Re: Vocal Music from the former Soviet Union
Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2013 8:32 am
Another set of vocal cycles on poems by Akhmatova. See also the following previous post:
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Romances on the Poems of Anna Akhmatova, for voice and piano (1989)
Sergei Mikhailovich SLONIMSKY - Romances (7), for soprano and piano; 1. White Night, 2. About that Dream I Sang, 3. Better to Sing Out Couplets Fervently, 4. Not Without Reason I Am Sad, 5. I'm Not Drinking Wine, 6. You Leave your White House and Peaceful Garden, 7. Sultry Hops
Yuri Alexandrovich FALIK - Poems (5), for soprano and piano; 1. Before Spring..., 2. Bezhetsk, 3. The Last Song, 4. Pleading Voice, 5. Between Thunderstorms
Veniamin Yefimovich BASNER - Poems (8), for mezzo-soprano and piano or guitar; 1. De Profundis, 2. The Third Zachatyevsky, 3. All Plundered, Betrayed, Sold..., 4. We Will Not Drink from the Same Glass, 5. Ditty, 6. It Will Not Happen to You in Life..., 7. Bury, Bury Me, the Wind!, 8. Summer Garden (bio at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veniamin_Basner )
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viewtopic.php?f=19&t=322&p=22999&hilit=akhmatova#p22999
Romances on the Poems of Anna Akhmatova, for voice and piano (1989)
Sergei Mikhailovich SLONIMSKY - Romances (7), for soprano and piano; 1. White Night, 2. About that Dream I Sang, 3. Better to Sing Out Couplets Fervently, 4. Not Without Reason I Am Sad, 5. I'm Not Drinking Wine, 6. You Leave your White House and Peaceful Garden, 7. Sultry Hops
Yuri Alexandrovich FALIK - Poems (5), for soprano and piano; 1. Before Spring..., 2. Bezhetsk, 3. The Last Song, 4. Pleading Voice, 5. Between Thunderstorms
Veniamin Yefimovich BASNER - Poems (8), for mezzo-soprano and piano or guitar; 1. De Profundis, 2. The Third Zachatyevsky, 3. All Plundered, Betrayed, Sold..., 4. We Will Not Drink from the Same Glass, 5. Ditty, 6. It Will Not Happen to You in Life..., 7. Bury, Bury Me, the Wind!, 8. Summer Garden (bio at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veniamin_Basner )
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