SERGEI PROKOFIEV (1891-1953)

Eugene Onegin, Op. 71

124:11

Melodrama in Sixteen Scenes

Text by Alexander Pushkin in Sir Charles Johnson's English translation

Directed by Timothy West

1

Scene 1. Lensky at Larin's grave -

6:13

2

Scene 2. Onegin and Lensky at Lensky's country house -

9:10

3

Scene 3. At the sister's home -

3:40

4

Scene 4. Having taken a short cut, they're on their way home as fast as possible -

3:50

5

Scene 5. Tatyana in the park -

1:53

6

Scene 6. Tatyana and Nurse -

3:35

7

Scene 7. Tatyans's letter -

10:14

8

Scene 8. Onegin receives Tatyana's letter -

4:33

9

Scene 9. Onegin scolds Tatyana in Larin's garden -

6:04

10

Scene 10. Lensky and Onegin together in Lensky's house -

2:41

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Scene 11. Tatyana's dream -

7:36

12

Scene 12. Larin's ball

14:29

13

Scene 12 (cont/d). /Zaretsky left without discussion…' -

3:22

14

Scene 13. Duel -

3:22

15

Scene 14. Tatyana visits Onegin's house -

5:19

16

Scene 15. They say goodbye to peaceful valleys -

7:55

17

Waltz -

13:23

Scene 15 (cont'd). 'There came a murmur…'

18

Scene 16. Onegin's letter to Tatyana -

7:50

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Scene 16 (cont'd). 'The days flew past'

8:49

Timothy West speaker (Narrator)

Samuel West speaker (Eugene Onegin)

Niamh Cusack speaker (Tatyana)

Dominic Mafham speaker (Lensky)

Helena McCarthy speaker (Nurse - Larina - Anisia)

Terrence Hardiman speaker (Zaretsky - Prince - Neighbour)

Katherine Fuge soprano

Andrew Rutt bass

Julian Walker bass

Sir Edward Downes

22 and 23 March and 25 July 1994