Joan Rodgers - Russian Songs
Joan Rodgers - Russian Songs
Mit Werken von:
Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881)
, Serge Prokofieff (1891-1953)
, Dmitri Schostakowitsch (1906-1975)
, Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Mitwirkende:
Joan Rodgers, Roger Vignoles
CD
CD (Compact Disc)
Herkömmliche CD, die mit allen CD-Playern und Computerlaufwerken, aber auch mit den meisten SACD- oder Multiplayern abspielbar ist.
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Mussorgsky: The Nursery
+Prokofieff: 5 Lieder nach Anna Akhmatova op. 27
+Schostakowitsch: Satiren op. 109
+Britten: The Poet's Echo op. 76
- Künstler: Joan Rodgers, Roger Vignoles (Klavier)
- Label: Hyperion, DDD, 2003
- Bestellnummer: 4177586
- Erscheinungstermin: 18.10.2004
Product-Information:
This adventurous new song recital, from this country’s leading interpreters of this repertoire, brings together divergent cycles from four masters of the genre.
From the beginning of the nineteenth century any aspiring Russian composer would have been composing songs, and by the middle of the century such songs had taken on a distinctive ‘Russian’ flavour. Musorgsky’s The Nursery became an instant hit, and has remained a core part of the repertory. Some fifty years later Prokofiev penned his Five Poems of Anna Akhmatova; hoping for some relief from his enfant terrible reputation, he can only have marvelled at their reception: ‘After these songs, many people believed for the first time that I write lyrical music.’ Inheriting from Prokofiev ‘leading Russian composer’ status – and with it the burdens of officialdom imposed by the new Soviet state –, Shostakovich still found time to write personal works such as the Satires; composed at a time of great personal tragedy, these songs combine an apparent light-hearted music tone with deeply unsettling cynicism. Shostakovich became one of the first to hear Britten’s cycle The Poet’s Echo; initially intended as an exercise to remedy his ‘obstinately bad Russian’, Britten’s cycle ended up perfectly encapsulating the gamut of human emotion found in the poetry of Pushkin he chose to set.
Rezensionen
'This wonderful collection of four of the greatest song cycles and sets to Russian texts finds Rodgers in compelling form. The voice remains fresh and pristine enough for the childlike tones of the famous Musorgsky set, and now commands the richness of tone colour to do justice to Britten's dark Pushkin settings. Vignoles is a worthy partner in this outstanding enterprise' (The Sunday Times)
'This is Hyperion at its best: a pair of fine artists exploring a less-than-familiar corner of the repertoire. More please!' (International Record Review)
'Joan Rodgers's live recitals of Russian song, and her earlier Tchaikovsky album for Hyperion, set up huge expectations for this disc of four song cycles which have become classics of the repertoire. And it does not disappoint' (BBC Music Magazine)
'Roger Vignoles provides sensitive accompaniments, with Hyperion supplying a realistic sound environment that avoids over-reverberance. Decent liner notes are furnished by Jonathan Powell, and English texts alongside transliterated Russian ones for all songs. Highly recommended' (Fanfare, USA)
- Tracklisting
- Details
- Mitwirkende
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
Detskaya (The Nursery, Liederzyklus)
- 1 S nyaney (With Nanny)
- 2 V uglu (In the corner)
- 3 Zhuk (The beetle)
- 4 S koukloy (With the doll)
- 5 Na son gradushchiy (Evening prayer)
- 6 Poyekhal na palochke (On the hobby-horse)
- 7 Kot matros (Sailor the cat)
Lieder op. 27 Nr. 1-5 (nach Gedichten von Anna Achmatova) (Auszug)
- 8 Solntse komnatu napolnilo (Sunlight filled the room)
- 9 Nastoyashchuyu nezhost' (About the real tenderness)
- 10 Pamyat' o solntse (Thoughts of the sunlight)
- 11 Zdravstvuy! (Greetings!)
- 12 Seroglazïy korol' (The grey-eyed king)
Satirï (Satires) op. 109
- 13 Kritiku (To a critic)
- 14 Produzhdeniye vesnï (Spring awakening)
- 15 Potomki (The descendants)
- 16 Nedorazumeniye (Misunderstanding)
- 17 Kreytzerova sonata (The Kreutzer Sonata)
Ekho poeta (The poet's echo) op. 76
- 18 Ekho (Echo)
- 19 Ya dumal, serdtse pozabïlo (My heart, I fancied it was over)
- 20 Angel (Angel)
- 21 Solovey i roza (The nightingale and the rose)
- 22 Epigramma (Epigram)
- 23 Stikhi, sochinennïye noch' yu vo vrema bessonnitsi (Lines written during a sleepless night)
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