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…Christianne Stotijn is that artist in a thousand whose personality shines through everything she does. Her Russian characterisations and folk inflections seem spot-on in the vivid narratives... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2009, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 5th Jan 2009
Catalogue No: ONYX4034
Label: Onyx
Length: 63 minutes

Gramophone Magazine

March 2009

Editor's Choice
BBC Music Magazine Awards

2010

Vocal Award Winner

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Tchaikovsky: Sred' shumnogo bala (Amid the din of the ball), Op. 38 No. 3

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Tchaikovsky: None but the lonely heart, Op. 6 No. 6

Work length3:31

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Tchaikovsky: Over Burning Ashes, Op.25 No.2

Work length1:47

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Tchaikovsky: Moy geni, moy angel, moy drug (My genius, my angel, my friend)

Work length1:55

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Tchaikovsky: Lullaby, Op. 16 No. 1

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Tchaikovsky: Primiren'ye (Reconciliation), Op. 25 No. 1

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Tchaikovsky: Zakatilos solntse (The sun has set), Op. 73 No. 4

Work length1:42

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Tchaikovsky: The Fearful Moment, Op.28 No.6

Work length3:35

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Tchaikovsky: The mild stars shone for us, Op. 60 No. 12

Work length3:27

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Tchaikovsky: If only I had known, Op.47, No.1

Work length4:00

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Tchaikovsky: The lights were being dimmed, Op. 63, No. 5

Work length2:45

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Tchaikovsky: Not a Word, My Friend, Op.6 No.2

Work length3:07

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Tchaikovsky: Why? Op.6 No.5

Work length2:56

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Tchaikovsky: Was I not a blade of grass?, Op. 47 No. 7

Work length5:48

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Tchaikovsky: The gypsy song, Op. 60, No. 7

Work length2:41

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Tchaikovsky: Do not believe, my friend Op. 6 No. 1

Work length3:58

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Tchaikovsky: To bilo ranneyu vesnoy (It happened in the early spring), Op. 38 No. 2

Work length2:38

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Tchaikovsky: Cuckoo, Op.54 No.8

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Tchaikovsky: Den' li tsarit? (Does the day reign?), Op. 47 No. 6

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Tchaikovsky: Solitude ('Again, as before, alone'), Op. 73 No. 6

Work length2:14

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Third release on ONYX from young Dutch mezzo and rising star Christianne Stotijn

Beautiful collection of 20 Tchaikovsky songs representing the whole range of his creative life from his first performed composition “My Genius, My angel, my friend,” written when we was 16, through to the last published song from the year of his death “Again, as before, alone”. Includes favourites such as “None but the Lonely Heart” and “Why?” but also rarely heard songs such as “Mild Stars Looked down”, “The Cuckoo” and “The Gypsy Song”

Christianne learnt Russian especially for this recording and toured it widely before recording it with her superb pianist Julius Drake. This recording should do much to re-evaluate Tchaikovsky as one of the greatest composers of song and not just a writer of pretty tunes.

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March 2009

…Christianne Stotijn is that artist in a thousand whose personality shines through everything she does. Her Russian characterisations and folk inflections seem spot-on in the vivid narratives of 'Had I known', 'The Bride's Lament' and 'The Cuckoo'. Here, too, as in their often wonderful Mahler recital together, Julius Drake's focused narratives make us want to hear even more from him... But Stotijn's charisma and her beautifully recorded altoish depth of tone is enough to hold me spellbound.

2010

For the most part these are angst-ridden stories of death and lost love. The two best-known songs open proceedings: 'At the Ball', with its reminiscence of unrequited passion to the lilt of a sad waltz, and then 'None but the lonely heart'. Everyone conceivable from Rosa Ponselle to Frank Sinatra has recorded this, but Stotijn loses nothing in comparison with ghosts from the past. Her voice is a full-blooded mezzo but steady and true, without a hint of that vibrato that can often disturb the line in Slavonic singers (Stotijn is from The Netherlands).
The emotional climax of the selection comes with 'The Bride's Lament'. This outpouring of grief can seem over melodramatic but Stotijn and Drake find exactly the right mood. The piano parts are superbly done: in every sense these songs are duets. There are a couple of other light moments – 'Cuckoo', one of 16 children's songs composed in the 1880s, and a 'Gypsy Song' from around the same time.
Tchaikovsky's songs are not nearly well enough known and this superb recital should encourage more interest in them. Highly recommended.

March 2009

The two best-known songs open proceedings: "At the Ball", with its reminiscence of unrequited passion to the lilt of a sad waltz, and then "None but the lonely heart". Everyone conceivable from Rosa Ponselle to Frank Sinatra has recorded this, but Stotijn loses nothing in comparison with ghosts from the past. Her voice is a full-blooded mezzo but steady and true, without a hint of that vibrato that can often disturb the line in Slavonic singers... The piano parts are superbly done: in every sense these songs are duets. Tchaikovsky's songs are not nearly well enough known and this superb recital should encourage more interest in them.

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