FULL Spring Cantata (Rachmaninov) Rome 2022 Gary Magee

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: Spring or Vesna  
• Composer: Rachmaninov Sergei  
• Libretto: based on a poem by Nikolay Nekrasov  
• Venue & Opera Company: Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Roma, Italy  
• Recorded: July 7, 2022
• Type: Concert Live
• Singers: Gary Magee
• Conductor: Tugan Sokhiev  
• Orchestra: Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia  
• Chorus: Coro dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia  
• Stage Director:   
• Costume Designer:   

Information about the Recording

• Published by: RAI  
• Date Published: 2022  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: nosubs  

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

  PROGRAM:
  Rachmaninoff  “Spring” Cantata op. 20
  Borodin Polovtsian Dances
  Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5

  Quote from Wikipedia:
  Spring (Vesna), Op. 20, is a single-movement cantata for baritone, chorus and orchestra, written by Sergei Rachmaninoff in 1902.

  The work was finished after the famous Second Piano Concerto. Rachmaninoff intended to revise the cantata’s orchestration but never did so.

  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.

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