Voina i mir (War and Peace) op. 91 (1959)
Richard Hickox, Spoleto Festival Orchestra, Russian State Symphonic Cappella, Ekaterina Morozova (Soprano), Justin Lavender (Tenor), Oleg Balashov (Tenor), Roderick Williams (Baritone), Pamela Helen Stephen (Mezzo-soprano), Igor Matioukhin (Baritone), Elena Ionova (Mezzo-soprano), Alan Ewing (Bass), Stephen Dupont (Bass), Thomas Guthrie (Baritone), Tatiana Odinokova (Soprano), Vladimir Ognev (Bass), Victoria Livengood (Alto), Vadim Zaplechny (Tenor), Richard Coxon (Tenor), Catherine Piérard (Mezzo-soprano), Dmitry Kanevsky (Bass), Marcus van den Akker (Bass), Neil Jenkins (Tenor), Alan Opie (Baritone), Henry Moss (Tenor), Liuba Chuchrova (Soprano), Robert Baker (Tenor), Charles Robert Austin (Baritone), Oleg Dolgov (Tenor), Sergei Schirmanov (Baritone), Richard Hetherington (Tenor)
1999, Spoleto, Teatro Nuovo Spoleto
- 04:42Overture
Scene 1
- 03:39"The radiance of the sky in spring..." (Prince Andrey)
- 04:58"I won’t, I can’t sleep" (Natasha)
- 02:57"O God, my God! What a shame to sleep!" (Natasha)
Scene 2
- 02:37Scene 2
- 04:57"Chorus! Let the chorus begin!" (Host)
- 02:39"Look, the colonel’s dancing the mazurka" (Peronskaya, Akhrosimova, Helene, Anatoly, Count Rostov)
- 02:48"Will no one choose me as a partner?" (Natasha)
- 06:51"When I was at Otradnoye in May" (Prince Andrey)
Scene 3
- 05:19"The young Prince’s fiancee" (Old Footman)
- 05:55"Ah, Madam, young lady…" (Prince Nikolay Bolkonsky)
Scene 4
- 03:18"The charming, delightful Natasha" (Helene)
- 07:12"She's wonderful and so beautiful" (Natasha)
Scene 5
- 04:09"At 10 o'clock in the evening, she'll be waiting" (Anatoly)
- 06:15"Balaga!" (Dolokhov)
Scene 6
- 03:38"Oh, my dear Miss Natasha, all is lost, it seems" (Dunyasha)
- 06:34"A fine young lady you are!" (Akhrosimova)
- 11:07"I've sought to avoid her" (Pierre)
Scene 7
- 10:49"Picture the scene, Countess" (Metivier)
- 05:19Epigraph: "The forces of 2 and 10 European nations" (Chorus)
Scene 8
- 08:27"Come on lads! That's the way!" (Volunteers, Tikhon)
- 03:27"Denisov, her first fiancee" (Prince Andrey)
- 06:06"It's the master, look at him!" (Fyodor)
- 03:02"Hurrah! Hurrah!" (Chorus of Soldiers)
- 10:35"There is no people greater than ours" (Kutuzov)
Scene 9
- 10:25"The wine is uncorked; we must drink it" (Napoleon)
Scene 10
- 06:48"And so, gentlemen, the question is … "(Benigsen)
- 01:13"The enemy bears down on us with fire and steel" (Soldier)
- 09:12"When, oh when was this dreadful business decided?" (Kutuzov)
Scene 11
- 08:14"Moscow's deserted!" (Ramballe)
- 04:29"I must do the deed, or die" (Pierre)
- 02:11"Where did you get such a good going-over, lads?" (Jacqueau)
- 05:16"Davout, the cruel Davout, the emperor Napoleon's hatchet man!" (Pierre)
- 06:41"Nothing matters now, nothing" (Pierre)
- 04:13"What a dreadful scene!" (Napoleon)
Scene 12
- 08:20"It's stretching higher and further" (Prince Andrey)
- 07:22"Has fate really brought us together so strangely today …" (Prince Andrey)
Scene 13
- 05:08"We've burnt our bridges …" (Ramballe)
- 07:27"Hey! Hey! Hey!" (Voice Off-Stage)
- 02:38"Dolokhov said that Helene had passed away" (Pierre)
- 01:44"The Commander-in-chief is coming!" (Adjutant)
- 06:15"The enemy has been put to rout" (Kutuzov)
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