RIMSKY-KORSAKOV - Mozart And Salieri - The Noblewoman Vera Sheloga (CD)

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV, Nikolay Andreyevich (1844-1908)

A room

1. Some people say: there is no right on earth / Salieri 7:54

2. Aha! You saw me! / Mozart, Salieri 1:48

3. And you can laugh? / Salieri, Mozart 2:00

4. Picture… well, whom should you? / Mozart 3:24

5. You were bringing this to me and could just stop and listen at some inn / Salieri, Mozart 2:06

6. No, I cannot withstand it any longer / Salieri 5:47

Scene 2 - A special room at an inn; a piano

7. You seem a little down today / Salieri, Mozart 2:10

8. About three weeks ago, I came back home / Mozart, Salieri 2:17

9. Enough! What is this childish terror? / Salieri, Mozart 3:15

10. Mozart's Requiem / Choir 1:30

11. You weep? / Mozart, Salieri 1:23

12. The world could not exist / Mozart 1:41

13. You will sleep for long, Mozart / Salieri 2:13

The Noblewoman Vera Sheloga, a musical and dramatic prologue to Lev Mey's drama The Maid of Pskov, Op. 54

14. Overture 4:59

Prologue. Scene 1

15. These pearls are so beautiful, milady / Vlasyevna, Nadezhda 5:58

16. Lullaby Bye baby, bye baby, bye my Olenka / Vera 3:07

Scene 2

17. Olenka fell asleep to your song? / Nadezhda, Vera 6:34

18. I got married against my will… Then I got used to it… (Vera's story) / Vera, Nadezhda 4:43

19. How did you survive! It scares me when you speak / Nadezhda, Vera 4:27

20. I woke up at night in my bed / Vera, Nadezhda 4:36

Scene 3

21. Did you expect dear guests? / Boyar Sheloga, Vera, Nadezhda 1:50

Characters and performers:

Mozart - Alexander Fedin, tenor

Salieri - Evgeny Nesterenko, bass

A blind fiddler

S. Girshenko, violin solo

V. Chasovennaya, piano

The USSR State Choir conducted by I. Agafonnikov

The Orchestra of the USSR StateAcademic Bolshoi Theatre

Conductor - Mark Ermler

Recorded in 1986.

Characters and performers:

Boyar Ivan Semyonovich Sheloga -Vladimir Karimov, bass

Vera Dmitriyevna, his wife - Tamara Milashkina, soprano

Nadezhda Nasonova, Vera’s sister -Olga Teryushnova, mezzo-soprano

Prince Yuri Ivanovich Tokmakov -Vladimir Karimov, bass

Vlasyevna, Nadezhda’s nurse -Nina Grigorieva, contralto

The Orchestra of the USSR StateAcademic Bolshoi Theatre

Conductor - Mark Ermler

Recorded in 1985.