| Other author/creator | Viskovatov, Pavel Aleksandrovich, 1842-1905, librettist. |
| Other author/creator | Lermontov, Mikhail I͡Urʹevich, 1814-1841, author. |
| Other author/creator | Loshak, Anatoliĭ, performer. |
| Other author/creator | Browner, Alison, performer. |
| Other author/creator | Meshcheri͡akova, Marina performer. |
| Other author/creator | Zimnenko, Leonid, performer. |
| Other author/creator | Serkin, Valeriy, performer. |
| Other author/creator | Anissimov, Alexander, conductor. |
| Other author/creator | National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, performer. |
| Other author/creator | Wexford Festival Opera. Chorus, performer. |
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Disc 1 (55:29). Introduction (1:57) -- Chorus: "Above the earth again, Demon is flying" [Nad zyemlyoyu snova Dyemon prolyetayet] (5:05) -- Demon's monologue: "Accursed world! Despicable world! Wretched, hateful world!" [Proklyatyi mir! Prezryennyi mir! Nyeschastnyi, nyenavistnyi mnye mir!] (2:19) -- Angel: "Do not curse, but love!" [Nye klyani, a lyubi!] (0:21) -- Demon: "What is the radiance of eternal power to me, what is divine paradise? I desire my freedom, I desire wild passions and not repose. You praise his creation, you are all slaves! I want to live, I desire agitation, I desire struggles!" [Shto mnye siyan'ye vyechnoi vlasti, shto rai svyatoi!] (1:41) -- Angel: "Your knowledge is negation, your love is hatred" [Tvoi poznan'ya, otritsan'ya, i nyenavist,' lyubov' tvoya] (2:02) -- Act I. Chorus of Maidens: "We go down to the bright Aragva each evening" [Khodim my k Aragvye svyetloi kazhdyi vyecher za vodoi] (4:48) -- Demon: "What do I see? I am confounded by long-forgotten dreams. Her heavenly features shine with angelic beauty" [Shto vizhu ya? Menya smushchayet davno zabytyye mechty] (1:04) -- Nanny's recitative and aria: "That's enough now, enough! You listen to what I am going to tell you. A bridegroom is galloping on horseback to his bride" [Polno, polno! Ty poslushai, vot shto rasskazhu tyebye. Skachet k nyevyestye zhenikh na konye] (2:30) -- Demon: "Child, in your embraces I shall be resurrected into a new life. Tamara love me! I shall not let another have you! A free son of the ether, I shall take you into the starry regions, and you shall be mistress of the world, my eternal companion" [Ditya, v ob'yatiyakh tvoikh voskryesnu k novoi zhizni ya] (1:30) -- Tamara: "He was standing there, shining in a heavenly light...and he sang to me such wonderful songs, he spoke passionate words to me and promised me wondrous joys" [Tam, na skalye on stoyal, svyetom nyebyesnym siyal] (2:42) -- Tamara: "And you shall be mistress of the world, my eternal companion" [I budyesh' ty tsaritsei mira, podruga vyechnaya moya!] (0:42) -- Introduction and chorus: "Hey" [Khei!] (1:13) -- Old Servant: "Halt, brothers, halt" [Stoi! Brattsy, stoi!] (0:42) -- Entrance of Prince Sinodal and recitative: "Fit out a messenger to send to the Princess" [Snaryadi gontsa k nyevyeste] ; Recitative and aria of Prince Sinodal: "My heart beats anxiously, our caravan has been held up, and in vain does Prince Gudal await us today..." "Transformed into a falcon, I would fly to you, my timid turtle-dove, I would soar into the air" [Syerdtse b'yotsia nyespokoino...Obyernuvshish' sokolom, i k tyebye, moya gorlitsa puglivaya, polyetyel by ya] (5:57) -- Old Servant: "Don't fret, don't be downcast" [Nye pyechal'sya, nye kruchin'sya, dorogoi moi knyaz'] (0:38) -- Chorus: "For the health of the Prince, hurrah!" [Za zdorov'ye knyazya, ura!] (0:12) -- Old Servant: "What are you shouting for? Calm down and be silent. This is no place for shouting in. This is an evil place: look, there on the roadside stands a chapel. A saint lies there slain from vengeance by a cunning hand" [Chevo vy krichitye?] (2:44) -- Prince: "Tomorrow with first light, as we set off on our journey, I shall go to the chapel to pray, but now go and lie down all of you! You too, old fellow!" [Zavtra, v put' idya s zaryoyu, voidu v cashnovnyu ya s mol'boyu] (3:54) -- Chorus and Prince Sinodal: "In the darkness of the night, the obedient winds seem to fly to your chamber, my darling. Everything that I say to you, how I love her, sing to my darling at her bedside" [Nochen'koi tyomnoyu, vyetry poslushnyye] (5:16) -- Demon: "During his prayer I lulled him to sleep with sweet dreams. In the darkness of the night he kissed his bride's lips in his dreams. Sleep, sleep, you shall not see Tamara! Time flies. The darkness of the night is full of woe, and your enemy, here he is!" [Yevo ya vo vremya molitvy myechtoyu sladkoi usyplyal] (1:02) -- Chorus of Tartars: "Softer, softer, creep up" [Tishe, tishe podpolzaitye] (3:05) -- Prince: "Where are my servants... Have they run away or do they lie bravely on the ground?" [Gdye zhe slugi moi] (4:05). |
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Disc 2 (71:59). Act 2. Entr'acte and chorus of guests: "Hey! We have gathered together on this festive day" [V dyen' vyesyel'ya my sobralis'] (5:49) -- Chorus of men: "Wine brings jollity and love" [Vino, vino, dayot ono vyesyel'ye i lyubov'] (3:27) -- Tamara: "Oh God, God! What a terrible dread sight. My Prince, wake up, wake up for a moment" [O Bozhe, Bozhe. Strashnyi uzhasnyi vid] (3:10) -- Messenger, Prince Gudal, Old Servant, Nanny and Guests: "Our dear Prince, our beloved Prince, a sad lot has befallen you! At the height of your strength and your desires, death has mown you down to the cold earth" [Knyaz' dorogoi nash, knyaz' nash lyubimyi] (4:00) -- Demon (off-stage): "Do not weep, child, do not weep in vain, your tear will not fall like living dew onto a silent corpse" [Nye plach', ditya, nye plach' naprasno] (2:31) -- Tamara: "What did he say? You heard, he called me" [Shto on skazal?] (0:19) -- Gudal: "Take the Prince's body away quickly" [Unyesitye poskoryeye tyelo knyazya ot nyeyo] (0:58) -- Demon: "On the ocean of the air, without rudder or sail, the harmonious constellations of heavenly bodies sail quietly past in the mist, amid the immeasurable fields fibrous herds of intangible clouds pass by in the heavens without trace..." [Na vozdushnom okeanye, byez rulya i byez vyetril] (2:14) -- Demon: "As soon as night shrouds the mountain tops of the Caucasus with its veil, as soon as the world, charmed by the magical word, falls silent, as soon as the golden moon rises silently from behind the hill, looking at you with a smile, I shall fly to you" [Lish' tol'ko noch' svoim pokrovom vyerkhi Kavkaza osyenit] (2:09) -- Tamara: "Where is he? Stooping down to my head, he was looking at me so sadly and with such earnest love, as if he were sorry for me" [Gdye zh on...? Sklonyasya k izgolov'yu, on grustno na menya smotryel] (2:30) -- Tamara: "Father, father, my soul is suffering. Father, take pity on me, send your foolhardy daughter to a holy convent!" [Otyets, otyets, dusha moya stradayet] (2:47) -- Tamara, Nanny, Messenger, Prince Gudal, Old Servant and Chorus: "Let her (me) go to the holy convent, let her rest there" [Otpusti yeyo (menya) v obityel'] (3:29) -- Act 3. Old Servant: "The Christian world sleeps, before the sign of the cross and the power of prayer all impure things fall as dust" [Spit khristianskii mir] (4:21) -- Demon: "The holy convent sleeps, only her window is still illuminated..." [Obityel' spit, yeyo okno eshcho ozaryeno] (1:49) -- Demon: "Yes, I love her, I shall find renewal! Why delay? My soul is open to goodness and I shall enter" [Da, ya yeyo lyublyu] (0:29) -- Angel: "Agitated and depraved spirit, what are you doing here at the midnight hour? You will not find your disciples here" [Dukh byespokoinyi, dukh porochnyi] (2:32) -- Tamara: "The night is warm, the night is calm, I cannot sleep" [Noch' tyepla, noch' tikha, nye mogu ya usnut'] (4:37) -- Old Servant: "The Christian world sleeps, before the sign of the cross and the power of prayer all impure things fall as dust" [Spit khristianskii mir] (1:15) -- Demon: "I am the one to whom you listened in the silence of the midnight hour, whose thoughts whispered to your soul, whose sorrows you vaguely guessed..." [Ya tot, kotoromu vnimala ty v polunochnoi tishinye] (2:32) -- Tamara: "Your words are dangerous! Did hell or paradise send you to me" [Ryech' tvoya opasna! Tyebya prislal mnye ad il' rai?] (1:53) -- Demon: "Your image was impressed on my soul from the beginning of the world: it was before me in the deserts of the eternal ether..." [V dushe moyei s nachala mira tvoi obraz byl napyechatlyon] (6:50) -- Demon: "I swear by the first day of creation, I swear by the last day, I swear by the shame of crime and by the victory of eternal truth..." [Klyanus' ya pyervym dnyom tvoryen'ya] (2:33) -- Chorus of nuns (off-stage): "Creating everything eternally good" [Vsyo sozidayushchii, vyechno blagoi] (2:12) -- Tamara: "Ah, creator, creator, I call upon you! I have no strength, alas, no strength to pray" [Akh! tyoryets, tyoryets, tyebya, tyebya zovu] (0:24) -- Demon: "I shall dive to the bottom of the sea..." [Ya opushchus' na dno morskoye] (1:20) -- Tamara: "I am in your hands... But take pity on me!" [Ya v tvoikh rukakh... No poshchadi menya] (0:30) -- Angel and chorus: "Tamara!" (0:10) -- Epilogue. Angel: "Be gone, spirit of doubt!" [Ischezni, dukh somnyen'ya!] (0:41) -- Demon: "I cannot give her back! She is mine!" [Yeyo otdat' ya nye mogu! Ona moya!] (0:10) -- Angel: "No, she was not created for you! Be gone gloomy spirit!" [Nyet! Nye sozdana dlya tyebya ona] (0:11) -- Demon: "Again I am abandoned! Again alone! Ah! Accursed world! A curse on everyone!" [Opyat' ya sir! Opyat' odin!] (1:30) -- Apotheosis. Angel and chorus: "We bear the sinful world, the soul which loved and suffered, to heaven!" [My dushu gryeshnuyu, dushu lyubivshuyu, dushu stradavshuyu k nyebu nyesyom] (2:37). |
| General note | Opera in 3 acts. |
| General note | Libretto by Pavel Viskovatov, based on the narrative poem of the same name by Lermontov. |
| General note | Compact discs. |
| General note | Synopsis and notes on the performers in English and libretto (romanized) with English translation by Philip Taylor (119 pages) laid in container. |
| Performer |
Anatoly Lochak, Alison Browner, Marina Mescheriakova, Leonid Zimnenko, Valery Serkin ; other soloists ; Wexford Festival Opera Chorus ; National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland ; Alexander Anissimov, conductor. |
| Date/time/place of a event note | Recorded in Wexford, October and November 1994. |
| Language | Sung in Russian. |
| LCCN | 99593227 |
| UPC |
730099378123 |
| Standard identifier# |
3009937812 |
| Publisher number | 8.223781 Marco Polo (disc 1) |
| Publisher number | 8.223782 Marco Polo (disc 2) |
| Publisher number | 8.223781-2 Marco Polo (container) |
