Dmitri Shostakovich - Katerina Ismailowa (Lady Macbeth von Mzensk - Großer Querschnitt) album flac

Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District is an opera in four acts and nine scenes by Dmitri Shostakovich, his Opus 29. The libretto, jointly written by Alexander Preys and the composer, is based on the novel of the same name by Nikolai Leskov. The opera is generally translated in English as Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

80 549 ZR. Dmitri Shostakovich. Katerina Ismailowa (Lady Macbeth von Mzensk - Großer Querschnitt) ‎(LP, Album, Comp).

Dmitri Shostakovich ‎– Katerina Ismailowa (Lady Macbeth von Mzensk - Großer Querschnitt). Label: Melodia Auslese ‎– 80 549 ZR. Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Compilation, Stereo. Ariola Eurodisc GmbH.

Opera Dmitri Chostakovitch. Personal offers for this show. Of Shostakovich’s initial undertaking – a trilogy on the tragic destinies of Russian women through the ages – only one opera was ever written: the hard-hitting Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. Although one of the mainsprings of the work, the Shakespearean parallel is here bitterly ironic: unlike Lady Macbeth, Katerina Ismaïlova who, in the remote reaches of rural 19th century Russia, falls in love with one of her husband’s employees and is finally forced to commit suicide, is less a manipulator than a victim of a violent and patriarchal society.

This will earn Katerina the epithet of Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District. Those equating her with Shakespeare’s murderously ruthless protagonist, however, only reflect the view from outside. Whereas Leskov’s narrator remains ambivalent towards his title character, Shostakovich repeatedly expressed his intentions in this piece, writing for example in an article that appeared at the end of 1932, shortly before he completed the opera, that he understood the story ‘as a tragic portrait of the fate of a talented, clever and exceptional woman in the nightmarish conditions of pre-Revolutionary. In an opera, of course, this relativization, which is also a relativization of moral judgement, must first and foremost be audible. It is pointless spending any time arguing about how I justify all these crimes’, writes Shostakovich in 1934, ‘because that happens far more obviously through the material of the music.

Taken on May 1, 2013.

Dmitri Shostakovich, Lady Macbeth from Mtsensk. I, 1: "V dyévkakh lúchshe bylo" (Katerina). In Shostakovich's second opera, the tedium of everyday Russian life determines the fate of protagonist Katerina Ismailova. It is a work about the irrepressible nature of sexual urges, about erotic deeds of violence and liberation. Some of the scenes reached an unheard-of level of explicitness and were likely to have shocked the first audiences, but the work as a whole is an ode to love.