Mikhail Pletnev - Shchedrin: Carmen Suite

Numbered, Limited Edition! Very Limited Quantities! Only 1,000 Numbered Copies Available! 24-Bit/100kHz Mastering! This K2 HD Mastering CD will play on ALL CD players! This recording has been mastered by the K2 HD format of 24-bit 100kHz, which creates an unbelievable sound surpassing other formats! In 1967, Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin composed his one-act ballet, "Carmen Suite", for his wife, ballerina Maya Plisetskaya. The music, taken from the opera Carmen by Georges Bizet and arranged for strings and percussion, is not a 19th century pastiche but rather 'a creative meeting of the minds', as Shchedrin put it, with Bizet's melodies reclothed in a variety of fresh instrumental colors (including the frequent use of percussion), set to new rhythms and often phrased with a great deal of sly wit. Initially banned by the Soviet hierarchy as 'disrespectful' to the opera for precisely these qualities, the ballet has since become Shchedrin's best-known work and has remained popular in the West as what reviewer James Sanderson of allmusic.com calls "an iconoclastic but highly entertaining retelling of Bizet's opera". Features: • Numbered, Limited Edition • K2 HD 100kHz / 24-bit Mastering • Made in Japan Musicians: Russian National Orchestra Mikhail Pletnev, conductor Selections: Rodion Shchedrin Carmen Suite 1. Introduction 2. Dance 3. First Intermezzo 4. Changing of the Guard 5. Carmen's Entrance and Habanera 6. Scene 7. Second Intermezzo 8. Bolero 9. Torero 10. Torero and Carmen 11. Adagio 12. Fortune-Telling 13. Finale 14. Concerto for Orchestra No. 1 "Naughty Limericks" 15. Concerto for Orchestra No. 2 "The Chimes"