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Borodin: Prince Igor

Dušan Popović (Igor Svyatoslavich), Valerija Heybal (Yaroslavna), Noni Žunec (Vladimir Igorevich), Žarko Cvejić (Vladimir Galitsky/Konchak), Melanija Bugarinović (Konchakovna), Dragutin Petrović (Ovlur), Dragomir Ninković (Skula), Nikola Jančić (Yeroshka), Biserka Cvejić (Yaroslavna’s Nurse/Polovtsian...

Popović strikes me as an excellent baritone, a muscular sound with ringing top notes. His is one of the best Prince Igors on disc – heroic and noble...Bugarinović has a dark, almost contralto-ish... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2019 More…

Release Date: 22nd Jun 2018
Catalogue No: ELQ4826935
Label: Eloquence
Series: Belgrade Opera Series
Length: 3 hours 25 minutes

Gramophone Magazine

February 2019

Reissue of the Month

Borodin: Prince Igor

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Dushan Popovich (baritone), Dushan Popovich (bass (vocal)), Dragomir Ninkovich (bass (vocal)), Valeria Heybalova (soprano), Biserka Cvejic (soprano), Melanie Bugarinovich (mezzo-soprano), Dragutin Petrovich (tenor), Zharko Tzveych (bass (vocal)), Nikola Janchich (tenor), Noni Zhunetz (tenor)
Belgrade National Opera Orchestra, Belgrade National Opera Chorus
Oskar Danon
Recorded: 1955-02-09
Recording Venue: House of Culture, Belgrade

Overture

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"Solntsu krasnomu slava, slava, slava v nebe!"

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"Idem na bran's vragom Rusi!"

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"Knjaz'ja, pora nam vystupat!"

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"Puskay sebe idut"

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"Pust pridut knyagini i boyarini"

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"Tebe, kak bratu, ee ja"

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"Slava, slava, Volodimiru"

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"Natesilsja li Knaz?"

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"Ho! Knjazju Galickomu slava!"

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"Oj, lichon'ko! Oj gorjusko!

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"Stoj, rebjata, sluchaj!"

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"Shto u knjazja da Volodimira"

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"Da, vot komu by knjazhit' na Putivle!"

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"Ne malo vremeni proslo s tech por"

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"Tam devuski prisli k tebe, knjaginja"

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"Aj! Knjaz! Batjuski!"

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"Dobro pozhalovat', bojare"

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"Nam, knjaginja, ne vpervye"

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"Na bezvodii, dnyom na solntse"

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Dance of the Polovtsian Maidens

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"Merknet svet dnevnoj"

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"Podrugi devicy"

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"Solnce za goroj uchidit na pokoj"

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"Medlenno den ugasal"

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"Ach! Gde ty, gde?"

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"Ti li, Vladimir moi? Ti li, o milii moi?"

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"Nu shtozh otyets tvoi?"

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"Ni sna, ni otdikha izmuchennoi dushe"

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"Pozvol'mne, knaze, slovo molvit'"

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"Zdorov-li, knyaz? Shto priunil ti, gost moi?"

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"O nyet, nyet drug"

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"Gej! Plennic privesti sjuda!"

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Polovtsian Dances - "Uletaj na kryl'jach vetra"

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Polovtsian Dances - "Pojte pesni slavy chanu!"

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Polovtsian Dances - "Slav'te shchesrost, slav'te milost'!"

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"Rat idyot domoi, rat idyot s podeboi"

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"Nash mech nam dal pobedu"

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"Igrajte, truby!"

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"Uzel'chan nas gorod vsjal"

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"Knjaz', skorej sbirjsja v put'"

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"Vladimir! Uzhel vsyo eto pravda?"

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"Knyaz Igor', uskakal!"

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"Akh, plachu ya, gorko plachu ya"

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"Och, ne bujnyl veter zavyval"

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"Kak unilo vsyo krugom, syola vizheni"

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"On, moi sokol yasni!...Zdravstvui! Radost, lada"

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"Ty gudi, gudi da"

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"Gljadi! Glyadi! Gljadi-ko!"

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"Narod!...suda! suda! idi! skorei!"

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"Guljaj vo zdrav' knjajzja"

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A first release on CD for the first recording in stereo (and entirely complete) of Borodin’s operatic masterpiece.

With this and six companion issues to be released during the course of 2018, Eloquence makes available for the first time on CD the seven complete Russian operas recorded in 1955 by Decca with the company of the Belgrade Opera. Fresh from a successful tour of Boris Godunov in Switzerland the previous year, the Belgrade Opera in 1955 was keen to make an impression on an international public. At the same time, the Decca company perceived a cost-effective but artistically assured opportunity to expand both its small but rapidly growing stereo catalogue (launched the previous year with Ansermet and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande) and its opera discography with classics of the

Russian opera repertoire which it had previously not been possible to record in the original language. In the event, the stereo versions were held back for the US market and only released in Europe in the 1960s, by which time the Belgrade Opera had acquired an international reputation for excellence thanks both to the mono issues and to its extensive touring schedule, which took in all the major European operatic centres.

The title role of Prince Igor on this recording is taken by Dušan Popović (1927–2001), a company member of the Belgrade Opera (1951–60) who also sung the role with the Vienna State Opera and the Opéra de Monte-Carlo. Popović was joined by other stalwarts of the company such as Melanija Bugarinović, who also won acclaim as Erda at Bayreuth around this time, and the magnificently resonant bass of Žarko Cvejić as the wheedling Prince Galitsky. As Igor’s wife Yaroslavna, Valerija Heybal (1918–94) brings tremendous intensity to her two great set-pieces, with the kind of aristocratic vocal control that lent such lyric pathos to her singing of Tatyana in the Belgrade recording of Eugene Onegin (forthcoming).

The booklet for this newly remastered release prints both a synopsis and an essay by Peter Quantrill giving full historical context to the Belgrade opera recordings.

‘Oskar Danon’s handling of the score and the orchestral playing in this set are of a very high standard.’ Opera, October 1955

‘To begin with, it gives us every note of the score … Oskar Danon directs a well-shaped and convincing performance.’ High Fidelity, June 1963

‘The performance is a real company effort and has the attendant advantage of sounding like a live one … Popović is a splendidly rich-voiced, virile Igor, who gives a moving portrayal … it was a pleasure to hear again Bugarinović’s seductive-sounding Konchakovna.’ Opera, May 1969

Artists

Chorus and Orchestra of the National Theatre, Belgrade, Oskar Danon

Reviews

February 2019

Popović strikes me as an excellent baritone, a muscular sound with ringing top notes. His is one of the best Prince Igors on disc – heroic and noble...Bugarinović has a dark, almost contralto-ish tone and no Slavic wobble.

December 2018

Enthusiasm and sparkle are certainly uppermost in [Danon’s] crackling Price Igor…Best of all is the baritone Dušan Popović, an outstandingly impressive, noble Igor…There are no librettos, but when the recorded quality, singing and (at least Danon’s) conducting are so good, that is a small price to pay.

Borodin: Prince Igor

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