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Russian-born bass Sergei Leiferkus has proven himself authoritative in many areas of
the repertory. He was among the first of the Soviet artists of the 1980s to have established
himself as an important singer in the West, as well as in his own country. In addition to opera,
he has excelled in recital and concert work. His sturdy, almost brazen timbre and incisive
phrasing make a bold effect and his instrument's dark coloring makes it possible for him to
effectively assume such bass parts as that of the soloist in Shostakovich's Symphony No. 13
(Babi Yar). After studies in Leningrad, Leiferkus was engaged by the Mal�y Opera Theatre in
1972, remaining with that company as a principal singer until 1978. His debut at Leningrad's
Kirov took place as Prince Andrei in 1977. As an increasingly important figure among that
theater's growing roster of world-class singers, Leiferkus assumed such roles as Don Giovanni
and Rossini's Figaro. His Western debut came not in an opera house, but rather on the
concert stage when he appeared in 1980 with the Berlin Philharmonic under Kurt Masur.
In 1982, he appeared at the small but well-known Wexford Festival singing the Marquis in
Massenet's rather obscure Gris�lidis. He was invited back for the title role in Marschner's
Hans Heiling, the Fiddler in Humperdinck's K�nigskinder and Boniface in another Massenet
rarity, Le jongleur de Notre-Dame. Leiferkus established other ties in the British Isles,
performing Yevgeny Onegin and Don Giovanni for the Scottish Opera, essaying Zurga and
Escamillo for the English National Opera and Zurga and Scarpia for Opera North. His debut
at the Royal Opera took place as the Count di Luna in a 1989 production of Il trovatore.
Subsequent roles there included Prince Igor, Iago, Onegin, Telramund, Scarpia, and
Ruprecht in Prokofiev's Fiery Angel. With the Kirov company, Leiferkus toured England in
1987, performing both Onegin and Tomsky in Tchaikovsky's Pique Dame. The Glyndebourne
Festival invited Leiferkus to repeat Tomsky in 1992; the same year, the baritone made his
Metropolitan Opera debut as Onegin. Among his other nearly 50 roles are Mazeppa,
Telramund, Pizarro (all three recorded), the elder Germont and Anckarstroem in Un ballo
in maschera (a role that won him outstanding reviews at San Francisco in 2000). He has
sung in such other venues as the Wiener Staatsoper, La Scala, the Teatro Col�n, the
Bastille Opera in Paris, and the Netherlands Opera in Amsterdam. Besides Glyndebourne,
Leiferkus has sung opera performances at the Salzburg Easter Festival, at Edinburgh,
and at Bregenz. Leiferkus has made a series of excellent song recordings for both
Conifer and Chandos. The first disc of his complete cycle of Mussorgsky songs was
nominated for a Grammy, while Volume Two won a 1997 Cannes classical award,
and three volumes from the set were honored with a Diapason d'Or that same year.
The singer's recital appearances have been acclaimed in both America and England.
Leiferkus has appeared several times at Lincoln Center and at the Frick Collection and
has sung memorable programs at Covent Garden and Wigmore Hall. In addition to
other recitals at Tanglewood, the Wexford Festival, the Kozerthaus in Vienna, and
the Cologne Philharmonic, Leiferkus has conducted master classes at the Britten-
Pears School at Aldeburgh, England.
Music Composed by
Dmitri Shostakovich
Songs Orchestrated by
Boris Tishchenko
Played by the
Russian Philharmonic Orchestra
With
Sergei Leiferkus (bass)
Conducted by
Thomas Sanderling
"Satire, for Shostakovich, was rarely a laughing matter, however innocuous or banal his
texts might seem. A 67-year old bullies a bus driver to deadly serious music (and Leiferkus�s
blackest-sounding performance here); and when Dostoyevsky�s sinister buffoon Captain
Lebyadkin welcomes �our century of great reforms� at a Governesses� Benefit Ball, the Dies
Irae tolls beneath. What could Soviet audiences have thought when Vishnevskaya and
Nesterenko first performed these bluntly-phrased songs? It�s certainly curious that
Shostakovich chained them together in recital � even the premiere of the Lebyadkin
Verses in May 1975, Shostakovich�s last public appearance, restored the 1965 Krokodil
cycle to circulation � so Leiferkus and Thomas Sanderling are right to present them as a
sequence. While this stalwart bass-baritone�s tone can be unvarying, and his stentorian
upper register is no longer quite as powerful as it once was, there�s kaleidoscopic colour
in the idiomatic orchestrations of Boris Tishchenko (the brief but treasurable Preface to
the Complete Edition of my Works was scored by Leonid Desyatnikov). The trombone
slides and spiky woodwind of early Shostakovich return to grace his young-at-heart late
utterances, and the Russian Philharmonic delivers them with panache in vivid sound."
BBC Music Magazine
Download Link - https://mega.co.nz/#!jNRgEYIR!iBs7iRks2bHPmBlNSVzAYwMlVotva-uA20AbE54Ogxo
Source: Deutsche Grammophon CD, 2006 (my rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo, Level: -5
File Size: 400 MB
Enjoy! Don't share! Buy the origina! Please leave a "Like" or "Thank you" if you enjoyed this! :)
Complete artwork and booklet included. Do not share. Buy the original!
Please leave a "Like" or "Thank you" if you enjoyed this!
Russian-born bass Sergei Leiferkus has proven himself authoritative in many areas of
the repertory. He was among the first of the Soviet artists of the 1980s to have established
himself as an important singer in the West, as well as in his own country. In addition to opera,
he has excelled in recital and concert work. His sturdy, almost brazen timbre and incisive
phrasing make a bold effect and his instrument's dark coloring makes it possible for him to
effectively assume such bass parts as that of the soloist in Shostakovich's Symphony No. 13
(Babi Yar). After studies in Leningrad, Leiferkus was engaged by the Mal�y Opera Theatre in
1972, remaining with that company as a principal singer until 1978. His debut at Leningrad's
Kirov took place as Prince Andrei in 1977. As an increasingly important figure among that
theater's growing roster of world-class singers, Leiferkus assumed such roles as Don Giovanni
and Rossini's Figaro. His Western debut came not in an opera house, but rather on the
concert stage when he appeared in 1980 with the Berlin Philharmonic under Kurt Masur.
In 1982, he appeared at the small but well-known Wexford Festival singing the Marquis in
Massenet's rather obscure Gris�lidis. He was invited back for the title role in Marschner's
Hans Heiling, the Fiddler in Humperdinck's K�nigskinder and Boniface in another Massenet
rarity, Le jongleur de Notre-Dame. Leiferkus established other ties in the British Isles,
performing Yevgeny Onegin and Don Giovanni for the Scottish Opera, essaying Zurga and
Escamillo for the English National Opera and Zurga and Scarpia for Opera North. His debut
at the Royal Opera took place as the Count di Luna in a 1989 production of Il trovatore.
Subsequent roles there included Prince Igor, Iago, Onegin, Telramund, Scarpia, and
Ruprecht in Prokofiev's Fiery Angel. With the Kirov company, Leiferkus toured England in
1987, performing both Onegin and Tomsky in Tchaikovsky's Pique Dame. The Glyndebourne
Festival invited Leiferkus to repeat Tomsky in 1992; the same year, the baritone made his
Metropolitan Opera debut as Onegin. Among his other nearly 50 roles are Mazeppa,
Telramund, Pizarro (all three recorded), the elder Germont and Anckarstroem in Un ballo
in maschera (a role that won him outstanding reviews at San Francisco in 2000). He has
sung in such other venues as the Wiener Staatsoper, La Scala, the Teatro Col�n, the
Bastille Opera in Paris, and the Netherlands Opera in Amsterdam. Besides Glyndebourne,
Leiferkus has sung opera performances at the Salzburg Easter Festival, at Edinburgh,
and at Bregenz. Leiferkus has made a series of excellent song recordings for both
Conifer and Chandos. The first disc of his complete cycle of Mussorgsky songs was
nominated for a Grammy, while Volume Two won a 1997 Cannes classical award,
and three volumes from the set were honored with a Diapason d'Or that same year.
The singer's recital appearances have been acclaimed in both America and England.
Leiferkus has appeared several times at Lincoln Center and at the Frick Collection and
has sung memorable programs at Covent Garden and Wigmore Hall. In addition to
other recitals at Tanglewood, the Wexford Festival, the Kozerthaus in Vienna, and
the Cologne Philharmonic, Leiferkus has conducted master classes at the Britten-
Pears School at Aldeburgh, England.
Music Composed by
Dmitri Shostakovich
Songs Orchestrated by
Boris Tishchenko
Played by the
Russian Philharmonic Orchestra
With
Sergei Leiferkus (bass)
Conducted by
Thomas Sanderling
"Satire, for Shostakovich, was rarely a laughing matter, however innocuous or banal his
texts might seem. A 67-year old bullies a bus driver to deadly serious music (and Leiferkus�s
blackest-sounding performance here); and when Dostoyevsky�s sinister buffoon Captain
Lebyadkin welcomes �our century of great reforms� at a Governesses� Benefit Ball, the Dies
Irae tolls beneath. What could Soviet audiences have thought when Vishnevskaya and
Nesterenko first performed these bluntly-phrased songs? It�s certainly curious that
Shostakovich chained them together in recital � even the premiere of the Lebyadkin
Verses in May 1975, Shostakovich�s last public appearance, restored the 1965 Krokodil
cycle to circulation � so Leiferkus and Thomas Sanderling are right to present them as a
sequence. While this stalwart bass-baritone�s tone can be unvarying, and his stentorian
upper register is no longer quite as powerful as it once was, there�s kaleidoscopic colour
in the idiomatic orchestrations of Boris Tishchenko (the brief but treasurable Preface to
the Complete Edition of my Works was scored by Leonid Desyatnikov). The trombone
slides and spiky woodwind of early Shostakovich return to grace his young-at-heart late
utterances, and the Russian Philharmonic delivers them with panache in vivid sound."
BBC Music Magazine
Download Link - https://mega.co.nz/#!jNRgEYIR!iBs7iRks2bHPmBlNSVzAYwMlVotva-uA20AbE54Ogxo
Source: Deutsche Grammophon CD, 2006 (my rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo, Level: -5
File Size: 400 MB
Enjoy! Don't share! Buy the origina! Please leave a "Like" or "Thank you" if you enjoyed this! :)