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ID: MELCD1002336 (EAN: 4600317123360) | 1 CD | ADD Released in: 2015
- LABEL:
- Melodiya
- Subcollection:
- Vocal and Piano
- Composers:
- SVIRIDOV, Georgi Vasilievich
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Interprets:
- MASLENNIKOV, Alexei (tenor) | MOROZOV, Igor (baritone) | SVIRIDOV, Georgy (piano)
- Ensembles:
- Leningrad State Philharmonics’ Symphony Orchestra | Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra | State Republican A.Yurlov Russian Choir
- Conductors:
- ROZHDESTVENSKY, Gennady | TEMIRKANOV, Yurij
- Other info:
Georgy Sviridov, piano (11-17)
Alexei Maslennikov, tenor
Igor Morozov, baritone (12, 14-16)
State Republican Academic Russian Yurlov Choir (1-10, 18-21)
Leningrad State Philharmonics’ Symphony Orchestra - conductor - Yuri Temirkanov (1-10)
Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor - Gennady Rozhdestvensky (18-21)
Recordings: 1957 (1-10),1980 (11-17), 1970 (18-21)
Firma Melodiya presents an album dedicated to the anniversaries of two great figures of Russian culture of the 20th century - Sergei Yesenin (1895-1925) and Georgy Sviridov (1915-1998).
“Once … I met a poet I knew, and he spent a long time reading Yesenin for me. That’s when Yesenin’s verses imprinted themselves on my soul. When I got back home, I could not fall
asleep… The music came suddenly. … That was how I wrote my first song to Yesenin’s text which later became a core song in my Poem to the Memory of Sergei Yesenin. The rest of the songs were composed during two weeks, all at once”. The premiere of the Poem to the Memory of Sergei Yesenin took place in 1956, in Moscow and was a new milestone in the composer’s career properly unveiling his original style and subtle feeling for poetry to the public. On the other hand, Sviridov’s Poem where the composer strived to render the poet’s spiritual side and passionate “love for the native land” became an actual rehabilitation of Yesenin’s poetry which had been covertly prohibited for a long time. Soon after completion of the vocal and symphonic Poem,
the composer came up with the cycle My Father Is a Peasant for tenor, baritone and piano where Yesenin’s images of Russian nature and scenes of country life were expressed by means
of chamber vocal lyric music.
Wooden Russia, a small cantata for tenor, men’s choir and orchestra was composed in 1964 and had an epigraph taken from Yesenin’s verses “Russia, my wooden Russia!”. The poet’s four
poems recreate an image of old patriarchal Russia while the last lines of the final movement herald its tragic demise.
Georgy Sviridov’s cantatas set to the poetry of Sergei Yesenin are performed by the Republican Academic Choir led by Alexander Yurlov and such luminaries of domestic conducting art as Yuri Temirkanov and Gennady Rozhdestvensky. The chamber cycle is sung by Alexei Maslennikov, an outstanding interpreter of Sviridov’s music who is accompanied by the author.
| SVIRIDOV, Georgi Vasilievich (1915-1998) | | | Poem to the Memory of Sergei Yesenin for tenor, choir and orchestra (words by S. Yesenin) (1955 1956) | | | 1. | I. My Desolate Land | 4:01 | | | 2. | II. Winter Sings | 4:22 | | | 3. | III. Where Yellow Nettle Grows | 4:05 | | | 4. | IV. Harvest | 3:10 | | | 5. | V. St. John's Eve | 4:18 | | | 6. | VI. St. John's Eve (continued) | 3:32 | | | 7. | VII. 1919 | 2:38 | | | 8. | VIII. Peasant Children | 2:24 | | | 9. | IX. I Am the Last Poet of the Countryside | 5:10 | | | 10. | X. The Sky Is Like a Bell | 2:36 | | | My Father Is a Peasant, cycle to the poetry of Sergei Yesenin for tenor, baritone and piano (1956) | | | 11. | I. Sleigh | 1:20 | | | 12. | II. Russia Shines in My Heart | 2:16 | | | 13. | III. Birch Tree | 3:27 | | | 14. | IV. Recruits | 1:24 | | | 15. | V. Singing to the Accordion | 1:39 | | | 16. | VI. In the Evening | 2:06 | | | 17. | VII. The Nightingale Has a Good Song | 4:47 | | | Wooden Russia, small cantata to the poetry of Sergei Yesenin for tenor, men's choir and orchestra (1964) | | | 18. | I. Farewell My Native Forest | 0:58 | | | 19. | II. Swamps and Marches | 2:28 | | | 20. | III. I Am a Wretched Pilgrim | 2:01 | | | 21. | IV. Don't Look for Me in God | 1:30 | | | Total time | |
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