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Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame

Bugarinović has a dark, almost contralto-ish tone and no Slavic wobble. — Gramophone Magazine, February 2019

Release Date: 30th Nov 2018
Catalogue No: ELQ4826903
Label: Eloquence
Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

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Sofiya Jankovich (soprano), Drago Petrovich (tenor), Valeria Heybalova (soprano), Mira Vershevich (mezzo-soprano), Nikola Janchich (tenor), Alexander Marinkovich (tenor), Jovan Gligor (baritone), Anne Jeninek (soprano), Biserka Cvejic (mezzo-soprano), Anne Jeninek (mezzo-soprano), Jovan Gligorievich (baritone), Dushan Popovich (baritone), Alexander Veselinovich (bass), Melanie Bugarinovich (mezzo-soprano), Biserka Cvejic (contralto), Vladimir Popovich (bass), Zhika Yovanovich (tenor)
Belgrade National Opera Orchestra, Children's Chorus of Radio Belgrade, Chorus Of The Yugoslav Army
Kreshimir Baranovich

Overture

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"Gori, gori yasno"

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"Chem konchilas vchera igra?"

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"Ya imeni yeyo ne znayu"

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"Nakonets-to Bog"

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"A ty uveren"

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"Mne strashno!"

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"Kakaya vedma"

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"Odnazhdy v Versalye"

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"Se non e vero"

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"Uzh vecher"

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"Obvorozhitelno!"

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"Da, vspomnilna... Podrugi milie"

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"Mesdemoiselles"

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"Zachem zhe eti slyozy"

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"Ostanovites"

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"Prosti, prelestnoe sozdanye"

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"Liza, otvori!"

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"O poshchadi menya!"

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"Radostno, veselo v den sei"

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"Khozyain prosit dorogikh"

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"Ya vas lyublyu"

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"Posle predstavleniya"

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"Khozyain prosit dorogikh"

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Dance of the Shepherds and Shepherdesses

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"Moi milenki druzhok"

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"Kak ty mila"

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"Kto pylko i strastno lyubya!"

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"Vsyo tak, kakmne ona skazala"

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"Shagi! syuda idut"

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"Akh, postyl mne etot svet!"

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"Je crains de lui parler la nuit"

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"Ne pugaites!"

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"Ona mertva! Sbylos"

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Entr'acte

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"Ya neveryu chtoby"

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"Uzh polnoch blizitsya"

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"Akh! istomilas ya gorem"

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"A yesli mne otvet"

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"O da, minovali stradanya"

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"Budem pit i veselitsa!"

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"Dana!"

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"Yeslib miliya devitsy"

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"Tak v nenastnye dni"

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"Chto nasha zhizn?"

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"Idyot yeshcho?"

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"Knyaz! knyaz, prosti menya!"

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"Gospod! Prosti yemu!"

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A first international release on CD for the first recording in stereo of Tchaikovsky’s tragic masterpiece of obsession.

With this and six companion issues, Eloquence makes available for the first time on CD the seven complete Russian operas recorded in 1955 by Decca with the company of the Belgrade Opera.

Fresh from a successful tour of Boris Godunov in Switzerland the previous year, the Belgrade Opera in 1955 was keen to make an impression on an international public. At the same time, the Decca company perceived a cost-effective but artistically assured opportunity to expand both its small but rapidly growing stereo catalogue and its opera discography with classics of the Russian opera repertoire which it had previously not been possible to record in the original language.

Known in Russian as Pikovaya Dama, in English as The Queen of Spades and in much of the rest of the opera-going world as Pique Dame, the opera holds to its chest a card-trick, the secret of which drives the young officer Herman insane. The story elicited from Tchaikovsky a score of almost relentless intensity, unparalleled in his output except by the Pathétique Symphony, yet he placed at its heart a pastiche eighteenth-century masque which is his most moving offering to the spirit of his beloved Mozart. In Herman (sung here by Alexander Marinković) and the innocent Lisa (Valerija Heybal), Tchaikovsky and his brother Modest, acting as librettist, created a portrait of doomed love as rich and complex as a mature Verdian music-drama.

Recorded in both mono and stereo but originally issued only in mono, the stereo versions were held back and finally released in Europe in the 1960s, by which time the Belgrade Opera had acquired an international reputation for excellence. Remastered for this release from the original stereo tapes, this is a demonstration-quality examples of the renowned early Decca sound.

The booklet for this newly remastered release prints both a synopsis and an essay by Peter Quantrill giving full historical context to the Belgrade opera recordings.

‘The recording is excellent, with depth and ample sonority … Marinkovic makes a striking character of horrid Herman … The overall conception seems to me highly authentic.’ Gramophone, June 1956

‘[Valerija Heybal] possesses a warm and appealing voice … There is plenty of excitement, and the quality of recording is good.’ Opera, August 1956

Artists

Alexander Marinković (Herman), Jovan Gligorijević (Count Tomsky), Dušan Popović (Prince Yeletsky), Melanija Bugarinović (Countess), Valerija Heybal (Liza), Biserka Cvejić (Polina), Dragutin Petrović (Chekalinsky), Alexander Veselinović (Surin), Zivojin Iovanović (Chaplitsky), Vladimir Popović (Narumov), Mira Vershevich (Governess), Anne Jeninek (Masha), Nikola Janchich (Major-Domo), Sofija Janković (Prilepa / Chloë), Biserka Cvejić (Milovzor / Daphnis), Jovan Gligorijević (Zlatogor / Pluto)

Yugoslav Army Chorus, Children’s Choir of Radio Belgrade, Orchestra of the National Opera, Belgrade, Krešimir Baranović

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February 2019

Bugarinović has a dark, almost contralto-ish tone and no Slavic wobble.

Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame

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