Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
又名: 肖斯塔科维奇《姆琴斯克县的麦克白夫人》
表演者: Galina Vishnevskaya/Nicolai Gedda/Dimiter Petkov/Werner Krenn/Robert Tear/Taru Valjakka/Martyn Hill/Leonard Mroz/Aage Haugland/Birgit Finnil?/Alexander Malta/Leslie Fyson/Steven Emmerson/John Noble/Colin Appleton/Alan Byers/James Lewington/Oliver Broome/Edgar Fleet/David Beavan/Lynda Richardson/Ambrosian Opera Chorus/London Philharmonic Orchestra/Mstislav Rostropovich
流派: 古典
介质: Audio CD
发行时间: 1993
唱片数: 2
出版者: EMI Classics
条形码: 0077774995528
专辑简介
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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 Libbey
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曲目
Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, opera, Op. 29
Composed by Dmitry Shostakovich
Performed by Ambrosian Opera Chorus, London Philharmonic Orchestra
with Martyn Hill, Birgit Finnila, Dimiter Petkov, Taru Valjakka, Alexander Malta, Leslie Fyson, Nicolai Gedda, Oliver Broome, Alan Byers, Edgar Fleet, James Lewington, Colin Appleton, Galina Vishnievskaya, Robert Tear, Aage Haugland, Steven Emmerson, Leonard Mroz, Linda Richardson, Werner Krenn, David Beavan, John Noble
Conducted by Mstislav Rostropovich