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CD available From: 15 June 2000 |
Opera - War and Peace
| | Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
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| War and Peace, Op. 91 | 235:10 | | | | | Recorded live at the 1999 Spoleto Festival | | | | | | Libretto by the composer and Mira Mendelson after the novel by Leo Tolstoy | | | 2 | | 'The radiance of the sky in spring . . .' | 3:39 | | 3 | | 'I won't, I can't sleep' | 4:58 | | 4 | | 'O God, my God! What a shame to sleep!' | 2:57 | | 6 | | 'Chorus! Let the chorus begin!' | 4:57 | | 7 | | 'Look, the colonel's dancing the mazurka' | 2:39 | | | | | Peronskaya, Akhrosimova, Hélène, Anatoly, Count Rostov | | | 8 | | 'Will no one choose me as a partner?' | 2:48 | | 9 | | 'When I was at Otradnoye in May' | 6:51 | | 10 | | 'The young Prince's fiancée' | 5:19 | | 11 | | 'Ah, Madam, young lady . . .' | 5:55 | | 12 | | 'The charming, delightful Natasha' | 3:18 | | 13 | | 'She's wonderful and so beautiful' | 7:12 | | 14 | | 'At ten o'clock in the evening, she'll be waiting' | 4:09 | | 1 | | 'Oh, my dear Miss Natasha, all is lost, it seems' | 3:38 | | 2 | | 'A fine young lady you are!' | 6:34 | | 3 | | 'I've sough to avoid her' | 11:07 | | 4 | | 'Picture the scene, Countess' | 10:49 | | 5 | | 'The forces of two and ten European nations' | 5:19 | | 1 | | 'Come on lads!' 'That's the way!' | 8:27 | | 2 | | 'Denisov, her first fiancé' | 3:27 | | 3 | | 'It's the master, look at him!' | 6:06 | | 5 | | 'There is no people greater than ours' | 10:34 | | 6 | | 'The wine is uncorked; we must drink it' | 10:25 | | 7 | | 'And so, gentlemen, the question is . . .' | 6:48 | | 8 | | 'The enemy bears down on us with fire and steel' | 1:13 | | 9 | | 'When, oh when was this dreadful business decided?' | 9:12 | | 1 | | 'Moscow's deserted!' | 8:14 | | 2 | | 'I must do the deed, or die' | 4:28 | | 3 | | 'Where di you get such a good going-over, lads?' | 2:11 | | 4 | | 'Davout, the cruel Davout, the emperor Napoleon's hatchet man!' | 5:16 | | 5 | | 'Nothing matters now, nothing' | 6:41 | | 6 | | 'What a dreadful scene!' | 4:13 | | 7 | | 'It's stretching higher and further' | 8:20 | | 8 | | 'Has fate really brought us together so strangely today . . .' | 7:22 | | 9 | | 'We've burnt our bridges . . .' | 5:08 | | 11 | | 'Dolokhov said that Hélène had passed away' | 2:38 | | 12 | | 'The Commander-in-chief is coming!' | 1:44 | | 13 | | 'The enemy has been put to rout' | 6:15 | | | Ekaterina Morozova soprano - Countess Natalya Rostova |
| | Justin Lavender tenor - Count Pyotr Bezukhov |
| | Oleg Balashov tenor - Prince Anatol Kuragin |
| | Roderick Williams baritone - Prince Andrey Bolkonsky |
| | Pamela Helen Stephen mezzo-soprano - Sonya |
| | Igor Matioukhin baritone - Lieutenant Dolokhov |
| | Elena Ionova mezzo-soprano - Countess Hélène Bezukhov |
| | Alan Ewing bass - Prince Mikhail Kutuzov |
| | Stephen Dupont baritone - Count Ilya Rostov |
| | Thomas Guthrie baritone - Colonel Vasska Denisov |
| | Vladimir Ognev bass - Prince Nikolay Bolkonsky |
| | Victoria Livengood contralto - Mariya Akrosimova |
| | Neil Jenkins tenor - Platon Karatayev |
| | Alan Opie baritone - Napoleon Bonaparte |
| | Russian State Symphonic Cappella |
| | | | Valeri Polyanksy chorus master | | | | Spoleto Festival Orchestra |
| | Teatro Nuovo, Spoleto, Italy |
| | | | 4, 6, 8, 9 & 10 July 1999 | | | | Richard Hetherington (Assistant) |
| | Richard Smoker (Assistant) |
| | Format: Digital CD 16Bit 44.1Khz
Originally recorded in: 24Bit 96Khz |
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