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Recording Date: 1992
Place of recording: Glyndebourne Festival Opera
Running Time: 170 min
Picture Format: 4:3
Sound Format: PCM Stereo
Menu Languages PAL: D, GB, F, SP
Subtitle Languages PAL: D, GB, F, SP
“Graham Vick's 1992 staging is worthy of this extraordinary score. He reflects exactly the highly charged emotions and sense of brooding menace pervading the composer's re-enactment of Pushkin's story, thus creating a compelling psychodrama that compels both eye and ear. Davis catches most, if not all, of the score's romantic sweep and inner, dislocating turbulence, although the impassioned undercurrents are better achieved in the Kirov video, conducted by Gergiev (below). Yuri Marusin is the crazed Herman incarnate. Whether or not you can accept his often off-pitch singing is a personal matter. As his Lisa, Nancy Gustafson, offers a portrayal of an impressionable girl driven to distraction and suicide by the unhinged behaviour of her lover. She sings the part in warm, passionate tones.
Peter Maniura's video direction catches every facial expression of both characters and of Felicity Palmer's electrifying Countess. Sergei Leiferkus is elegant and commanding as the free-loving Tomsky. Dimitri Kharitonov is the soul of rectitude as Yeletsky and brings a bronzed tone to his lovely aria. Marie-Ange Todorovitch is an attractively palpitating Pauline.
Picture and sound are exemplary.” Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 “[Yuri Marusin] is the part from beginning to end...Felicity Palmer's Countess is particularly fine. Andrew Davis holds all the threads together magnificently and gets an impressive response from his singers and the LPO.” Penguin Guide, 2010 edition **/*** | | | This item is currently out of stock at the UK distributor. You may order it now but please be aware that it may be six weeks or more before it can be despatched. |
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Larissa Lezhnina, Farukh Ruzimatov, Yulia Makhalina, Vadim Guliayev The Kirov Ballet, Viktor Fedotov Recording Date: 1989
Place of recording: Recorded live at the Place des Arts, Montréal, Canada
Running Time: 129 min
Picture Format: 4:3
Sound Format: PCM Stereo
Menu Languages PAL: D, F, GB, SP
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Teresa Kubiak (Tatyana), Bernd Weikl (Eugene Onegin), Stuart Burrows (Lensky), Julia Hamari (Olga), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Gremin), Enid Hartle (Filipyevna), Anna Reynolds (Larina), Michel Sénéchal (Triquet), Richard Van Allan (Zaretzky), William Mason (Captain) Orchestra of Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Georg Solti (film version) | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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“This production from St Petersburg, and contemporaneous with the Glyndebourne production reviewed above, is a much more conventional but equally valid approach. The staging is always apt, and in terms of cast, the Kirov holds the edge over its rival. The young Guleghina is the intense, vibrant Lisa to the life. The video direction is exemplary, though the sound leaves something to be desired.” Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 “It is handsome to look at and very well staged, a joy to watch as well as listen to...it is a straightforward and clean-cut presentation, deftly using massive choruses to match the opulent scenery, and nearly all the cast is first-rate.” Penguin Guide, 2010 edition **** | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Moscow and the Golden Ring
Arensky: | Finale from Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 32 Elegia from Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 32 | Balakirev: | Symphonic Poem 'Tamara' (excerpts) | Kalinnikov, Vasily: | Andante from Tsar Boris | Tchaikovsky: | Valse sentimentale, Op. 51 No. 6 Nocturne in C sharp minor (No. 4 from Morceaux (6), Op. 19) Marche miniature from Suite No. 1 in D major, Op. 43 Danse russe in A minor, Op. 40 No. 10 | trad.: | The joy of those who mourn Steppes, only steppes Snow falls in the street Hail Mary Fade, fade Evening Bell Dark Eyes Bells, Christ is risen |
The music here included ranges from folk-song and extracts from the Russian Orthodox liturgy to works by Russian nationalist composers of the later nineteenth century, including Balakirev, Arensky and the more cosmopolitan Tchaikovsky. | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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The composers whose music is here included, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Cui, Liadov and Ippolitov Ivanov, were themselves closely associated with Russian music of the later nineteenth century and, inevitably, with St Petersburg and its Conservatory. | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Les Pianos de la Nuit - Richard Strauss
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| |  | A Naxos Musical Journey - Night Music Vol. 1
This first Night Music volume of the Naxos Musical Journey features such all-time favorites as Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata," Debussy's "Claire de Lune," Pachelbel's "Canon," Mozart's "Eine kleine Nachtmusik" ("A Little Night Music") and more. From the romance of Venice to the natural serenity of the Swiss valleys; from an idyllic French port village to the splendor of Ludwig II's Bavarian castle; these beautiful sites and melodies will transport you with a touch of wonder and a little night music. | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | The Grand Organ of Liverpool Cathedral
Bach, J S: | Partita for solo violin No. 2 in D minor, BWV1004: Chaconne arr. Goss-Custard | Davies, Walford: | Solemn Melody, for organ | Dawes, C: | Melody | Edmundson: | Vom Himmel hoch (Toccata-Prelude IV) | Handel: | Overture to the Occasional Oratorio, HWV62 arr. Walter Henry Goss-Custard | Lefebure-Wely: | Boléro de Concert, Op. 166 | Mulet: | Esquisse Byzantine: No. 8 'Noël' Esquisse Byzantine: No. 10 'Tu es petra et portae inferi non praevalebunt' | Nevin, G B: | Will o' the Wisp | Peeters: | Lied to the Flowers, Lied to the Sun (Lied Symphony Op. 66) | Schumann: | Four Sketches, Op. 58 | Tchaikovsky: | The Nutcracker: Dance of the Mirlitons The Nutcracker: Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy The Nutcracker: Danse Arabe | Verdi: | Grand March from Aida arr. Ian Wells |
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| |  | Great Violinists on The Bell Telephone Hour
Bach, J S: | Double concerto in C minor BWV1060a, 2nd and 3rd movements David & Igor Oistrakh | Bruch: | Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26, 3rd movement Erica Morini | Debussy: | Préludes - Book 1: No. 8, La fille aux cheveux de lin transcribed for violin Zino Francescatti | Fauré: | Élégie in C minor, Op. 24 Gregor Piatigorsky | Kreisler: | Caprice Viennois, Op. 2 Michael Rabin Schön Rosmarin Mischa Elman | Paganini: | Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, Op. 6, 2nd and 3rd movements Yehudi Menuhin | Saint-Saëns: | Introduction & Rondo capriccioso, Op. 28 Isaac Stern | Sarasate: | Zigeunerweisen, Op. 20 Zino Francescatti | Tchaikovsky: | Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35: III. Allegro vivacissimo Michael Rabin Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35: III. Allegro vivacissimo Ruggiero Ricci | Wieniawski: | Violin Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 22: Romance Mischa Elman |
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