Operatic superstar Dmitri Hvorostovsky has become the supreme interpreter of the Russian Romance, with its rich resource of music and poetry. This album offers seventeen songs, or “romances,” all composed to texts from works of Alexander Pushkin, Russia’s greatest poet. The composers represented here have helped define the true meaning of the Russian Romance, and have created some of the world’s greatest song literature. Choosing only romances inspired by Pushkin texts, Hvorostovsky has upped the ante to make a musical statement no other singer has attempted.

Tracks:

GLINKA
I Recall aWonderful Moment
Declaration
The Fire of Longing Burns in My Heart
The Night Zephyr

DARGOMYZHSKIY
The Youth and the Maiden

BORODIN
For the Shores of Thy Far Native Land

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
The Clouds Begin to Scatter Op. 42 No. 3
On the Hills of Georgia Op. 3, No. 4

CUI
The Statue at Tsarskoye Selo, Op. 57 No. 17
I loved you

MEDTNER
Gone Are my Heart’s Desires, Op. 3, No. 2
Winter Evening (The Snowstorm Covers the Sky with Darkness) Op. 13, No. 1
To a Dreamer

VLASOV
To the Fountain of Bakhchisarai Palace

TCHAIKOVSKY
Nightingale, Op. 60, No. 4

RACHMANINOV
Don’t Sing To Me, Fair Maiden, Op. 4 No. 4

SVIRIDOV
The Crimson Forest Sheds its Attire