DESHEVOV, V.: Eis und Stahl (Ice and Steel) (Saarlandisches Staatstheater, 2007)
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Eis und Stahl (Ice and Steel)
Composer:
Deshevov, Vladimir
Libretto/Text Author:
Lawrenjow, Boris Andrejewitsch
Conductor:
Humburg, Will
Orchestra:
Saarland State Theater Orchestra
Chorus:
Saarland State Theater Chorus
Chorus Master:
Assante, Pablo
Cane salesman:
Simper, Patrick
Dalai:
Daubner, Otto
Dymchenko:
Taruntsov, Jevgenij
First buyer:
Braun, Rupprecht
Hertz:
Matsui, Hiroshi
Labasin:
Daubner, Otto
Limonichik:
Rottig, Stefan
Musja:
Toneeva, Anna
Natalia:
Arkaeva, Oxana
Senka:
Drevinskas, Algirdas
Subarev:
Braun, Rupprecht
Tiessenhausen:
Simper, Patrick
Whisperer:
Rottig, Stefan
Set/Stage Designer:
Jorg, Johann
Costume Designer:
Reichert, Nicola
Choreographer:
Posca, Fabian
Stage Director:
Karaman, Immo
Sound Producer:
Ruschin, Leonardo
Television Producer:
Bonnhoff, Torsten
Television Producer:
Sturzer, Erwin
Television Director:
Riley, Brooks
Date of Production: 2007
Venue: Saarlandisches Staatstheater, Saarbrucken
Playing Time: 01:36:00
Catalogue Number: 101323
UPC: 807280132397
During the 1920s Vladimir Deshevov (1889 – 1955) was regarded as one of the most promising younger Soviet composers. Darius Milhaud, who made his acquaintance in 1926 during a visit to Leningrad, praised him in the French press as a "genius" and "extremely original". However, subsequent attempts to make his compositions better known abroad were unsuccessful. In 1929 followed Dechevov's best-known composition: Ice and Steel. But such were the ideological tensions of this period that this avant-garde work soon disappeared from the public stage. Although Dechevov was one of the chief proponents of the left wing musical avant-garde in the 1920s and explicitly came out in favour of critical appropriation of elements from Western modernism, he was not subjected to direct ideological attacks during the Stalinist era. Neither, however, despite clearly moderating his compositional style, did he succeed in obtaining a prominent position in the conformist musical culture of socialist realism that held sway after 1932. It was only after the outbreak of the Second World War that he started once again to produce major works of his own: ballet music based on classical materials and patriotic tone poems. However, these did not prevent his name from increasingly being forgotten.
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