CD 1
VENIAMIN FLEISHMAN
1913-1941
Rothschild's Violin
37:07
An opera in 1 act from the story by Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) completed and orchestrated by Dmitri Shostakovich
You're off key, 2nd violin. Damn your slurring bow!
2.
Bronza (to Rothschild)
1:16
What are you playing, I am going to kill you, wretch! (to Shakhes)
This town is worse than a village. Nothing but old people, and then they die so rarely that it's annoying.
4.
The musicians start playing. When they finish they walk, with the exception of Rothschild, into the house.
3:28
Do you remember, Yakov?
6.
God had given us a little blond girl. She died.
1:48
Make the trumpet merrier!
Down here on earth everything flies by so fast!
9.
Rothschild freezes, his knees go weak...
1:02
Loss: one coffin for Marfa Ivanova, two roubles and forty kopecks
If men could live without hatred and evil, they would experience such undreamt of happiness.
It's better to die. You no longer need to drink, eat, pay taxes, nor affend anyone.
Be kind to me, don't hit me!
14.
Rothschild starts playing the violin....
4:53
CD 2
DMITRY SHOSTAKOVICH
An unfinsihed opera based on the play by Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) of the same name, Op.63
1.
Orchestral Prelude
1:32
Kindly come this way, sir, please! Here is the room!
Tell me who everyone is who's staying here.
What a sight! Every pack worth money!
5.
So serve me, my love, as your sister did and let me win eighty thousand roubles as she did.
0:51
6.
Alexey (to Gavryushka)
1:15
Have you come a long way?
I was really afraid he could take us by surprise here.
8.
It'll be enough for a bonnet for Matryona and gingerbread for my little rascals.
2:08
9.
To this day I still don't know which town is more enjoyable - Ryazan or Kazan?...
1:55
Listen! How much did they give you?
Well, I have indeed, and shall often be hoodwinked again.
Dont' squabble, my friend; you're wrong.
When is a cheese specially good, friends?
14.
Uteshitelny, Shvokhnev, Krugel
1:16
We'll repay frankness with frankness
I can't refuse so generaous an offer!
May I ask, since when have you been at such pains to achieve this profound knowledge?
17.
An elderly man came out to meet me, I introducted myself and explained the purpose of my arrival.
3:12
18.
he detects how the pattern runs on a two and for he earns five thousand roubles a year in cash!
5:09
19.
In the cart slump several young men, dead drunk, bawling songs...
1:56
They're clever people, these gentlemen!...
Solo: Jacek Janiszewski bass
Solo: Elena Gabouri mezzo-soprano
Solo: Andris Lapins tenor
Solo: Michal Lehotsky tenor
Solo: Peter Danailov baritone
Solo: Roman Astakhov bass
Solo: Piotr Nowacki bass
Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Vasily Petrenko