Offer,Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91
Ekaterina Morozova (Natasha Rostova), Roderick Williams (Andrei Bolkonsky), Justin Lavender (Pierre Bezukhov), Oleg Balashov (Anatol Kuragin), Pamela Helen Stephen (Sonya), Catherine Pierard (Maria Bolkonsky/Vassilissa), Igor Matioukhin (Dolokhov), Elena Ionova (Helena Bezukhova), Alan Ewing (Marshal...
Ekaterina Morozova is a moving Natasha. Slavonic in timbre, weighty but still girlsih enough, with an edge to the voice that rarely turns squally...Roderick Willians is a fresh, virile Andrei,... — More…
Contents
Excerpt,
- Richard Hickox, Spoleto Festival Orchestra
Overture
Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91, Scene 1
- Richard Hickox, Spoleto Festival Orchestra, Roderick Williams, Ekaterina Morozova, Pamela Helen Stephen
The radiance of the sky in spring… (Prince Andrey)
I won't, I can't sleep (Natasha, Prince Andrey, Sonya)
O God, my God! What a shame to sleep! (Natasha, Prince Andrey)
Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91, Scene 2
- Richard Hickox, Spoleto Festival Orchestra, Robert Baker, Liuba Chuchrova, Stephen Dupont, Victoria Livengood, Justin Lavender, Ekaterina Morozova, Oleg Balashov, Roderick Williams, Pamela Helen Stephen, Elena Ionova, Igor Matioukhin
St Petersburg. New Year's Eve
Chorus! Let the chorus begin! (Host, Count Rostov, Akhrosimova, Natasha, Sonya, Hélène, Anatoly, Dolokhov, Footman, Chorus)
Look, the colonel's dancing the mazurka (Peronskaya, Akhrosimova, Hélène, Anatoly, Count Rostov, Dolokhov, Natasha)
Will no one choose me as a partner? (Natasha, Dolokhov, Pierre, Prince Andrey, Count Rostov, Anatoly, Hélène)
When I was at Otradnoye in May (Prince Andrey, Natasha, Count Rostov)
Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91, Scene 3
- Richard Hickox, Spoleto Festival Orchestra, Vladimir Ognev, Thomas Guthrie, Tatiana Odinokova, Dmitry Kanevsky, Ekaterina Morozova, Stephen Dupont, Catherine Pierard
The young Prince's fiancée (Old Footman, Housemaid, Valet, Count Rostov, Natasha, Princess Mariya)
Ah, Madam, young lady… (Prince Bolkonsky, Princess Mariya, Natasha, Count Rostov)
Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91, Scene 4
- Richard Hickox, Spoleto Festival Orchestra, Elena Ionova, Ekaterina Morozova, Oleg Balashov, Stephen Dupont, Pamela Helen Stephen
The charming, delightful Natasha (Hélène, Natasha, Count Rostov)
She's wonderful and so beautiful (Natasha, Anatoly, Sonya, Count Rostov)
Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91, Scene 5
- Richard Hickox, Spoleto Festival Orchestra, Oleg Balashov, Igor Matioukhin, Marcus Van Den Akker, Catherine Pierard
At ten o'clock in the evening, she'll be waiting (Anatoly, Dolokhov)
Balaga! (Dolokhov, Anatoly, Balaga, Matryosha)
Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91, Scene 6
- Richard Hickox, Spoleto Festival Orchestra, Tatiana Odinokova, Victoria Livengood, Ekaterina Morozova, Dmitry Kanevsky, Pamela Helen Stephen, Oleg Balashov, Justin Lavender, Igor Matioukhin
Oh, my dear Miss Natasha, all is lost, it seems (Dunyasha, Natasha, Gavrila, Anatoly, Dolokhov)
A fine young lady you are! (Akhrosimova, Natasha, Gavrila, Pierre)
I've sought to avoid her (Pierre, Natasha, Sonya, Akhrosimova)
Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91, Scene 7
- Richard Hickox, Spoleto Festival Orchestra, Alan Opie, Elena Ionova, Vadim Zaplechny, Justin Lavender, Thomas Guthrie
Picture the scene, Countess (Métivier, Hélène, Abbé, Pierre, Anatoly, Denisov)
Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91, Epigraph
- Richard Hickox, Spoleto Festival Orchestra, Russian State Symphonic Cappella
The forces of two and ten European nations (Chorus)
Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91, Scene 8
- Richard Hickox, Spoleto Festival Orchestra, Alan Ewing, Igor Matioukhin, Russian State Symphonic Cappella, Vladimir Ognev, Vadim Zaplechny, Pamela Helen Stephen, Thomas Guthrie, Justin Lavender, Henry Moss, Roderick Williams, Charles Austin, Stephen Dupont, Catherine Pierard
Come on lads! That's the way! (Volunteers, Tikhon, Fyodor, Denisov, Prince Andrey, Matveyev, Vasilisa)
Denisov, her first fiancé (Prince Andrey)
It's the master, look at him! (Fyodor, Trishka, Tikhon, Pierre, Matveyev, Prince Andrey, First General, Second General, Orderly, Chorus)
Hurrah! Hurrah! (Pierre, Chorus)
There is no people greater than ours (Kutuzov, Adjutant, Prince Andrey, First Staff Officer, Second Staff Officer, Chorus)
Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91, Scene 9
- Richard Hickox, Spoleto Festival Orchestra, Alan Opie, Oleg Dolgov, Victoria Livengood, Igor Matioukhin, Dmitry Kanevsky, Neil Jenkins
The wine is uncorked. We must drink it (Napoleon, Compans's Adjutant, Murat's Adjutant, Berthier, Belliard, Prince Eugène's Adjutant, Adjutant from the Retinue, De Beausset, Chorus)
Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91, Scene 10
- Richard Hickox, Spoleto Festival Orchestra, Marcus Van Den Akker, Alan Ewing, Vadim Zaplechny, Russian State Symphonic Cappella, Charles Austin, Henry Moss, Thomas Guthrie
And so, gentlemen, the question is… (Benigsen, Kutuzov, Barclay, Yermolov, Konovnitsyn, Rayevsky)
The enemy bears down on us with fire and steel (Konovnitsyn, Rayevsky, Chorus)
When, oh when was this dreadful business decided? (Kutuzov, Chorus)
Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91, Scene 11
- Richard Hickox, Spoleto Festival Orchestra, Alan Opie, Dmitry Kanevsky, Justin Lavender, Marcus Van Den Akker, Richard Coxon, Stephen Dupont, Vladimir Ognev, Charles Austin, Tatiana Odinokova, Vadim Zaplechny, Henry Moss, Victoria Livengood, Russian State Symphonic Cappella, Neil Jenkins, Oleg Dolgov, Liuba Chuchrova, Pamela Helen Stephen
Moscow's deserted! (Ramballe, Bonnet, Jacqueau, Gérard, Young Factory Worker, Shopkeeper, Matveyev, Dunyasha, Mavra Kuzminichna, Chorus)
I must do the deed, or die (Pierre, Shopkeeper, Young Factory Worker, Dunyasha, Mavra Kuzminichna)
Where did you get such a good going-over, lads? (Jacqueau, Gérard, Matveyev, Ivanov, Chorus)
Davout, the cruel Davout, the emperor Napoleon's hatchet man! (Pierre, Davout, Officer, Ivanov, Karatayev)
Nothing matters now, nothing (Pierre, Karatayev, Shopkeeper, Ramballe, Bonnet, First Actress, Second Actress, Madmen, Chorus)
What a dreadful scene! (Napoleon, Chorus)
Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91, Scene 12
- Richard Hickox, Spoleto Festival Orchestra, Roderick Williams, Ekaterina Morozova, Russian State Symphonic Cappella
It's stretching higher and further (Prince Andrey, Natasha, Chorus)
Has fate really brought us together so strangely today… (Prince Andrey, Natasha, Chorus)
Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91, Scene 13
- Richard Hickox, Spoleto Festival Orchestra, Dmitry Kanevsky, Alan Ewing, Richard Coxon, Thomas Guthrie, Russian State Symphonic Cappella, Justin Lavender, Vadim Zaplechny, Neil Jenkins, Igor Matioukhin, Vladimir Ognev, Tatiana Odinokova, Catherine Pierard
We've burnt our bridges.. (Ramballe, Bonnet, Pierre, Karatayev, Officer)
Hey! Hey! Hey! (Pierre, Denisov, Fyodor, Tikhon, Dunyasha, Vasilisa, Chorus)
Dolokhov said that Hélène had passed away (Pierre, Denisov)
The Commander-in-chief is coming! (Adjutant, Denisov, Dolokhov, Vasilisa, Fyodor, Tikhon, Dunyasha, Chorus)
The enemy has been put to rout (Kutuzov, Chorus)