Recordings on the Mariinsky Theatre’s own label are now closer and more accessible for Russian music lovers!
The Russian branch of the iTunes digital-format music shop has launched a special Mariinsky Theatre section. Here you can browse all of the Mariinsky label’s audio recordings, among them masterpieces of world music including piano concerti by Tchaikovsky, symphonies by Shostakovich and operas by Wagner, Donizetti, Massenet and Shchedrin performed by world-class musicians and singers as well as soloists of the Mariinsky Opera and the Mariinsky Chorus and Orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev. Gergiev says of the new initiative: "It is truly the closest thing to actually being there. Mariinsky recordings are made in one of the finest halls in the world. In using this innovative process, Mastered for iTunes faithfully renders the studio master to ensure the finest acoustic, greatest musicians and the best in new technology can be heard by the widest public." Future releases include complete Rachmaninoff Piano Concertos with Denis Matsuev and Verdi’s Macbeth, starring Ildar Abdrazakov.
The Mariinsky Theatre’s page may be found at the address iTunes.com/мариинский. Registered customers of the iTunes web-shop can purchase releases on the Mariinsky label online using any Russian bank card by instantly completing their purchase and downloading their chosen music to their computers and mobile devices. Recordings in iTunes format include information in Russian (lists of tracks, booklets) and are significantly cheaper than CDs.
The Mariinsky Theatre’s page on the iTunes website already lists the label’s most recent releases including works by Modest Musorgsky (Pictures at an Exhibition and Night on Bald Mountain, as well as Songs and Dances of Death with Ferruccio Furlanetto) and Sergei Rachmaninoff’s First Piano Concerto performed by the Mariinsky Orchestra and soloist Denis Matsuev under the baton of maestro Gergiev. The recording of Rachmaninoff’s concerto was produced at the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre in November 2014 and at present is available exclusively in iTunes format at the special price of 49 RUR (including a PDF-format booklet with annotations in Russian).
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