Can the darkest moments of life also lift our souls? Drawing on his own experience in a Siberian prison in the company of misfits, murderers and theives, Dostoevsky was inspired to write his novel Notes from a Dead House, telling his brother at the time: ‘Believe me, there were among them deep, strong, beautiful natures, and it often gave me great joy to find gold under a rough exterior.’ In Janáček’s hands, Dostoevsky’s inspiration and the raw material drawn from an appalling world of incarceration find an even more powerful form of expression in his last opera, From the House of the Dead. Unfettered by conventional story-telling, Janáček wrote his own libretto, freely weaving together a series of stories of everyday prison life and of the fates of individual convicts.
Luka (Filka Morozov)
Alexandr Petrovič Gorjančikov
Prison Governor
Tall Prisoner / Young Prisoner / Voice in Steppe / Prisoner 3
Short Prisoner / Prisoner 1 / Blacksmith / Čekunov
Šapkin / Drunk Prisoner / Cheerful Prisoner
Prisoner with the Eagle / Prisoner 2 / Kedril / Čerevin
Can the darkest moments of life also lift our souls? Drawing on his own experience in a Siberian prison in the company of misfits, murderers and theives, Dostoevsky was inspired to write his novel Notes from a Dead House, telling his brother at the time: ‘Believe me, there were among them deep, strong, beautiful natures, and it often gave me great joy to find gold under a rough exterior.’ In Janáček’s hands, Dostoevsky’s inspiration and the raw material drawn from an appalling world of incarceration find an even more powerful form of expression in his last opera, From the House of the Dead. Unfettered by conventional story-telling, Janáček wrote his own libretto, freely weaving together a series of stories of everyday prison life and of the fates of individual convicts.
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Story about about a young man who was raised in an orphanage. Kauko goes to Helsinki to work as a store help. The living the big city is not so easy as Kauko expects and not so grand.
Contents Boulez: Initiale /Boulez Ensemble (chamber ensemble) Schubert: Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, D965 (Von Chezy / Muller) Anna Prohaska (soprano), Jörg Widmann (clarinet), Daniel Barenboim (piano) Mozart: Piano Quartet No. 2 in E flat major, K493 Daniel Barenboim (piano), Michael Barenboim (violin), Yulia Deyneka (viola), Kian Soltani(cello) Berg: Chamber Concerto for Piano and Violin with 13 Wind Instruments Michael Barenboim (violin), Karim Said (piano), Boulez Ensemble
Set 1: Shakedown Street (Grateful Dead cover) Cold Rain and Snow (Obray Ramsey cover) Loser (Jerry Garcia cover) Dire Wolf (Grateful Dead cover) Loose Lucy (Grateful Dead cover) The Wheel (Jerry Garcia cover) (>) Bertha (Grateful Dead cover) Let It Grow (Grateful Dead cover) Set 2: Help on the Way (Grateful Dead cover) (>) Slipknot! (Grateful Dead cover) (>) Franklin's Tower (Grateful Dead cover) Fire on the Mountain (Grateful Dead cover) (>) The Other One (Grateful Dead cover) (verse 1) (>) Drums (Grateful Dead cover) (>) Space (Grateful Dead cover) (> 'The Other One' verse 2) Black Peter (Grateful Dead cover) (>) Sugar Magnolia (Grateful Dead cover) U.S. Blues (Grateful Dead cover)
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