Browse: Vocal, Songs, Glinka (composer)

an intelligently curated recital with song at the centre. It begins with Romances by Clara and Robert Schumann back to back, both showcasing the warmth and evenness of Ioudenitch’s sonority in... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2023 More…

Hyperion's new release is full of music that mixes Chopinesque grace with Russian-bear grandiosity. Driver is the sort of pianist who can handle both, delivering performances of poise, power... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2011, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Anna Netrebko frames her recital with the two great heroines of Russian 19th- and 20th- century opera: Tatyana in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin and Natasha in Prokofiev's War and Peace. …Netrebko... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2006 More…

The Rachmaninov songs suit that lower register particularly well; the famous Vocalise is luxuriantly attractive, and Don’t Sing, My Beauty sensuously nostalgic…she closes with two songs from... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

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,... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Here is a virtuoso from the Golden Age who deserves a place alongside the Rosenthals and Hofmanns...I love the pacing, the tempo relationships, his effortless fluency and (easily discernible)... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2015 More…