Dmitri Hvorostovsky - Russian Folk Songs (CD)

Details: "Russian Folk Culture Is One the Richest I Know. In Recent Years, Some of It Lighter Aspects Have Been Commandeered By the Entertainment And Tourist Industries: With This Recording I Wanted to Go Backwards And Present Songs I Have So Often Heard - But Never Sung Myself - in a Direct And Unvarnished, Yet Classical Way. The Songs I Selected [for CD 1] I Feel Are Truly Russian - Many Are Melancholy, Most Are Bittersweet, with the Kind of Mocking Irony Which Counterbalances Sentimentality. Two I Decided to Sing Alone, in Honor of Chaliapin, But in My Own Way. For the Rest of This Program I Was Privileged to Work with the Magnificent Ossipov Russian Folk Orchestra, Who Live And Breathe This Music. They Made Me Feel a Welcome Guest in Repertoire Far from My Operatic Home, But Very Close to My Heart. " Dmitri Hvorostovsky This Double CD Set Returns Two Popular CDs to the Catalogue - Hvorostovsky Performing Songs with Orchestra (CD 1) And with Choir (CD 2). Winner of the Cardiff Singer of the World, He Has Gone on to Give Great Performances in Operas By Verdi And Is Unequalled in the Russian Baritone Opera Repertoire Today. This Repertoire Is Dear to His Heart And in It He Invests Every Ounce of Artistry That Marks His Performances on the Operatic Stage And the Concert Platform. Artists: Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Ossipov Russian Folk Orchestra / Nikolai Kalinin (CD 1), St. Petersburg Chamber Choir / Nikolai Korniev (CD 2)

Tracklist:

1. O the Little Box Is Full Folk Song (A.K.A. 'Karabejinki')
2. Vdol'pa Ulitse (A Snowstorm Blows) Folk Song
3. Ne Veljat Mase Za Rek - Za Recenku Chodit' (They Don't Let Masha Go Down By the Brook) Folk Song (A.K.A. 'Mashenka')
4. Proshchai Radost (Farewell Joy)
5. Kamarinskaya Folk Song
6. Ah Ty Dushechka (Ah Little Darling)
7. F Chas Kagda Mertsan'ja (At the Time When the Stars) Folk Song (A.K.A. 'Svidan'je')
8. Vyhazhu Adin Ja Na Darogu (I Walk Out Onto the Path Alone)
9. Plyaska Folk Song
10. Kagda Dusha Folk Song (A.K.A. 'Elegia')
11. O Jesli B Mog Ja Vyrazit (Oh If My Words Could Convey)
12. Dark Eyes ('Ochi Chornye' 'Black Eyes') Folk Song
13. Lipa (The Lime Tree) Folk Song
14. Ne Adna Vo Pole Daroshka (Not Just One Path)
15. Nochenka (Little Night)
16. Kak Grusna Tumanna Krugom (How Dismal and Misty) Folk Song (A.K.A. 'Jamsh'ik')
17. Kalinka (Little Snowfall) Folk Song
18. Barinya (Fancy Lady) Folk Song
19. Ach Ti Slishesh LI (Ah! Do You Hear My Dearest Friend)
20. Na Goryshkye (On the Little Mountain)
21. Round Dance (Khorovodnaya)
22. Shto Zatumanilas (Why Have You Misted Over Clear Sunset?)
23. Ya Vstretil Vas (When I Met You) Song
24. The Little Willow (Ivoushka)
25. Kak Meneya Mladu (How Was I a Tender Young Maiden)
26. Kachelniye (Rhyming Song)
27. Uch Ti Polye (Ah You Field)
28. Shto Bye Belaya Berioza (As Never White Birch Tree)
29. Nye Slishna Shuma Gorodskovo (The Noise of the Town Cannot Be Heard)
30. Vtyomnon Lesye (In the Dark Forest)
31. Uch Kak Pal Tuman (Already the Fog Has Descended)
32. Ach VI Sini (Ah Shady Spot)
33. Vyeniki (Birch-Broom)
34. Vyhazhu Adin Ja Na Darogu (I Walk Out Onto the Path Alone)