Oskar Danon - Borodin: Prince Igor (2018)
BAND/ARTIST: Oskar Danon
- Title: Borodin: Prince Igor
- Year Of Release: 1955 [2018]
- Label: Decca / Eloquence
- Genre: Classical
- Quality: FLAC (Tracks)
- Total Time: 03:25:29
- Total Size: 1,2 GB (+3%rec.)
- WebSite: Album Preview
A first release on CD for the first recording in stereo (and entirely complete) of Borodin’s operatic masterpiece.
With this and six companion issues, Eloquence makes available for the first time on CD, the seven complete Russian operas recorded in 1955 by Decca with the company of the Belgrade Opera.
Fresh from a successful tour of Boris Godunov in Switzerland the previous year, the Belgrade Opera in 1955 was keen to make an impression on an international public. At the same time, the Decca company perceived a cost-effective but artistically assured opportunity to expand both its small but rapidly growing stereo catalogue (launched the previous year with Ansermet and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande) and its opera discography with classics of the Russian opera repertoire which it had previously not been possible to record in the original language. In the event, the stereo versions were held back for the US market and only released in Europe in the 1960s, by which time the Belgrade Opera had acquired an international reputation for excellence thanks both to the mono issues and to its extensive touring schedule, which took in all the major European operatic centres.
The title role of Prince Igor on this recording is taken by Dušan Popović (1927–2001), a company member of the Belgrade Opera (1951–60) who also sang the role with the Vienna State Opera and the Opéra de Monte-Carlo.
Popović was joined by other stalwarts of the company, such as Melanija Bugarinović who also won acclaim as Erda at Bayreuth around this time and the magnificently resonant bass of Žarko Cvejić as the wheedling Prince Galitsky. As Igor’s wife Yaroslavna, Valerija Heybal (1918–94) brings tremendous intensity to her two great set-pieces with the kind of aristocratic vocal control that lent such lyric pathos to her singing of Tatyana in the Belgrade recording of Eugene Onegin.
Tracks:
ALEXANDER BORODIN
Prince Igor
Personnel:
Igor Svyatoslavich, Dušan Popović
Yaroslavna, Valerija Heybal
Vladimir Igorevich, Noni Žunec
Vladimir Galitsky, Žarko Cvejić
Konchak, Žarko Cvejić
Konchakovna, Melanija Bugarinović
Ovlur, Dragutin Petrović
Skula, Dragomir Ninković
Yeroshka, Nikola Jančić
Yaroslavna’s Nurse, Biserka Cvejić
Polovtsian Maiden, Biserka Cvejić
Chorus and Orchestra of the National Theatre, Belgrade
Oskar Danon
With this and six companion issues, Eloquence makes available for the first time on CD, the seven complete Russian operas recorded in 1955 by Decca with the company of the Belgrade Opera.
Fresh from a successful tour of Boris Godunov in Switzerland the previous year, the Belgrade Opera in 1955 was keen to make an impression on an international public. At the same time, the Decca company perceived a cost-effective but artistically assured opportunity to expand both its small but rapidly growing stereo catalogue (launched the previous year with Ansermet and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande) and its opera discography with classics of the Russian opera repertoire which it had previously not been possible to record in the original language. In the event, the stereo versions were held back for the US market and only released in Europe in the 1960s, by which time the Belgrade Opera had acquired an international reputation for excellence thanks both to the mono issues and to its extensive touring schedule, which took in all the major European operatic centres.
The title role of Prince Igor on this recording is taken by Dušan Popović (1927–2001), a company member of the Belgrade Opera (1951–60) who also sang the role with the Vienna State Opera and the Opéra de Monte-Carlo.
Popović was joined by other stalwarts of the company, such as Melanija Bugarinović who also won acclaim as Erda at Bayreuth around this time and the magnificently resonant bass of Žarko Cvejić as the wheedling Prince Galitsky. As Igor’s wife Yaroslavna, Valerija Heybal (1918–94) brings tremendous intensity to her two great set-pieces with the kind of aristocratic vocal control that lent such lyric pathos to her singing of Tatyana in the Belgrade recording of Eugene Onegin.
Tracks:
ALEXANDER BORODIN
Prince Igor
Personnel:
Igor Svyatoslavich, Dušan Popović
Yaroslavna, Valerija Heybal
Vladimir Igorevich, Noni Žunec
Vladimir Galitsky, Žarko Cvejić
Konchak, Žarko Cvejić
Konchakovna, Melanija Bugarinović
Ovlur, Dragutin Petrović
Skula, Dragomir Ninković
Yeroshka, Nikola Jančić
Yaroslavna’s Nurse, Biserka Cvejić
Polovtsian Maiden, Biserka Cvejić
Chorus and Orchestra of the National Theatre, Belgrade
Oskar Danon
Classical | Oldies | FLAC / APE
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