RACHMANINOV Songs
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Composer or Director: Sergey Rachmaninov
Genre:
Vocal
Label: Hänssler
Magazine Review Date: 09/2016
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 57
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: HC16024
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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(6) Songs, Movement: No. 4, Sing not to me, beautiful maiden (wds. Pushkin) |
Sergey Rachmaninov, Composer
Elena Sukmanova, Piano Julia Sukmanova, Soprano Sergey Rachmaninov, Composer |
(6) Songs, Movement: No. 5, The dream (wds. Heine) |
Sergey Rachmaninov, Composer
Elena Sukmanova, Piano Julia Sukmanova, Soprano Sergey Rachmaninov, Composer |
(6) Songs, Movement: No. 4, I have grown fond of sorrow: The soldier's. Shevchenko) |
Sergey Rachmaninov, Composer
Elena Sukmanova, Piano Julia Sukmanova, Soprano Sergey Rachmaninov, Composer |
(6) Songs, Movement: No. 2, Child, thou art as beautiful as a flower (w |
Sergey Rachmaninov, Composer
Elena Sukmanova, Piano Julia Sukmanova, Soprano Sergey Rachmaninov, Composer |
(12) Songs, Movement: No. 11, Spring waters (wds. Tyutchev) |
Sergey Rachmaninov, Composer
Elena Sukmanova, Piano Julia Sukmanova, Soprano Sergey Rachmaninov, Composer |
(12) Songs, Movement: No. 9, She is as lovely as the moon (wds. Minsky) |
Sergey Rachmaninov, Composer
Elena Sukmanova, Piano Julia Sukmanova, Soprano Sergey Rachmaninov, Composer |
(12) Songs, Movement: No. 6, How everyone loves thee (wds. Tolstoy) |
Sergey Rachmaninov, Composer
Elena Sukmanova, Piano Julia Sukmanova, Soprano Sergey Rachmaninov, Composer |
(12) Songs, Movement: No. 1, I wait for thee (wds. Davidova) (1894) |
Sergey Rachmaninov, Composer
Elena Sukmanova, Piano Julia Sukmanova, Soprano Sergey Rachmaninov, Composer |
(12) Songs, Movement: No. 10, In my soul (wds. Minsky) |
Sergey Rachmaninov, Composer
Elena Sukmanova, Piano Julia Sukmanova, Soprano Sergey Rachmaninov, Composer |
(12) Songs, Movement: No. 3, For long there has been little consolationds. Fet) |
Sergey Rachmaninov, Composer
Elena Sukmanova, Piano Julia Sukmanova, Soprano Sergey Rachmaninov, Composer |
(12) Songs, Movement: No. 7, Believe me not, friend (wds. Tolstoy) |
Sergey Rachmaninov, Composer
Elena Sukmanova, Piano Julia Sukmanova, Soprano Sergey Rachmaninov, Composer |
(12) Songs, Movement: No. 2, The isle (wds. Shelley) |
Sergey Rachmaninov, Composer
Elena Sukmanova, Piano Julia Sukmanova, Soprano Sergey Rachmaninov, Composer |
(12) Songs, Movement: No. 4, I was with her (wds. Koltsov) |
Sergey Rachmaninov, Composer
Elena Sukmanova, Piano Julia Sukmanova, Soprano Sergey Rachmaninov, Composer |
(12) Songs, Movement: No. 8, Oh, do not grieve (wds. Apukhtin) |
Sergey Rachmaninov, Composer
Elena Sukmanova, Piano Julia Sukmanova, Soprano Sergey Rachmaninov, Composer |
(12) Songs, Movement: No. 12, 'Tis time (wds. Nadson) |
Sergey Rachmaninov, Composer
Elena Sukmanova, Piano Julia Sukmanova, Soprano Sergey Rachmaninov, Composer |
(15) Songs, Movement: No. 10, Before my window (wds. Galina) |
Sergey Rachmaninov, Composer
Elena Sukmanova, Piano Julia Sukmanova, Soprano Sergey Rachmaninov, Composer |
(12) Songs, Movement: No. 5, Lilacs (wds. Beketova) |
Sergey Rachmaninov, Composer
Elena Sukmanova, Piano Julia Sukmanova, Soprano Sergey Rachmaninov, Composer |
(12) Songs, Movement: No. 6, Fragment from Musset (trans Apukhtin) |
Sergey Rachmaninov, Composer
Elena Sukmanova, Piano Julia Sukmanova, Soprano Sergey Rachmaninov, Composer |
(15) Songs, Movement: No. 12, Night is mournful (wds. Bunin) |
Sergey Rachmaninov, Composer
Elena Sukmanova, Piano Julia Sukmanova, Soprano Sergey Rachmaninov, Composer |
(15) Songs, Movement: No. 7, To the children (wds. Khomyakov) |
Sergey Rachmaninov, Composer
Elena Sukmanova, Piano Julia Sukmanova, Soprano Sergey Rachmaninov, Composer |
(6) Songs, Movement: No. 3, Daisies (wds. Severianin) |
Sergey Rachmaninov, Composer
Elena Sukmanova, Piano Julia Sukmanova, Soprano Sergey Rachmaninov, Composer |
(6) Songs, Movement: No. 4, The rat-catcher (wds. Bryusov) |
Sergey Rachmaninov, Composer
Elena Sukmanova, Piano Julia Sukmanova, Soprano Sergey Rachmaninov, Composer |
(15) Songs, Movement: No. 15, All things pass by (wds. Rathaus) |
Sergey Rachmaninov, Composer
Elena Sukmanova, Piano Julia Sukmanova, Soprano Sergey Rachmaninov, Composer |
(6) Songs, Movement: No. 6, A-u! (wds. Bal'mont) |
Sergey Rachmaninov, Composer
Elena Sukmanova, Piano Julia Sukmanova, Soprano Sergey Rachmaninov, Composer |
Author: Mark Pullinger
Sukmanova’s recital mixes the familiar – ‘Spring Waters’, ‘Lilacs’ – with the lesser known. Eleven of the 12 Op 14 songs feature (No 5, ‘These summer nights’, is absent from the set) before a smattering from later sets. ‘She is as lovely as the noon’ (Op 14 No 9) comes off with a keen sense of Russian melancholy and ‘The Rat-Catcher’ (Op 38 No 4) contains lively characterisations, but her persistent vibrato and south-of-the-note intonation prevent much joy being derived. Sister Elena Sukmanova’s alert accompaniments provide the disc’s few highlights, the appealing piano sound warm and intimate.
Criminally, there are no song texts or translations, compounded by the fact that song titles are given (reasonably enough given the label’s provenance) in German, with English translations not always those most commonly used. The title of Op 4 No 4 is given as ‘O never sing to me again’ – a cruelly apt sentiment.
If it’s a soprano disc of Rachmaninov songs that particularly appeals, then Chandos’s selection featuring Joan Rodgers (drawn from volumes featuring a handful of voices) is very lovely; or indulge yourself with the complete songs on a delicious three-disc set from Elisabeth Söderström and Vladimir Ashkenazy.
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