Rachmaninov - Complete Operas, Cantatas & Fragments
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Label: Haenssler Profil
Cat No: PH21036
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 15
Release Date: 8th April 2022
Contents
Works
AlekoAt the Gates of the Holy Abode
Boris Godunov
Francesca da Rimini, op.25
I shall tell you nothing
Letter to K S Stanislavsky
Masquerade
Piano Concerto no.1 in F sharp minor, op.1
Piano Concerto no.2 in C minor, op.18
Piano Concerto no.3 in D minor, op.30
Piano Concerto no.4 in G minor, op.40
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, op.43
Russian Songs (3), op.41
Song of the Disillusioned
Songs (6), op.4
Songs (6), op.8
Songs (6), op.38
Songs (12), op.14
Songs (12), op.21
Songs (14), op.34
Songs (15), op.26
Spring, op.20
Symphonic Dances, op.45
The Bells, op.35
The Flower has Faded
The Miserly Knight, op.24
Twilight has Fallen
Artists
Soloists of Bolshoi TheatreConductors
Kurt SanderlingKirill Kondrashin
Eugene Ormandy
Aleksandr Gauk
Gennady Rozhdestvensky
Konstantin Simeonov
Works
AlekoAt the Gates of the Holy Abode
Boris Godunov
Francesca da Rimini, op.25
I shall tell you nothing
Letter to K S Stanislavsky
Masquerade
Piano Concerto no.1 in F sharp minor, op.1
Piano Concerto no.2 in C minor, op.18
Piano Concerto no.3 in D minor, op.30
Piano Concerto no.4 in G minor, op.40
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, op.43
Russian Songs (3), op.41
Song of the Disillusioned
Songs (6), op.4
Songs (6), op.8
Songs (6), op.38
Songs (12), op.14
Songs (12), op.21
Songs (14), op.34
Songs (15), op.26
Spring, op.20
Symphonic Dances, op.45
The Bells, op.35
The Flower has Faded
The Miserly Knight, op.24
Twilight has Fallen
Artists
Soloists of Bolshoi TheatreConductors
Kurt SanderlingKirill Kondrashin
Eugene Ormandy
Aleksandr Gauk
Gennady Rozhdestvensky
Konstantin Simeonov
About
Less well known is that Rachmaninov also composed operas, songs and sacred vocal works, even if some specialists are well aware of this. Although the Opernführer (opera guide) by Attila Csampai and Dietmar Holland (new edition 2006) only listed him in the appendix with three completed operas, Aleko, Francesca da Rimini and The Miserly Knight, at least this is something. Reclam's multi-volume Lexikon der Opernwelt (1998) devotes all of seven lines to Aleko, about three to Francesca, and not one line to The Miserly Knight. The Harenberg Opera Guide (2000) has one page devoted to the composer and Francesca respectively. Popularity looks quite different from this.
Perhaps the Russian language was an obstacle to gaining a wider audience, but at least Rachmaninov is no longer ignored as an opera composer. The popularity of the operas by his fellow countrymen Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881, see also Profil Edition Günter Hänssler PH21002), Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1910, PH19010) or Peter Tchaikovsky (1840-1893, PH17053) was never and will probably never be achieved by Rachmaninov's works for the lyric stage. Nor will the other composers from the country of his birth - see the overview of Russian operas in PH19040
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