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. Kids' Silly Songs, Vol. 3
Search: Clocks
by: Various
Release Date June 07, 2005
Like many listeners I suspect, I was introduced to Sviridov by Hvorostovsky's rendering of the 'Russia Adrift' song cycle. Unfortunately out of print, though a mezzo version on Opus111 is equally well recorded and documented. Hvorostovsky's recording of the St Petersburg cycle is now available on Delos. I have to start by saying that the recording of Pushkin's Garland (1980) [30'20] on this disc doesn't match the glossier DG recording on "Russian Voices" recital led by Vladimir Minin. And the DG set includes Russian lyrics not just English translations as here. Still it's good to have incidental music to Tsar Feodor Ivannovich (1972) and versions of two choral cycles to words by Blok: Songs of Troubled Times (1980) and Night Clouds ... Read More:
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