Sony Classical: Olga Peretyatko - Russian Light - Classical Soprano CD

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Product Details:

• Product Type: Audio CD
• Label: Sony Classical
• Catalog Number: 88985352232
• Artist: Olga Peretyatko (soprano)
• Orchestra: Ural Philharmonic Orchestra
• Conductor: Dmitry Liss
• Composers: Glinka, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninoff, Stravinsky, Shostakovich
• Genre: Classical / Russian Vocal
• Release Year: 2017
• UPC: 889853522323
• Condition: Brand New, Factory Sealed

Product Features

• Format: 1 CD
• Tracks: 13
• Repertoire: Russian opera arias, songs, and romances
• Language: Russian
• Packaging: Standard jewel case, shrink-wrapped
• Manufactured: In the EU
• LC: 06868

Overview

Russian vocal music has a particular emotional temperature — warmer than German Lied, more intimate than Italian opera, and steeped in a language that seems built for longing. Olga Peretyatko understands this instinctively, and Russian Light is the proof.

The program moves across five composers and roughly 170 years of Russian musical history. Glinka opens the disc with Lyudmila's Cavatina from Ruslan and Lyudmila — one of the founding texts of Russian opera — and Shostakovich closes it with two of Lidochka's songs from Moscow, Cheryomushki, sharp and sardonic by contrast. In between, Rimsky-Korsakov takes up the most space and earns it: four operatic arias from The Golden Cockerel, The Snow Maiden, Sadko, and The Tsar's Bride, plus the celebrated song cycle piece "The Nightingale Enslaved by the Rose."

The Rachmaninoff group is quietly the heart of the disc. "Spring Waters," the Vocalise, "Don't Sing, My Beauty," and "It's Nice Here" — four pieces that sit at the very center of the Russian romance tradition. Peretyatko navigates them with a silvery, focused tone and a natural feel for the Russian text that many non-native singers struggle to find.

The Ural Philharmonic Orchestra under Dmitry Liss provides sympathetic, well-balanced accompaniment throughout. This is a disc for anyone who loves Russian vocal music, and a strong introduction for those who don't yet know it.

Interesting Facts

• Olga Peretyatko was born in St. Petersburg in 1980 and studied in Hamburg; she has performed at the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, the Vienna State Opera, and the Glyndebourne Festival.
• Rimsky-Korsakov's The Snow Maiden (1882) was one of the composer's own favorites among his fifteen operas, based on a play by Alexander Ostrovsky about a mythical frost maiden who longs to know human love.
• Rachmaninoff's Vocalise (Op. 34, No. 14) is one of the most performed pieces in the classical song repertoire - composed in 1915 as a wordless melody for voice and piano, it has been transcribed for nearly every instrument imaginable.
• The kokoshnik headdress worn by Peretyatko on the cover is a traditional Russian ceremonial headdress associated with folk costume and imperial court dress, dating back to at least the 10th century.
• Shostakovich's operetta Moscow, Cheryomushki (1958) was a rare light-hearted work from the composer, satirizing Soviet housing bureaucracy — a striking contrast to the symphony cycles he is best known for.
• The Ural Philharmonic Orchestra, based in Yekaterinburg, Russia, is one of the leading orchestras east of the Urals and has been led by Dmitry Liss since 1995.

Track Listing

Mikhail Glinka (1804-1857)

1. Lyudmila's Cavatina from Ruslan and Lyudmila

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)

1. Hymn to the Sun from The Golden Cockerel
2. Snow Maiden's Aria from The Snow Maiden
3. Volkhova's Lullaby from Sadko
4. Marfa's Aria from The Tsar's Bride
5. Plenivshis' rozoj, solovey / The Nightingale Enslaved by the Rose, Op. 2/2

Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)

1. Eshchyo v polyakh beleyeet sneg / Spring Waters, Op. 14
2. Vokaliz / Vocalise, Op. 34/14
3. Ne poy, krasavica / Don't Sing, My Beauty, Op. 4/4
4. Zdes' khorosho / It's Nice Here, Op. 21/7

Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)

1. Nightingale's Song from The Nightingale

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)

1. Lidochka's Song: Ya v shkolu kogda-to khodila / I used to go to school from Moscow, Cheryomushki
2. Lidochka's Song: Chasy na ploshchadi zazhglis' / The clock on the square is lit up from Moscow, Cheryomushki

Publishers

Sony Music Entertainment International Services GmbH, PO Box 510, 33311 Gütersloh, Germany. LC 06868. ℗ & © 2017 Sony Music Entertainment. Made in the EU.

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