mamontov with Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov being the conductor. The Tsar’s Bride, a sample of realistic drama, is one of the most popular works for musical theatre at the present time. The performance of 1973 presented on these CDs brought together great artists of Russian stage - Evgeny Nesterenko, Galina Vishnevskaya, Vladimir Atlantov, Irina Arkhipova and others. |
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ID: MELCD1001849
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection: Opera Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra
The opera Betrothal in a Monastery (The Duenna) takes a special place not only in Prokofiev's career, but also in the history of Russian Soviet music theatre. It is the first lyrical and comic opera. Richard Brinsley Sheridan's comedy fascinated Prokofiev at once. Having read the play, Prokofiev exclaimed, "This is champagne! It can make an opera à la Mozart or Rossini." The composer immediately started writing the libretto using the English original and translating it into Russian. Prokofiev's wife Mira Mendelson was an author of the rhymed verse. Prokofiev composed the music within a shortest period of time - during the summer and early autumn of 1940. The premiere of the opera was expected at the Stanislavsky Musical Theatre in summer of 1941, but World War II did not let it happen. The first performance took place as late as in November of 1946, at the Kirov Theatre in Leningrad and received acclaim of critics and audience alike. The opera performed by the soloists, choir and orchestra of the State Musical Theatre of Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko conducted by Kamil Abdullayev was recorded by Firma Melodiya in 1963 and awarded an André Messager prize of Academy of Lyric Recordings of France in 1967.
Valentina Kayevchenko (Luisa)
Nina Isakova (Clara)
Tamara Yanko (Duenna)
Anatoly Mishchevsky (Antonio)
Nikolai Korshunov (Don Jerome)
Jan Kratov (Ferdinand)
Eduard Bulavin (Mendoza) |
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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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