The Russian Connection named in the subtitle of this release by soprano Louise Alder is not some kind of Russian musical influence, but a Russian connection in Alder's life: her family came from Odessa, fled during World War I, and spoke all the languages represented on the album with the except for Swedish. This multinational group of songs, mostly not in the first language of the composers (Swedish, Sibelius' first language, is again one exception), is something of a tour de force on the part of Alder, who not only had to ...
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The Russian Connection named in the subtitle of this release by soprano Louise Alder is not some kind of Russian musical influence, but a Russian connection in Alder's life: her family came from Odessa, fled during World War I, and spoke all the languages represented on the album with the except for Swedish. This multinational group of songs, mostly not in the first language of the composers (Swedish, Sibelius' first language, is again one exception), is something of a tour de force on the part of Alder, who not only had to sing in different languages but to master various national styles of singing and song. She has been known for the lighter textures of Mozart and the like, but although she's no Galina Vishnevskaya, she manages the combination of strong and intimate in the Six Songs, Op. 38, of Rachmaninov. The four Sibelius songs, only two from a single set, are interesting in themselves, quite different in style from his early orchestral music of the same period. Alder shifts gears completely for...
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Benjamin Britten; Edvard Grieg; Jean Sibelius; Nikolay Medtner; Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky; Sergey Rachmaninov. New. New in new packaging. USA Orders only! Brand New product! please allow delivery times of 3-7 business days within the USA. US orders only please.
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