Le Coq d'Or (The Golden Cockerel; Zolotoy petushok), opera in 3 acts with a prologue & epilogue: Hymn to the Sun ("Otvet mne, zorkoye svetilo")
Le Coq d'Or (The Golden Cockerel; Zolotoy petushok), opera in 3 acts with a prologue & epilogue: The Queen of Shemakha's Seduction Aria ("Sbroshu chopornyye tkani")
How fair this spot, song for voice & piano, Op. 21/7
Eastern Song: The nightingale enslaved by the rose (Vostochnïy romans), song for voice and piano, Op. 2/2
The Tatar-born, Russian soprano Aida Garifullina, seemingly named with an operatic career in mind, has emerged as a promising, rising star in the mid-2010s, and she already had a strong record of top-level performances under her belt when this, her debut album, appeared in 2017. Garifullina studied in Vienna with Anna Moffo's teacher and has said she admired Moffo's way with Russian music. There's a bit of a resemblance, and in the center of the program, consisting of Russian operatic arias and songs arranged for orchestra, ...
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The Tatar-born, Russian soprano Aida Garifullina, seemingly named with an operatic career in mind, has emerged as a promising, rising star in the mid-2010s, and she already had a strong record of top-level performances under her belt when this, her debut album, appeared in 2017. Garifullina studied in Vienna with Anna Moffo's teacher and has said she admired Moffo's way with Russian music. There's a bit of a resemblance, and in the center of the program, consisting of Russian operatic arias and songs arranged for orchestra, Garifullina is very strong indeed. In the Rachmaninov Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14, she will hold the attention even of those who have heard this work sung by countless sopranos. The program inclines toward Eastern influences, apparently in recognition of Garifullina's background, and this works well: she has a lyric voice with a hint of something deeper and more melancholy, and the results are often quite affecting. Sample the "Song of India" from Rimsky-Korsakov's Sadko (track 3), not...
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