Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) - Mazeppa (1994)
Cover Front Album
Composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Conductor Neeme Järvi
Orchestra / Ensemble I Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Length 166:43
Format CD
Genre Vocal; Opera
Chorus I Chorus of the Royal Opera, Stockholm
Chorus Master Bo Wannefors
Index 699
Out of Print Yes
Credits
Producer Lennart Dehn
Label Deutsche Grammophon
Track List
Mazeppa 62:54
01 Introduction: Allegro non troppo 06:41
02 Act I: Scene 1: No. 1: Girls' Chorus and Scene "Ya zav'yu, zav'yu venok moy dusistiy" "Zdravstvuy, Mariya, zdravstvuy, krasotka" "Zdravstvuyte, devuski, miliye podruzenki!" 05:27
03 Act I: Scene 1: No. 2: Scene, Arioso and Duet "Vam lyubi pesni, miliye podruzki" "Marita!" "Akh! Ti ispugal menya" "Tebya s mladenceskikh godov lyublyu" 10:52
04 Act I: Scene 1: No. 3: Scene "Nu, cestvuyes, Basily, ti menya" 03:01
05 Act I: Scene 1: No. 4: Chorus and Dance "Netu, netu tut mostocka, netu perekhodu" 01:50
06 Act I: Scene 1: Hopak: Vivace 03:59
07 Act I: Scene 1: No. 5: Scene and Arioso "Vot khoroso, lyublyu!" "Mgnovenno serdce molodoye" 04:44
08 Act I: Scene 1: No. 6: Quarrel Scene "Mazepa, ti menya smuscayes" "Rec inyu teper' ya povedu s toboy, gordec!" 11:19
09 Act I: Scene 2: No. 7: Chorus and Mother's Lament "Ne groza nebesa kroyet ruceyu" "Gde ti, moyo" 03:17
10 Act I: Scene 2: No. 8: Finale "Ocnis' ot gorya" "Udar obduman, s Kocubeyem" "V rukakh moskovskikh palacey" 11:44
Mazeppa 66:11
01 Act II: Scene 1: No. 9: Prison Scene "Tak vot nagrada za donos" "Ti zdes', zestokiy celovek!" "Starik, ostav' pustiye bredni!" 16:31
02 Act II: Scene 2: No. 10: Mazeppa's Monologue and Scene with Orlik "Tikha ukraynskaya noe" "Nu cto?" 07:36
03 Act II: Scene 2: No. 10a: Mazeppa's Arioso "O, Mariya, Mariya!" 05:22
04 Act II: Scene 2: No. 11: Mazeppa's Scene with Maria "Moy miliy drug!" 14:48
05 Act II: Scene 2: No. 12: Scene between Maria and her Mother "Kak blescut zvozdi v nebe" "Mariya, doc moya!" 09:59
06 Act II: Scene 2: No. 13: Crowd Scene "Skoro li? Vezut al' net?" 04:01
07 Act II: Scene 2: No. 14: Finale "Oy, goy, cumandra, cumandrikha meloda!" 07:54
Mazeppa 37:38
01 Act III: No. 15: The Battle of Poltava: Brillante, con fuoco 05:43
02 Act III: No. 16: Scene and Andrey's Aria "V boyu krovavom, na pole cesti... Zdes' dni tekli credoy scastlivoy" 08:09
03 Act III: No. 17: Scene and Duet "Nevdaleke ya slisu topot..." "Uznal, uznal!" 06:24
04 Act III: No. 18: Scene - Appearance of the Demented Maria "Nescastniy! Vidit bog" "Ya pomnyu pole... prazdnik sumniy..." 08:12
05 Act III: No. 19: Finale "Usol starik, kak serdce b'yotsya" "Spi, mladenee moy prekrasniy" 09:10
Personal
Purchase Date 2/15/2003
Value $55.00
Store eBay
Condition 100%
Librettist Viktor Burenin
Nationality Russian
"Form" Opera in Three Acts
Language Russian
Period Romantic
Details
Studio Konserthuset, Gothenburg
Catalog Number 439 906-2
Live No
Recording Date 8/1/1993
Spars DDD
Reissue No
Sound Stereo
Notes
Mazeppa: Sergei Leiferkus
Kochubey: Anatoly Kotscherga
Lyubov: Larissa Dyadkova
Maria: Galina Gorchakova
Andrey: Sergei Larin
Orlik: Monte Pederson
Iskra: Richard Margison
Drunken Cossack: Heinz Zednik

Notes, illustrations, text and translations

Essay: "A May-December Affair: Tchaikovsky's Mazeppa" by Richard Taruskin

Libretto after "Poltava" by Pushkin