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2021-08-20 07:38:31
Vissarion Shebalin: Orientalia Context Close friend and colleague of Dmitri Shostakovich, Vissarion Shebalin (1902-63) has remained a largely unexplored Soviet composer. Although unexplored, his music has such depth to it, as well as holding on to integrity. Shostakovich described Shebalin: “His kindness, honesty and absolute adherence to principle always […] The post appeared first on Classicalexburns.
2020-06-14 09:05:17
A Life On-line: Thais from the Metropolitan Opera, Sorochinsy Fair and Eugene Onegin from the Komische Oper, and Covent Garden re-opens
[…] Fleming luxuriating in the title role, and Hampson being suitably trenchant whilst finding a suaveness of line as well. Michael Schade made Nicias a strong presence, and Alain Vernhes gave Palémon suitable gravity. To Berlin next, for another rarity, Mussorgsky's unfinished comedy Sorochintsy Fair, in Barrie Kosky's 2017 production from the Komische Oper, Berlin (available via OperaVision), conducted by Henrik Nánási. Kosky used the 1932 completion of the opera by Pavel Lamm and Vissarion Shebalin, but also added some extra choruses and an aria for the tenor 'hero' Gritsko. There is almost no plot, simply a series of vignettes of peasant life strung together around the attempts of Gritsko, a peasant lad (Alexander Lewis) and Parasya (Mirka Wagner), but though Parasya's father, the peasant Cherevik (Jens Larsen), supports them, her step-mother Khivrya (Agnes Zwierko) does not. Throw in Khivrya's affair with the local priest, and a legend about the […]
2020-02-06 00:00:00
Martinon, Ansemet, Ashkenazy, Solti et al: The Essential Borodin
Alexander Borodin:Disc One01. Prince Igor. Overture* [10'50]02. Prince Igor. Act I. Galitzky’s Aria^~ [3'52]03. Prince Igor. Act II. Konchak’s Aria^~ [7'07]04. Prince Igor. Polovtsian Dances* [13'44]05. For the Shores of Your Distant Homeland^ #[4'27]Nicolai Ghiaurov- bass^; Zlatina Ghiaurov- piano#; London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus conducted by George Solti* and Edward Downes~06. - 09. Symphony No.1 in E-flat major [35'20]Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy Disc Two01. - 04. Symphony No. 2 in B minor [25'14]London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jean Martinon05. - 08. String Quartet No. 2 in D major [27'46]Borodin Quartet (Rostislav Dubinsky & Jaroslav Alexandrov- violins; Dmitry Shebalin- viola; Valentin Berlinsky- cello)09. In the Steppes of Central Asia [6'44]10. - 11. Symphony No. 3 in A minor [16'04]L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande conducted by Ernest AnsermetDecca 455 632-2 (recorded 1954 to 1992; this CD release 1997)(CD rip; flacs, booklet, inlay and cover scans)Recording venues, Engineer and Producer not […]
2019-10-03 09:00:31
[…] into other works. In the third movement, the horns call out her name, answered by Shostakovich’s initials. We know she was his muse, but it’s impossible to tell from the letters how far the relationship went. His writing is disputed territory too: complex, poetic – is he using metaphor or referring to actual events? He was 47 – this was his mid-life crisis. His own mortality was becoming real to him: he’d seen Prokofiev, Myaskovsky, Shebalin all die, and he was feeling the effects of his own illness.’ Five of the best Shostakovich conductors Vasily Petrenko is, like Shostakovich, a son of Leningrad/St Petersburg, and grew up singing the composer’s songs in its Capella Boys Music School. In 1997 he won first prize in the Shostakovich Choral Conducting Competition and was made chief conductor of the St Petersburg State Academic Symphony Orchestra, during which time he took […]
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