CD 1
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The concert from the Columned Hall of the House of Unions 2nd March 1954. | |
AQVR 400A-2. | |
1. | The flying clouds begin to scatter (N. Rimsky-Korsakov) | 4:06 | |
2. | Yesterday we met (S. Rachmaninov) | 3:19 | |
3. | Fragment from A. Musset (S. Rachmaninov) | 2:11 | |
4. | The night is mournful (S. Rachmaninov) | 2:49 | |
5. | I was with her (S. Rachmaninov) | 1:52 | |
6. | Levko's song (N. Rimsky-Korsakov "May Night", act 1) | 3:23 | |
7. | Una Furtiva Lagrima (G. Donizetti "Elisir d'Amore", act 2) | 4:31 | |
8. | An die Musik (F. Schubert) | 3:31 | |
9. | Geheimes (F. Schubert) | 2:47 | |
10. | Rodolfo's aria (Quando le sere al placido) (G. Verdi "Luisa Miller", act 2) | 5:11 | |
11. | Gamle Mor (E. Grieg) | 2:22 | |
12. | PaSkogstien (E. Grieg) | 2:51 | |
13. | Rimpianto (E. Tozelli) | 3:46 | |
Bonus: Studio radio recordings, 1950. | |
14. | Elegy (M. Yakovlev) | 3:11 | |
15. | The lonely sail shows up white (A.Varlamov) | 2:05 | |
16. | Autumn (P. Tchaikovsky) | 6:05 | |
17. | A little bird (A. Dubuc) | 2:50 | |
Performances from an evening dedicated to O. Knipper-Chekhova (All-Union Theatrical Society, 14th October 1955) | |
18. | Welcoming remarks (S. Lemeshev) | 1:31 | |
19. | I remember a wonderful moment (M. Glinka) | 4:21 | |
20. | There's nothing swaying in the field (Russian folk song) | 4:31 | |
21. | Amid gloomy days (P.Tchaikovsky) | 3:05 | |
22. | Dunya the weaver (Russian folk song) | 2:23 | |
23. | Closing remarks (A. Stepanova reads the letter by O. Knipper-Chekhova) | 1:25 | |
Presenters: V. Solovyeva (1-13), A. Yablochkina (18, 23) | |
Piano: S. Stuchevsky (1-13), A. Makarov (14, 15), N. Walter (16, 17), unknown (19-22) | |
CD 2
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AQVR 400BC-2. | |
Concerts from the Great Hall of the Leningrad Philharmonic.Concert from 19th December 1954. | |
1. | An die Musik (F. Schubert) | 4:29 | |
2. | Geheimes (F. Schubert) | 2:41 | |
3. | Der Leiermann (F. Schubert) | 3:17 | |
4. | Du bist die Ruh (F.Schubert) | 4:26 | |
5. | Der Fischerknabe (F .Liszt) | 3:49 | |
6. | In fernem Land (R. Wagner "Lohengrin", act 3) | 5:47 | |
7. | Borte (E. Grieg) | 2:03 | |
8. | PaSkogstien (E. Grieg) | 2:53 | |
9. | Gamle Mor (E. Grieg) | 2:25 | |
10. | Una furtive lagrima (G. Donizetti "L'elisir d'amore", act 2) | 4:53 | |
11. | Lilacs (E. Chausson) | 4:50 | |
12. | Les papillons (E. Chausson) | 1:30 | |
13. | Un bel di vedremo (G. Puccini "Madama Butterfly", act 2) | 4:44 | |
14. | Ein Traum (E. Grieg) | 2:51 | |
15. | It was in early Spring (P. Tchaikovsky) | 3:06 | |
16. | Kuma's Arioso (P. Tchaikovsky "The Enchantress", act 4) | 3:07 | |
17. | Oh, if only you could (N. Rimsky-Korsakov) | 2:08 | |
18. | Where thou art, my thought flies to thee (N. Rimsky-Korsakov) | 1:47 | |
19. | Eastern song (N. Rimsky-Korsakov) | 3:25 | |
20. | Song of the Hindu guest (N. Rimsky-Korsakov "Sadko", scene 4) | 4:16 | |
21. | There's nothing swaying in the field (Russian folk song) | 4:19 | |
Vera Kudryavtseva, soprano (11-16), Simeon Stuchevsky - piano | |
CD 3
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Concerts from the Great Hall of the Leningrad Philharmonic. Concert from 19th December 1954. | |
1. | Forgive (duet) (N. Titov, arr. A. Dargomyzhsky) | 3:09 | |
2. | On Saturdays the weather is bad (duet) (Russian folk song) | 5:14 | |
3. | Dunya the weaver (Russian folk song) | 2:07 | |
Concert from 15th December 1954 (P. Tchaikovsky) | |
4. | I won't say anything to you | 3:40 | |
5. | Evening | 3:08 | |
6. | My garden | 3:04 | |
7. | Oh, if you only knew | 3:30 | |
8. | Amid gloomy days | 2:09 | |
9. | Stay a while | 4:40 | |
10. | Nightingale | 4:13 | |
11. | Night | 4:12 | |
12. | Lullaby in a storm | 3:44 | |
13. | We sat together | 3:20 | |
14. | The fearful minute | 3:58 | |
15. | Through the window in the shadows | 2:11 | |
16. | I wish I could pour into a single word | 2:18 | |
17. | My Lizzie-lad (Nursery song) | 2:51 | |
Bonus: 1951 studio recordings (Leningrad) | |
18. | Fall asleep | 4:32 | |
19. | Amid gloomy days | 1:42 | |
20. | My Lizzie-lad (Nursery song) | 2:22 | |
21. | Oh, if you only knew | 2:55 | |
22. | We sat together | 2:41 | |
23. | Why? | 3:02 | |
Vera Kudryavtseva, soprano (1, 2) | |
Piano - Simeon Stuchevsky (1-17), Eugeny Lebedev (18-23) | |
CD 4
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AQVR 400DE-2. | |
Concert from January 13th 1956. | |
1. | The octave (N. Rimsky-Korsakov) | 2:19 | |
2. | Where thou art, my thought flies to thee (N. Rimsky-Korsakov) | 1:45 | |
3. | The rainy day has waned (N. Rimsky-Korsakov) | 5:02 | |
4. | Amid gloomy days (P. Tchaikovsky) | 2:09 | |
5. | O night, now show me in (M. Balakirev) | 1:57 | |
6. | The night is mournful (S. Rachmaninov) | 2:39 | |
7. | On the death of a siskin (S. Rachmaninov) | 3:01 | |
8. | I was with her (S. Rachmaninov) | 1:53 | |
9. | They answered (S. Rachmaninov) | 2:08 | |
10. | A dream (S. Rachmaninov) | 2:01 | |
11. | Yesterday we met (S. Rachmaninov) | 3:08 | |
12. | In the mysterious silence of the night (S. Rachmaninov) | 3:00 | |
13. | How painful this is (S. Rachmaninov) | 2:15 | |
Concert from April 9th 1956 | |
14. | Fall silent, canary bird (A. Varlamov) | 4:13 | |
15. | Let others fall into reverie (A. Varlamov) | 2:14 | |
16. | The lonely sail shows up white (A. Varlamov) | 1:57 | |
17. | To Mary (A. Varlamov) | 2:37 | |
18. | Oh, do not kiss me (A. Varlamov) | 1:55 | |
19. | Adele (M. Glinka) | 2:43 | |
20. | How sweet it is to be with you (M. Glinka) | 2:49 | |
21. | Wilhelm's Romance (A. Thomas "Mignon", act 3) | 4:20 | |
22. | I opened the window wide (P. Tchaikovsky) | 2:13 | |
23. | Why? (P. Tchaikovsky) | 2:53 | |
24. | Gamle Mor (E. Grieg) | 1:55 | |
25. | PaSkogstien (E. Grieg) | 2:27 | |
26. | Borte (E. Grieg) | 1:52 | |
27. | Pimpinella (P. Tchaikovsky, florentine song) | 2:21 | |
Piano - Olga Tomina /Presentor - Mikhail Balaksheev (1-13) | |
CD 5
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1. | I go out alone on the road (E. Shashina) | 4:46 | |
2. | Song of the solitary man (Russian folk song) | 2:01 | |
3. | Dunya the weaver (Russian folk song) | 1:48 | |
Concert from November 23rd 1963 | |
4. | Gebet der Elizabeth (R. Wagner "Tannhäuser", act 3) | 4:59 | |
5. | Night (A. Rubinstein) | 3:13 | |
6. | The octave (N. Rimsky-Korsakov) | 2:12 | |
7. | Where thou art, my thought flies to thee (N. Rimsky-Korsakov) | 1:37 | |
8. | A Beauty (N. Rimsky-Korsakov) | 2:39 | |
9. | Levko's Song (N. Rimsky-Korsakov "May Night", act 1) | 3:13 | |
10. | My spoiled darling (N. Rimsky-Korsakov) | 1:43 | |
11. | Du bist die Ruh ( F. Schubert) | 4:19 | |
12. | Barcarolle (F. Schubert) | 2:43 | |
13. | Das Wandern (F. Schubert, from "Die schöne Müllerin") | 2:02 | |
14. | An die Musik (F. Schubert) | 3:06 | |
15. | Why? (P. Tchaikovsky) | 3:19 | |
16. | On this moonlit night (P. Tchaikovsky) | 2:13 | |
17. | To Mary (A. Varlamov) | 2:33 | |
18. | Lied (L. Beethoven) | 1:59 | |
Bonus | |
19. | Stille Liebe (R. Schumann) | 3:11 | |
20. | Im wunderschönen Monat Mai (R. Schumann, from "Diechterliebe") | 1:54 | |
21. | Jegeren (E. Grieg) | 2:51 | |
22. | From song - to opera (Sergei Lemeshev narrates...) | 16:13 | |
Vera Kudryavtseva, soprano (4, 5), Zara Dolukhanova, mezzo-soprano (22) | |
Piano: Olga Tomina (1-3), David Lerner (4-18), Natalya Rassudova (19-21) | |
Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, 17th December 1973 (19-21) | |
Radio broadcast, 4th December 1973 (22) | |
Presentors: Mikhail Balaksheev (4-18), Elena Dulova (22) | |
CD 6
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AQVR 400F-2 | |
Concert from the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory 12th April 1964. | |
1. | How sweet it is to be with you (M. Glinka) | 2:51 | |
2. | I love, was your assurance (M. Glinka) | 2:41 | |
3. | The Lark (M. Glinka) | 3:14 | |
4. | In the mysterious silence of the night (S. Rachmaninov) | 2:50 | |
5. | A dream (S. Rachmaninov) | 1:46 | |
6. | The night is mournful (S. Rachmaninov) | 2:26 | |
7. | How beautiful it is here (S. Rachmaninov) | 2:20 | |
8. | The Singer (A. Rubinstein) | 3:57 | |
9. | Azra (A. Rubinstein) | 3:53 | |
10. | O night, now show me in (M. Balakirev) | 1:53 | |
11. | Embrace, kiss (M. Balakirev) | 2:45 | |
12. | A rendezvous (P. Bulakhov) | 4:03 | |
13. | Shine, shine, my star (P. Bulakhov) | 3:11 | |
14. | Don't awaken her at Dawn (A. Varlamov) | 3:45 | |
15. | To Mary (A. Varlamov) | 2:46 | |
16. | At sunrise (Russian folk song) | 3:34 | |
17. | The coachman's song (A. Gurilyev) | 2:40 | |
18. | Song of the singer off-stage (A. Arensky "Rafael") | 2:28 | |
Bonus | |
19. | Farewell to thee, my joy (Russian folk song) | 3:47 | |
20. | S. Lemeshev discusses Russian folk songs in opera | 18:46 | |
Piano - David Lerner (1-19), presenter - Mikhail Balaksheev (1-18) | |
Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, 24th December 1961 (19) | |
Radio broadcast, 5th March 1974 (20) | |
CD 7
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AQVR 400GH-2. | |
TCHAIKOVSKY, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893) | |
1. | Mild stars shone down on us | 3:35 | |
2. | I won't say anything to you | 2:48 | |
3. | Night (Dim grows the weak light of the candle) | 3:52 | |
4. | Through the window in the shadows | 1:49 | |
5. | Why? | 2:57 | |
6. | Don Juan's serenade | 2:33 | |
7. | Reconciliation | 5:16 | |
8. | Oh, if you only knew | 2:48 | |
9. | I opened the window wide | 2:00 | |
10. | Amid the din of the ball | 2:26 | |
11. | Pimpinella | 2:44 | |
12. | Amid gloomy days | 1:46 | |
13. | Frenzied Nights | 3:26 | |
14. | Lullaby | 4:24 | |
RACHMANINOV, Sergey Vasil'yevich (1873-1943) | |
15. | How beautiful it is here | 2:20 | |
16. | Fragment from A. Musset | 2:15 | |
17. | They answered | 1:46 | |
18. | A dream | 1:38 | |
19. | Lilacs | 2:03 | |
20. | The Isle | 2:34 | |
21. | Do not sing to me, fair maiden | 4:40 | |
22. | On the death of a siskin | 2:51 | |
23. | The pied piper | 3:24 | |
Piano - Naum Walter. Recorded in | |
CD 8
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RACHMANINOV, Sergey Vasil'yevich (1873-1943) | |
1. | The migrant wind | 3:14 | |
2. | So long our love has known so little joy | 1:35 | |
3. | The night is mournful | 2:19 | |
4. | How painful this is | 1:50 | |
5. | In the mysterious silence of the night | 2:51 | |
6. | Yesterday we met | 2:47 | |
7. | Again I am alone | 2:03 | |
8. | I was with her | 1:16 | |
9. | Spring Waters | 2:09 | |
TCHAIKOVSKY, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893) | |
10. | We sat together | 2:52 | |
11. | Night | 4:11 | |
12. | The sun went down | 1:47 | |
13. | Again, as before, alone | 2:31 | |
14. | It was in early spring | 2:28 | |
15. | To forget so soon | 2:58 | |
16. | Nightingale | 3:41 | |
17. | Say of what, in the shade of branches | 3:45 | |
18. | Why? | 2:47 | |
19. | Lullaby in a storm | 3:09 | |
20. | The fearful Minute | 3:12 | |
21. | No response, no word, no greeting | 2:25 | |
22. | I wish I could pour into a single word | 1:58 | |
23. | On this moonlit night | 2:07 | |
24. | Passion has cooled (duet) | 6:07 | |
Vera Kudryavtseva, soprano (24) | |
Piano - Naum Walter (1-9), Berta Kozel (10-24) | |
Recorded in 1962 (1-9), 1963 (10-24) | |