Osip Kozlovsky News
Russian composer
- piano
- opera
- Russian Empire, Poland, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
- composer, organist, singer, music teacher
streaming
Last update
2024-04-25
Refresh
2021-06-01 18:07:03
The hyper-lyrical, gloriously old-school Russian tenor Ivan Kozlovsky sings an aria from Eduard Nápravik's Dubrovsky (1895). Via the omniaudient David Shengold.
2020-07-27 13:06:19
Three Tenors, 2020
This Week in Classical Music: July 27, 2020. Three Tenors. Only two of our tenors were born this week, Sergei Lemeshev and Mario del Monaco, but the birthday of the third one, Giuseppe Di Stefano, was three days ago. The Russian tenor Sergei Lemeshev is the oldest of the three: he was born on this day in 1902. One of the greatest tenors of the Soviet Union, (along with Ivan Kozlovsky) Lemeshev was born into a peasant family. He went to St.-Petersburg to be a shoemaker, listened to gramophone recordings in his free time and learned the musical basics at a vocational school. In 1920 he was sent to the Moscow Conservatory, where he studied for four years, 1921 through 1925. In 1924 he performed the role of Lensky in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin under the direction of the famed Konstantin Stanislavsky. That was to become his most famous (and favorite) […]
2020-05-24 23:00:00
Rimsky-Korsakov SADKO (1993)
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) SADKOVladimir Galusin, Marianna TarassovaSergei Alexashkin. Valentina TsidipovaLarissa Diadkova, Vladimir OgnovenkoNikolai GassievKirov Chorus and Orchestra, St. Petersburgdir : Valery GergievPhilips 442 138-2 stereo CDs [P] 1994 (out-of-print)Recorded live - Mariinsky Theatre October 1993FLAC image files, cuesheets, logs, scans, booklet Russian transliterated libretto with English translation FANFARE MAGAZINE review (Issue 18.6, July-August 1995) RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Sadko. • Valéry Gergiev, conductor; Vladimir Galusin, tenor (Sadko); Valentina Tsidipova, soprano (Volkhova); Marianna Tarassova, mezzo-soprano (Lyubava); Sergei Alexashkin, bass (The Sea King); Larissa Diadkova, mezzo-soprano, (Nezhata); Kirov Chorus & Orchestra. • PHILIPS 442 138-2 [DDD]; three discs: 56:14, 56:27, 60:05. Produced by Stan Taal.Richard Taruskin, the scholar who covers Russia for the invaluable New Grove Dictionary of Opera, helpfully lists the six operas which he considers to be Rimsky-Korsakov's finest (there are fourteen to choose from!) His choices are Maid of Pskov, Snow Maiden, Sadko, Tsar Saltan, Tsar's Bride, and Kitezh. I'm familiar with […]
2019-07-05 23:00:00
Gounod: Faust - Reizen, Kozlovsky, Shumskaya - Nebolsin 1948
Charles GounodFAUST (performed in Russian)Mark Reizen, Ivan Kozlovsky, Elizabeta ShumskayaIvan Bourlak, Yelena Gribova, Nina OstroumovaChorus and Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theater, Moscowdir : Vassily NebolsinLys 301-303 (mono) - 3 CDs [P] 1998Currently out-of-printOriginal recording by All-Union Radio, Moscow 1948FLAC image files, cuesheets, logs, scans, beautiful booklet with many pictures There are 10 additional excerpts from Faust, sung in Russian, which serve as fillers on CD3. See booklet for details. "There is no denying that Faust sounds somewhat odd in Russian. ... At the same time, the Soviet Union may be the only place where the tradition of full-scale grand opera survived into the 1950s and 1960s ... and the work of the ... soloists is marked by a degree of active belief rarely to be found these days in the West. . . . Ivan Kozlovsly . . . represents a link to another lost operatic […]
or
- timeline: Composers (Europe). Lyrical singers (Europe). Performers (Europe).
- Indexes (by alphabetical order): K...