tracks

Allegretto
Drebednyov - 'That's right! Music…'
Baburov - 'Well I've lived for fifty years on Tyoplui Lane.'
Bubentsov and the Chorus of Visitors
Bubentsov - 'Now please step into the next hall, comrades!
Duet Masha and Bubentsov
Pantomime
Sergey - 'What time is it?'
Boris's Aria
Boris - 'I've come back from Moscow…'
Boris's Song-serenade
Lidochka - 'Have you only just got here?'
Lidochka's Song
Baburov - 'Lidochka, Lidochka…'
Excursion around Moscow
Drebednyov - 'Where's the car?'
Duet: Vava and Drebednyov
End of Excursion around Moscow
First woman - 'Semyon Semyonovich…'
Ensemble of Residents
Sergey's Song about Mar'ina Roscha
Baburov's Song about Tyoplyi Lane
Lyusya - 'So it's Tyoplyi Lane then?'
Song about Cheremushki
Scene: Barabashkin with the Residents
Barabashkin - 'What are you thinking of, citizens?'
Boris's Song
Boris - 'Valka!'
Scene: Barabashkin and Drebednyov with the Residents
Finale of Act I
Barabashkin's Couplets
Boris - 'That's it Lidochka, that's it!'
Duet: Lidochka and Boris
Lidochka - 'You are not angry, my valiant sir?'
Duet: Lyusya and Sergey
Lyusya - 'Oh, what was that?
Barabashkin's and Drebednyov's Couplets
Vava - 'Fedya!'
Duet: Lidochka and Boris
Baburov - 'So where is the young man?
Scene (Lidochka, Baburov, Barabashkin, Drebednyov)
Sergey - 'And where are you off to?…'
Song: Lyusya and the Construction workers
Masha - 'Let's have some tea'
Duet: Masha and Bubentsov
Bubentsov - 'Masha, it's someone ringing for us!'
Polka
The others - 'Guests!'
Song about Cheremushki
Lidochka - 'Where can we go now?'
Ballet
Apotheosis
Boris - 'That was the move to the new flat…'
Finale of Act II
Entr'acte
Scene
Baburov - 'Play something, comrade conductor…'
Lidochka's Song
Bubentsov - 'Taking things easy?!'
Waltz of the Flowers
Lidochka - 'Am I dreaming?'
Barabashkin's Song
Lyusya - 'Are you afraid?…'
Duet: Lidochka and Boris
Boris - 'Nevertheless, the parade ground has been cleared!'
Sergey's Song
Barabashkin - 'Not bad that bench'
Scene: Barabashkin
Finale

notes

264 page booklet contains liner notes, synopsis, biographies in English with German, French & Russian (Cyrillic) translations plus Russian (Cyrillic) libretto with English, German & French translations.

Recorded 30 June - 3 July 1997.

credits

Baritone Vocals [Boris] – Anatoly Lochak
Baritone Vocals [Bubentsov/Drebednyov] – Andrei Baturkin
Bass Vocals [Baburov] – Mikhail Goujov
Bass Vocals [Barabashkin] – Alexander Kiselev
Chorus – The Russian State Symphony Cappella
Composed By – Dmitri Shostakovich
Conductor, Voice Actor [Taxi Driver / Conductor] – Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
Editor – Ben Connellan
Engineer – Ben Connellan
Libretto By – Mikhail Chervinsky, Vladimir Mass
Liner Notes – Gerard McBurney
Mezzo-soprano Vocals [Masha/Vava/Kurochkina/Mylkina] – Irina Gelakhova,
Orchestra – Residentie Orkest
Producer – Brian Couzens, Leo Samana
Soprano Vocals [Lidochka] – Elena Prokina
Soprano Vocals [Lyusya] – Lydia Chernyk
Tenor Vocals [Sergey/Korochkin/Mylkin] – Herman Apaikin

companies

Recorded At – Dr Anton Philipszaal

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