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Rachmaninov: Romances - Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Ivari Ilja (2012)

Posted By: peotuvave

Date: 14 Jun 2014 02:41:44

For his first CD release on Ondine, star baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky has chosen art song repertoire of great intensity and emotion from his Russian home country. The 26 romances by Sergei Rachmaninov on this disc include such popular songs as Spring waters, op.14/11 or In the silence of the mysterious night, op.4/3.

Together with his longstanding duo partner, Estonian pianist Ivari Ilja, they have frequently performed many of these songs to great critical acclaim (“Mr. Hvorostovsky used the infinite shadings of his luxuriously dark and dusky voice to illuminate the yearning nuances of bitterness and regret. […] his admirable range of expressive and dynamic shadings [was] aptly mirrored by Ivari Ilja, an exemplary accompanist..” – The New York Times, 5 April 2008)

Dmitri Hvorostovsky is recognized as one of the leading and most charismatic baritones of our time, performing internationally at such opera houses as the New York Met, and partnering regularly with singers Renée Fleming and Jonas Kaufmann.

Composer: Sergei Rachmaninov
Performer: Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Ivari Ilja

Reviews: Now in his fiftieth year, Dmitri Hvorostovsky has been singing internationally for almost a quarter of a century. It would be reasonable to expect some small signs of wear in his vibrant baritone. There is perhaps now a trace of roughness where before all was smooth, uninterrupted tone and the top can become decidedly a little rocky when he leans into the note but all in all his baritone remains in remarkably fine shape. The bottom notes are dark and resonant, the middle only a little grainy when he sings mezza voce (as at the end of no.5) and the top G’s continue to ring out thrillingly with only a hint of a flap. Any signs of stress are, in any case, hardly inappropriate in music as desperately passionate as this.

Perhaps it is too much to listen to the whole programme at one sitting, given that the preponderance of the music is so melancholy and soul-sifting in that famous Russian idiom. I don’t say that there is a lack of variety in the programme, especially when both singer and pianist interpret with such commitment and passion. Rachmaninov’s melodic gifts are in such evidence but over an hour of such intensity can be wearing. My favourite items so far are the mounting ecstasy of the second song, “Do you remember, the evening?”, the haunting “She is as beautiful as the moon”, opening with strummed arpeggios reminiscent of Schubert’s “Dioskuren” and continuing with melismata in a distinctly Polovtsian minor mode, and “In the silence of the mysterious night” climaxing with a magnificent G-flat and a long-breathed piano D to conclude. I also love the dignified restraint of no.6, so Russian with its rolling underlay and punctuating chords, building to a great cry of pain.

This is Hvorostovsky’s first recording on the Finnish Ondine label, with whom he has signed a long-term contract. Although he has recorded some of these songs before, his voice is now perfectly weighted and his artistry honed by long experience sufficient to give them his finest interpretation. It helps to have a native speaker intone texts by some of Russia’s greatest 19th century Romantic poets.

The recording is perfect; there is a lovely balance between the singing tone of the piano and the singer’s sonorous baritone. Estonian pianist Ivari Ilja is Hvorostovsky’s regular accompanist and plays wonderfully, with agogic freedom, shaded nuance and great variety of colour.

Tracklisting:

1. Songs (6), Op. 8: no 5, The dream by Sergei Rachmaninov
Performer: Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Baritone), Ivari Ilja (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1893; Russia
2. Songs (6), Op. 8: no 1, The waterlily by Sergei Rachmaninov
Performer: Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Baritone), Ivari Ilja (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1893; Russia
3. Songs (6), Op. 4: no 5, Oh thou, my field by Sergei Rachmaninov
Performer: Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Baritone), Ivari Ilja (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1893; Russia
4. Songs (6), Op. 4: no 3, In the silence of the night by Sergei Rachmaninov
Performer: Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Baritone), Ivari Ilja (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1890; Russia
5. Songs (6), Op. 4: no 2, Morning by Sergei Rachmaninov
Performer: Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Baritone), Ivari Ilja (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1892; Russia
6. Songs (6), Op. 4: no 1, Oh no, I beg you, forsake me not by Sergei Rachmaninov
Performer: Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Baritone), Ivari Ilja (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1892; Russia
7. Songs (15), Op. 26: no 9, Again I am alone by Sergei Rachmaninov
Performer: Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Baritone), Ivari Ilja (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1906; Russia
8. Songs (15), Op. 26: no 6, Christ is risen by Sergei Rachmaninov
Performer: Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Baritone), Ivari Ilja (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1906; Russia
9. Songs (15), Op. 26: no 3, Let us rest by Sergei Rachmaninov
Performer: Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Baritone), Ivari Ilja (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1906; Russia
10. Songs (15), Op. 26: no 2, He took all from me by Sergei Rachmaninov
Performer: Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Baritone), Ivari Ilja (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1906; Russia
11. Songs (15), Op. 26: no 15, All things pass by by Sergei Rachmaninov
Performer: Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Baritone), Ivari Ilja (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1906; Russia
12. Songs (15), Op. 26: no 13, When yesterday we met by Sergei Rachmaninov
Performer: Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Baritone), Ivari Ilja (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1906; Russia
13. Songs (15), Op. 26: no 12, Night is mournful by Sergei Rachmaninov
Performer: Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Baritone), Ivari Ilja (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1906; Russia
14. Songs (12), Op. 21: no 7, How fair this spot by Sergei Rachmaninov
Performer: Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Baritone), Ivari Ilja (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1902; Russia
15. Songs (12), Op. 21: no 6, Loneliness by Sergei Rachmaninov
Performer: Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Baritone), Ivari Ilja (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1902; Russia
16. Songs (12), Op. 21: no 4, They answered by Sergei Rachmaninov
Performer: Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Baritone), Ivari Ilja (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1902; Russia
17. Songs (12), Op. 21: no 12, How painful for me by Sergei Rachmaninov
Performer: Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Baritone), Ivari Ilja (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1902; Russia
18. Songs (12), Op. 14: no 9, She is as lovely as the noon by Sergei Rachmaninov
Performer: Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Baritone), Ivari Ilja (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1896; Russia
19. Songs (12), Op. 14: no 7, Believe me not by Sergei Rachmaninov
Performer: Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Baritone), Ivari Ilja (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1896; Russia
20. Songs (12), Op. 14: no 4, I was with her by Sergei Rachmaninov
Performer: Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Baritone), Ivari Ilja (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1896; Russia
21. Songs (12), Op. 14: no 12, 'Tis time by Sergei Rachmaninov
Performer: Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Baritone), Ivari Ilja (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1896; Russia
22. Songs (12), Op. 14: no 11, Spring waters by Sergei Rachmaninov
Performer: Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Baritone), Ivari Ilja (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1896; Russia
23. Songs (12), Op. 14: no 10, In my soul by Sergei Rachmaninov
Performer: Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Baritone), Ivari Ilja (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1896; Russia
24. Songs (12), Op. 14: no 1, I wait for thee by Sergei Rachmaninov
Performer: Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Baritone), Ivari Ilja (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1894; Russia
25. Do you remember the evening? by Sergei Rachmaninov
Performer: Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Baritone), Ivari Ilja (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1893; Russia
26. At the gate of the holy monastery by Sergei Rachmaninov
Performer: Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Baritone), Ivari Ilja (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1890; Russia

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