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Disc: 1
1. Akh, ne sp�tsya b�l'se, popr�buyu - Maria Ewing, Orchestre de l'Op�ra Bastille, Myung-Whun Chung
2. Gribk� seg�dnya b�dut? - Myung-Whun Chung, Orchestre de l'Op�ra Bastille, Aage Haugland, Maria Ewing
3. Govor� - ... - Ceg� vstal? - Philip Langridge, Grigory Gritziuk, Aage Haugland, Sergej Larin, Alan Woodrow, Maria Ewing, Kristine Ciesinski, Orchestre de l'Op�ra Bastille, Myung-Whun Chung, Choeurs de l'Opera Bastille, Gunter Wagner
4. Interlude - Orchestre de l'Op�ra Bastille, Myung-Whun Chung
5. Ay! Ay! Ay! - Otpust�te b�bu - Kristine Ciesinski, Heinz Zednik, Guillaume Petitot, Jean-Pierre Mazaloubaud, Sergej Larin, Maria Ewing, Orchestre de l'Op�ra Bastille, Myung-Whun Chung, Choeurs de l'Opera Bastille, Gunter Wagner
6. Mn�go v� - Cto ego? - Maria Ewing, Sergej Larin, Heinz Zednik, Aage Haugland, Orchestre de l'Op�ra Bastille, Myung-Whun Chung
7. Interlude - Orchestre de l'Op�ra Bastille, Myung-Whun Chung
8. Spat' por�. Den' pros�l - Maria Ewing, Aage Haugland, Orchestre de l'Op�ra Bastille, Myung-Whun Chung
9. Zereby�nok k kob�lke tor�pitsya - Maria Ewing, Orchestre de l'Op�ra Bastille, Myung-Whun Chung
10. Kto eto - ... - Uyd� t� - Maria Ewing, Sergej Larin, Aage Haugland, Orchestre de l'Op�ra Bastille, Myung-Whun Chung
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Disc: 2
1. Serg�y, Sery�za! Vsyo spit - Maria Ewing, Sergej Larin, Orchestre de l'Op�ra Bastille, Myung-Whun Chung
2. Opy�t' usn�l - ... - [Andante] (Orchestra) - Maria Ewing, Aage Haugland, Sergej Larin, Orchestre de l'Op�ra Bastille, Myung-Whun Chung
3. Sl�say, Serg�y - ... - Tep�r' sab�s - Maria Ewing, Sergej Larin, Philip Langridge, Orchestre de l'Op�ra Bastille, Myung-Whun Chung
4. Cto t� - ... - Interlude (Orchestra) - Sergej Larin, Maria Ewing, Heinz Zednik, Orchestre de l'Op�ra Bastille, Myung-Whun Chung
5. S�zdan polic�yskiy - ... - Sk�ro - Anatolij Kotscherga, Philippe Duminy, Ilya Levinsky, Heinz Zednik, Orchestre de l'Op�ra Bastille, Myung-Whun Chung, Choeurs de l'Opera Bastille, Gunter Wagner
6. Interlude - Orchestre de l'Op�ra Bastille, Myung-Whun Chung
7. Sl�va supr�gam - ... - Cto tak�ye? - Romuald Tesarowicz, Maria Ewing, Sergej Larin, Mario Agnetti, Anatolij Kotscherga, Orchestre de l'Op�ra Bastille, Myung-Whun Chung, Choeurs de l'Opera Bastille, Gunter Wagner
8. Vy�rst� odn� za drug�y dl�nnoy polz�t veren�cey - Kurt Moll, Orchestre de l'Op�ra Bastille, Myung-Whun Chung, Choeurs de l'Opera Bastille, Gunter Wagner
9. Step�n�c! Propust� meny� - Maria Ewing, Johann Tilli, Sergej Larin, Orchestre de l'Op�ra Bastille, Myung-Whun Chung
10. Ne legk� p�sle poc�ta da pokl�nov p�red sud�m stoy�t'! - Maria Ewing, Orchestre de l'Op�ra Bastille, Myung-Whun Chung
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Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk district
Composed by Dmitry Shostakovich
Performed by Paris Op�ra-Bastille Chorus, Paris Op�ra-Bastille Orchestra
with Maria Ewing, Sergei Larin, Aage Haugland, Philip Langridge, Heinz Zednik, Kristine Ciesinski, Ilya Levinsky, Romuald Tesarowicz, Anatoly Kocherga, El�na Zaremba, Kurt Moll, Grigory Gritziuk, Carlos Alvarez, Guillaume Petitot, Jean-Pierre Mazaloubaud, Alan Woodrow, Jean-Claude Costa, Jean Savignol, Jos� Ochagavia, Philippe Duminy, Mario Agnetti, Johann Tilli, Margaret Jane Wray
Conducted by Myung-Whun Chung

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5.0 out of 5 stars Words fail, 17 Dec 2008

By	John Ferngrove "Cirenor" (Hants UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I've played this through a couple of times over the last few days and now my brain is saturated with its glorious themes. I've read the synopsis so I know roughly what's going on, but to follow it through with the libretto is something I find impossible, because sooner or later I am overwhelmed by the music, I put the booklet down, I close my eyes and lie back to luxuriate in the awesome power and the endless vitality of the music and the gorgeous singing, by all concerned, but above all by the exotic Maria Ewing. With a voice like hers I think I would kill for her.

It's such a strange opera. The only person you can feel any sympathy for is the arch murderess herself. Everyone that get's done in deserves it after all.

And why did it bring down Stalin's wrath on Dmitry? Was it the prurience of the tyrant, because there is no denying there are adult themes to say the least. Or was it, as has been suggested the corruption of the police and above all their chief, which despite being set in tsarist times, Stalin saw as a dig at him personally? Perhaps it was just his own bad conscience? Certainly, it cannot have been the music which combines vigorous music hall wit with the sublime obliterating power that only Shostakovich seems to get from an orchestra. Just thinking about the music that denotes the icy blasts of the Siberian steppes in the final act just makes my knees knock together.

It is a glorious performance and beautifully recorded, with an excellent presentation with booklet including libretto and interesting essays. My one complaint is that the dynamics are so broad that you must spend a lot of time straining to hear, OR, as in my case you have to subject the non-Shostakovich loving contingent of the household to the various shattering crescendi that punctuate the work. I have considered getting the classic Rostropovich version with Galina Vishnevskaya in the title role just to circumvent this problem, Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, but the samples I've played suggest that Vishnevskaya, whom I do admire, just doesn't have the voluptuousness that Ewing brings to the role. What I have done is ordered one of the available DVD's of the production, plumping for Lady Macbeth Of Mtsensk - Shostakovich [2003] (NTSC). I don't have high hopes for the music, in particular the voices for this production, given the equivocal reviews, but it will let me get the story straight, and who knows, I may be pleasantly surprised?

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