Nicolai Ghiaurov: Russian Songs and Arias
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Label: Australian Eloquence
Cat No: ELQ4805557
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 9th March 2015
Contents
Works
BanduraDubinushka
Dvenadsat' Razboynikov
Ei, Ukhnyem
Nochenka
Ochi Chornye
Proshchai Radost
Stenka Razin
Utyos
Vdolj Po Peterskoy
Vtyomnon Lesye
For the Shores of Your Distant Homeland
Prince Igor
Nochnoi zefir stroont efir (The night zephyr stirs the air)
Starij Kapral (The Old Corporal)
A Life for the Tsar, op.4
Boris Godunov
The Demon
Artists
Nicolai Ghiaurov (bass)Zlatina Ghiaurov (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
Edward DownesWorks
BanduraDubinushka
Dvenadsat' Razboynikov
Ei, Ukhnyem
Nochenka
Ochi Chornye
Proshchai Radost
Stenka Razin
Utyos
Vdolj Po Peterskoy
Vtyomnon Lesye
For the Shores of Your Distant Homeland
Prince Igor
Nochnoi zefir stroont efir (The night zephyr stirs the air)
Starij Kapral (The Old Corporal)
A Life for the Tsar, op.4
Boris Godunov
The Demon
Artists
Nicolai Ghiaurov (bass)Zlatina Ghiaurov (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
Edward DownesAbout
This 2CD set includes all Nicolai Ghiaurov's Russian recital material in opera, art song and popular/folk song for Decca, from the stunningly recorded 1962 and 1964 Russian arias with the LSO and Edward Downes and the recital of art songs by Tchaikovsky, Borodin, Glinka, Rubinstein and Dargomizhsky with his first wife Zlatina Ghiaurov.
For thirty years, from 1960 to 1990, Nicolai Ghiaurov was an indispensable figure on the international operatic scene. His voluminous base, incisive delivery and imposing presence meant that he was in demand in every centre of opera. His range of roles stretched from Mozart and Rossini through Verdi and Puccini and many parts in the French nineteenth-century repertory to the rewarding roles written for basses in Russian opera.
Avuncular and a great colleague on stage, Ghiaurov also made a record with a traditional Russian ensemble. It includes the song Stenka Razin, which later achieved mass popularity in its Seekers hit 'The Carnival Is Over'.
the Bulgarian bass shows himself a mighty master of the long, weighty phrase. [
] The recording is strong, the accompaniment by Edward Downes most helpful. A fine record of a new and noble basso - Gramophone, May 1963 (Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky arias: CD 1: 15)
considerable stature and presence and that rolling majestical gravity in the voice
The recording is exceptionally vivid - Gramophone, March 1965 (Glinka, Rubinstein, Tchaikovsky, Borodin: CD 1: 69)
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