In Reply to: Yes! I keep confusing Lt. Kije with The Nose. posted by rbolaw on March 28, 2017 at 16:49:44:
Although the sub-titles seem to be in Japanese in the uTube performance linked below, the sung text is full of praise to Stalin, "the father of nations" and "the great agronomer" - sometimes the work is performed with an expurgated text, with the Stalin references removed! Of course, Prokofiev wrote "Zdravitsa" or "[Birthday] Toast [to Stalin]" which Richter claimed was one Prokofiev's very best works. (I don't know if I agree with that!)
Here's Temirkanov leading a joint Japanese-Russian performance in 2006, by which time Leiferkus had a pretty bad wobble:
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Follow Ups
- My favorite piece by Shostakovitch is "Song of the Forests"! ;-) - Chris from Lafayette 18:19:35 03/28/17 (8)
- Now I KNOW you're yanking our chains... - MWE 18:41:58 03/28/17 (7)
- Hey, man - you questioning my taste? [nt] ;-) - Chris from Lafayette 19:43:18 03/28/17 (6)
- Yuk, yuk. - rbolaw 07:32:03 03/29/17 (0)
- Hee hee. nt. - MWE 19:50:22 03/28/17 (4)
- But wait! If Song of the Forests is as bad as "everyone" says it is. . . - Chris from Lafayette 19:55:08 03/29/17 (3)
- Ugh. Hideous cover. - rbolaw 09:20:21 03/30/17 (2)
- Hey, man - that's a proletariat cover with not a trace of formalism! - Chris from Lafayette 13:36:20 03/30/17 (1)
- You are CRACKING me UP!! - MWE 14:19:40 03/30/17 (0)