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ID: PTC5186089
CDs: 1
Type: SACD
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Subcollection: OpéraMultichannel Hybrid SACD - DSD
Highlights of the Russian opera
During the eighteenth century, especially at the time of Catherine the Great, Russia enjoyed a lively opera life; however, it was not until the nineteenth century that the national Russian opera was created. Musical life at the court of the Czar was predominantly oriented towards the West and attracted, for example, many Italian composers to St. Petersburg. The works they wrote there were also mostly based on Italian libretti, and if a Russian opera was ever performed, it followed on musically in the tradition of the operas that could be heard in Naples, Milan or Vienna.
A slow change came about in this situation during the first half of the nineteenth century, after Russia also began to be influenced by the sense of nationhood which was spreading through great parts of Europe in that period. Furthermore, this was the time during which the well-to-do middle class began to participate increasingly in the cultural life, and therefore, it is not just a coincidence that the birth of the national Russian opera more or less concurred with the opening of the ‘Great’ or ‘Bolshoi’ Theatre in Moscow in 1825. |
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ID: AQVR326-2
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Opera & Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Voices and OrchestraWerther - Sergei Lemeshev (tenor)
Charlotte - Kira Leonova (mezzo-soprano)
Sophie - Glafira Deomidova (soprano)
Albert - Eugene Belov (baritone)
Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra. Conductor - Boris Khaikin.
Recorded 1960 |
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ID: AQVR397-2
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Opera & Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Voices and OrchestraHans Sachs………............Boris Dobrin
Eva ……….......................Nadezhda Sukhovitsyna
Walther von Stolzing...........Meczyslaw Schavinsky
Sixtus Beckmesser..............Vladimir Zakharov
Veit Pogner………............Alexei Korolev
Magdalena………..............Tamara Antipova
David………......................Vladimir Tsarsky
The Mastersingers: Alexey Sabodashev (tenor), Alexander Tikhonov (baritone), Gennady Troitsky (baritone), Vladimir Tsarsky (tenor), Alexei Usmanov (tenor), Pavel Pontryagin (tenor), Levon Khachaturov (baritone), Philip Fokin (bass), Alexei Belanov (bass)
Bonus:
Galina Sakharova, soprano (12), Panteleimon Nortsov, baritone (13, 14),
Natalia Rozhdestvenskaya, soprano (15, 16), Nikolai Rozov, mandolin (13)
Great choir and symphony orchestra of the All-Union radio
Conductor - Samuil Samosud
Principal choirmaster - Klaudy Ptitsa, choirmaster - Maria Bondar
Narrator - Boris Plotnikov
Recorded live from the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, December 3rd 1952
- The first performance of Wagner’s opera in USSR after the Great War. - The unique Russian version of "Meistersinger". - The world premiere (This recording has not been released previously). |
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ID: AQVR296-2
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Opera & Vocal Collection
Manon Lescaut - I. Maslennikova
Le Chevalier des Grieux - S. Lemeshev
Lescaut, Manon's cousin - I. Burlak (bariton);
Guillot de Morfontaine - V. Jakushenko (tenor)
Poussette - G. Sakharova (soprano)
Javotte - V. Gradova (soprano)
Rosette - Z. Dolukhanova (mezzo-soprano)
Monsieur de Brétigny - A. Korolev (bass)
Innkeeper - D. Demjanov (bass)
Conductors: S. Samosud (1-11), V. Nebolsin (12, 14 - 17), A. Gauk (13)
Recordings: 1948 (1-11, 16, 17), 1949 (12), 1950 (14, 15), 1951 (13) |
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ID: MELCD1002432
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection:
Opera & Vocal Collection
Subcollection: OpéraRecorded 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: BRV9908
CDs: 14
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Voices and OrchestraElisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano)
Beethoven:
Fidelio, Op. 72
Salzburg, 5th August 1950
Kirsten Flagstad (Leonore), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Marzelline), Julius Patzak (Florestan), Anton Dermota (Jaquino)
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Humperdinck:
Hänsel und Gretel
Milan, 10th December 1954
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Gretel), Sena Jurinac (Hansel), Rolando Panerai (Peter), Vittoria Palombrini (Witch)
Herbert von Karajan
Mozart:
Die Entführung aus dem Serail, K384
Vienna, 6th September 1945
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Konstanze), Anton Dermota (Belmonte), Emmy Loose (Blonde), Peter Klein (Pedrillo)
Rudolf Moralt
Don Giovanni, K527
Salzburg, 27th June 1950
Tito Gobbi (Don Giovanni), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Donna Elvira), Anton Dermota (Don Ottavio), Lluba Welitsch (Donna Anna)
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Le nozze di Figaro, K492
Milan, 5th February 1954
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Countess), Roladno Panerai (Figaro), Irmgard Seefried (Susanna), Sena Jurinac (Cherubino)
Herbert von Karajan
Così fan tutte, K588
Milan, 27th January 1956
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Fiordiligi), Nan Merriman (Dorabella), Luigi Alva (Ferrando), Rolando Panerai (Guglilmo), Graziella Sciutti (Despina), Franco Calabrese (Don Alfonso)
Guido Cantelli
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ID: BRV9806
CDs: 14
Type: CD
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Collection:
Opera & Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Voices and OrchestraMozart:
Idomeneo, K366
25th March, 1971
Nicolai Gedda (Idomeneo), Jessye Norman (Idamante), Heather Harper (Ilia)
RAI Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Sir Colin Davis
Le nozze di Figaro, K492
Salzburg, 1974
José van Dam (Figaro), Mirella Freni (Susanna), Frederica von Stade (Cherubino), Tom Krause (Count Almaviva)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan
Don Giovanni, K527
Rome, 12th May 1970
Nicolai Ghiaurov (Don Giovanni), Gundula Janowitz (Donna Anna), Alfredo Kraus (Don Ottavio), Sena Jurinac (Donna Elvira)
RAI Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Carlo Maria Giulini
Così fan tutte, K588
Milan, 27th January 1956
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Fiordiligi), Nan Merriman (Dorabella), Luigi Alva (Ferrando), Rolando Panerai (Guglilmo), Graziella Sciutti (Despina), Franco Calabrese (Don Alfonso)
Orchestra & Chorus of La Scala, Guido Cantelli
Die Zauberflöte, K620
Salzburg, 27th July 1949
Irmgard Seefried (Pamina), Josef Greindl (Sarastro), Wilma Lipp (Queen of the Night), Walter Ludwig (Tamino)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Wilhelm Furtwängler
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ID: BRV9902
CDs: 14
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Voices and OrchestraFranco Corelli (tenor)
Donizetti:
Poliuto
Milan, 7th December 1960
Franco Corelli (Poliuto), Maria Callas (Paolina), Ettore Bastiani (Severo)
Orchestra & Chorus of La Scala Milan, Antonino Votto
Giordano, U:
Andrea Chénier
Vienna, 26th June 1960
Franco Corelli (Chenier), Renata Tebaldi (Maddalena), Ettore Bastianini (Carlo)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Chorus of the Vienna State Opera, Lovro von Matacic
Leoncavallo:
I Pagliacci
Milan, 26th September 1954
Franco Corelli (Canio), Tito Gobbi (Tonio), Mafalda Micheluzzi (Nedda)
RAI Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Milan, Alfredo Simonetto
Meyerbeer:
Les Huguenots
Milan, 7th June 1962 (Sung in Italian)
Franco Corelli (Raoul), Joan Sutherland (Margarita), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Marcello), Giulietta Simionato (Valentina)
Orchestra & Chorus of La Scala Milan, Gianandrea Gavazzeni
Puccini:
Tosca
London, 1st July 1957
Franco Corelli (Cavaradossi), Zinka Milanov (Tosca), Giangiacomo Guelfi (Scarpia)
Orchestra & Chorus of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Alexander Gibson
Turandot
Milan, 7th December 1964
Franco Corelli (Calaf), Birgit Nilsson (Turandot), Galina Vishnevskaya (Liu), Nicola Zaccaria (Timur)
Orchestra & Chorus of La Scala Milan, Gianandrea Gavazzeni
Verdi:
Il Trovatore
Salzburg, 31st July 1962
Franco Corelli (Manrico), Leontyne Price (Leonora), Ettore Bastianini (Luna), Giulietta Simionato (Azucena)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan |
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