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ID: AQVR201-2
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection: Opera Collection
Recorded in 1951
Count Almaviva . . . . . . . . . IVAN KOZLOVSKY
Figaro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . IVAN BURLAK
Rosina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . VERA FIRSOVA
Don Basilio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MARK REIZEN
Doctor Bartolo . . . . . . VLADIMIR MALYSHEV
Fiorello . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MIKHAIL SKAZIN
Berta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NINA OSTROUMOVA
Officer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . IVAN MANSHAVIN
Soloists of the Bolshoi Theater. Choir and orchestra of All-Union Radio
Concertmaster - Pyotr Nikitin, solo harp - Olga Erdeli
Conductor - Samuel Samosud |
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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: MELCD1002361
CDs: 6
Type: CD
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Collection: Russian Romance
Subcollection: Voices
Recorded in 1962, 1963, 1967, 1969,
1971, 1972, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1983,
1986, 1990.
Firma Melodiya presents a complete collection of romances and songs by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky timed to the great Russian composer’s 175th anniversary.
“As a matter of fact, poetry and music are so close to each other,” Tchaikovsky wrote to Nadezhda von Meck. Chamber vocal music has a very special place
in the extensive legacy of the composer who was a symphonist of genius, a creator of operatic and ballet masterpieces, and a prominent master of the concerto genre. It accompanied Tchaikovsky throughout his artistic life being his “lyrical diary” and at the same time an creative laboratory where he sought for and found images for his very different works. The 17-year-old student of the Imperial School of Jurisprudence started off his composing career with
timid attempts to set poetic texts to music. In the romances of Op. 6, the composer appears as a mature master, while the numerous vocal pieces of the 1870s anticipate the artistic imagery and musical drama of Eugene Onegin. Op. 73, the composer’s last chamber vocal work, which immediately preceded the writing of the Sixth Symphony (Pathétique), is surprisingly similar to the symphony in terms of images and emotions. The set features all of the composer’s 103 romances for voice and piano, including rare cycles such as 16
Songs for Children, Op. 54, and 6 romances after French poets, Op. 65. The recordings were made on Firma Melodiya in the 1960s to 1980s as part of
a grandiose project of complete recorded collection of Tchaikovsky’s works. It involved the talents of the best Soviet vocalists such as Zara Dolukhanova, Irina
Arkhipova, Elena Obraztsova, Tamara Milashkina, Sergei Lemeshev, Ivan Petrov, Yuri Mazurok, Muslim Magomaev and other singers/soloists of the USSR Bolshoi Theatre and All-Union Radio. |
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