Rimsky-Korsakov: The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh

• Binding : Audio CD
• Creator : Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
• Creator : Gergiev
• Creator : Kirov Opera & Orchestra
• EAN : 0028946222522
• Format : Box set
• Label : Philips
• Manufacturer : Philips
• Number Of Discs : 3
• Package Dimensions : 1.42 inches (Height) x 5.51 inches (Length) x 0.79 pounds (Weight) x 5.12 inches (Width)
• Product Group : Music
• Publisher : Philips
• Release Date : 1999-10-11
• Running Time : 178
• SKU : CDD-00295122-M
• Studio : Philips
• UPC : 028946222522

Thanks to Valery Gergiev's efforts--including his accounts of The Tsar's Bride and Kashchey the Immortal--Rimsky-Korsakov operas are no longer a mystery, but that doesn't mean there is any clearer consensus on their quality. This opera suggests why. Rimsky no doubt sensed that he had the orchestral tone-painting ability to convincingly project the magical moment when the city of Kitezh, under siege by the Tartars, manages to disappear. That and certain other moments, such as the opera's harmonically rich, proto-Richard Strauss finale and a number of choral and orchestral passages are powerful payoffs for an uneven opera that asks the composer to elevate Russian folk tale in the way that Wagner did for Nordic mythology. But the subplots are as sprawling as the title, and Rimsky's characters stand only knee-high to Wagner's towering creations. Still, the tunes are pretty good, the orchestral scoring pricks up the ear in the less inspired passages of the libretto, and the performance is a middling representation of the amazing Kirov standard. All the singers are solid--some rather more than that--though Kirov star Galina Gorchakova, who plays the Maiden Fevroniya, has so many vocally ungraceful moments she's fatiguing to the ear. --David Patrick Stearns

- Amazon.co.uk Review

Tracks:

• Disc 1

  • 1: Introduction "In Praise of the Wilderness" - Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 2: Ah, dear forest deep - Galina Gorchakova, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 3: Where are you my friends - Galina Gorchakova, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 4: Have no fear - Galina Gorchakova, Yuri Marusin, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 5: Fairest maid, I cannot sit long here - Yuri Marusin, Galina Gorchakova, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 6: Who are you, good maiden - Yuri Marusin, Galina Gorchakova, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 7: Oh, my beautiful and virtuous maiden - Yuri Marusin, Galina Gorchakova, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 8: Day and night we praise - Galina Gorchakova, Yuri Marusin, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 9: Dearest, without joy how can we live - Galina Gorchakova, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 10: Oh, give praise - Yuri Marusin, Galina Gorchakova, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 11: You my turtle dove - Yuri Marusin, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 12: When we came - Yuri Marusin, Kirov Chorus, St Petersburg, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 13: Oh, return to me - Galina Gorchakova, Yuri Marusin, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 14: In the field - Kirov Chorus, St Petersburg, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 15: Where is your home - Nikolai Putilin, Galina Gorchakova, Kirov Chorus, St Petersburg, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 16: Show us now - Nikolai Gassiev, Kirov Chorus, St Petersburg, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 17: From deep Yara lake - Mikhail Kit, Kirov Chorus, St Petersburg, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 18: Lord, our God - Nikolai Gassiev, Kirov Chorus, St Petersburg, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 19: Who are we - Vladimir Galusin, Kirov Chorus, St Petersburg, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 20: Oh, you kindest masters - Vladimir Galusin, Kirov Chorus, St Petersburg, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 21: What I cannot see is not for me - Vladimir Galusin, Kirov Chorus, St Petersburg, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 22: Ringing, clanging comes the marriage train - Nikolai Putilin, Kirov Chorus, St Petersburg, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 23: Get away - Galina Gorchakova, Nikolai Putilin, Vladimir Galusin, Kirov Chorus, St Petersburg, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 24: Pray to our God - Galina Gorchakova, Vladimir Galusin, Nikolai Putilin, Kirov Chorus, St Petersburg, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 25: Down the highways - Kirov Chorus, St Petersburg, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 26: Gaida! Gai! - Bulat Minjelkiev, Vladimir Ognovienko, Vladimir Galusin, Kirov Chorus, St Petersburg, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 27: If you will perform - Vladimir Ognovienko, Bulat Minjelkiev, Galina Gorchakova, Vladimir Galusin, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 28: Gaida! Gai! - Vladimir Galusin, Bulat Minjelkiev, Vladimir Ognovienko, Galina Gorchakova, Kirov Chorus, St Petersburg, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev

• Disc 2

  • 1: Peace tou you, good people of Kitezh - Nikolai Putilin, Yuri Marusin, Kirov Chorus, St Petersburg, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 2: Fyodor, brother - Nikolai Putilin, Kirov Chorus, St Petersburg, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 3: Fyodor, brother - Nikolai Putilin, Yuri Marusin, Kirov Chorus, St Petersburg, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 4: How? how can she - Yuri Marusin, Nikolai Putilin, Kirov Chorus, St Petersburg, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 5: O glory, O wealth and vain earthly life - Nikolai Ohotnikov, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 6: Heavenly and wonderful Tsaritsa - Nikolai Putilin, Nikolai Ohotnikov, Kirov Chorus, St Petersburg, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 7: Rising to the sky - Olga Korzhenskaya, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 8: Oh, how terrible the hand of God - Nikolai Ohotnikov, Yuri Marusin, Nikolai Putilin, Kirov Chorus, St Petersburg, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 9: Sorrow to sad Kitezh - Olga Korzhenskaya, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 10: Our great Kitezh ruined shamefully - Nikolai Ohotnikov, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 11: Heavenly and wonderful Tsaritsa - Olga Korzhenskaya, Kirov Chorus, St Petersburg, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 12: See, the will of God descends to earth - Yuri Marusin, Kirov Chorus, St Petersburg, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev, Nikolai Ohotnikov
  • 13: Rising they came, dark was the night - Yuri Marusin, Kirov Chorus, St Petersburg, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 14: Sisters, no more waiting - Olga Korzhenskaya, Nikolai Ohotnikov, Kirov Chorus, St Petersburg, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 15: Mist is rising thickly - Nikolai Ohotnikov, Olga Korzhenskaya, Nikolai Putilin, Kirov Chorus, St Petersburg, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 16: Interlude "The battle at Kerzhenets" - Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 17: See our oaken grove - Vladimir Galusin, Vladimir Ognovienko, Bulat Minjelkiev, Kirov Chorus, St Petersburg, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 18: Oh, my Tartar comrades brave and true - Vladimir Ognovienko, Bulat Minjelkiev, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 19: Not ravens black - Vladimir Ognovienko, Kirov Chorus, St Petersburg, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 20: Oh, dear sweetheart my love - Galina Gorchakova, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 21: Hear me, maiden fair - Vladimir Galusin, Galina Gorchakova, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 22: No, I hear it still - Vladimir Galusin, Galina Gorchakova, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 23: Can it be "Thank heaven", Grishenka - Vladimir Galusin, Galina Gorchakova, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 24: Go free, o slave of God - Galina Gorchakova, Vladimir Galusin, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 25: Oh, dear friends I am now free again - Vladimir Galusin, Kirov Chorus, St Petersburg, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev

• Disc 3

  • 1: Oh, now more can I walk - Galina Gorchakova, Vladimir Galusin, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 2: I'm no sinner - Vladimir Galusin, Galina Gorchakova, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 3: Mother Earth - Galina Gorchakova, Vladimir Galusin, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 4: Woe is me - Vladimir Galusin, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 5: Grishenka - Galina Gorchakova, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 6: Looking here, I see strange flowers - Galina Gorchakova, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 7: As I look I see strange flowers here - Galina Gorchakova, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 8: Hear the singing of the joyful birds - Galina Gorchakova, Larissa Diadkova, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 9: You, can it be you my eyes behold - Galina Gorchakova, Yuri Marusin, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 10: Are you really here - Galina Gorchakova, Yuri Marusin, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 11: See how he has come - Tatiana Krastsova, Galina Gorchakova, Yuri Marusin, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 12: He who takes our bread - Yuri Marusin, Galina Gorchakova, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 13: Christ, my Lord and Master - Galina Gorchakova, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 14: Interlude - Tatiana Krastsova, Larissa Diadkova, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 15: Interlude part 2 - Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 16: Doors to paradise - Larissa Diadkova, Tatiana Krastsova, Galina Gorchakova, Kirov Chorus, St Petersburg, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 17: Kingdom bright and beautiful - Galina Gorchakova, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 18: Over flowers, flowers of azure blue - Galina Gorchakova, Yuri Marusin, Kirov Chorus, St Petersburg, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 19: Lord have mercy on your soul - Nikolai Ohotnikov, Galina Gorchakova, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 20: Why this light so bright - Galina Gorchakova, Yuri Marusin, Nikolai Ohotnikov, Tatiana Krastsova, Larissa Diadkova, Olga Korzhenskaya, Nikolai Putilin, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 21: Stay here with us now forever - Galina Gorchakova, Tatiana Krastsova, Larissa Diadkova, Yuri Marusin, Nikolai Ohotnikov, Kirov Chorus, St Petersburg, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 22: Stay here with us now forever - Yuri Marusin, Galina Gorchakova, Nikolai Ohotnikov, Kirov Chorus, St Petersburg, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
  • 23: Grishenka, in spirit you are weak - Galina Gorchakova, Nikolai Putilin, Nikolai Ohotnikov, Kirov Chorus, St Petersburg, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev

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