Work of the Week - Rodion Shchedrin: Boyarina Morozova
Rodion Shchedrin's choral opera Boyarina Morozova will be awarded the ECHO KLASSIK 2008, for the category "Best Opera Recording - 20th/21st Century". The award-winning CD has been released by the Schott label WERGO, performed by conductor Boris Tevlin and the Chamber Choir of the Moscow Conservatory.
The awards celebration takes place on October 19th in Philharmonie am Gasteig in Munich, and is broadcast live on German Television (ZDF). The prestigious award is the most important German prize for classical recordings and is offered annually by the ZDF and the German Phono Academy.
Rodion Shchedrin
Boyarina Morozova
The Life and Sufferings of Boyarina Morozova and Her Sister Princess Urusova
Russian Choral Opera in Two Parts for Four Soloists, Mixed Chorus, Trumpet, Timpani, and Percussion
Libretto by Rodion Shchedrin after texts from “The Life of Protopope Avvakum” and “The Life of Boyarina Morozova”
Larisa Kostyuk: mezzo-soprano (Boyarina Morozova) / Veronika Dzhioeva: soprano (Princess Urusova) / Andrew Goodwin: tenor (Protopope Avvakum) / Mikhail Davydov: bass (Czar Alexei Mikhailovich) / Solist of the Boys’ Choir (Direction: Leonid Baklushin): Andrei Orlov (Morozova’s son) / Kirill Soldatov: trumpet / Viktor Grishin: timpani / Mikhail Dunayev: percussion / Chamber Choir of the Moscow Conservatory / Boris Tevlin: conductor
WER 67002 (CD with 88-page booklet)
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