Maria Ewing, Orchestre de l'Opéra Bastille, Myung-Whun Chung - Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District (1993)

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Artist: Maria Ewing, Orchestre de l'Opéra Bastille, Myung-Whun Chung
Title: Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District
Year Of Release: 1993
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 02:35:01
Total Size: 590 Mb
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

CD 1
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District / Act 1 (Dimitri Chostakovitch)
1. Akh, ne spítsya ból'se, popróbuyu 05:43
2. Gribkí segódnya búdut? 05:23
3. Govorí - ... - Cegó vstal? 07:09
4. Interlude 03:00
5. Ay! Ay! Ay! - Otpustíte bábu 02:33
6. Mnógo vï - Cto ego? 06:31
7. Interlude 01:53
8. Spat' porá. Den' prosól 03:28
9. Zerebyónok k kobïlke torópitsya 05:32
10. Kto eto - ... - Uydí tï 08:43
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District / Act 2 (Dimitri Chostakovitch)
11. Cto znácit stárost': Ne spítsya 05:44
12. Proskáy - ... - Smotrí, Katerína 04:16
13. Ustál - ... - Progolodálsya ya 06:01
14. Vídno - ... - Akh, Borís Timoféyevic 06:29
15. Interlude 06:37

CD 2
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District / Act 2 (Dimitri Chostakovitch)
1. Sergéy, Seryóza! Vsyo spit 05:46
2. Opyát' usnúl - ... - [Andante] (Orchestra) 05:18
3. Slúsay, Sergéy - ... - Tepér' sabás 07:36
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District / Act 3 (Dimitri Chostakovitch)
4. Cto tï - ... - Interlude (Orchestra) 06:33
5. Sózdan policéyskiy - ... - Skóro 06:27
6. Interlude 02:28
7. Sláva suprúgam - ... - Cto takóye?Anatolij Kotscherga 09:02
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District / Act 4 (Dimitri Chostakovitch)
8. Vyórstï odná za drugóy dlínnoy polzút verenícey 06:09
9. Stepánïc! Propustí menyá 02:49
10. Ne legkó pósle pocóta da poklónov péred sudóm stoyát'! 04:25
11. Moyó poctén'ye! - ... - [Adagio] (Orchestra) 07:12
12. V lesú - Znáyes' li 06:21
13. Vstaváy! Po mestám! Zívo! 05:53

Performers:
Maria Ewing (Katerina)
Aage Haugland (Boris)
Sergei Larin (Sergei)
Philip Langridge (Zinovi)
Elena Zaremba (Sonyetka)
Kurt Moll (Old Convict)
Orchestre et choeurs de l’Opera Bastille
Myung-Whun Chung

This opera is a study in the psychopathology of everyday life. It exposes the kind of brutal manners familiar in naturalistic novels after the Goncourts and Zola, but Shostakovich had the misfortune of running afoul of the official Soviet position that criminality and pathology couldn't exist in the workers' paradise. Maria Ewing's strength isn't pure vocalism; anyone can find fault on technical grounds. But she is a passionate, involving actress with her voice, and she makes our anti-heroine chillingly desperate and driven--every moment is haunted. The supporting cast joins in with a broadly vicious portrayal of a spider's den passing for normal home life.

I don't know Russian, so I can't judge what might be wrong with Ewing's performance in the lead role, but to my ears this whole production is excellent: Chung's conducting catches the gritty, pointed mood of Shostakovich's writing and the murderous kitchen-sink melodrama is drawn with appealing luridness. I don't love Lady Macbeth, but comparing this version side by side with the acclaimed Rostropovich set on EMI, I plump for the DG as histrionics and the EMI as authentic Russianness.

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