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Borodin: | Dlya beregov otchizni dal'noy (For the Shores of thy Far Native Land) | Cui: | The Fountain Statue at Tsarskoye Selo, Op. 57 No. 17 Ya vas ljubil (I loved you) | Dargomïzhsky: | Yunosha I deva (A girl and a boy) | Glinka: | Ja pomnu chudnoe mgnovenie (Oh, I recall that lovely moment) Priznaniye (Confession) V krovi gorit ogon zhelania (The Fire of Longing Burns in My Heart) Nochnoi Zefir (The Night Zephyr) | Medtner: | Ya perezhil svoi zhelania (Gone Are my Heart’s Desires), Op. 3 No. 2 Buria Mglou nebo kroet (The Snowstorm Covers the Sky with Darkness), Op. 13 No. 1 Mechtatelu (To a Dreamer) | Rachmaninov: | Sing not, O lovely one (Ne poi, krasavitsa, pri mne), Op. 4 No. 4 | Rimsky Korsakov: | The clouds begin to scatter (Elegy), Op. 42 No. 3 On the hills of Georgia, Op. 3 No. 4 | Sviridov: | Roniayet les bagrianiy svoi ubor (The Crimson Forest Sheds its Attire) | Tchaikovsky: | The Nightingale Op. 60 No. 4 | Vlasov: | The Fountain of Bakhchisarai |
“Bringing them all to life is Hvorostovsky's performance - passionate, brooding or forceful with Pushkin's flowing lines, in a manner which might be a bit overpowering in less emotional music, but is exactly right for these songs...His word-sense and diction remain exemplary...Ivari Ilja is an equally spirited accompanist.” BBC Music Magazine, August 2010 ***** “...his demonstration of finely controlled legato and evenness of tone through the registers is truly impressive.” Gramophone Magazine, September 2010 “...there's a particularly Russian ecstasy and agony in Pushkin's lyrical poetry that requires a broad musical brush to do it proper justice. This seems bred in the artistic bone for Hvorostovsky, so there's an almost conversation style...Despite his formidable horsepower [he] can be silky and subtle when required...evidently a singer for all Russian seasons!” International Record Review, July/August 2010  BBC Music Magazine
Disc of the month - August 2010 |
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Glinka: | Ja pomnu chudnoe mgnovenie (Oh, I recall that lovely moment) The Lark Within my blood burns a flame of desire Do not Tempt me Doubt (Somneniye) | Rachmaninov: | In the silence of the secret night, Op. 4 No. 3 Sing not, O lovely one (Ne poi, krasavitsa, pri mne), Op. 4 No. 4 How peaceful Loneliness Night is sorrowful, Op. 26 No.12 To my sorrow I have grown to love Lilacs, Op. 21 No. 5 Spring torrents, Op. 14 No.11 | Tchaikovsky: | Sred' shumnogo bala (Amid the din of the ball), Op. 38 No. 3 Only one who knows longing O ditya, pod okoshkom tvoim (Serenade), Op. 63 No. 6 Strashnaya minuta (The Fearful Moment), Op. 28 No. 6 To bilo ranneyu vesnoy (It happened in the early spring), Op. 38 No. 2 Den' li tsarit? (Does the day reign?), Op. 47 No. 6 Otchevo? (Why?), Op. 6 No. 5 Zabït tak skoro (So soon forgotten) Solitude ('Again, as before, alone'), Op. 73 No. 6 |
Dmitri Ferschtman (cello) & Mila Baslawskaja (piano) Beautifully packaged as a book with a CD, it features the music of Russian songs, arranged for cello and piano. The poems by Pushkin, Tiutchev, Tolstoy and others inspired the great 19th century composers to create the beautiful songs which are firmly embedded in the collective psyche of every Russian. | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Natalia Gerasimova (soprano), Igor Zhukov (piano) DDD | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | Usually despatched in 8 - 10 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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