Alexander Dargomyschsky: Rusalka (2 CDs)

Alexander Dargomyschsky (1813-1869)

Ivan Kozlovsky, Veronika Borisenko, Alexei Krivchenya, Evgenia Smolenskaya, Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, Yevgeni Svetlanov

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Künstler:: Ivan Kozlovsky, Veronika Borisenko, Alexei Krivchenya, Evgenia Smolenskaya, Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, Yevgeni Svetlanov
Label:: Melodiya
Artikelnummer:: 4980489
UPC/EAN:: 4600317117758
Erscheinungstermin:: 18.11.2013

Alexander Dargomyzhsky entered the history of Russian music as one of the founders of realistic art. His operas are distinguished with the finesse with which he personified human characters. His songs are an evidence of the artist' power of observation and skillful psychological analysis. The ideological and esthetic principles of the "great teacher of musical truth," as Modest Mussorgsky called Dargomyzhsky, played a great role in the development of Russain music art.

Dargomyzhsky's realistic aspirations found their mature expression in his chamber vocal works of the second half of the 1840's and early 1850's, especially in his opera Rusalka (1855), which takes the central place in the composer's legacy. Rusalka was the first Russian opera based on a psychologically acute domestic drama.

Dargomyzhsky had a plot of Rusalka inspired by Pushkin's poem in the late 1840's. The first music sketches date back from 1848. In the spring of 1855, the opera was completed. A year later, on May 4 (16), 1865, it was premiered in St. Petersburg on the stage of the Mariinsky Theatre.

The leading music critics represented by Alexander Serov and César Cui welcomed the opera, but it was generally recognized in 1865. When the opera was re-staged in St. Petersburg, it was given an enthusiastic welcome by the new audience – democratically oriented intellectuals. Dargomyzhsky had left most of Pushkin's text untouched.

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