Operetta - Moskva Cheryomushki

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DMITRY SHOSTAKOVICH (1906-1975)

Premiere recording of the complete operetta

Moskva Cheremushki, Op. 105

141:50

A musical comedy in three acts and five scenes

Libretto by Vladimir Mass and Mikhail Chervinsky

Overture - Prologue

1

Allegretto

5:18

2

Drebednyov - 'That's right! Music…'

0:33

3

Baburov - 'Well I've lived for fifty years on Tyoplui Lane.'

1:40

Act I

Scene 1 - Don't touch

4

1

Bubentsov and the Chorus of Visitors

2:33

5

Bubentsov - 'Now please step into the next hall, comrades!'

1:00

6

2

Duet Masha and Bubentsov

3:49

Zino Vinnikov violin

Gregor Horsch cello

7

3

Pantomime

2:37

8

Sergey - 'What time is it?'

0:13

9

4

Boris's Aria

1:55

10

Boris - 'I've come back from Moscow…'

0:30

11

5

Boris's Song-serenade

2:16

12

Lidochka - 'Have you only just got here?'

0:52

13

6

Lidochka's Song

2:35

14

Baburov - 'Lidochka, Lidochka…'

1:24

15

7

Excursion around Moscow

4:04

Intermezzo

16

Drebednyov - 'Where's the car?'

0:54

17

8

Duet: Vava and Drebednyov

4:39

18

9

End of Excursion around Moscow

0:40

Scene 2 - Write down the address

19

First woman - 'Semyon Semyonovich…'

0:36

20

10

Ensemble of Residents

5:04

21

11

Sergey's Song about Mar'ina Roscha

2:01

22

12

Baburov's Song about Tyoplyi Lane

3:24

23

Lyusya - 'So it's Tyoplyi Lane then?'

0:13

24

13

Song about Cheremushki

2:50

25

14

Scene: Barabashkin with the Residents

0:54

26

Barabashkin - 'What are you thinking of, citizens?'

0:53

27

115

Boris's Song

1:55

28

Boris - 'Valka!'

3:54

29

16

Scene: Barabashkin and Drebednyov with the Residents

0:48

30

17

Finale of Act I

1:02

Act II

Intermezzo

31

18

Barabashkin's Couplets

2:31

Scene 3 - Airborne Landing

32

Boris - 'That's it Lidochka, that's it!'

0:54

33

19

Duet: Lidochka and Boris

6:22

34

Lidochka - 'You are not angry, my valiant sir?'

2:45

35

20

Duet: Lyusya and Sergey

4:59

36

Lyusya - 'Oh, what was that?'

2:11

37

21

Barabashkin's and Drebednyov's Couplets

3:59

38

Vava - 'Fedya!'

0:36

39

22

Duet: Lidochka and Boris

2:46

40

Baburov - 'So where is the young man?'

1:04

41

23

Scene (Lidochka, Baburov, Barabashkin, Drebednyov)

0:41

Intermezzo

42

Sergey - 'And where are you off to?…'

0:46

43

24

Song: Lyusya and the Construction workers

0:59

Scene 4 - An alarming 'knock at the door'

44

Masha - 'Let's have some tea'

1:07

45

25

Duet: Masha and Bubentsov

3:09

46

Bubentsov - 'Masha, it's someone ringing for us!'

2:53

47

26

Polka

4:21

48

The others - 'Guests!'

2:57

49

27

Song about Sheremushki

0:23

Intermezzo

50

Lidochka - 'Where can we go now?'

0:27

51

28

Ballet

6:33

52

29

Apotheosis

1:13

53

Boris - 'That was the move to the new flat…'

0:34

54

30

Finale of Act II

0:33

Act III

55

31

Entr'acte

2:33

56

32

Scene

0:54

57

Baburov - 'Play something, comrade conductor…'

0:37

Scene 5 - The Magic Clock

58

33

Lidochka's Song

1:44

59

Bubentsov - 'Taking things easy?!'

0:50

60

34

Waltz of the flowers

1:07

61

Lidochka - 'Am I dreaming?'

1:14

62

35

Barabashkin's Song

0:40

63

Lyusya - 'Are you afraid?…'

3:44

64

36

Duet: Lidochka and Boris

1:54

65

Boris - 'Nevertheless, the parade ground has been cleared!'

4:23

66

37

Sergey's Song

0:49

67

Barabashkin - 'Not bad that bench.'

2:43

68

38

Scene: Barabashkin

1:03

69

39

Finale

1:45

Andrei Baturkin baritone - Alexander Petrovich Bubentsov

Irina Gelakhova mezzo-soprano - Masha

Mikhail Goujov bass - Semyon Semyonovich Baburov

Elena Prokina soprano - Lidochka

Anatoly Lochak baritone - Boris Koretsky

Herman Apaikin tenor - Sergey Glushkov

Lydia Chernykh soprano - Lyusya

Chorus: Visitors, Residents, New tenants and Construction workers

Valeri Polyansky

Gennady Rozhdestvensky

30 June - 3 July 1997

The performance under Gennady Rozhdestvensky is fast, furious and hughely entertaining.


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