Renée Fleming & Dmitri Hvorostovsky : a musical Odyssey in St Petersburg
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Renée Fleming & Dmitri Hvorostovsky : a musical Odyssey in St Petersburg
Decca , Distributed by Universal Music and Video Distribution, c2009
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Opera excerpts (1st, 3rd and 12th-18th works); for voice and piano (5th-10th)
Sung in Russian (5th-10th, 12th-14th and 17th-18th works), Italian (1st, 3rd and 16th) and French (15th); with English subtitles (1st, 3rd, 5th-10th and 12th-18th)
Narrated in English (2nd, 4th and 11th works)
Renée Fleming, soprano (1st, 3rd, 6th, 8th-9th, 13th-14th, 16th and 18th works) and narrator (2nd, 4th and 11th) ; Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone (1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th, 10th, 12th, 14th-15th and 17th) ; Ivari Ilja (5th, 7th and 10th), Olga Kern (6th and 8th-9th), pianos ; State Hermitage Orchestra (St Petersburg Camerata) (1st, 3rd and 12th-18th) ; Constantine Orbelian, conductor (1st, 3rd and 12th-18th)
Credits: Produced by Bernhard Fleischer ; directed for video by Brian Large
Filmed at the White Columns Hall of the Yusupov Palace (1st and 3rd works); the Baroque Theatre of the Yusupov Palace (5th-10th); the Gold Ballroom of the Peterhof Palace (12th-14th)
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Decca: B0014647-09
Contents of Works
- Il trovatore. Duet from act IV (Ah! dove sei, crudele? -- Mira, di acerbe lagrime -- Vivrà!-- contende il giubilo) / Giuseppe Verdi
- Exploring St Petersburg & the Winter Palace
- Simon Boccanegra. Duet from act I (Favella il Doge ad Amelia Grimaldi? -- Orfanella in tetto umile -- Figlia!-- a tal nome io palpito qual se m'aprisse i cieli) / Giuseppe Verdi
- Alexander Nevsky Monastery Cemetery & the Yusupov Palace
- At the ball : op. 38 no. 3 = Sred shumnovo bala / Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- In the silence of the night : op. 4 no. 3 = V molchani nochi taynoy / Sergey Rachmaninov
- The winter evening : op. 13 no. 1 = Zimniy vecher / Nikolai Medtner
- Don't sing to me, fair maiden : op. 4 no. 4 = Ne poy, krasavitsa, pri mne / Sergey Rachmaninov
- Spring waters : op. 14 no. 11 = Vesenniye vodi / Sergey Rachmaninov
- Don Juan's serenade : op. 38 no. 1 = Serenada Don-Zhuana / Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Church of the Saviour on Spilled Blood & the Peterhof Palace
- Pique dame. Act II. Yeletzki's aria (Ya vas lyublyu) / Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Oprichnik. Act I. Natasha's aria (Pochudilis mne budto golosa) / Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Eugene Onegin. Final scene (O! Kak mne tyazhelo! -- Onegin! Ya togda molozhe) / Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Bonus tracks. Hamlet. Act II. Hamlet's drinking song (Ô vin, dissipe la tristesse) / Ambroise Thomas
- Norma. Act I. Casta diva / Vincenzo Bellini
- Nero. Act I. Epitalama (Poyu tebe, bog Gimeney) / Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein
- Pique dame. Act I. Lisa's aria (Zachem zhe eti slyozy) / Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
