MOSCOW NIGHTS
MOSCOW NIGHTS - Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone - Constantine Orbelian - MCO - Style of Five (DE 3339)
“Dmitri Hvorostovsky’s ongoing collaboration with Delos has explored many worthwhile sides of the Siberian baritone’s far-reaching musical interests” - Opera News
Hvorostovsky’s newest release Moscow Nights confirms this judgement from Opera News and adds to his previous distinguished recordings, which have explored various aspects of Russian romantic and popular song literature, i.e., I met you, my love (DE 3293), and Where are You, my Brothers? (DE 3315).
The songs in Moscow Nights are a new collection of 17 songs and romances mostly composed and popular in the post-World War II period of the 1950s and 1960s. As in the previous recordings mentioned, Hvorostovsky’s able partners include the Moscow Chamber Orchestra conducted by Constantine Orbelian, and the traditional Russian instrumental ensemble Style of Five.
These songs were universal favorites with the Russian public, immensely popular and sung by all. A few like Moscow Nights became well known in the West. Most never got beyond the Russian border. Many are beautiful, endearing, and sentimental, and reflect the best popular art of Russian versifiers, poets and composers of the day.
A wonderful bonus is included: Shostakovich’s Motherland Hears as sung by Hvorostovsky as a boy of 11 and newly recorded in the full glory of the mature Hvorostovsky’s “burnished baritone.”
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