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Dmitri Hvorostovsky. (Recital).(I Met You, My Love)(Sound Recording Review)
[] "I MET YOU, MY LOVE" Old Russian Romances. Style of Five, Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Orbelian. Transliterated texts and translations. Delos 3289
Dmitri Hvorostovsky returns to the rich canon of Russian semiclassical song with a fine collection that should please his fans and attract new ones to the genre itself. Russia boasts a large reservoir of domestic "romansy" suitable for amateur performers and trained vocalists alike. Not folk songs, but penned by popular rather than classical composers, they feature straightforwardly pleasing melodies, often in minor keys befitting the usual subject material: lost love. Strophic in structure, they frequently utilize waltz rhythms--often slowed ones, but Delos thoughtfully varies the nineteen tracks here with a few uptempo numbers. Pushkin, Lermontov and Turgenev rub shoulders with lesser wordsmiths and anonymous lyricists. The booklet contains an exemplary essay by Maya Pritsker, situating the songs musically and historically.
The baritone's stirring 1999 Kalinka (Philips 456399) deployed as backup the St. Petersburg Chamber Choir, in arrangements by Rimsky-Korsakov and Shostakovich, among others. Hvorostovsky here explores similar turf in a different sound world, admirably repeating only one song (the new disc's title track). Arranger Evgeny Stetsyuk sometimes lays on the orchestrations a bit thick and loud, but there are ...
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