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ROMANCE.(Review)
Sergej Larin
[] "ROMANCE" Western Poets in Russian Music, Volume II. Songs by Dargomyzhsky, Bortnyansky, Tchaikovsky, Glinka, Gliere, Rubinstein and others; Bekova, piano. Texts and translations. Chandos 9841 (Koch, dist.)
Chandos is pairing star tenor Larin and mannequin-pretty pianist Eleonora Bekova in a whole series of Russian recital discs. Romance and last year's Dream form a two-part anthology of tuneful Russian music written and performed entirely in French, German and Italian. Pre-Revolutionary Russians knew other languages well, but something odd happened when the nine composers on this disc sat down to set Western European poems. From Dmitri Bortnyansky in the 1790s to Nikolai Medtner in the twentieth century, they tend to match non-Russian texts with imitations of non-Russian music. Glinka's bel canto exercises, reverential bows to Schubert or Schumann by Kalinnikov and Tchaikovsky, and multiple stabs at melodies by A. S. Dargomyzhsky or Cesar Cui suggest the classroom, pastiche, formula. The composers take few liberties with the steadfast stanza structure of the verse, applying a narrow rhythmic and harmonic palette in a display of respect turning to caution. Rubinstein's darker mood offers a refreshing ...
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