Tchaikovsky: Mazeppa
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Composer: Pyotr Il'yich TchaikovskyConductor: Valery Gergiev
Performer: Irina Loskutova
Performer: Larissa Diadkova
Performer: Nikolai Gassiev
Performer: Nikolai Putilin
Performer: Sergey Aleksashkin
Performer: Viacheslav Luhanin
Performer: Viktor Lutsuk
Performer: Vladimir Zhivopistsev
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1998-04-14
Music Label: Philips
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Introduction
- Act 1, No. 1: "I Weave My Fragrant Garland"
- Act 1, No. 2: "You Love The Songs, Dear Companions"
- Act 1, No. 2: "I Loved You Since We Were Children"
- Act 1, No. 3: "Well, Vasily, You Honour Me Wonderfully"
- Act 1, No. 4: "There is no bridge here"
- Act 1, No. 4: Hopak
- Act 1, No. 5: "That's fine, I like that!"
- Act 1, No. 5: "Young love can flare up and die down again"
- Act 1, No. 6: "Mazeppa, I'm distressed by what you say"
- Act 1, No. 6: "You crazy old man, tell me"
- Act 1, No. 6: "Kochubey! I was wrong to show my anger..."
- Act 1, No. 7: "As the storm brings clouds over the sky"
- Act 1, No. 8: "Abandon your grief, Kochubey!"
- Act 2, No. 9: Andante
- Act 2, No. 9: "So this is the reward for my information"
- Act 2, No. 9: "It's you, you cruel man!"
- Act 2, No. 9: "No, you are not mistaken, three treasures"
- Act 2, No. 10: Andante
- Act 2, No. 10: "How still is the Ukranian night"
- Act 2, No. 10: "O Maria, Maria"
- Act 2, No. 11: "My dearest love"
- Act 2, No. 11: "Long has my mind been working on a plan"
- Act 2, No. 11: "When I am near you I know no fear"
- Act 2, No. 12: "How the stars twinkle in the sky"
- Act 2, No. 13: "Will it be soon?"
- Act 2, No. 14: "...hey-ho, fiddle-de-dee"
- Act 2, No. 14: "My friend, let us offer up for the last time"
- Act 2, No. 14: "Hear their prayers of repentance"
- Act 3, No. 15: The Battle of Poltava
- Act 3, No. 16: "In bloody battle, on the field of honour"
- Act 3, No. 16: "Here days passed by in happy succession"
- Act 3, No. 17: "I hear in the distance the clatter of horses' hooves..."
- Act 3, No. 17: "You destroyer of sacred innocence"
- Act 3, No. 18: "Unhappy man! God knows"
- Act 3, No. 18: "O hush, hush, hush, my dear!"
- Act 3, No. 18: "I remember a field... noise and celebration..."
- Act 3, No. 19: "The old man's gone, how my heart beats"
- Act 3, No. 19: "Sleep, my baby, my pretty"
Free Music Notes for Tchaikovsky: Mazeppa
Free Music Review: There's More To This Opera Than The Hopak
Hit: 5 Stars
Tchaikovsky is remembered for his great orchestral works such as the symphonies, overtures, piano and violin concertos, and ballet music. But as people familiar with his life's story know, he was an opera composer at heart and dreamed of being the Russian equivalent of Verdi or Wagner. He had specific favorites. He loved Italian opera and admired Verdi, enjoyed French Grand Opera and mimicked Bizet, but was not as infatuated by Wagner's music as so many of his contemporaries seemed to be. The non-Russian European influence can be seen in works such as EUGENE ONEGIN and PIQUE DAME. Still he composed a great number of operas but very few are staged, and when they premiered, most bombed. The reason: Russian audiences loved opera but wanted Russian composers to write operas on Russian themes and subjects. Often Tchaikovsky's music was considered too Russian outside of Russia and not Russian enough in his homeland, and thus was never fully appreciated.
In some ways MAZEPPA is a combination of what we've come to associate with Russian opera with the elements of French and Italian opera loved by the composer. It's based on a historical subject, the ill-fated seventeenth century ruler of the Ukraine during the early years of Czar Peter I. It contains wonderful arias, large spectacle scenes, orchestral excitement, and some dance scenes. It starts on a powerful note and ends with a heart wrenching duet that ends as a solo effort. Given the beauty of the music, it's hard to understand why it's largely unknown outside of Russia.
This recording is from a live staging by the Kirov staged in 1996, conducted by Valery Gergiev. MAZEPPA has been a regular work in the Kirov's history, so the performers are familiar with the opera which may be why there is such a natural feel to the recording. For me, the standouts vocally are tenor Victor Lutsiuk as Andrey and soprano Irina Loskutova as Maria. This may be due to my instant falling in love with the final duet of Act III. As soon as I heard it, it became one of my favorite scenes in opera. Russian baritone Nikolai Putilin does an admirable job as Mazeppa. He recently starred in the Metropolitan Opera production of this work so his name may be familiar to regular listeners of Saturday afternoon broadcasts.
For a live recording, the background noise is minimal. This is a worthwhile recording and will make people realize there's more to this opera than its well known excerpt, the Hopak.
Tchaikovsky: Mazeppa Poster
The conventional wisdom with Tchaikovsky's operas is that there are two great ones (Eugene Onegin and Pique Dame), two good ones (Iolantha and Maid of Orleans) and lots of other sad ones. What a surprise, then, that Mazeppa belongs at the top of the Tchaikovsky opera canon. It begins as a conventional love story between a warrior and a young maiden but turns darker than anything in Italian verismo and more emotionally complicated than most things in Richard Strauss. Though the Deutsche Grammophon recording under Neeme J?rvi has a more open acoustic and a starrier cast (including Galina Gorchakova and Sergei Leiferkus), the Kirov outing is more passionately and knowingly conducted by Valery Gergiev, which in some ways makes a stronger case for the opera's viability. The cast tends to be workmanlike and can be somewhat fatiguing, though Nikolai Putilin rises to the challenge of the great title role with an authority that makes up for his lack of tonal luster. --David Patrick StearnsClassical Music CDs
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