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Russian Songs & Romances

Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano), Mstislav Rostropovich (piano)

Russian Songs & Romances
A marvellously rich programme recorded by Russian music's exiled royal couple. Vishnevskaya's voice is still forceful but often squally in this 1991 recording; but their intense feeling for...

BBC Music Magazine, December 2009

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Russian Songs & Romances

Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano), Mstislav Rostropovich (piano)

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A marvellously rich programme recorded by Russian music's exiled royal couple. Vishnevskaya's voice is still forceful but often squally in this 1991 recording; but their intense feeling for...

BBC Music Magazine, December 2009

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  • Release date: 22nd Jun 2009
  • Label: Apex
  • Catalogue number: 2564690457
  • Length: 2 hours 8 minutes
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Contents and tracklist

Glinka: Adele
Work length2:44
Glinka: Berceuse
Work length6:25
Glinka: The Gulf of Finland
Work length2:53
Glinka: Gretchen's Song
Work length3:40
Glinka: Barcarolle
Work length2:59
Glinka: Tell me Why
Work length2:50
Glinka: "Sing not, thou beauty, in my presence"
Work length1:39
Glinka: "I am here, Inezilya"
Work length1:50
Dargomïzhsky: Dargomizhsky
Work length27:04
"The Sierra Nevada was swathed in mists"
Track length3:02
"The night zephir stirs the air"
Track length3:51
Prayer
Track length2:41
"What is my name to you?"
Track length2:48
Heavenly Clouds
Track length5:36
The Girl and the Youth
Track length1:12
"You did not come true!"
Track length3:05
"In the expanse of the heavens"
Track length2:40
"I am sorrowful"
Track length2:09
Mussorgsky: Kalistratouchka
Work length5:19
Mussorgsky: Videniye (The Vision)
Work length2:39
Mussorgsky: Forgotten
Work length2:01
Mussorgsky: "Softly the spririt flew up to heaven"
Work length2:41
Mussorgsky: "What are words of love to you?"
Work length1:44
Mussorgsky: Gathering Mushrooms
Work length1:26
Borodin: "Why do you dawn so soon, o day?"
Work length2:54
Borodin: Spyashchaya knyazhna (The Sleeping Princess)
Work length3:39
Borodin: Pesnya tyomnogo lesa (Song of the Dark Forest)
Work length1:55
Borodin: Morskaya tsaryevna (The Princess Of the Sea)
Work length2:57
Borodin: For the Shores of a Distant Native Land
Work length4:03
Tchaikovsky: 12 Songs Op.60 : IX Night
Work length4:12
Tchaikovsky: Skazhi, o chom v teni vetvey (Tell me, what in the shade of the branches), Op. 57 No. 1
Work length3:55
Tchaikovsky: 16 Children's Songs Op.54 : X Lullaby in a Storm
Work length2:32
Tchaikovsky: None but the lonely heart, Op. 6 No. 6
Work length2:59
Tchaikovsky: Zabït tak skoro (So soon forgotten)
Work length3:19
Tchaikovsky: 6 Songs Op.28 : IV "He loved me so much"
Work length3:45
Tchaikovsky: 6 Songs Op.6 : II "Not a word, O my friend"
Work length3:33
Tchaikovsky: 12 Songs Op.60 : VI Frenzied nights
Work length3:04
Tchaikovsky: Zakatilos solntse (The sun has set), Op. 73 No. 4
Work length1:42
Tchaikovsky: 6 Songs Op.25 : I "Reconciliation"
Work length5:40
Tchaikovsky: 6 Songs Op.65 : I Serenade
Work length1:57
Tchaikovsky: Do not ask, Op. 57 No. 3
Work length3:27
Tchaikovsky: 6 Songs Op.38 : III "Amid the din of the ball"
Work length1:58
Tchaikovsky: Den' li tsarit? (Does the day reign?), Op. 47 No. 6
Work length3:24

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December 2009

A marvellously rich programme recorded by Russian music's exiled royal couple. Vishnevskaya's voice is still forceful but often squally in this 1991 recording; but their intense feeling for these classic 19th-century songs is unique and moving.
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