Pique Dame

Album by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky & Emil Tchakarov & Софийски Фестивален Оркестър & Национален филхармоничен хор „Светослав Обретенов“ & Wiesław Ochman & Stefka Evstatieva & Penka Dilowa & Yuri Mazurok & Stefania Toczyska & Ivan Konsulov

Pique Dame is an opera by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, premiered in Saint Petersburg in 1890. The work employs rich late-Romantic orchestration, lyrical vocal writing and dramatic, psychologically driven themes, and it represents one of Tchaikovsky's late-stage operas reflecting his mature compositional style.

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Pique Dame: Introduction
    3:35
  2. 2.
    Pique Dame: Act I - Shine Brightly, Shine
    5:11
  3. 3.
    Pique Dame: Act I - How Did the Game End Yesterday?… I Do not Know her Name
    6:27
  4. 4.
    Pique Dame: Act I - At Last God has Sent us a Sunny Day
    5:01
  5. 5.
    Pique Dame: Act I - I am Afraid!
    2:57
  6. 6.
    Pique Dame: Act I - What a Witch this Countess is!…Once at Versailles
    5:12
  7. 7.
    Pique Dame: Act I - Si non è vero, è ben trovato!
    3:41
  8. 8.
    Pique Dame: Act I - It is Already Evening
    3:57
  9. 9.
    Pique Dame: Act I - Entrancing, Charming… I’ll Sing You my Favourite Romance
    5:21
  10. 10.
    Pique Dame: Act I - Mesdemoiselles, What’s all this Noise?)
    1:40
  11. 11.
    Pique Dame: Act I - It’s Time to Leave Now
    17:56

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Pique Dame: Act II - It is Joyous and Merry Today
    3:59
  2. 3.
    Pique Dame: Act II - The Host Kindly Invites his Dear Guests… I Love You
    6:27
  3. 4.
    Pique Dame: Act II - After the Show Wait for me in the Hall
    2:14
  4. 5.
    Pique Dame: Act II - Pastoral Play
    14:44
  5. 6.
    Pique Dame: Act II - Who, Impelled by Passionate, Ardent Love
    4:28
  6. 7.
    Pique Dame: Act II - Everything is Just as she Told Me
    15:02
  7. 8.
    Pique Dame: Act II - Don’t be Afraid!…
    7:06

Disc 3

  1. 3.
    Pique Dame: Act III - Do not Believe that you Wanted to Kill the Countess
    8:16
  2. 4.
    Pique Dame: Act III - I’m Afraid! Afraid!… I Have Come to You
    3:22
  3. 5.
    Pique Dame: Act III - Midnight Draws Near
    5:39
  4. 6.
    Pique Dame: Act III - What if the Chimes Confirm…
    8:05
  5. 7.
    Pique Dame: Act III - We Shall Drink and Make Merry!)
    3:24
  6. 8.
    Pique Dame: Act III - If Dear Girls Could Fly
    3:40
  7. 9.
    Pique Dame: Act III - Come on, Gentlemen, to the Card‐Tables!
    10:39

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