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The disc concentrates on mainstream works to provide a multidimensional perspective to...
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From Mike Richter:
Volume AE206 in the Audio Encyclopedia is an overview of Russian opera. We have
chosen to concentrate on the mainstream works in this release and to provide a
multidimensional perspective to the extent we could on a single disc. Thus, all
performances except Pikovaya Dama are from the Bolshoi so that one can gather
insight into its evolution in the Soviet era and contrast it with one modern production
from the Kirov.
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| Title |
Year |
Conductor |
Cast |
| Aleko |
1951 |
Golovanov |
Petrov, Pokrovskaya, Orfenov |
| Boris Godunov |
1948 |
Golovanov |
Reizen, Nelepp, Khanayev, Kozlovsky |
| Boris Godunov |
1963 |
Melik-Pashayev |
London, Ivanovsky, Shulpin, Grigoriev |
| Boris Godunov |
1975 |
Simonov |
Nesterenko, Atlantov, Sokolov, Maslennikov |
| The Decembrists |
1953 |
Melik-Pashayev |
Ivanov, Pirogov, Petrov |
| Dubrovsky |
1954 |
Nebolsin |
Kozlovsky, Ivanov, Verbitskaya |
| Eugene Onegin |
1975 |
Mansurov |
Matzurok, Milashkina, Atlantov |
| Ivan Susanin |
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Melik-Pashayev |
Mikhailov, Shpiller, Nelepp |
| Kamenny Gost |
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Khaikin |
Maslennikov, Pankov, Vishnevskaya |
| Khovanshchina |
1946 |
Khaikin |
Reizen, Preobrazhenskaya, Freidkov |
| Pikovaya Dama |
1975 |
Simonov |
Atlantov, Milashkina |
| Pikovaya Dama |
1991 |
Gergiev
Kirov Opera |
Steblyanko, Shevchenko |
| Prince Igor |
1952 |
Melik-Pashayev |
Ivanov, Smolenskaya, Lemeshev, Reizen |
| Ruslan y Ludmila |
1937 |
Samosud |
Barsova, Reizen |
| Ruslan y Ludmila |
1956 |
Kondrashin |
Firsova, Petrov |
| Sadko |
1953 |
Golovanov |
Nelepp, Davidova |
| Snegurochka |
1957 |
Svetlanov |
Firsova, Kozlovsky |
| War and Peace |
1961 |
Melik-Pashayev |
Kibkalo, Vishnevskaya, Shchegolkov |
NOTE: Due to an error on the disc in the Ruslan y Lyudmila
playback, Acts III, IV and V refer to the wrong performances; the 1937
plays when the 1956 is selected and vice versa.
Clips with Descriptions
Rimsky-Korsakov's Sadko relates an exotic Russian fairy tale:
hero-musician bests merchant-princes with the aid of the Sea King and his
lovely daughter before returning to his suffering wife. In the fourth scene,
the suddenly wealthy Sadko is invited to three distant lands by three visitors.
The Viking and Venetian guests (in the usual English terminology) appear
nowhere else in the opera; the Hindu guest shows up again later, but only
incidentally. So the three roles would usually be considered comprimario except
that each is given an aria of extraordinary beauty and effectiveness, the three
best-known musical selections in the opera.
In the 1952 recording under Galovanov, the three guests are sung by three of
the greatest male voices of any age:
Mark Reizen portrays the Viking Guest
Ivan Kozlovsky is the Hindu Guest
Pavel Lisitsian is the Venetian Guest
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