st Petersburg

Salon de Femmes in St. Petersburg:
Works by Cardon, Cimarosa, Galuppi, Koslovski, Kourakin, Manfredini, Paisiello, Sarti
Classical | 1 CD | EAC | FLAC, CUE, LOG | Scans | 357 MB | RS
Recorded: June 2000, Eglise Notre-Dame de Bon Secours, Paris
Released: 2001 | Label: Opus 111 OP 30299 | TT: 76:36
Olga Pasichnyk - soprano, Mara Galassi - harp, Musica Petropolitana

From the time of the reign of the empress Elizabeth Petrovna a different way of life began to establish itself in Russia, and a different kind of woman, not only aristocratic through birth but also because she belonged to a creative élite: a woman at one and the same time musician, poetess and composer of ballads, who sang and played several instruments […] These 'new' aristocrats adopted European manners, combining them with typically Russian tradition. (Irina Chudinova)

KeepMoving Records presents the premiere release of The Demons of St. Petersburg by the legendary Ennio Morricone. Directed by Giuliano Montaldo (Sacco e Vanzetti, Giordano Bruno, Marco Polo), the film tells the fictionalized life story of Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Miki Manojlovic) who is caught up with political intrigue and a career crisis resulting from his crippling gambling debts. While trying to finish his latest novel on schedule and reveal an anarchist plot targeting the Tsar, the troubled author must fight his inner demons to move forward in life… The Demons of St. Petersburg marks the latest collaboration between Montaldo and Morricone who had scored the majority of the director's films. The key thematic material includes the propulsive anarchist theme for the assassination plot and a darkly passionate love theme for a string quartet and harp which underscores Dostoyevsky's troubled relationship with his stenographist, Anna.