Russian Settings of Robert Burns
Various Composers

Catalogue Number: TOCC0039
EAN: 5060113440396
Release Date: 12 January 2009
Duration: 59:56

DENISOV, Edison:
Two Songs to Verses by Robert Burns
KHRENNIKOV, Tikhon:
Five Songs to Verses by Robert Burns Nos. 1, 2 & 5
LEVITIN, Yuri:
Song-Cycle to Verses by Robert Burns
SHOSTAKOVICH, Dmitry:
Six Romances for Bass Nos. 2-4
SVIRIDOV, Gyorgy:
Songs to Verses by Robert Burns

Vassily Savenko, bass-baritone
Alexander Blok, piano

Robert Burns enjoyed a particular following in both Imperial and Soviet Russia as an idealised ‘people’s poet’. In the mid-twentieth century Samuel Marshak’s best-selling translations of Burns came to rival Pushkin in popularity and provided a fresh stimulus to Soviet composers – some of whom may have seen Burns’ radical views as a useful cloak for their own non-conformist views.

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Track Listing, MP3 Downloads & Streaming Samples

Track No.	Track Title/Details	Duration	Sample	Download Track
	Songs to Verses by Robert Burns (1955) Gyorgy Sviridov, composer Vassily Savenko, bass-baritone Alexander Blok, piano	31:59
1	No. 1: ‘Davno li tsvel zeleniy dol’ (‘The burgeoning dale was lately green’: ‘The Winter of Life’)	5:19
2	No. 2: ‘Vozvrashcheniye soldata’ (‘The Return of the Soldier’: ‘The Sodger’s Return’)	3:12
3	No. 3: ‘John Anderson’ (‘John Anderson, my Jo’)	4:19
4	No. 4: ‘Robin’ (‘Rantin’, Rovin’ Robin’)	1:42
5	No. 5: ‘Gorsky paren’ (‘Highland Laddie’)	2:38
6	No. 6: ‘Findlay’ (‘Wha Is That At My Bower-Door?’)	3:21
7	No. 7: ‘Vsiu zemliu tmoy zavoloklo’ (‘There Is Darkness Over All the Land’: ‘Guidwife, Count the Lawin’)	3:51
8	No. 8: ‘Proshchay’ (‘Farewell’: ‘A Red, Red Rose’)	3:46
9	No. 9: ‘Chestnaya bednost’ (‘Honest Poverty’: ‘A Man’s A Man For A’ That’)	3:51
	Two Songs to Verses by Robert Burns (1951) Edison Denisov, composer Vassily Savenko, bass-baritone Alexander Blok, piano (first recording)	3:23
10	No. 1: Malen’kaya ballada (‘A Little Ballad’: ‘There Was a Bonnie Lass’)	2:03
11	No. 2: ‘Jenny’ (‘Comin thro’ the Rye’)	1:20
	Three Songs from Six Romances for Bass, Op. 62 (1942) Dmitry Shostakovich, composer Vassily Savenko, bass-baritone Alexander Blok, piano	7:02
12	No. 2: ‘V polyakh, pod snegom i dozhdyom’ (‘In Snow-girt Fields’: ‘O, Wert Thou In The Cauld Blast’)	3:13
13	No. 3: ‘McPherson pered kazn’yu’ (‘McPherson before his Execution’: ‘McPherson’s Farewell’)	2:05
14	No. 4: ‘Jenny’ (‘Comin thro’ the Rye’)	1:44
	Song-Cycle to Verses by Robert Burns, Op. 51 (1956) Yuri Levitin, composer Vassily Savenko, bass-baritone Alexander Blok, piano (first recording)	10:55
15	No. 1: ‘Lyubov’ (‘Love’: ‘A Red, Red Rose’)	2:00
16	No. 2: ‘John Anderson’ (‘John Anderson, my Jo’)	2:02
17	No. 3: ‘Shelagh O’Neil’	1:53
18	No. 4: ‘Gde-to v peshchere’ (‘Somewhere in a cave’: ‘Had I a Cave’)	3:17
19	No. 5: ‘Iz vsekh vetrov’ (‘Of all winds’: ‘Of A’ the Airts’)	1:43
	Three Songs from Five Songs to Verses by Robert Burns (1944) Tikhon Khrennikov, composer Vassily Savenko, bass-baritone Alexander Blok, piano (first recording)	6:37
20	No. 1: ‘Zastol’naya’ (‘A Toast’: ‘Auld Lang Syne’)	2:45
21	No. 2: ‘Luchshy paren’ (‘The Bonniest Lad’: ‘Highland Laddie’)	1:58
22	No. 5: ‘V polyakh, pod snegom i dozhdyom’ (‘In Snow-girt Fields’: ‘O, Wert Thou In The Cauld Blast’)	1:54

Artists

Gyorgy Sviridov, composer

Edison Denisov, composer

Dmitry Shostakovich, composer

Yuri Levitin, composer

Tikhon Khrennikov, composer

Vassily Savenko, bass-baritone

Alexander Blok, piano