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Russian Settings of Robert Burns
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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 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

Gyorgy Sviridov, composer

Edison Denisov

Edison Denisov, composer

Dmitry Shostakovich

Dmitry Shostakovich, composer

Yuri Levitin

Yuri Levitin, composer

Tikhon Khrennikov

Tikhon Khrennikov, composer

Vassily Savenko

Vassily Savenko, bass-baritone

Alexander Blok

Alexander Blok, piano

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