Ivan Susanin (A life for the tsar)
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Ivan Susanin (A life for the tsar)
(Great opera recordings)
Naxos Historical, c2005
Musical Sound Recording(Compact Audio Disc)
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Opera in four acts and an epilogue (1st work)
Sung in Russian (1st-3rd and 5th-6th works) and German (4th)
Libretto by S.M. Gorodetsky
Rosen text (3rd and 5th-6th works)
Natalia Spiller (1st work), Antonida Nezhdanova (3rd), sopranos ; Yelizaveta Antonova (1st), I.N. Sokolova (2nd), Evgeniya Zbruyeva (5th), altos ; Georgi Nelepp (1st), Ivan Skobtsov (1st), Helge Rosvaenge (4th), tenors ; Maxim Mikhailov (1st), Alexander Hosson (1st), Fyodor Svetlanov (1st), Mark Reizen (2nd), Feodor Chaliapin (6th), basses ; Chorus and Orchestra of the Bolshoy Theater, Moscow (1st) ; Alexander Melik-Pashayev (1st), Vasili Nebolsin (1st), conductors
Recorded in Moscow, 1947 and 1950 (1st work); 1950 (2nd); in Russia, 20th April 1913 (3rd); in Berlin, 1940 (4th); 18th November 1913 (5th); in London 25th September 1923 and 14th July 1924 (6th)
Compact discs; analog recording
Naxos Historical: 8.111078--8.111080
Contents of Works
- Ivan Susanin (A life for the tsar)
- Appendix. Extracts from A life for the Tsar: selections from acts 3 and 4. Act 3. Duet: Kak mat' ubili u malogo ptentsa = When they killed the mother of the little bird
- Romance: Nye o tom skorblyu, podruzhen'ki = I am not grieving over that, dear friends
- Act 4. Brattsï! V metyel' = Brethren! In the storm
- Aria: Bednyï kon' v polye pal = The poor horse fell in the field
- Aria: Chuyut pravdu! = They sense the truth!