Description
Delos: Dmitri Hvorostovsky — Pushkin Romances, Ivari Ilja (Audio CD)
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Product Details:
- Product Type: Audio CD
- Brand / Label: Delos
- Composers: Glinka, Dargomyzhsky, Borodin, Rimsky-Korsakov, Cui, Medtner, Vlasov, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Sviridov (settings of Pushkin)
- Performers: Dmitri Hvorostovsky (baritone), Ivari Ilja (piano)
- Catalog Number: DE 3392
- UPC: 013491339221
- Release Year: 2010
- Genre: Classical
- Style: Russian art song, vocal recital
Product Features
- Format: CD
- Discs: 1
- Tracks: 17
- Recording: DDD
- Language: Sung in Russian
- Disc made in Canada; assembled in the USA
- Condition: Factory Sealed (New)
Overview
The thread running through this recital isn't a composer — it's a poet. Every song here is a setting of Alexander Pushkin, the founding voice of Russian literature, by ten different composers across more than a century. It's a clever way to hear how Russian song evolved: the same words, refracted through Glinka, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Medtner and others.
Dmitri Hvorostovsky is the obvious singer for it. His warm, firmly focused baritone carries the lyric weight these songs need, and his Russian is, of course, native. The program opens with Glinka's "I Recall a Wonderful Moment," one of the most famous of all Russian art songs, and moves through Borodin's noble "For the Shores of Thy Far Native Land," Cui's "I loved you," Medtner's brooding settings and Sviridov's twentieth-century closing song.
Ivari Ilja partners him with sensitivity and color — in this repertoire the piano is never just support. Delos records it cleanly and intimately. For lovers of Russian song, of Pushkin, or of Hvorostovsky's art, this themed recital is a particularly satisfying program, smartly assembled around a single literary source.
Interesting Facts
- Every song on the disc sets a text by Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837), Russia's national poet, in versions by ten different composers.
- Glinka's "I Recall a Wonderful Moment" sets a poem Pushkin wrote to Anna Kern, and is one of the best-loved Russian songs ever composed.
- The program spans roughly a century of Russian music, from Glinka and Dargomyzhsky to the twentieth-century Georgi Sviridov.
- Both Cui and Borodin set Pushkin's famous lyric "I loved you" / "For the Shores of Thy Far Native Land," showing how the same poet inspired the whole Russian school.
- Dmitri Hvorostovsky (1962–2017), born in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, became one of the most admired baritones in the world after winning the 1989 Cardiff Singer of the World competition.
- The disc was released by the American audiophile label Delos, long noted for its sound quality.
Track Listing
Mikhail Glinka
- I Recall a Wonderful Moment (Ja pomnu chudnoe mgnovenie…)
- Declaration (Priznanie)
- The Fire of Longing Burns in My Heart (V krovi gorit ogon zhelania)
- The Night Zephyr (Nochnoi Zefir)
Alexander Dargomyzhsky
- The Youth and the Maiden (Yunosha i deva)
Alexander Borodin
- For the Shores of Thy Far Native Land (Dlya beregov otchizny dal'noj)
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
- The Clouds Begin to Scatter, Op. 42 No. 3 (Redeet oblakov)
- On the Hills of Georgia, Op. 3 No. 4 (Na kholmax Gruzii lezhit nochnaja mgla)
César Cui
- The Statue at Tsarskoye Selo, Op. 57 No. 17 (Tsarskosel'skaja statuja)
- I loved you (Ya vas ljubil)
Nikolai Medtner
- Gone Are My Heart's Desires, Op. 3 No. 2 (Ya perezhil svoi zhelania)
- Winter Evening, Op. 13 No. 1 (Zimnii vecher)
- To a Dreamer (Mechtatelu)
Alexander Vlasov
- To the Fountain of Bakhchisarai Palace (Fontanu Bakhchisarajsogo dvortsa)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Nightingale, Op. 60 No. 4 (Solovei)
Sergei Rachmaninoff
- Don't Sing To Me, Fair Maiden, Op. 4 No. 4 (Ne poi, krasavitsa, pri mne)
Georgi Sviridov
- The Crimson Forest Sheds its Attire (Roniayet les bagrianiy svoi ubor)
Publishers
Released 2010 by Delos Productions, Inc., Sonoma, California. Disc made in Canada; assembled in the USA.
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