Slobodskaya’s recordings are rare and are much sought after by collectors. This is their first issue on CD. Decca issued a set of her recordings in 1942 in a limited edition of 2000 and recorded her again in 1945, 1946 and 1961.

Contents:
CD 1
The Rymington van Wyck recordings
Sergei Taneyev
1. Nocturne

Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
2. Was I not a blade of grass?

Sergei Taneyev
3. Dreams
4. My Heart is Beating
5. In the Silence of the Night

Alexander Tcherepnin
6. I would have kissed you

Sergei Rachmaninov
7. Lilacs
8. How pleasant it is here!

Cesar Cui
9. The Statue at Tsarskoye Sel

Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
10. To Forget So Soon
11. If only I had known
12. The golden cornfields

The Decca recordings
13-15. Three Folksongs (from the collection of Rimsky-Korsakov, arr. Ippolitov-Inanov)

Alexander Gretchaninov
16. Lullaby
17. The Dreary Steppe
18. Like an angel
19. My country

ALexander Borodin
20. From my tears sprang flowers
21. The Sea Princess

Mily Balkirev
22. Hebrew Melody

CD 2
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1. Evgney Onegin: Tatyana's Letter Scene
London Symphony Orchestra / Anatole Fistoulari

2. Child Song

Sergei Rachmaninov
3. To the children
4. The Little Island
5. The Soldier's Wife

Sergei Prokofiev
6. Dunyushka, Op.104

Matvey Blanter
7. In the forest of the frontline
8. Katyusha

Igor Stravinsky
9-11. Three Tales for Children

Dmitri Kabalevsky
12-18. Seven Nursery Rhymes

Dmitri Shostakovich
19-24. Six Spanish Songs, Op.100