DIMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH

The Nose

An opera in Three Acts with Ten Scenes

Libretto By: Y. Zamyatin, G. Ionin, A. Preis, A. Shostakovich

CD 1

1

1

Act One: Prologue

1:52

2

2

Scene One: The barber shop of Ivan Yakovlevich

4:01

3

3

Scene Two: The embankment

2:53

4

4

Intermission (percussion)

2:59

Scene Three:

5

5

Kovalev's bedroom

2:38

6

6

Galop

1:56

7

7

Scene Four: Kazan Cathedral

8:26

Act Two

8

8

Prologue

1:18

9

9

Scene Five: At the newspaper office

14:10

10

10

Intermission (orchestra)

4:15

11

11

Scene Six: Kovalev's apartment

6:09

TT CD 1:

50:41

CD 2

Act Three

1

12

Scene Seven: The outskirts of St. Petersburg

15:44

2

13

Scene Eight: Kovalev's apartment and Podtochina's apartment

21:26

3

14

Interlude

5:52

Epilogue

4

15

Scene Nine: Kovalev's apartment

2:37

5

16

Scene Ten: Nevsky Prospect

5:15

TT CD 2:

50:56

Valery Gergiev

Vladislav Sulimsky

Platon Kuzmich Kovalev, a collegiate assessor

Alexei Tanovitski

Ivan Yakovlevich, a barber

Andrei Popov

A district constable

Sergei Skorokhodov

Ivan, Kovalev's valet

Sergei Semishkur

The Nose

Sergei Romanov

A countess' servant

Vadim Kravets

A clerk in a newspaper office