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Great Recordings of the Century: Shostakovich - Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk | EMI 3712342

Great Recordings of the Century: Shostakovich - Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

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Label: EMI

Cat No: 3712342

Barcode: 0094637123423

Format: CD + DVD

Number of Discs: 3

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 4th September 2006

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Contents

Artists

Galina Vishnevskaya
Nicolai Gedda
Ambrosian Opera Chorus
London Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Mstislav Rostropovich

Artists

Galina Vishnevskaya
Nicolai Gedda
Ambrosian Opera Chorus
London Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Mstislav Rostropovich

About

This limited-edition set was released both to mark the centenary of Shostakovich’s birth and to celebrate the 50th wedding anniversary of its two stars: the soprano who takes the title-role, Galina Vishnevskaya, and Mstislav Rostropovich, one of the great musical legends of this century and the last.
 
The bonus DVD contains an exclusive video interview that the President of EMI Classics, Richard Lyttelton, conducted with the maestro last year. In it, ‘Slava’ ranges wide – in his inimitably voluble and idiosyncratic English – and with characteristic warmth, humanity and emotion over the opera, its chequered history in Stalin’s Russia, its meaning for him as both man and musician, and more besides. Throughout, the viewer will be fascinated as much by the extraordinary personality of a unique musician as by the light cast on the subjects under discussion.

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