Prokofiev: Semyon Kotko

Cat. No. CHAN 10053(3) H

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No. of discs: 3

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CD available From: 17 February 2003

Opera - Semyon Kotko

Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)

Semyon Kotko, Op. 81

182:45

An opera in five acts

Libretto by S. S. Prokofiev and Valentin Katayev

Based on Katayev's story 'I am a son of the working people'

COMPACT DISC ONE

Introduction - Andante

3:37

Act I

In front of Semyon's cottage

1:49

Scene 1

Semyon: 'A soldier came back from the front'

4:11

Scene 2

Mother: 'Who d'you want?'

4:03

Tableau 2

Scene 1

Second woman: 'The soldier Semyon Kotko has come back'

2:00

Scene 2

Frosya: 'He's woken up, he's got dressed'

1:53

Scene 3

Semyon: 'Good day, friends and neighbours'

3:11

Scene 4

First woman: 'We are very pleased to see you again'

1:53

Scene 5

Semyon: 'A soldier came back from the front'

5:38

Scene 6

Sofya: 'It's papa coming back from the market'

2:59

Scene 7

Remeniuk: 'Greetings, soldier! Welcome home!'

6:52

Scene 8

Frosya: 'The sound of the rain'

3:19

Scene 9

Mikola: 'Frosya!'

3:15

Scene 10

Semyon: 'Mother ... Mother'

2:04

Act II

Scene 1

Tkachenko: 'I can't understand it'

2:47

Scene 2

Tkachenko: 'Khivrya! What's that?'

1:38

Scene 3

Remeniuk: 'We've got business with you'

2:04

Scene 4

Remeniuk:'A young prince'

2:40

Scene 5

Tsaryov: 'We get the same sort ...'

3:43

Scene 6

Tkachenko: 'Women's tears!'

4:43

Scene 7

Three women etc: 'The groom is coming'

4:11

Scene 8

German NCO: 'Morgen!'

3:58

Scene 9

Interpreter: 'To eat?'

4:19

77:10

COMPACT DISC TWO

Act II (continued)

Scene 10

Remeniuk: 'Did you see me?'

5:17

Act III

A little garden alongside Tkachenko's cottage

1:40

Scene 1

Sofya: 'I had the same dream again'

3:24

Scene 2

Tkachenko: 'Sonya! Is that you?'

3:37

Scene 3

Tsaryov: 'So it's the young prince!'

2:45

Scene 4

Frosya: 'I had a dream, Mikola'

3:11

Scene 5

Mikola: 'Early, early in the morning'

1:54

Scene 6

Tkachenko: 'I can't hear anything ...'

4:46

Scene 7

Mikola: 'Uncle Tsaryov ... Uncle Tsaryov ...'

3:42

Scene 8

Workman: 'Permettez-moi de parlais français'

4:27

Scene 9

Tkachenko: 'Permit me to present for your perusal'

1:02

Scene 10

Lyubka: 'No, no, that wasn't my Vasilyok'

2:14

Scene 11

Semyon: 'So things turn out ...'

1:59

Scene 12

Mikola: 'Uncle Semyon ... Uncle Semyon'

1:36

Scene 13

Sofya: 'Oh, Frosechka, it's terrible ...'

3:00

Scene 14

First Haydamak: 'The swine!'

8:38

53:27

COMPACT DISC THREE

Act IV

Tableau 1

Scene 1

Mikola: 'Oh my God, my God, forgive me'

3:55

Scene 2

Remeniuk: 'So ... So ...'

4:41

Scene 3

Chorus: 'When I die, bury me in a grave'

5:37

Tableau 2

Scene 2

Semyon: 'That means ... that means ...'

3:04

Scene 2

Semyon: 'Then we've got ...'

0:21

Scene 3

Mikola: 'Cu-ckoo. Cu-ckoo'

8:54

Scene 4

Remeniuk: 'Eh!'

5:17

Act V

Scene 1

Bandura player: 'Oh woe, bitter woe!'

4:24

Scene 2

Mother: 'Semyon!'

4:57

Scene 3

Tkachenko: 'He, he, he!'

5:01

Scene 4

Tkachenko: 'So now, stand up, my friends'

4:45

Scene 5

Chorus: 'The cavalry flies over a free Ukraine'

0:57

52:08

N. Gres tenor - Semyon

T. Yanko mezzo-soprano - Semyon's mother

T. Antipova soprano - Frosya

G. Troitsky bass - Remeniuk

N. Panchekhin bass - Tkachenko

A. Klescheva mezzo-soprano - Khivrya

L. Gelovani soprano - Sofya

M. Kisilev baritone - Tsaryov

T. Tugarinova soprano - Lyubka

N. Timchenko tenor - Mikola

D. Demyanov bass - Ivasenko

M. Shchavinsky tenor - Workman

V. Zakharov Von Wierhof

German officers - N. Brilling / L. Neverov

Two Hatdamaks - A. Lokshin / G. Ostrovsky

Bandura player - B. Dobrin

Women, old men, Semyon's companions

USSR Radio Symphony Orchestra

Mikhail Zhukov

Recorded in:

Moscow 1961

Sound Engineer(s)

Aleksandr Grosman

Pete Reynolds

Format: ADD
Originally recorded in:

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