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In this Moonlit Night: Lieder by Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky & Taneyev | Ondine ODE12162

In this Moonlit Night: Lieder by Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky & Taneyev

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Label: Ondine

Cat No: ODE12162

Barcode: 0761195121627

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 28th January 2013

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Contents

Works

Mussorgsky, Modest

Songs and Dances of Death

Taneyev, Sergei

Poems (4), op.32
» no.4 Winter path
Romances (10), op.17
» no.5 Not the wind from on high
» no.9 Anxiously beats the heart
» no.10 All are asleep
Romances (10), op.26
» no.6 Stalactites (Stalaktiti)
» no.9 Minuet

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich

Romances (6), op.73

Artists

Dmitri Hvorostovsky (baritone)
Ivari Ilja (piano)

Works

Mussorgsky, Modest

Songs and Dances of Death

Taneyev, Sergei

Poems (4), op.32
» no.4 Winter path
Romances (10), op.17
» no.5 Not the wind from on high
» no.9 Anxiously beats the heart
» no.10 All are asleep
Romances (10), op.26
» no.6 Stalactites (Stalaktiti)
» no.9 Minuet

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich

Romances (6), op.73

Artists

Dmitri Hvorostovsky (baritone)
Ivari Ilja (piano)

About

Music played a major role in the development of a national identity in Russia during the late 19th century. For many years music teachers, conductors and soloists were 'imported' into the country, particularly from Italy and Germany but also from Ireland, as in the case of John Field, the 'inventor' of the nocturne for piano. Conservatories, which made it possible for musicians to receive formal professional training, were established many years later in Russia than in other countries. The situation changed with the conservatories founded in St Petersburg and Moscow by Anton and Nikolai Rubinstein in 1862 and 1866.

Gradually, talented young Russians were professionally trained and could assume important roles in musical life. After a long period of domination by foreign musicians, a 'typically Russian musical culture' finally appeared on the horizon.

It was customary to divide the masters of Russian music into two competing groups during the late 19th century: on the one hand, the academically trained, cosmopolitan 'westerners', with Tchaikovsky and Sergei Taneyev at their head, and on the other, the five patriotic-minded, self-taught 'Narodniks' (populists), the composers of 'The Five', who were known as 'The Mighty Handful' in Russia: Mily Balakirev, Alexander Borodin, César Cui, Modest Mussorgsky and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.

Despite the differences between these two 'camps', they had one important thing in common: their love of the Russian folk song united the advocates of the two positions. For both groups, the Russian song had great significance for the national musical idiom over and above its purely musical beauty.

Tchaikovsky, Balakirev and Rimsky-Korsakov published collections of folk songs, and most composers of that time used Russian folk songs in their works, for example, Tchaikovsky in his opera Eugene Onegin and his Fourth Symphony, and Balakirev in his Overture on Three Russian Themes. Tchaikovsky tended to smooth out the irregularities in the songs and adapt them to the style customary in western music, whereas Balakirev loved the austere, unpolished character of the folk melodies.

One of the world’s leading baritones of today, Dmitri Hvorostovsky was born and studied in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia. From the start, audiences were bowled over by his cultivated voice, innate sense of musical line and natural legato. In 1989, he won the prestigious BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition. Since his Western operatic debut at the Nice Opera in Tchaikovsky’s Pique Dame, he has been invited for regular engagements at the major opera houses and festivals internationally.

Dmitri has also performed as a celebrated recitalist in every corner of the globe, and appeared in concert with the world’s top orchestras and conductors, including James Levine, Bernard Haitink, Claudio Abbado, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Yuri Temirkanov, and Valery Gergiev.

Dmitri has retained a strong musical and personal contact with Russia and tours its cities on an annual basis. He became the first opera singer to give a solo concert with orchestra and chorus on Red Square in Moscow, a performance televised in over 25 countries.

Dmitri has recorded a number of recitals and complete operas on CD and DVD to much critical acclaim.

Estonian pianist Ivari Ilja has performed on many important concert stages throughout the world, as duo partner of such renowned singers as Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Irina Arkhipova, Maria Guleghina and Elena Zaremba. Since 2003, he has repeatedly toured with Dmitri Hvorostovsky to the USA, Europe, Hong Kong and Japan. Born in Tallinn, Ivari Ilja studied at the Estonian State Conservatoire as well as the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatoire.

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