Elena Obraztsova - Schumann, Mahler - Romances (Remastered) (2017/2020) [Official Digital Download 24/88]

The Russian mezzo-soprano, Elena [Yelena] Obraztsova Elena [Yelena] Vassilievna Obraztsova). Memories of Elena’s childhood are connected to war and blockade. Her father left for the front and the family remained in besieged Leningrad up to the end of winter of 1942. Later, Elena, her mother and grandmother were evacuated across Ladoga lake to a small town Ustjuzhnu of the Vologda area where they lived until summer of 1945. After war living was hard and difficult. Her father returned after a year, her mother had to work and Elena was given to a kindergarten. At the age of 5 Elena started singing. She sang what she heard, mainly Strauss's waltzes. As a schoolgirl she had her first lessons in music – she sang for herself or listened to recordings. She spent hours sitting at a loudspeaker during opera transmissions. Since childhood music was the central point of her life. She liked domestic musical evenings where also her father, an engineer by profession, performed: he was an excellent baritone and besides he played violin. From a business trip to Italy he brought a big collection of recordings from which the little girl got acquainted with voices of the well-known singers of that time - Beniamino Gigli, Caruso, Galli-Curzi.

TRACKLIST

1. Elena Obraztsova - Frauenliebe und-leben, Op. 42: I. Seit ich ihn gesehen
2. Elena Obraztsova - Frauenliebe und-leben, Op. 42: II. Er, der Herrlichste von allen
3. Elena Obraztsova - Frauenliebe und-leben, Op. 42: III. Ich kann's nicht fassen
4. Elena Obraztsova - Frauenliebe und-leben, Op. 42: IV. Du Ring an meinem Finger
5. Elena Obraztsova - Frauenliebe und-leben, Op. 42: V. Helft mir, ihr Schwestern
6. Elena Obraztsova - Frauenliebe und-leben, Op. 42: VI. Süsser Freund, du blickest
7. Elena Obraztsova - Frauenliebe und-leben, Op. 42: VII. An meinem Herzen
8. Elena Obraztsova - Frauenliebe und-leben, Op. 42: VIII. Nun hast du mir der ersten Schmerz getan
9. Elena Obraztsova - Liederkreis, Op. 39: V. Mondnacht
10. Elena Obraztsova - Myrthen, Op. 25: VII. Die Lotosblume
11. Elena Obraztsova - 12 Gedichte, Op. 35: VIII. Stille Liebe
12. Elena Obraztsova - 12 Gedichte, Op. 35: X. Stille Tränen
13. Elena Obraztsova - 6 Gedichte von N. Lenau und Requiem, Op. 90: II. Meine Rose
14. Elena Obraztsova - Kindertotenlieder: I. Nun will die Sonn' so hell aufgeh'n
15. Elena Obraztsova - Kindertotenlieder: II. Nun seh' ich wohl, warum so dunkle Flammen
16. Elena Obraztsova - Kindertotenlieder: III. Wenn dein Mütterlein
17. Elena Obraztsova - Kindertotenlieder: IV. Oft denk' ich, sie sind nur ausgegangen
18. Elena Obraztsova - Kindertotenlieder: V. In diesem Wetter



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