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Rachmaninov - The Miserly Knight | Chandos CHAN10544

Rachmaninov - The Miserly Knight

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Label: Chandos

Cat No: CHAN10544

Barcode: 0095115154427

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 1st September 2009

Contents

Artists

Ildar Abdrazakov (bass)
Misha Didyk (tenor)
Sergey Murzaev (baritone)
Peter Bronder (tenor)
Gennadi Bezzubenkov (bass)
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Gianandrea Noseda

Works

Rachmaninov, Sergei

The Miserly Knight, op.24

Artists

Ildar Abdrazakov (bass)
Misha Didyk (tenor)
Sergey Murzaev (baritone)
Peter Bronder (tenor)
Gennadi Bezzubenkov (bass)
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Gianandrea Noseda

About

The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and its Chief Conductor Gianandrea Noseda continue their exploration of Rachmaninov's three one-act operas.

The Miserly Knight is the finest of Rachmaninov’s operas. If circumstances had been more favourable, he would have composed far more of the stage, but the three short operas he did complete show that he had all the makings of a great opera composer.  

It is quite possible that The Miserly Knight was inspired by Rachmaninov’s spendthrift father who frittered away the family’s fortune and, following his sister’s death from diphtheria, separated from Sergei’s mother. The financial incompetence of Rachmaninov’s father may have drawn the composer to the ‘little tragedy’ The Miserly Knight, that Pushkin wrote in the autumn of 1830 in which the rich Baron’s destitute son is forced to consider murdering his father in order to access his inheritance. Pushkin’s drama makes an excellent opera text, full of striking phrases and images, and almost perfect for musical setting in its sequence of episodes and ideas.  

Opera is one of Gianandrea Noseda’s great musical passions and it is a genre he has explored to stunning effect with the BBC Philharmonic.

This enthralling recording features amongst the soloists the talented young bass Ildar Abdrazakov and tenor Misha Didyk.  

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