Prokofiev: Eugene Onegin - Melodrama
) | Label: ARCODIVA Catalog: UP0167 Format: CD Meduna; Mikeska; Herzinova; North Czech Philharmonic Teplice; Petrdlik; Hrachovinova; Klem; SustikovaComposed by: Prokofiev, Sergey Sergei Prokofiev’s score for the melodrama “Eugene Onegin” was written as incidental music for a centenary Pushkin celebration staging that Stalin abruptly halted and banned in 1936; as a result the work and the music went unheard until its recent discovery in a Russian archive and subsequent reconstruction. This almost unknown composition and its accompanying melodrama focuses on parts that Tchaikovsky, in his world-famous opera, didn’t set to music. Comparable with the best of Prokofiev’s music for film, it is both a deeply emotional and highly dramatic work.  Price: $25.98 |