Tchaikovsky - Complete Operas, Fragments & Incidental Music - Box Set 22CDs

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Tchaikovsky composed his first opera - The Voyevoda - in 1867. It was not a success - after the disastrous premiere in 1869, the excessively self-critical composer burnt the manuscript of the work. As a composer of opera, Tchaikovsky could seek inspiration in centuries of operatic tradition in western Europe, but the history of the genre in Russia had only just begun a few years before he was born. Tchaikovsky's last opera, Iolanta, a one-act work, never achieved the same popularity as Queen of Spades. And it certainly never attained the same reputation as his ballet The Nutcracker, premiered at the same time in 1892. When Tchaikovsky died in 1893, he was hailed worldwide primarily for his instrumental music and his ballets, the first Russian to be so revered. He composed between nine and twelve operas (counting adaptations and fragments). This Edition also includes the stage music to Snegurochka (The Snow Maiden) and Hamlet.

Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Voyevoda, Op. 3
Alexey Korolyov (baritone), Mikhail Skazin (bass), Daniel Demyanov (bass), Anatoly Orfionov (tenor), Natalya Rozhdestvenskaya (soprano)
Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, Alexei Kovalyov

Undina, TH 2
Tamara Milashkina (soprano), Yevgeny Raykov (tenor)
Moscow Radio Opera Orchestra, Moscow Radio Opera Chorus, Yevgeny Akulov

Mandragora, TH 207
Moscow Choral Academy Boys Choir, Moscow Radio Opera Orchestra, Yevgeny Akulov

Oprichnik, TH 3
Lyudmila Legostayeva (mezzo-soprano), Dmitri Tarkhov (tenor), Aleksei Korolyov (bass),
USSR Radio Symphony Orchestra, USSR Radio Symphony Chorus, Samuel Samosud

Cherevichki, TH 8
Elizaveta Antonova (alto), Aleksey Petrovich Ivanov (baritone), Sergei Krasovsky (bass), Alexander Peregudov (tenor), Maksim Mikhaylov (bass), Andrey Ivanov (baritone)
Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, Bolshoi Theatre Chorus, Alexander Melik-Pashaev

Eugene Onegin, Op. 24, TH 5,

Maria Butenina (mezzo-soprano), Glafira Zhukovskaya (soprano), Bronislava Zlatogorova (alto), Konkordiya Antarova (mezzo-soprano), Sergey Lemeshev (tenor), Panteleimon Nortsov (baritone)
Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, Bolshoi Theatre Chorus, Vasili Nebolsin

The Maid of Orleans, TH 6
Vitaly Kilchevsky (tenor), Nikolay Runovsky (baritone), Olga Kashevarova (soprano), Sofya Preobrazhenskaya (mezzo-soprano), Maria Merzhevskaya (soprano)
Kirov Opera Orchestra, Kirov Opera Chorus, Boris Khaykin

Mazeppa, TH 7
Nina Pokrovskaya (soprano), Grigory Bolshakov (tenor), Aleksey Petrovich Ivanov (baritone), Ivan Petrov (bass), Tikhon Cherniakov (tenor), Vsevolod Tyutyunnik (bass), Feodor Godovkin (tenor)
Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, Bolshoi Theatre Chorus, Vasili Nebolsin

The Enchantress, TH 9
Vera Borisenko (mezzo-soprano), Mikhail Kiselev (baritone)
Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, USSR Radio Symphony Chorus, Samuel Samosud

The Queen of Spades, Op. 68, TH 10
Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, Bolshoi Theatre Chorus, Samuel Samosud

Iolanta
Kapitolina Rachevskaya (soprano), Basya Amborskaya (mezzo-soprano), Maria Levina (alto), Glafira Zhukovskaya (soprano), Grigory Bolshakov (tenor), Panteleimon Nortsov (baritone)
Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, Bolshoi Theatre Chorus, Samuel Samosud

Romeo & Juliet - Fantasy Overture
Ivan Kozlovsky (tenor), Elisabeta Shumskaya (soprano), Vladimir Atlantov (tenor), Kira Izotova (soprano)
USSR Radio Symphony Orchestra, Leningrad Symphony Orchestra, Nikolay Golovanov, Edouard Grikurov

Pique Dame (excerpt)
Nikolay Pechkovsky (tenor)
Kirov Orchestra, Evgeny Wolf-Israel

The Snow Maiden, Op. 12, TH 19
Anatoly Orfionov (tenor), Zara Dolukhanova (alto)
USSR State Radio Symphony Orchestra, USSR Radio Symphony Chorus, Aleksander Vasil'yevich Gauk

Hamlet, Op. 67a, TH 23
Galina Sakharova (soprano), Georgi Abramov (bass)
USSR State Radio Symphony Orchestra, Aleksander Vasil'yevich Gauk

Tracklist : Tchaikovsky - Complete Operas, Fragments & Incidental Music