Antonín Dvořák arr. Manfred Honeck & Tomáš Ille : Rusalka, Orch. Fantasy on the opera Op. 114 (1900) скачать в хорошем качестве

Antonín Dvořák arr. Manfred Honeck & Tomáš Ille : Rusalka, Orch. Fantasy on the opera Op. 114 (1900)

Performed by the Pittsburg Symphony Orchestra conducted by Manfred Honeck. The conductor writes : "The opening music is taken from the Second Act’s ball, and it is here that the Slavonic Dances come to mind (00:36). One can hear, naturally, the touching Rusalka motive (02:58), a leitmotif in the opera and therefore incorporated throughout the Suite in multiple variations. The figure of the waterman, Vodník, appears in an almost mythical world right after the festive introduction. The music that he sings is in the timpani part (02:31, then 17:44), representing Vodník’s recitative and the foreboding echoes of unsafe darkness. Rusalka’s mourning in the third act (03:48) is beautifully expressed by Dvořák in the oboe, before turning to despair. One cannot miss the charming music accompanying the nymphs’ scenes (05:47), nor the moment when the prince gets lost in the woods while looking for Rusalka (07:37). As the opera is placed in a fairytale world, there must be the witch Ježibaba (08:40,10:24 and 11:09). The most famous piece is Rusalka’s “Song to the Moon” (11:49), where the sung melody is played as a violin solo. All leitmotifs appear several times, but always varied, as in the opera. Some moments might even recall the Ninth Symphony, for example (16:08), where the Rusalka motive returns dramatically, perhaps insinuating the fourth movement. The changes in harmony (17:01) have similarities with the beginning of the Ninth Symphony’s second movement, as well. For the last time, you will hear the Rusalka theme in a deeply moving march of mourning, with the Vodník motive again in the timpani and the march’s rhythm in the trombones (18:10). Everything culminates in a Grandioso ed Appassionato. For concert-hall use, the Suite ends with music of the opera’s Second Act." Manfred Honeck is the brother of the Vienna Philharmonic's Rainer Honeck.