Story of a Real Man

Album by Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev & Хор Большого театра & Симфонический оркестр Большого театра & Mark Ermler

The Story of a Real Man is an opera by Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev, premiered in 1948. Musically it combines lyrical orchestral writing with robust choral and vocal writing and elements of martial and folkloric influence characteristic of Soviet-era realism, and it occupies a late-period place in Prokofiev's output as a move toward more direct, narrative-driven stage works in the post-war years.

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Story of a Real Man, op. 117: Act 1: Epigraph
    1:29
  2. 2.
    Story of a Real Man, op. 117: Act 1: Alexei at the crash site
    4:18
  3. 3.
    Story of a Real Man, op. 117: Act 1: 1. Entr'acte
    1:56
  4. 4.
    Story of a Real Man, op. 117: Act 1: Death field
    3:31
  5. 5.
    Story of a Real Man, op. 117: Act 1: Olga's song
    1:53
  6. 6.
    Story of a Real Man, op. 117: Act 1: A barrage
    0:55
  7. 7.
    Story of a Real Man, op. 117: Act 1: 2. Entr'acte
    2:08
  8. 8.
    Story of a Real Man, op. 117: Act 1: Scene with some children
    2:31
  9. 9.
    Story of a Real Man, op. 117: Act 1: Seryenka's story
    1:15
  10. 10.
    Story of a Real Man, op. 117: Act 1: Arrival of the collective farmers
    2:35
  11. 11.
    Story of a Real Man, op. 117: Act 1: Song of the collective farmers
    2:08
  12. 12.
    Story of a Real Man, op. 117: Act 1: 3. Entr'acte
    2:20
  13. 13.
    Story of a Real Man, op. 117: Act 1: Song (trio)
    4:15
  14. 14.
    Story of a Real Man, op. 117: Act 1: Arrival of Grandmother Vasilessa
    2:02
  15. 15.
    Story of a Real Man, op. 117: Act 1: Grandfather's aria
    1:30
  16. 16.
    Story of a Real Man, op. 117: Act 1: Approach of the aeroplane
    1:07
  17. 17.
    Story of a Real Man, op. 117: Act 1: Andrei's arrival & departure
    3:28

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Story of a Real Man, op. 117: Act 2: Alexei's delirium
    5:58
  2. 3.
    Story of a Real Man, op. 117: Act 2: Green grove
    3:42
  3. 4.
    Story of a Real Man, op. 117: Act 2: Klavdia's scene with the Commissar
    1:04
  4. 5.
    Story of a Real Man, op. 117: Act 2: The Commissar's ballad
    3:29
  5. 6.
    Story of a Real Man, op. 117: Act 2: A scene
    2:33
  6. 7.
    Story of a Real Man, op. 117: Act 2: A scene
    1:01
  7. 8.
    Story of a Real Man, op. 117: Act 2: Kukushkin's song
    1:11
  8. 9.
    Story of a Real Man, op. 117: Act 2: A scene
    2:23
  9. 10.
    Story of a Real Man, op. 117: Act 2: Alexei's scene with the Commissar
    3:19
  10. 11.
    Story of a Real Man, op. 117: Act 2: Reprise of the third entr'acte
    2:19
  11. 12.
    Story of a Real Man, op. 117: Act 2: Scene in the solarium
    4:57
  12. 13.
    Story of a Real Man, op. 117: Act 2: Alexei's arioso
    3:41
  13. 14.
    Story of a Real Man, op. 117: Act 2: The Commissar's death
    6:40
  14. 15.
    Story of a Real Man, op. 117: Act 2: My sweet dream
    2:08
  15. 16.
    Story of a Real Man, op. 117: Act 3: A letter
    3:10
  16. 17.
    Story of a Real Man, op. 117: Act 3: A scene
    2:46
  17. 18.
    Story of a Real Man, op. 117: Act 3: Waltz
    2:01
  18. 19.
    Story of a Real Man, op. 117: Act 3: A scene & a dance
    0:58
  19. 20.
    Story of a Real Man, op. 117: Act 3: Rumba
    2:50
  20. 21.
    Story of a Real Man, op. 117: Act 3: The departure of the pilots
    1:24
  21. 22.
    Story of a Real Man, op. 117: Act 3: Barcarolle
    3:04
  22. 23.
    Story of a Real Man, op. 117: Act 3: At the front
    1:50
  23. 24.
    Story of a Real Man, op. 117: Act 3: Waiting
    2:26
  24. 25.
    Story of a Real Man, op. 117: Act 3: Alexei's return
    4:02
  25. 26.
    Story of a Real Man, op. 117: Act 3: A second letter to Olga
    0:45
  26. 27.
    Story of a Real Man, op. 117: Act 3: Olga & Alexei's duet
    2:22
  27. 28.
    Story of a Real Man, op. 117: Act 3: Finale (Song of the collective farmers)
    1:05

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