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Sergey Rachmaninoff.(Sergey Rachmaninoff: The Miserly Knight)(Video recording review)

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Date: 20060301
Author:Leonard, Kendra Preston

Sergey Rachmaninoff. The Miserly Knight. DVD. London Philharmonic Orchestra / Vladimir Jurowski. With Sergei Leiferkus, Richard Berkeley-Steele, Maxim Mikhailov, Viacheslav Voynarovskiy, Albert Schagidullin. Waldron, Heathfield, East Sussex: Opus Arte, 2005. OA 0919 D. $26.99.

Like his widely-hailed Aleko, Sergey Rachmaninoff's The Miserly Knight was based on a prose work by Alexander Pushkin and created as a vehicle for the great Russian bass Fyodor Chaliapin. Unlike his earlier work, however, Chaliapin rejected the role of the Baron--the avaricious knight of the title--and ...

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