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Special offer. Rachmaninov: Songs

Evelina Dobraceva, Ekaterina Siurina (sopranos), Justina Gringyte (mezzo-soprano), Daniil Shtoda (tenor), Andrei Bondarenko, Rodion Pogossov (baritones), Alexander Vinogradov (bass) & Iain Burnside (piano)

Rachmaninov: Songs

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I was quickly won over by Andrei Bondarenko's burnished baritone sound and sensitivity...The two sopranos are top-note perfect...At times, the heavier-weight voices of mezzo Justina Gringyte...

BBC Music Magazine, May 20145 out of 5 stars

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Special offer. Rachmaninov: Songs

Evelina Dobraceva, Ekaterina Siurina (sopranos), Justina Gringyte (mezzo-soprano), Daniil Shtoda (tenor), Andrei Bondarenko, Rodion Pogossov (baritones), Alexander Vinogradov (bass) & Iain Burnside (piano)

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I was quickly won over by Andrei Bondarenko's burnished baritone sound and sensitivity...The two sopranos are top-note perfect...At times, the heavier-weight voices of mezzo Justina Gringyte...

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This is the first complete recording for 20 years of Rachmaninov’s published song output. With the addition of two delightfully comic occasional pieces, it lays two further claims to importance: Delphian's seven singers – hand-picked by renowned pianist Iain Burnside – are all native Russian speakers, and every song is performed in the key in which Rachmaninov wrote it, respecting both the specificity of vocal colour and the carefully designed tonal and expressive trajectory within each opus.

For the first 25 years of his career Rachmaninov regularly expressed himself in song, from Tchaikovskian beginnings to the very personal range of vocal and pianistic utterance in his final two collections. Almost a century after exile brought down the curtain on this period of his creative output, Burnside and his singers bring these works to shimmering, gushing, crackling, magnificent life.

  • Release date: 10th Mar 2014
  • Label: Delphian
  • Catalogue number: DCD34127
  • Length: 2 hours 59 minutes
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Contents and tracklist

Rachmaninoff: Songs (6), Op. 4
Work length16:55
No. 1, Oh No, I Beg You, Forsake Me Not
Track length1:48
No. 2, Morning
Track length2:11
No. 3, In the Silence of the Secret Night
Track length2:36
No. 4, Sing Not to Me, Beautiful Maiden
Track length4:41
No. 5, Oh Thou, My Field
Track length3:51
No. 6, How Long, My Friend
Track length1:48
Rachmaninoff: Songs (6), Op. 8
Work length12:42
No. 1, The Waterlily
Track length1:19
No. 2, Child, Thou Art as Beautiful as a Flower
Track length1:50
No. 3, Brooding
Track length3:28
No. 4, I Have Grown Fond of Sorrow
Track length2:05
No. 5, The Dream
Track length1:15
No. 6, A Prayer
Track length2:45
Rachmaninoff: Songs (12), Op. 14
Work length24:20
No. 1, I Wait for Thee
Track length1:38
No. 2, The Isle
Track length2:06
No. 3, For Long There Has Been Little Consolation in Love
Track length1:24
No. 4, I Was with Her
Track length1:30
No. 5, These Summer Nights
Track length1:58
No. 6, How Everyone Loves Thee
Track length2:18
No. 7, Believe Me Not, Friend
Track length1:30
No. 8, Oh, Do Not Grieve
Track length2:53
No. 9, She Is as Lovely as the Noon
Track length2:54
No. 10, In My Soul
Track length2:43
No. 11, Spring Waters
Track length2:01
No. 12, ’Tis time
Track length1:25
Rachmaninoff: Were You Hiccoughing, TN ii / 54
Work length1:45
Rachmaninoff: Songs (12), Op. 21
Work length31:04
No. 1, Fate
Track length6:51
No. 2, By the Fresh Grave
Track length1:48
No. 3, Twilight
Track length2:06
No. 4, They Answered
Track length1:48
No. 5, Lilacs
Track length2:05
No. 6, Fragment from Musset
Track length1:39
No. 7, How Fair This Spot
Track length2:11
No. 8, On the Death of a Linnet
Track length2:34
No. 9, Melody
Track length3:21
No. 10, Before the Icon
Track length3:24
No. 11, No Prophet I
Track length1:25
No. 12, How Painful for Me
Track length1:52
Rachmaninoff: Songs (15), Op. 26
Work length33:55
No. 1, There Are Many Sounds
Track length2:13
No. 2, He Took All from Me
Track length1:03
No. 3, Let Us Rest
Track length2:17
No. 4, Two Partings
Track length3:49
No. 5, Beloved, Let Us Fly
Track length2:14
No. 6, Christ Is Risen
Track length2:33
No. 7, To the Children
Track length3:25
No. 8, I Beg for Mercy
Track length1:15
No. 9, Again I Am Alone
Track length1:55
No. 10, Before My Window
Track length1:59
No. 11, The Fountain
Track length1:30
No. 12, Night Is Mournful
Track length2:20
No. 13, When Yesterday We Met
Track length2:40
No. 14, The Ring
Track length2:41
No. 15, All Things Pass By
Track length2:01
Rachmaninoff: Letter to K.S. Stanislavsky, TN ii / 56
Work length3:14
  • Rodion Pogossov (baritone), Iain Burnside (piano)
  • Recorded: 15-16 September, 12-13, 19-20, 24 November
  • Recording Venue: Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Rachmaninoff: Songs (14), Op. 34
Work length40:31
No. 1, The Muse
Track length3:57
No. 2, In the Soul of Each of Us
Track length2:30
No. 3, The Storm
Track length2:21
No. 4, The Migrant Wind
Track length3:04
No. 5, Arion
Track length2:46
No. 6, The Raising of Lazarus
Track length2:19
No. 7, It Cannot Be
Track length1:46
No. 8, Music
Track length2:30
No. 9, You Knew Him
Track length2:35
No. 10, I Remember That Day
Track length1:28
No. 11, The Peasant
Track length3:41
No. 12, What Happiness
Track length2:18
No. 13, Discord
Track length5:39
No. 14, Vocalise
Track length3:37
Rachmaninoff: Songs (6), Op. 38
Work length15:07
No. 1, In My Garden at Night
Track length1:52
No. 2, To Her
Track length2:21
No. 3, Daisies
Track length2:35
No. 4, The Rat-Catcher
Track length2:38
No. 5, A Dream
Track length3:21
No. 6, A-u!
Track length2:20

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Awards and reviews

May 2014

I was quickly won over by Andrei Bondarenko's burnished baritone sound and sensitivity...The two sopranos are top-note perfect...At times, the heavier-weight voices of mezzo Justina Gringyte and bass, Alexander Vinogradov, are too closely recorded for comfort...but Burnside remains a firm, clear companion throughout.
5 out of 5 stars

May 2014

there are distinct pluses to this new Delphian set. One of them is unquestionably the pianism of Iain Burnside, who recognises the integral expressive role of the piano in these songs...Practically everything...rings true in this set, sung gloriously with palpable heart and soul.

[Vinogradov's] beautiful rich dark tone and musicality single him out with distinction. ...Burnside, throughout, displays great sensitivity in his accompaniments. Technically accomplished, he meets the virtuosic challenges that Rachmaninov sets the performer...This set would be hard to beat by any standards – a deeply rewarding and truly stimulating musical experience.

The famous Vocalise - popularised in innumerable variants for solo instrument and orchestra - was in fact originally a song from Rachmaninov's Op. 34. Here, Iain Burnside accompanies seven native Russian-speakers in a complete set of Rachmaninov's vocal music, which contains some of his most personal and intimate writing.
David Smith

23rd March 2014

Burnside’s brilliant playing...allures the ear at every turn...The stars are Andrei Bondarenko and Alexander Vinogradov, both young but mature interpreters...Ekaterina Siurina’s sweet soprano comes into its own in the Op 38 set, while she and Vinogradov make something special of Two Farewells...Mixed results, but the best is superb.

24th April 2014

Bondarenko, who won the song prize at Cardiff Singer of the World in 2011, is a delight with his honeyed, even tone and faultless phrasing. Burnside accompanies with his usual tact and intelligence. As a whole, the set is a very distinguished piece of work.
4 out of 5 stars

27th February 2014

This is a richly rewarding and fascinating set...[Vinogradov] sings these epics with a marvellously fluent legato...But the star of the show is undoubtedly Burnside, playing throughout with unfailing intensity and sensitivity: voice and piano are truly equal partners here, and the results are electrifying.
5 out of 5 stars
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