Valentina Levko: Star of the Bolshoi - SBĚRATELSKÁ EDICE (11CD)

CD1 Johann Sebastian Bach 1685–1750 1 Erbarme dich (St. Matthew Passion BWV244) 7’42 Mark Lubotsky violin Henry Purcell 1659–1695 2 When I am laid in earth (Dido and Aeneas, Act 3) 3’57 attrib. Alessandro Stradella 1639–1682 3 Pietà, Signore 8’32 Andrea Falconieri 1585–1656 4 Bella rosa 2’30 Giovanni Battista Bononcini 1670–1747 5 Vado ben spesso 3’36 George Frideric Handel 1685–1759 6 Lascia ch’io pianga (Rinaldo) 6’07 7 Dignare (Dettingen Te Deum) 3’06 8 Ombra mai fu (Serse) 4’17 9 Degg’io morir, o stelle* (Siroe) 7’01 Johann Sebastian Bach 10 Du lieber Heiland du…Buss und Reu* (St. Matthew Passion BWV244) 6’06 11 Bereite dich Zion* (Cantata No.4, Christmas Oratorio BWV246) 5’29 Mass in B minor BWV232 12 Qui sedes 5’44 13 Agnus dei 7’07 Leonardo Vinci 1696–1730 formerly attrib. Pergolesi 14 Confusa, smarrita (Catone in Utica) 4’54 Alessandro Parisotti 1853–1913 formerly attrib. Pergolesi 15 Se tu m’ami Valentina levko mezzo‐soprano Moscow Philharmonic Chamber Ensemble (2–7, 9–11, 15) Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra (1, 8, 12–14) conducted by Adolf Bruk (1, 14), Juozas Domarkas (9–11), Alexander Lazarev (12–13) Total time: 79’32 CD2 Franz Schubert 1797–1828 1 Aufenthalt (Schwanengesang D957 No.5 – Rellstab) 4’02 2 Die Forelle D550 (Schubert) 2’22 3 Erlkönig D328 (Goethe) 4’23 4 Gretchen am Spinnrade D118* (Goethe) 3’39 5 Im Frühling D882*† (Schultze) 4’05 6 Ave Maria D839* (Scott, trans. Storck) 5’10 Johannes Brahms 1833–1897 7 Gestillte sehnsucht Op.91 No.1 (Rückert) 6’43 8 Geistliches Wiegenlied Op.91 No.2* (Geibel) 6’23 Jules Massenet 1842–1912 9 Elégie* (Gallet) 3’30 Georges Bizet 1838–1875 10 Si vous amez* (Gille) 4’17 11 Ouvre ton coeur a l’amour* (Ivan IV) 2’35 Ottorino Respighi 1879–1936 12 E se un giorno tornasse (Maeterlinck in Russian) 3’04 13 Echo (in Russian) 3’12 Isaac Albéniz 1860–1909 14 Tango (Ferraris/Pardo) 2’50 Enrique Granados 1867–1916 Tonadillas al estilo antiguo (Periquet) 15 No.1 Oh, muerte cruel! 2’47 16 No.2 Ay, majo de mi vida, no, no, tu no has muerto 2’36 17 No.3 De aquel majo amante 3’52 Manuel de Falla 1876–1946 Siete canciones populares españolas (Sierra) 18 No.1 El paño moruno 1’26 19 No.2 Seguidilla Murciana 1’17 20 No.3 Asturiana 2’29 21 No.4 Jota 3’14 22 No.5 Nana 1’53 23 No.6 Canción 1’23 24 No.7 Polo 1’44 Total time 79’09 Valentina levko mezzo‐soprano Grigory Nosenko cor anglais (16) ∙ Georgy Bezrukov viola (7–8) Alexander Malter (9–11) Liya Mogilevskaya (4, 6, 14), Vera Podolskaya (12–13), Julia Selivokhina (15–17), Irina Sherbina (5), Grigory Zinger (1–3, 7–8, 18–24) piano CD3 Gioachino Rossini 1792–1868 1 Ah, quel giorno ognor rammento (Semiramide, Act 1) 7’01 Radio‐Sinfonie‐Orchester Berlin / Kurt Masur Amilcare Ponchielli 1834–1886 2 Voce di donna o di angelo (La Gioconda, Act 1) 4’07 Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra / Mark Ermler Giuseppe Verdi 1813–1901 3 Stride la vampa (Il trovatore, Act 2) 3’04 Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra / Mark Ermler Benedetto Marcello 1686–1739 4 Quella fiamma che m’accende 5’04 Moscow Philharmonic Chamber Ensemble Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756–1791 5 Ombra felice K255 7’40 Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra / Adolf Bruk Gustav Mahler 1860–1911 6 O Mensch, gib acht (Symphony No.3 – Nietzsche, in Russian) 8’21 Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra / Kirill Kondrashin Thibaut IV de Champagne 1201–1253 (arr. Borisovsky) 7 Song of the Rose (in Russian) 6’04 8 Shepherd Boy (in Russian) 2’48 Anna Litvinenko piano ∙ Igor Boguslavsky viola Jean‐Paul Égide Martini 1714–1816 9 Plaisir d’amour (de Florian) 4’12 Grigory Zinger harpsichord / Moscow Philharmonic Chamber Ensemble Georges Bizet 1838–1875 10 Habanera (Carmen) 4’10 Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra / Mark Ermler Camille Saint‐Saëns 1835–1921 Samson et Dalila 11 Printemps qui commence (Act 1) 5’21 Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra / Juozas Domarkas 12 Amour! Viens aider ma presence (Act 2) 4’49 13 Mon coeur s’ouvre à ta voix (Act 2) 5’56 Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra / Mark Ermler 14 Amour! Viens aider ma presence 4’22 15 Mon coeur s’ouvre à ta voix (in Russian) 5’51 Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra / Gennady Rozhdestvensky Valentina levko mezzo‐soprano Total time 78’58 CD4 Mikhail Glinka 1804–1857 1 Vanya’s Aria (Ivan Susanin, Act 4) 7’30 Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra / Mark Ermler 2 Ratmir’s Aria (Ruslan and Ludmila, Act 3) 11’19 Radio‐Sinfonie‐Orchester Berlin / Kurt Masur 3 Romance of Ratmir (Ruslan and Ludmila, Act 5) 7’28 Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra / Mark Ermler Alexander Serov 1820–1871 4 Varangian Ballad (Rogneda, Act 4) 3’12 Ossipov State Russian Folk Orchestra / Sergei Kolobkov Modest Mussorgsky 1839–1881 5 O mysterious forces (Marfa’s Prophecy – Khovanshchina, Act 2) 5’29 Radio‐Sinfonie‐Orchester Berlin / Kurt Masur 6 A girl went out walking in the fields and marshes (Marfa’s aria – Khovanshchina, Act 3) 4’08 Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra / Mark Ermler Nikolai Rimsky‐Korsakov 1844–1908 7 Third song of Lel (The Snow Maiden) 3’34 Moscow State Philharmonic Orchestra / Gennady Rozhdestvensky The Tsar’s Bride 8 Lyubasha’s Song (Act 1) 4’39 Grigory Zinger piano 9 Scene of Lubasha and Gryaznoy (Act 2) 8’35 10 Lyubasha’s Aria 3’23 Mikhail Kiselev baritone (9) Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra / Boris Khaikin Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840–1893 11 Countess’s Scene (The Queen of Spades, Act 2) 7’10 Female choir and Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra / Mark Ermler Alexander Borodin 1833–1887 Prince Igor, Act 2 12 The daylight dies (Konchakovna’s Cavatina) 6’01 13 Is that you, my Vladimir? (Duet of Konchakovna and Vladimir) 5’46 Ivan Kozlovsky tenor, Female choir and Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra / Boris Khaikin Total time 78’19 CD5 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840–1893 1 We sat together Op.73 No.3 (Rathauz) 2’59 2 The sun has faded Op.73 No.4 (Rathauz) 2’11 3 Night (The candle is flickering) Op.73 No.2 (Rathauz) 3’40 4 He loved me so Op.28 No.4 (Girarden, trans. Apukhtin) 3’21 5 Amid the din of the ball Op.38 No.3 (Tolstoy) 2’21 6 A Gypsy’s song Op.60 No.7 (Polonski) 3’15 7 Does the day reign? Op.47 No.6 (Apukhtin) 3’21 8 No, only one… Op.6 No.6 (Goethe, trans. Mey) 3’10 9 The cornfields yellow Op.57 No.2 (Tolstoy) 3’20 10 Was I not a blade of grass? Op.47 No.7 (Surikov) 6’05 11 Not a word, Oh my friend Op.6 No.2 (Gartman, trans. Plescheyev) 3’30 12 If only I had known Op.47 No.1 (Tolstoy) 4’54 13 Serenade Op.63 No.6 (Romanov) 3’14 14 Reconciliation Op.25 No.1 (Scherbina) 5’13 Valentina Levko mezzo‐soprano Grigory Zinger piano Total time 50’20 CD6 Sergei Rachmaninov 1873–1943 1 She is as lovely as the noon Op.14 No.9 (Minsky) 2’54 2 The Isle Op.14 No.2 (Balmont, after Shelley) 2’21 3 Oh no, I beg you, forsake me not Op.4 No.1 (Merezhkovsky) 2’06 4 The Waterlily Op.8 No.1 (Heine, trans. Plescheyev) 1’45 5 Twilight Op.21 No.3 (Guiot, trans. Tkhorzhevsky) 2’12 6 The migrant wind Op.34 No.4 (Balmont) 2’56 7 Night is mournful Op.26 No.12 (Bunin) 2’31 8 The Ring Op.26 No.14 (Koltsov) 3’35 9 Brooding Op.8 No.3 (Plescheyev, from Taras Shevchenko) 3’33 10 Believe me not, friend Op.14 No.7 (Tolstoy) 1’49 11 Night (Rathauz) 3’41 12 For long there has been little consolation in love Op.14 No.3 (Fet) 1’42 13 A Prayer Op.8 No.6 (Heine, trans. Plescheyev) 3’25 14 You took all I had away Op.26 No.2 (Tyutchev) 1’15 15 Oh, do not grieve Op.14 No.8 (Apukhtin) 3’14 16 Before the Icon Op.21 No.10 (Golenischev‐Kutuzov) 4’03 17 In the silence of the secret night Op.4 No.3 (Fet) Songs by Rachmaninov 2’49 Valentina Levko mezzo‐soprano Alexander Malter (14), Vera Podolskaya (18), Julia Selivokhina (15), Grigory Zinger piano Total time 46’00 CD7 Alexei Shishkin 1 No, not you ardently I love (Lermontov) 4’53 Mikhail Yakovlev 1798–1868 2 Elegy (Delvig) 4’21 Tatyana Tolstaya c. 1860–1918 3 I shall tell you nothing (Fet) 2’35 Arkady Abaza 1845–1915 4 Morning’s fog (Turgenev) 3’53 Tatyana Tolstaya c.1860–1918 5 All is quiet (Tolstaya) 3’07 Pyotr Bulakhov 1882–1885 6 Prayer (Lermontov) 3’23 Vladimir Sokolov 1830–1890 7 Step away 3’12 Alexander Blumental‐Tamarin 1859–1911 8 The plane‐trees are slumbering (Meisels) 3’45 César Cui 1835–1918 9 I remember the evening (Zhandr) 1’52 Nikolai Shishkin 1845–1911 10 Bright is the night (Prigozhy) 3’57 Alfonso Guercia 1831–1890 11 No, he didn’t love me 4’04 Pyotr Bulakhov 12 Not for nothing I was afraid meeting you 3’32 Alexander Obukhov 13 Gate (Obukhov) 4’22 Boris Borisov 1873–1939 14 Stars in the sky (Diterikhs) arr. Yakov Prigozhy 1840–1920 3’45 15 Why does the heart beat so loud? 3’30 Total time 54’00 Valentina Levko mezzo‐soprano Fedor Kondenko (7, 8, 11, 14), Vladimir Sazonov (3) guitar Vera Podolskaya piano (9) ∙ Folk Quintet (12) Osipov State Russian Folk Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Fedoseyev (2, 5, 6, 10, 13, 15) Sergei Kolobkov (1, 4) CD8 Alexei Verstovsky 1799–1862 1 The Little Bell (F. Glinka) 3’11 Mili Balakirev 1837–1910 2 Embrace me, kiss me (Koltsov) 2’36 Alexander Varlamov 1801–1848 3 I feel sorry for you 3’09 4 Oh, do not kiss me 1’33 Alexander Gurilyov 1803–1858 5 Girl’s Sorrow (Koltsov) 4’30 Pyotr Bulakhov 1822–1885 6 And this world has no eyes 2’13 7 Do not stir up memories (Davidov) 4’23 Alexander Diubiuk 1812–1898 8 Do not scold me (Razorenov) 3’54 Alexei Verstovsky 9 The Old Husband (Gipsy song after Pushkin) 2’21 Pyotr Bulakhov 10 Russian Carriage‐and‐Three (Viazemsky) 2’36 Alexander Varlamov 11 Red Sarafan (Tsyganov) 3’31 Mikhail Glinka 1804–1857 12 Song of Ilinichna (Music for a Tragedy by Nestor Kukolnik ‘Count Kholmski’) 1’53 13 Oh, if I had known (Gypsy Song – Dmitriev) 4’57 Mili Balakirev 14 I loved him (Koltsov) 2’56 Alexander Varlamov 15 Reminder 5’56 Boris Sheremetev 16 I loved you (Pushkin) 3’27 Total time 53’16 Valentina Levko mezzo‐soprano Ossipov State Russian Folk Orchestra conducted by Nikolay Nekrasov (2), Vladimir Fedoseyev (3, 5, 7, 16), Sergei Kolobkov CD9 1 The Old Lime Tree arr. Sergei Pogrebov 4’51 2 Matushka‐matushka arr. Alexander Varlamov 1801–1848 2’41 3 Why do you sit up until midnight? 3’29 4 Why are you looking at the road? (Nekrasov) arr. Vera Gorodovskaya 4’01 5 Lost among high wheat 4’53 6 Bush of a guelder‐rose at a valley 4’36 7 Oh, you wide steppes arr. Vera Gorodovskaya 1919–1999 4’22 8 Across blue skies the clouds drift arr. Sergei Rachmaninov 1873–1943 5’16 9 Belilitzi, rumyanitzi arr. Vera Podolskaya 4’05 10 A dark cherry shawl arr. Sergei Prokofiev 1891–1953 4’17 11 Green Grove arr. Sergei Prokofiev 3’54 12 My sweet dreams 3’37 13 Don’t blame me 3’36 14 Lost roads 3’35 15 Remember as I a young girl was (Grebenka) 4’54 16 Walled till dark 3’19 Ekaterina Gorina 1908–1984 17 Over the fields (Roslavlev) 2’11 Valentina Levko mezzo‐soprano Georgy Fedorenko piano (9) Ossipov State Russian Folk Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Fedoseyev (7, 11), Vitaly Gnutov (10), Sergei Kolobkov Total time: 67’46 CD10 Sergei Prokofiev 1891–1953 1 Incantation of Water and Fire (trans. Balmont) (Balmont settings, No.1) 2’28 Ivan the Terrible (Lugovskoy) 2 Ocean – Sea 2’48 3 Song about the Beaver 3’23 Russian State Symphony Orchestra / Abram Stasevitch (2–3) Georgy Sviridov 1915–1998 4 Russian Song 3’28 5 Serenade from Ruy Blas (Hugo, trans. Schepkina‐Kupernik) 2’27 Strana Ottsov (The Land of our Fathers) excerpts (Isaakyan) 6 No.1 Sufferings of love 2’50 7 No.2 Be afraid of black eyes 2’11 8 No.3 Exile 3’11 9 No.4 A smoke of Fatherland 2’50 Irina Sherbina piano (6–9) Osipov State Russian Folk Orchestra conducted by Nikolai Kalinin (4), Gazis Dugashev (5) Dmitri Kabalevsky 1904–1987 10 Three Octaves (Gamzatov) dedicated to Valentina Levko 6’27 Dmitry Kabalevsky piano Vladimir Vlasov 1903–1986 11 In deep dark woods (transcr. Pushkin) 3’00 Osipov State Russian Folk Orchestra / Gazis Dugashev Alexander Dolukhanian 1910–1968 12 The Motherland readied its son (Lisyansky) 3’06 13 Ancient Russian Fortress (Lisyansky) 3’38 Moscow Radio Variety Orchestra Emin Khachaturian Mark Fradkin 1914–1990 14 The Years Fly (from The Volunteers) (Dolmatovsky) 3’16 15 Song of Love (from A Simple Story) (Dorizo) 3’50 Vladimir Sazonov, Vasily Ryskov guitars (14) Osipov State Russian Folk Orchestra Vitaly Gnutov (15) Nina Illutovich 1906–1972 16 Reminiscence (Fadeeva) 3’04 Concert Ensemble / Nikolai Misailov Alexander Fliarkovsky b.1931 17 Song of Words (R. Rozhdestvensky) 3’07 18 Be the One (R. Rozhdestvensky) 3’41 Yuri Strzhelinsky 19 Vocalise 2’17 20 Snowfall (Chebotariov) 3’04 David Toradze 1922–1983 21 Song of a young mother 5’56 Josef Bedersky violin Yevgeni Ptichkin 1930–1993 22 May I tell you something (Plyatztovsky) 4’36 Giya Kancheli b.1935 23 Sleeping mountains (trans. Gaykovich) 4’37 Moscow Radio Variety Orchestra / Yuri Silantyev (17–23) Total time 79’32 CD11 arr. E. Tomites 1 Malagueña (Spanish) 3’08 arr. L. Almeida 1844–1908 2 The Hunter (Portuguese) 2’25 arr. L. Greg 3 Havana Song (in Russian) (Greg, trans. Gorchakova) 3’41 arr. Pablo Sarasate 1844–1908 4 Black fan (in Russian) 1’38 Vincenzo di Chiara 1835–1918 5 La spagnola (in Italian) 3’58 György Behár 6 Cranes fly (in Russian) 3’25 arr. G. Bentok 7 On Alpine slopes Austrian folk song (Austrian song in Russian) 3’10 arr. Khorbovsky 8 Tirol tango (Polish) 3’11 9 Waters ripple and flow (Czech) 3’03 arr. Marian Koval 1907–1971 10 Marosh (Hungarian song in Russian) 2’32 arr. August Octave Crémieux 1872–1949 11 Lorsque tout est fini (French) 3’54 12 No, I regret nothing (Italian) 3’47 13 Neapolitan tarantella (Italian) 2’13 Luigi Arditi 1822–1903 14 Il bacio (Italian) 3’17 Total time 43’29 Valentina Levko mezzo‐soprano Osipov State Russian Folk Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Fedoseyev (2,4,5,7–10,12–14), Nikolai Nekrasov (11) Moscow Radio Variety Orchestra / Yuri Silantyev (1, 6) Concert ensemble / Nikolai Misailov (3) Číslo produktu:BRIL9406 EAN kód:5029365940627 Vydavatel:BRILLIANT CLASSICS Nosič:CD Audio Zvuk:REMASTERED Format / Balení:11CD