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ID: IMLCD072 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Vocal and Opera Collection Subcollection: Vocal and Piano Treasures from the Musical archives of St. Petersburg
Recorded 1931, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1947, 1952 |
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ID: MELCD1002072 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Orchestral Works Subcollection: Orchestra Melodiya presents recordings of the outstanding Soviet conductor Alexander Melik- Pashayev.
His performing career at the USSR Bolshoi Theatre lasted more than 30 years and made up a whole era in the life of the famous company. His numerous recordings of opera sets, including those awarded with prestigious foreign prizes such as Borodin’s Prince Igor, Prokofiev’s War and Peace and Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov, are very well known. However, he is less known as a symphony conductor, but Melik-Pashayev’s concerts with the Bolshoi orchestra were some of the brightest ones in Moscow’s eventful music life. Melodiya revisits this part of Melik-Pashayev’s conducting legacy.
Schubert:
Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D759 'Unfinished'
Tchaikovsky:
Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 'Pathétique'
The USSR Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, Alexander Melik-Pashayev |
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ID: MELCD1002164 CDs: 5 Type: CD |
Collection: Opera and Ballet Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra Soloists: Galina Vishnevskaya, Irina Arkhipova, Elena Obraztsova, Tamara Sinyavskaya, Sergey Lemeshev, Ivan Kozlovsky, Vladimir Atlantov, Alexander Pirogov, Mark Reizen, Evgeny Nesterenko
Nikolai Golovanov, Samuil Samosud, Alexander Melik-Pashayev, Evgeny Svetlanov, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Yuri Fayer, Mark Ermler, Alexander Lazarev
Firma Melodiya presents a unique set of recordings by soloists of the USSR Bolshoi Theatre - outstanding singers who performed on the main stage of this country during 1945 to 1990.
They call it the golden age of the Bolshoi not for nothing.
The first music theatre of the country attracted undiverted attention of not just millions of spectators and listeners (getting a ticket to the Bolshoi was almost an impracticable task for a “common Soviet citizen”). The supreme leadership of the Soviet Union watched the life of the theatre as closely as real music lovers did. Nearly all the premieres took place under the sign of “special responsibility”. The theatre recruited the best artistic forces from all over the country, and in the post-war period there still were those who got their education and started their careers even before the revolution keeping the continuity of the old tradition of the Imperial Bolshoi Theatre.
Galina Vishnevskaya, Irina Arkhipova, Elena Obraztsova, Tamara Sinyavskaya, Sergey Lemeshev, Ivan Kozlovsky, Vladimir Atlantov, Alexander Pirogov, Mark Reizen, Evgeny Nesterenko are just some of 30 soloists featured in this set. They are accompanied by the Bolshoi Orchestra lead by various conductors such as Nikolai Golovanov, Samuil Samosud, Alexander Melik-Pashayev, Evgeny Svetlanov, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Yuri Fayer, Mark Ermler, Alexander Lazarev and others. Each of them made a valuable contribution to the treasury of Russian music culture of the 20th century.
The set includes fragments from Russian classical opera and ballet repertoire of the 19th and 20th centuries, and some of the most popular foreign operas and ballets staged at the Bolshoi |
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ID: MELCD1002353 CDs: 2 Type: CD |
Collection: Opera Collection Subcollection: Opera Firma Melodiya presents a unique recording of Sergei Prokofiev’s last opera The Story of a Real Man.
This work is arguably the least known one in Prokofiev’s musical theatre legacy. Finished in 1948, it was never staged in the composer’s lifetime (its “private” performance led to banning the opera and accusing the composer of formalism). Only many years later it saw spotlights, but none of the production lasted long.
The opera, so uncommon in terms of plotline and musical drama, seemed incredible even for an innovator like Prokofiev. The composer who had brought to the stage the characters of Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky and Bryusov was carried away with Boris Polevoy’s novel about pilot Alexei Meresiev (he lost his legs as a result of a severe injury, but at the cost of unbelievable efforts and exercising he returned to the battle ranks). The main character is shown crawling from a shot down plane, in a hospital ward and mastering his artificial limbs at hospital. The character of Alexei, a winner in his own life drama, a man of enormous fortitude who did something seemingly impossible, was an incentive for the composer’s creative imagination.
The dramatic concept of the opera is built on a frame-like sequence of short scenes set off with moving lyrical episodes. The musical language of the opera predominantly consists of declamation and recitative and is full of songful intonations.
The only recording of The Story of a Real Man that now exists was made by the company of the USSR Bolshoi Theatre in 1961 and conducted by young maestro Mark Ermler. The character of Alexei Meresiev became one of the highest achievements of prominent singer Evgeny Kibkalo. The recording also features other celebrated soloists of the theatre such as Glafira Deomidova, Margarita Miglau, Kira Leonova, Alexei Maslennikov, Mark Reshetin and Artur Eisen.
Sergei Prokofiev
The Story of a Real Man
An opera in 3 acts after Boris Polevoy’s novel of the same name
Libretto by Sergei Prokofiev and Mira Mendelson-Prokofieva
Characters and performers:
Alexei - Evgeny Kibkalo
Olga - Glafira Deomidova
Grandpa Mikhailo - Georgy Shulpin
Vasilisa - Vera Smirnova
Varya - Margarita Miglau
Petrovna - Antonina Ivanova
Seryonka - Alexander Suzanov
Fedya - Vladimir Kurguzov
Andrei - Georgy Pankov
Senior Doctor - Vladimir Petrov
Zinochka -Maria Zvezdina
Colonel - Valery Yaroslavtsev
Vasily Vasilievich - Mark Reshetin
Commissar - Artur Eisen
Klavdiya - Kira Leonova
Alexei’s Mother - Valentina Petrova
1st Surgeon - Leonid Maslov
2nd Surgeon - Nikolai Zakharov
Gvozdev - Vitaly Vlasov
Kukushkin - Alexei Maslennikov
Choir and orchestra of the USSRState Academic Bolshoi Theatre
Conductor - Mark Ermler
Recorded in 1961.
CD 1
Introduction
Act I
Total time: 39.19
CD 2
Act II
Act III
Total time: 73.10 |
29.00 eur Temporarily out of stock |
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