Shostakovich - Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk / Vishnevskaya, Gedda, Petrov, LPO, Rostropovich
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Edition: Music CDCD Release Date: 1990-05-08
Music Label: Angel Records
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- Lady Macbeth Of Mtsensk: Akh, nye spitsa bol'she, poprobuyu (Act 1, Scene 1)
- Lady Macbeth Of Mtsensk: Gribki, sevodnya budut?
- Lady Macbeth Of Mtsensk: Govori!...Plotinu-to na...
- Lady Macbeth Of Mtsensk: Interlude (Orchestra)
- Lady Macbeth Of Mtsensk: Ay! Ay! Ay! Ay! Ay! Ay! Ay! (Act 1, Scene 2)
- Lady Macbeth Of Mtsensk: Mnogo vy, muzhiki
- Lady Macbeth Of Mtsensk: Interlude (Orchestra)
- Lady Macbeth Of Mtsensk: Spat' pora, Dyen proshol (Act 1, Scene 3)
- Lady Macbeth Of Mtsensk: Zherebyonok k kob'lke toropitsa
- Lady Macbeth Of Mtsensk: Kto eto, kto, kto stuchit?
- Lady Macbeth Of Mtsensk: Shto znachit starost' (Act 2, Scene 4)
- Lady Macbeth Of Mtsensk: Proshchay, Katya, proshchay!
- Lady Macbeth Of Mtsensk: Ustal...Prikazhete mnye postegat?
- Lady Macbeth Of Mtsensk: Vidno, skoro uzh zarya
- Lady Macbeth Of Mtsensk: Interlude (Orchestra)
- Lady Macbeth Of Mtsensk: Sergey, Seryozha! (Act 2, Scene 5)
- Lady Macbeth Of Mtsensk: Opyat usnul
- Lady Macbeth Of Mtsensk: Slushay, Sergey, Sergey!
- Lady Macbeth Of Mtsensk: Shto ty tut stoish? (Act 3, Scene 6)
- Lady Macbeth Of Mtsensk: Sozdan politseysky byl vo vremya ono (Act 3, Scene 7)
- Lady Macbeth Of Mtsensk: Interlude
- Lady Macbeth Of Mtsensk: Slava suprugam (Act 3, Scene 8)
- Lady Macbeth Of Mtsensk: Vyorsty odna za drugoy (Act 4, Scene 9)
- Lady Macbeth Of Mtsensk: Stepanych! Propusti menya
- Lady Macbeth Of Mtsensk: Nye lekhko posle pochota da poklonov
- Lady Macbeth Of Mtsensk: Moyo pochtyenye!
- Lady Macbeth Of Mtsensk: V lesu, v samoy chashche yest' ozero
- Act 4, Scene 9: Vstavay! Po mestam! Zhivo!
Free Music Notes for Shostakovich - Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk / Vishnevskaya, Gedda, Petrov, LPO, Rostropovich
Free Music Review: An unbelievable experience !
Hit: 5 Stars
I would pick on all the superlatives thrown in by the other reviewers, all 6 of whom have given it a 5-star rating, and say it is also of my experience. I have sat with this CD every evening for the past 6 days (since getting it) still unable to absorb the rapturous beauty of the music of this great recording, one of the best of my more-than-100 operas on disk and tape.
My contribution to the newcomer to this music would be to see a DVD of the opera - there is indeed a disk with the soprano Galina Vishnevskaya as Katerina, the principal character, so that the story doesnt intrude too much into the appreciation of the overarching score. To my mind the music soars above the voices of Russia below. There are so many mind-blowing climaxes and the musical remains at all times lyrical. Buy it without a second thought!
Shostakovich - Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk / Vishnevskaya, Gedda, Petrov, LPO, Rostropovich Poster
Written between 1930 and 1932, The Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk was one of the most brilliant achievements of Shostakovich's long career. It was also the work that got him into trouble with Stalin. When the Soviet leader attended a performance in Moscow in 1936, almost two years after the opera's acclaimed Leningrad premiere, he personally ordered the publication of a scathing article in Pravda ("Muddle Instead of Music"), unleashing a ruthless campaign to reduce the arts in Soviet Russia to a state of dogmatic subservience to the regime. Lady Macbeth would disappear from the repertory for 30 years, and Shostakovich, despite his great gifts for opera, would focus his attention on symphonic and chamber music instead. But what an opera this one was! Notwithstanding its title, it has nothing to do with Shakespeare's Macbeth and quite a lot to do with Dostoevsky (even though it's based on a story by another 19th-century writer, Nikolai Laskov). The plot has all the elements of a Russian epic--boredom, need, irresistible sexual longing, infidelity, murder, suicide--and the music is vintage Shostakovich, swinging between farce and tragedy with astonishing sureness, magnificently intense, deeply absorbing, yet approachable. The opera's climactic scenes are driven by music of incredible power, and there are pages of haunting lyric beauty as well, such as Katarina's aria in scene 3, or the extraordinary music that begins the love scene between Katarina and Sergey--mysterious, edgy, sensuous, and vast. It's all brought home on this recording, a labor of love from two of the composer's closest friends and greatest champions. Vishnevskaya, the great exponent of the role of Katarina, sings with untrammeled splendor, while Rostropovich, the supreme interpreter of the music of Shostakovich in our time, conducts a characterful, white-hot performance by the London Philharmonic. --Ted LibbeyClassical Music CDs
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