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Music Text

Libretto by the composer and Mira Mendelson, after the novel by Leo Tolstoy (R,E)

Scoring

lyrdramS,S,lowS,6M,4C,dramT,T,2highT,comicT,lowT,T(or Bar),hBar,hBar

(or B),6Bar,2Bar(or B),3BBar,3hB,10B,lowB,2speakers,6silent roles;

chorus

11 scene version:

2.picc.2.corA.2.bcl.2.dbn-4.3.3.1-timp.perc:tgl/tamburo di legno/tamb/SD/cyms/BD/tam-t/glsp/xyl-hp-str

13 scene version:

2.picc.2.corA.2.bcl.2.dbn-4.3.3.1-timp.perc:tgl/tamburo di legno/tamb/SD/cyms/BD/tam-t/glsp/xyl-harp-str

Scenes 7 and 11 of the 13 scene version do not appear in the 11 scene version.

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Publisher

VAAP

Territory
This work is available from Boosey & Hawkes / Sikorski for the UK, British Commonwealth (excluding Canada), Republic of Ireland, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Turkey, Israel.

Availability

World premiere incomplete
07/06/1945
Moscow
USSR State Symphony Orchestra / Samuil Samosud
World premiere complete
08/11/1957
Moscow
Stanislavsky Opera Theatre / Alexander Sharverdov
World stage premiere
12/06/1946
Leningrad
Maly Opera Theatre / Samuil Samosud
World premiere of version
01/04/1955
Leningrad
Leningrad State Academy Maly Opera Theatre / Eduard Grikurov
Programme Note
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Recommended Recording
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Alexander Gergalov, Elena Prokina, Gegam Gregoriam, Olga Borodina, Yuri Masurin, Nikolai Okhotnikov, Vassily Gerelo, Irina Bogachova, Alexander Morozov, Kirov Opera, Valery Gergiev
Philips 434 097-2 (3 CDs)

Ekaterina Morozova, Justin Lavender, Oleg Balashov, Roderick Williams, Pamela Helen Stephen, Igor Matioukhin, Elena Ionova, Alan Ewing, Stephen Dupont, Thomas Guthrie, Vladimir Ognev, Victoria Livengood, Neil Jenkins, Alan Opie, Russian State Symphonic Cappella, Spoleto Festival Orchestra, Richard Hickox
Chandos 9855 (4 CDs)

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