Borodin / Danon, Oskar: Borodin: Prince Igor
Borodin / Danon, Oskar: Borodin: Prince Igor
Format: CD
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Artist: Borodin / Danon, Oskar
Label: Eloquence Australia
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 028948269358
Genre: Opera/Operetta
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 to be released during the course of 2018, 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 it's small but rapidly growing stereo catalogue (launched the previous year with Ansermet and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande) and it's 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 it's 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 Popovic (1927-2001), a company member of the Belgrade Opera (1951-60) who also sung the role with the Vienna State Opera and the Opéra de Monte-Carlo. Popovic was joined by other stalwarts of the company such as Melanija Bugarinovic, who also won acclaim as Erda at Bayreuth around this time, and the magnificently resonant bass of Žarko Cvejic 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 (forthcoming). The booklet for this newly remastered release prints both a synopsis and an essay by Peter Quantrill giving full historical context to the Belgrade opera recordings.
Tracks:
1.1 Alexander Borodin Prince Igor - Complete Opera - Dusan Popovic, Valerija Heybal, Noni Zunec, Zarco Cvejic
