Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
Thomas Allen (Eugene Onegin), Mirella Freni (Tatyana), Anne Sofie von Otter (Olga), Neil Shicoff (Lensky), Rosemary Lang (Larina), Ruthild Engert (Filipyevna), Paata Burchuladze (Gremin)
Rundfunkchor Leipzig & Staatskapelle Dresden, James Levine
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1980s
The new Onegin merits an almost unreserved recommendation […] the central performances by Mirella Freni and Thomas Allen are compellingly vivid.
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
Thomas Allen (Eugene Onegin), Mirella Freni (Tatyana), Anne Sofie von Otter (Olga), Neil Shicoff (Lensky), Rosemary Lang (Larina), Ruthild Engert (Filipyevna), Paata Burchuladze (Gremin)
Rundfunkchor Leipzig & Staatskapelle Dresden, James Levine
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Awards:
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1980s
The new Onegin merits an almost unreserved recommendation […] the central performances by Mirella Freni and Thomas Allen are compellingly vivid.
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Contents and tracklist
- Mirella Freni (soprano), Rosemarie Lang (contralto), Ruthild Engert-Ely (mezzo-soprano), Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano), Jörg-Peter Weigle (chorus master), Thomas Allen (baritone), Neil Shicoff (tenor), Jürgen Hartfiel (bass), Michel Sénéchal (tenor), Gunter Emmerlich (bass), Paata Burchuladze (bass)
- Staatskapelle Dresden, Leipzig Radio Choir
- James Levine
- Recorded: 1987-06-12
- Recording Venue: Lukaskirche, Dresden
Peasants' Chorus And Dance. "Bolyat moyi skori nozhenki so pokhodushki" - "Uzh kak po mostu, mostochku"
Track length4:51
Scene And Aria. "Kak ya lyublyu pod zvuki pesen etikh" - "Uzh kak po mostu, mostochku"
Track length3:32
Mazurka And Scene. "Messieurs, mesdames, mesta zanyat izvolte" - "Ti ne tantsuyesh, Lenski?"
Track length4:35
(Scene 2) Introduction, Scene And Aria. "Nu, shto zhe?" - "Kuda, kuda, kuda vi udalilis"
Track length10:11
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Awards and reviews
11th March 1989
The new Onegin merits an almost unreserved recommendation […] the central performances by Mirella Freni and Thomas Allen are compellingly vivid.
What Freni does is sensitive, intelligent and often touching. She can still sound vulnerable—as Tatyana must...Allen responds to her...Levine draws fine playing from the Staatskapelle Dresden, though he seems to find the opera more conventional than it is.
2010 edition
The DG CD version brings a magnificent Onegin in Thomas Allen, the most satisfying account of the title-role ever recorded. It is matched by the Tatiana of Mirella Freni, even at a late stage in her career readily conveying girlish freshness in her voice. The other parts are also strongly taken...What welds all these fine components into a rich and exciting whole is the conducting of James Levine
Classics Today
this is a big performance: slowish, with the beautiful melodies drawn out in an almost Italian fashion but with Tchaikovsky’s Russian coloring intact, with big climaxes and great tension, and the Dresden forces play stunningly for Levine.
