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ID: MELCD1002161
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Collection:
Russe musique amoureux
Subcollection: Vocal and PianoFirma Melodiya presents a collection of selected romances and songs by Alexander Alyabiev.
So well-known to the wide audience as an author of The Nightingale, Alexander Anatolievich Alyabiev was a man who lived a very bright, eventful and at the same time hard life. He also was a brave officer who fought in the Patriotic War of 1812, an outstanding composer and founder of Russian lyrical romance that anticipated many of the discoveries I Russian music of the 19th century, and a disgraced exile who spent the years of his creative prime in Siberia.
Alyabiev composed music in different genres, but his highest creative achievements were connected with romances. He was one of the first composes who created original, distinctive romances on the texts by Pushkin. Alyabiev also was on friendly terms with many of the contemporary poets and playwrights and created bright dramatic songs full of conflict and protest.
The works featured in this collection reflect the diversity of Alyabievs chamber vocal lyricism which is still able to have an impact on a responsive and emotional listener. Along with popular romances such as Beggar Woman, I See Your Face, The Hut, Village Watchman and I Loved You, the collection comprises several less known ones, including arrangements of Russian, Ukrainian and Georgian folk songs another side of Alyabievs musical talent.
The recordings of Alyabievs romances and songs were made in 1978 to 1990 by leading concert singers and soloists of the Moscow music theatres Evgeniya Shevelyova, Nina Fomina, Nina Isakova and others. |
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ID: MELCD1001401
CDs: 1
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Collection:
Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Vocal and PianoThe great Russian bass Eugene Nesterenko sings Mussorgsky’s timeless song cycles. Possibly the greatest cycles for the bass voice ever composed, Nesterenko gives full blooded Russian performances. He is joined by pianist Vladimir Ktaninev.
1, 15 - Text by Modest Mussorgsky
2 - Text by Aleksey Koltsov
3 - Text by Nikolai Nekrasov
4 - Text by Alexander Strugovshchikov
5 - 14 - Text by Arseny Golenishchev-Kutuzov |
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ID: MELCD1002336
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Subcollection: Vocal and PianoGeorgy Sviridov, piano (11-17)
Alexei Maslennikov, tenor
Igor Morozov, baritone (12, 14-16)
State Republican Academic Russian Yurlov Choir (1-10, 18-21)
Leningrad State Philharmonics’ Symphony Orchestra - conductor - Yuri Temirkanov (1-10)
Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor - Gennady Rozhdestvensky (18-21)
Recordings: 1957 (1-10),1980 (11-17), 1970 (18-21)
Firma Melodiya presents an album dedicated to the anniversaries of two great figures of Russian culture of the 20th century - Sergei Yesenin (1895-1925) and Georgy Sviridov (1915-1998).
“Once … I met a poet I knew, and he spent a long time reading Yesenin for me. That’s when Yesenin’s verses imprinted themselves on my soul. When I got back home, I could not fall
asleep… The music came suddenly. … That was how I wrote my first song to Yesenin’s text which later became a core song in my Poem to the Memory of Sergei Yesenin. The rest of the songs were composed during two weeks, all at once”. The premiere of the Poem to the Memory of Sergei Yesenin took place in 1956, in Moscow and was a new milestone in the composer’s career properly unveiling his original style and subtle feeling for poetry to the public. On the other hand, Sviridov’s Poem where the composer strived to render the poet’s spiritual side and passionate “love for the native land” became an actual rehabilitation of Yesenin’s poetry which had been covertly prohibited for a long time. Soon after completion of the vocal and symphonic Poem,
the composer came up with the cycle My Father Is a Peasant for tenor, baritone and piano where Yesenin’s images of Russian nature and scenes of country life were expressed by means
of chamber vocal lyric music.
Wooden Russia, a small cantata for tenor, men’s choir and orchestra was composed in 1964 and had an epigraph taken from Yesenin’s verses “Russia, my wooden Russia!”. The poet’s four
poems recreate an image of old patriarchal Russia while the last lines of the final movement herald its tragic demise.
Georgy Sviridov’s cantatas set to the poetry of Sergei Yesenin are performed by the Republican Academic Choir led by Alexander Yurlov and such luminaries of domestic conducting art as Yuri Temirkanov and Gennady Rozhdestvensky. The chamber cycle is sung by Alexei Maslennikov, an outstanding interpreter of Sviridov’s music who is accompanied by the author. |
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ID: MELCD1002319
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Russe musique amoureux
Subcollection: Vocal and PianoFirma Melodiya presents an album of classical Russian romances performed by Elena Zaremba.
One of the best Russian mezzo-sopranos of her generation, the singer began her career at the Bolshoi Theatre of the USSR in the mid-1980s. She conquered the world of opera, performing at some of the best theatre and festival venues with Russian, Italian, French and German repertoire and taking part in productions with prominent soloists and conductors. Only recently has she turned to chamber vocal music for the first time.
Russian romance is a special genre demanding not only professional skills. Stage and life experience, a subtle sensation of music and poetry, complete understanding between a singer and an accompanist - all this is needed to fully grasp this sphere of vocal art. Elena Zaremba’s performances with chamber programmes confirm that romance is not respite from the operatic stage for her but a new step in her vocal and dramatic career.
The album covers a hundred years of the evolution of Russian romance - Glinka, Dargomyzhsky, Rubinstein, Cui, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Medtner.
This programme was born through collaboration with Antonina Kadobnova, a remarkable pianist and concertmaster. A prize-winner of international competitions, she is very active as both a solo performer and accompanist, performing with well-known and young vocalists.
These recordings of Russian romances were made by Elena Zaremba and Antonina Kadobnova in 2011.
Cui - The Fountain Statue at Tsarskoye Selo, Op. 57 No. 17
Dargomïzhsky - The Night Zephyr
Glinka - V krovi gorit ogon zhelania (The Fire of Longing Burns in My Heart)
Ja pomnu chudnoe mgnovenie (Oh, I recall that lovely moment)
Venetsianskaya noch
How sweet it is for me to be with you
K ney (To Her)
Medtner - Winterabend, Op. 13 No. 1
Rachmaninov - Morning, Op. 4 No. 2
I fell in love, to my sorrow, Op. 8 No. 4
Lilacs, Op. 21 No. 5
I await you, Op.14 No. 1
We shall rest, Op.26, No. 3
O, no, I beg you, do not leave, Op. 4 No. 1
She is as beautiful as midday, Op.14 No. 9
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
Spring torrents, Op. 14 No.11
Rubinstein - Desire / Night
Tchaikovsky - The gypsy song, Op. 60, No. 7
O ditya, pod okoshkom tvoim (Serenade), Op. 63 No. 6
Sred' shumnogo bala (Amid the din of the ball), Op. 38 No. 3 |
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ID: MELCD1002289
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Collection:
Russe musique amoureux
Subcollection: Vocal and PianoFirma Melodiya presents a programme of Russian chamber lyric compositions sung by the outstanding Hibla Gerzmava.
There is no doubt that the singer is one of today’s most brilliant vocalists of Russia and the world. A People’s Artist of Russia and the Republic of Abkhazia, a winner of the Golden Mask, Casta Diva, Triumph and Golden Orpheus awards, a welcome and longed-for guest of the greatest operatic and concert stages worldwide, she has performed at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, the Wiener Staatsoper, the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, Covent Garden and Metropolitan Opera, the Théâtre du Châtelet and Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris, the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma in Rome and Teatro Comunale di Firenze in Florence, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia, the NHK Hall in Tokyo, and took part in the closing ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
However, chamber lyric singing, another side of the remarkable singer’s talent, has never been behind the scenes for her true fans. When Hibla Gerzmava was a contestant at the Tchaikovsky Competition, she received a special prize for her performance of Tchaikovsky’s Lullaby.
The singer’s new programme fully unveils a vivid and rich period of Russian music of the late 19th and the first quarter of the 20th centuries. Hibla Gerzmava is accompanied by pianist Yekaterian Ganelina, an Honoured Artist of the Republic of Abkhazia and an owner of many diplomas as the best concertmaster of prestigious international competitions, who has performed with the singer in Russia and abroad for many years now.
Miaskovsky:
Madrigal - suite for voice and piano
Prokofiev:
Five Poems of Anna Akhmatova, Op. 27
Rachmaninov:
My child, your beauty is that of a flower, Op. 8 No. 2
At my window, Op. 26 No.10
How fair this spot, Op. 21 No. 7
Lilacs, Op. 21 No. 5
Twilight, Op.21 No. 3
They replied, Op. 21 No. 4
A passing breeze, Op.34, No. 4
At night in my garden, Op. 38 No. 1
To her, Op.38, No. 2
Daisies, Op. 38 No. 3
The Rat-Catcher, Op. 38 No. 4
A dream, Op. 8 No. 5
'A-oo', Op.38, No. 6
Tchaikovsky:
Legend, Op. 54, No. 5
To bilo ranneyu vesnoy (It happened in the early spring), Op. 38 No. 2
Skazhi, o chom v teni vetvey (Tell me, what in the shade of the branches), Op. 57 No. 1
Sérénade, Op. 65 No. 1
Softly the Spirit Flew Up to Heaven, Op.47, No.2
The Cuckoo, Op. 54 No. 8
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Hibla Gerzmava (soprano), Ekaterina Ganelina (piano) |
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ID: RCD16017
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Collection:
Russe musique amoureux
Subcollection: Vocal and PianoRecorded in the Small Hall of the Moscow Conservatory in January, 1996
Sound Producer - Maria Soboleva / Sound Engineer - Lev Bolotsky / Arranged by Maria Soboleva |
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ID: RCD16614
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Collection:
Russe ésole de composition
Subcollection: Vocal and Piano
Poor Folks, Opera in One Act for Soprano, Baritone and String Quartet - Libretto by Gleb Sedelnikov/ Accompanied by a String Quartet, Conductor Vladimir Argonsky, Recorded in 1979
I Knew, 12 Preludes for Voice and Piano - Verses by Velemir Khlebnikov / Recorded in 1992 |
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ID: NFPMA9910
CDs: 1
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Collection:
St. Petersburg Musical Archive
Subcollection: Vocal and PianoRecorded: St. Catherine Lutheran Church, St. Petersburg, March 25 & April 7, 1998 (1-11); May 15, 2000 (12-15); May 10 & June 18 2001 (16-24)
CD series “St. Petersburg Musical Archive”
“St. Petersburg Musical Archive” is a series dedicated to St. Petersburg’s 300th anniversary. Many of the works in this series will be CD premieres, and many of the recordings will introduce famous St. Petersburg musicians, composers and ensembles as well as new performing artists. The “St. Petersburg Musical Archive” series includes rediscovering forgotten works - both of the 19th and 20th centuries. |
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