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Hickox, Barker, Owens, Martin - Dvorak: Rusalka (2008)

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Hickox, Barker, Owens, Martin - Dvorak: Rusalka (2008)

Hickox, Barker, Owens, Martin - Dvorak: Rusalka (2008)
EAC Rip | Flac (Image + cue + log) | 603 MB | MP3 320Kbps CBR | 374 MB | 3 CDs | Full Scans
Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos | Catalog Number: 10449

Chandos certainly has guts, going toe-to-toe with Mackerras’s Gramophone Award-winning set. Hickox’s Australian forces need not fear the comparison. Cheryl Barker may not have the refulgent tones of Renée Fleming on Decca (who has?) but she is even more moving in conveying Rusalka’s desperation. Mackerras is still my must-own, but this runs it close.

Composer: Antonín Dvorák
Performer: Bruce Martin, Anne-Marie Owens, Rosario La Spina, Cheryl Barker, …
Conductor: Richard Hickox
Orchestra/Ensemble: Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra, Australian Opera Chorus

Reviews: Richard Hickox and Opera Australia’s Australian premiere production of Dvorák’s Rusalka opened to spectacular reviews in March 2007. ‘Hickox and the orchestra capture its sudden changeability and dramatic force, elegantly shaping the luscious, sweeping melodies while inflecting the intoxicating, folk music-inspired rhythms with grace and bite’, noted The Australian. Chandos recorded the performances live and here releases the opera on a 3-CD set.

Inspired by Hans Christian Anderson’s fairy-tale The Little Mermaid, Rusalka tells of a water-spirit who falls in love with a prince. Enlisting the help of a witch, Rusalka becomes human so as to marry him. When the prince tires of her, and is unfaithful, she tries to return to the water, but a condition of her becoming human has been violated and she eventually dies together with the remorseful prince. Her story is of human desire, self-sacrifice and the search for enlightenment.

By the time Dvorák came to write Rusalka, he was an experienced opera composer with nine works to his credit; Rusalka was to be his last and is now a seasoned favourite. Part of the secret of the score’s magic lies in the instrumental colouring. Dvorák was always inspired in his handling of the orchestra, but in Rusalka he reaches new heights of expressive scene painting. In the hands of Richard Hickox these elements are skillfully realised.

Taking the role of Rusalka for the first time in this production, the Australian-born soprano Cheryl Barker won deserved plaudits for her performances throughout the Australian press. ‘It is hard to imagine anyone doing the title role better” (The Australian). ‘Cheryl Barker gives an astonishing performance… she manages to capture the ethereal other-worldly quality of the water spirit, both physically and vocally, and her realization that her love for the prince is not returned is heart wrenching’ (The Canberra Review). She is joined in leading roles by Rosario La Spina, Elizabeth Whitehouse, Bruce Martin and Anne-Marie Owens who also received excellent reviews. The Sydney Morning Herald, for example, wrote, ‘Barker is not the only star. Elizabeth Whitehouse is thrillingly venal as the rival foreign princess, and Bruce Martin, as the water sprite, has insistent potency’.

This 3-CD set is sure to draw attention to the talents of Opera Australia and is offered at the price of a 2-CD set.

Tracklisting:

COMPACT DISC ONE

Act I
A forest glade at the edge of a lake. A moonlit night.
1 Prelude 4:24
2 Allegro molto. 'Ho, ho, ho' 4:28
Wood Nymph
3 'You are most welcome here in the lake' 3:24
Water Sprite
4 'Father Water Sprite!' 4:17
Rusalka
5 'He often comes here' 4:31
Rusalka
6 'O moon in the velvet heavens' 4:50
Rusalka
7 'The water feels cold!' 3:19
Rusalka
8 'With your ancient wisdom, you know everything' 3:02
Rusalka
9 'I know that, I know that' 6:24
Jezibaba
10 'Abracadabra' 3:50
Jezibaba
11 'A young Huntsman was once out riding' 4:53
Huntsman
12 'Divine vision, sweetest being' 4:31
Prince
13 'I know you're nothing but magic' 2:06
Prince
54:04

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COMPACT DISC TWO

Act II
A park surrounding the Prince's palace.
1 'Tell me all, dear boy' 4:07
Gamekeeper
2 'Our forest is haunted' 3:48
Gamekeeper
3 'You have now been with me for a week' 5:07
Prince
4 'Ah, this reproach comes not before time' 3:46
Prince
5 Ballet. Andante - Moderato maestoso 6:51
6 'No-one in the world can give you…' 4:09
Water Sprite
7 'White blossoms along the road' 5:58
Wedding Guests
8 'Oh, it's all in vain!' 2:54
Rusalka
9 'Do you see them?' 3:19
Rusalka
10 'But when my fire has burnt you out' 3:36
Foreign Princess
43:40

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COMPACT DISC THREE

Act III
The lakeside glade. Night is drawing on.
1 'Unfeeling water power' 4:00
Rusalka
2 'Deprived of my youth' 4:18
Rusalka
3 'Aha! Are you back already?' 3:06
Jezibaba
4 'You must wash away Nature's curse' 5:08
Jezibaba
5 'I am torn from life' 4:01
Rusalka
6 'Are you afraid?' 3:55
Gamekeeper
7 'Our prince has Fallen dangerously ill' 4:07
Kitchen Boy
8 'I have golden tresses' 7:45
First Wood Nymph
9 'My white doe!' 4:47
Prince
10 'Beloved, do you recognise me?' 2:21
Rusalka
11 'Why did you enfold me in your arms…?' 5:23
Rusalka
12 'Kiss me, kiss me, give me peace' 5:57
Prince

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