Alexander Kipnis: Victor Recordings 1945/6

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Release Date: 14th Apr 2008
Catalogue No: NI7950
Label: Nimbus
Series: Prima Voce
Length: 68 minutes

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Dargomïzhsky: Rusalka: The Miller's Aria (Recorded 1946)

Work length4:06

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Alexander Kipnis
Nicolai Berezowsky

Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin, Op. 24: Prince Gremin's Aria (Recorded 1945)

Work length5:22

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Alexander Kipnis
Nicolai Berezowsky

Borodin: Prince Igor: I Hate a Dreary Life (Galitsky's Aria) (Recorded 1945)

Work length3:48

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Alexander Kipnis
Nicolai Berezowsky

Rimsky Korsakov: Sadko: Song of the Viking Guest (Recorded 1945)

Work length3:35

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Alexander Kipnis
Nicolai Berezowsky

Mussorgsky: Mephistopheles' Song of the Flea

Work length3:46

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Alexander Kipnis
Nicolai Berezowsky

Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov, Prologue Scene 1: Introduction and Opening Chorus (Recorded 1945)

Work length4:29

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Alexander Kipnis
Nicolai Berezowsky

Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov, Prologue Scene 2: Coronation Scene (Recorded 1945)

Work length8:45

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Alexander Kipnis
Nicolai Berezowsky

Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov, Act I Scene 1: Once Upon a Time...Come Now Comrades, Fill Up Your Glass (Varlaam's song) (Recorded 1945)

Work length8:11

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Alexander Kipnis, Anna Leskaya, Ilya Tamarin
Nicolai Berezowsky

Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov, Act II Monologue

Work length16:24

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Alexander Kipnis, Ilya Tamarin
Nicolai Berezowsky

I Have Attained the Highest Power (Recorded 1945)

Track length5:26

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Clock Scene (Recorded 1945)

Track length10:58

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Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov, Act IV Scene 2: Farewell and Death of Boris (Recorded 1945)

Work length9:44

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Alexander Kipnis
Nicolai Berezowsky

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In the search for suitable and evocative words to describe a particular vocal quality, usually, for the bass voice one would expect of course adjectives like deep, black, sonorous, cavernous, thundering, impressive or even noble. Rarely is the word beautiful used. However, in the case of Alexander Kipnis, it most certainly applies. Alexander Kipnis was born into a very poor family in Zhitomir, Ukraine on l February 1891. They were very proud of the extraordinary quality of his singing voice, which attracted the attention of a visiting cantor from Bessarabia, who heard him as a soloist in the local synagogue choir. So taken was he by the boy’s natural talent, that, with a promise of some payment, the cantor persuaded Alexander’s mother to let him leave home and become a chorister at his synagogue. Alexander was befriended by one of the older singers with whom he lodged and who taught him the rudiments of music and also some Lieder. Kipnis then won a scholarship to enter the Warsaw Conservatoire, initially to study conducting, but of course he continued to sing, his voice having broken and become a bass. He decided to move to Berlin, undertaking further vocal studies with the well-known teacher Ernst Grenzebach.

This compilation is a tribute to one of the greatest bass voices ever to have recorded.

Alexander Kipnis

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