034571172743

English Poets, Russian Romances

Vassily Savenko, Alexander Blok

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Format: CD

Cat No: CDA67274

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Release Date:  01 September 2001

Label:  Hyperion Records Ltd

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  034571172743

Genres:  Classical  Vocal  

  • Description

    Here is a third disc of Russian songs by these artists to follow 'Russian Images' I and II (CDA67105 & CDA67205). It is devoted to Russian settings of verse originally in the English language, bearing witness to the enduring effect on the Russian imagination of English sensibility, particularly as expressed in its lyric poetry. Some of Russia's greatest writers—Tolstoy, Pushkin, Lermontov, Balmont, Pasternak and others—translated the verses of Shakespeare, Byron and Shelley. All are represented on this CD in settings by composers familiar (Glinka, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninov, Shostakovich) and not so familiar (Taneyev, Lyatoshinsky, Kabalevsky). Four of Shakespeare's sonnets are included in settings by Shostakovich and Kabalevsky, and a number of Shelley's poems set by Arensky, Taneyev, Rachmaninov and Lyatoshinsky.
    The CD booklet includes the original English verses along with Russian transliterations.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Recollection suite, Op. 71 - Anton Arensky
      • 2. Sun of the sleepless, Op. 41 No. 1 - Rimsky-Korsakov
      • 3. In moments to delight devoted, Op. 26 No. 1 - Rimsky-Korsakov
      • 4. Zuleika's song, Op. 26 No. 4 - Rimsky-Korsakov
      • 5. I am here, Inezilla - Glinka
      • 6. Mary - Glinka
      • 7. Hebrew melody - Mily Balakirev
      • 8. Tsar Saul: Song of Saul before battle - Mussorgsky
      • 9. In an album, Op. 49 No. 4 - Arensky
      • 10. I fear thy kisses - Arensky
      • 11. The islet, Op. 17 No. 1 - Taneyev
      • 12. My thoughts arise and fade, Op. 17 No. 2 - Taneyev
      • 13. Music, when soft voices die, Op. 17 No. 3 - Taneyev
      • 14. The star of blessed dreams, Op. 17 No. 4 - Taneyev
      • 15. The islet, Op. 14 No. 2 - Rachmaninov
      • 16. Time long past, Op. 14 No. 4 - Boris Lyatoshinsky
      • 17. Ozymandias Sonnet Op. 15 - Lyatoshinsky
      • 18. The king's campaign, Op. 62 No. 6 - Shostakovich
      • 19. Sonnet 66, Op. 62 No. 5 - Shostakovich
      • 20. Sonnet 27, Op. 52 No. 2 - Kabalevsky
      • 21. Sonnet 153, Op. 52 No. 5 - Kabalevsky
      • 22. Sonnet 8, Op. 52 No. 7 - Kabalevsky