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MÜNCHNER RUNDFUNKORCHESTER
CHOR DES BAYERISCHEN RUNDFUNKS
Tassis Christoyannis Mazeppa
Nicole Car Matréna
Julien Dran Iskra
Ante Jerkunica Kotchoubey
Paweł Trojak L’Archimandrite
World premiere recording
‘The subject of Mazeppa has inspired Mme Clémence de Grandval to write a truly remarkable score, the success of which will cause a stir in the musical world.’ It was with these flattering words that the press greeted the premiere of the five-act opera by one of the women composers most frequently performed in late nineteenth-century France. For her career was regularly marked by flattering reviews and lasting successes, spanning all genres, from chamber music to oratorio and opera.
Yet Mazeppa, though regarded as her testamentary work, did not enjoy the honour of a premiere at the Paris Opéra and had to fall back on Bordeaux to reap the rewards of glory. A model of concision, this powerful, dramatic opera relates in a little over two hours the apotheosis and fall of the Cossack general Ivan Mazeppa, a fugitive in war-torn Ukraine. It was predicted that the work would enjoy a long career, but the subsequent evolution of the musical language of the Belle Époque, followed by the composer’s death, meant that Mazeppa sank into oblivion for more than a century. It was high time for its hero to get back in the saddle.
Recorded on 17 and 19 January 2025 at the Prinzregententheater in Munich (Germany).
Éditions Choudens – Revision: Palazzetto Bru Zane.
Contents of the book
Alexandre Dratwicki, Mazeppa: back in the saddle again
Étienne Jardin, Mazeppa in Bordeaux
Florence Launay, Clémence de Grandval
Marie Humbert, The motifs that haunt Mazeppa
Hélène Cao, Mazeppa in the nineteenth century: from history to legend
Synopsis
Libretto
Cast - Tracklist
