Pushkin Romances / HvorostovskyProduct #DE 3392PUSHKIN ROMANCES
Romances on Poems by Alexander Pushkin

Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone
Ivari Ilja, piano

Operatic superstar Dmitri Hvorostovsky has become the supreme interpreter of the Russian Romance, with its rich resource of music and poetry.

“The sheer beauty of Hvorostovsky’s voice approaches legendary status” San Francisco Examiner

“…some of the most beautiful and eloquent sounds that can currently be heard from any human throat… His voice is redolent of luxury: beautiful tone, pinpoint intonation, elegant, and impassioned delivery.” The New York Times

This album offers seventeen songs, or “romances,” all composed to texts from works of Alexander Pushkin, Russia’s greatest poet. The composers represented here have helped define the true meaning of the Russian Romance, and have created some of the world’s greatest song literature. Choosing only romances inspired by Pushkin texts, Hvorostovsky has upped the ante to make a musical statement no other singer has attempted.

Program
GLINKA
I Recall a Wonderful Moment / Ja pomnu chudnoe mgnovenie...
Declaration / Priznanie
The Fire of Longing Burns in My Heart / V krovi gorit ogon zhelania
The Night Zephyr / Nochnoi Zefir
DARGOMYZHSKIY
The Youth and the Maiden / Yunosha i deva
BORODIN
For the Shores of Thy Far Native Land / Dlya beregov otchizny dalnei
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
The Clouds Begin to Scatter / Redeet oblakov, Op. 42 No. 3
On the Hills of Georgia / Na kholmax Gruzii lezhit nochnaja mgla, Op. 3, No. 4
CUI
The Statue at Tsarskoye Selo / Tsarskosel’skaja statuja, Op. 57 No. 17
I loved you / Ya vas ljubil
MEDTNER
Gone Are my Heart’s Desires / Ya perezhil svoi zhelania, Op. 3, No. 2
Winter Evening (The Snowstorm Covers the Sky with Darkness) / Zimnii vecher (Buria Mglou nebo kroet), Op. 13, No. 1
To a Dreamer / Mechtatelu
VLASOV
To the Fountain of Bakhchisarai Palace / Fontanu Bakhchisarajsogo dvortsa
TCHAIKOVSKY
Nightingale / Solovei, Op. 60, No. 4
RACHMANINOFF
Don’t Sing To Me, Fair Maiden / Ne poi, krasavitsa, pri mne, Op. 4 No. 4
SVIRIDOV
The Crimson Forest Sheds its Attire / Roniayet les bagrianiy svoi ubor

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