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FULL Spring Cantata (Rachmaninov) Amsterdam 2025 Boris Pinkhasovich
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Spring Cantata or Vesna
- Composer: Rachmaninov Sergei
- Libretto: based on a poem by Nikolay Nekrasov
- Venue & Opera Company: Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Recorded: February 16, 2025
- Type: Concert Live
- Singers: Boris Pinkhasovich
- Conductor: Gergely Madaras
- Orchestra: Radio Filharmonisch Orkest
- Chorus: v
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: AVROTROS Klassiek
- Date Published: 2025
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Program
P. Tchaikovsky – Fantasy Overture Romeo and Juliet
S. Rachmaninoff – Spring Cantata, op.20
C. Franck – Psyche: part 3
Spring (Vesna), Op. 20, is a single-movement cantata for baritone, chorus and orchestra, written by Sergei Rachmaninov in 1902.
The work was finished after the famous Second Piano Concerto. Rachmaninov intended to revise the cantata’s orchestration but never did so.
Programme
The work is based on a poem by Nikolay Nekrasov and describes the return of the Zelyoniy shum, or “green rustle”. The poem tells of a husband who, fraught with murderous thoughts towards his unfaithful wife during the winter season, is ultimately freed from his frustration and choler by the return of spring
Quoted from Wikipedia