Tchaikovsky: Romances

Tchaikovsky: Romances

Tchaikovsky: Romances
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Performer: Dmitri Hvorostovsky
Composer: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
Performer: Ivari Ilja
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2009-10-27
Music Label: Delos Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. None but the lonely heart, song for voice & piano, Op. 6/6
  2. Night, song for voice & piano, Op. 60/9
  3. At bedtime, song for voice & piano, Op. 27/1
  4. I opened the window, song for voice & piano, Op. 63/2
  5. My genius, my angel, my friend, song for voice & piano
  6. Not a word, O my friend, song for voice & piano, Op. 6/2
  7. Why?, song for voice & piano, Op. 6/5
  8. To forget so soon (Zabyt' tak skoro), song for voice & piano
  9. Exploit ('Heroism', 'Podvik'), song for voice & piano, Op. 60/11
  10. Death, song for voice & piano, Op. 57/5
  11. I should like in a single word, song for voice & piano
  12. O, if only you could for a moment, song for voice & piano, Op. 38/4
Music CD 2
  1. The love of a dead man, song for voice & piano, Op. 38/5
  2. On the golden cornfields, song for voice & piano, Op. 57/2
  3. Tell me, what in the shade of the branches, song for voice & piano, Op. 57/1
  4. The fearful moment, song for voice & piano, Op. 28/6
  5. Reconciliation, song for voice & piano, Op. 25/1
  6. Does the day reign?, song for voice & piano, Op. 47/6
  7. Frenzied nights, song for voice & piano, Op. 60/6
  8. Serenade: 'O child beneath my window', song for voice & piano, Op. 63/6
  9. It was in early spring (At the ball), song for voice & piano, Op. 38/2
  10. Dusk fell on the earth, song for voice & piano, Op. 47/3
  11. I bless you, forests ('The Pilgrim's Song'), song for voice & piano, Op. 47/5
  12. Don Juan's Serenade, song for voice & piano, Op. 38/1

Music reviews of Tchaikovsky: Romances

Music Review: Tchaikovsky Songs by the Quintessential Russian Baritone of Our Time
Rating: 5 Stars

This 2CD set contains glorious singing by the reigning Russian baritone of our day, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, presenting music that is clearly close to his heart.

The only fault I find with this collection of Tchaikovsky 'romances' (the Russian equivalent of 'Lieder') is that all that Tchaikovskian melancholy at once is likely to drive you to be thinking of suicide. But taken one by one or only a few at a time, the singing and the melodies will have you in raptures. We in the West don't tend to know much about Tchaikovsky songs beyond 'None but the Lonely Heart' (which is the first track on CD1) and yet there is great richness there. Tchaikovsky wrote over a hundred romances. Here we get only a few of them -- 24, to be exact -- and they represent a peak of Russian song-writing. They do indeed depend largely on that unending wellspring of Russian melancholy and thus they do superficially tend to sound alike. But taken individually there are some really special works here. Even Tchaikovsky's earliest song, 'My Genius, My Angel, My Friend' ['Moy geniy, moy angel, moy drug'], written when he was sixteen, tugs at one's heart in its plea for tranquil dreams. 'Not a Word, O My Friend' ['Ni siova, o drug moy'] whose scene is of friends standing silently together at the tombstone of a loved one is beautifully limned in Tchaikovsky's setting. Even a song like 'Heroic Deeds' ['Podvig'] has its melancholy beauty in the narrator's consideration of 'human evil.' There are, of course, some relatively happy songs, e.g. 'Tell Me What in the Shade of the Branches' ['Skazhi, o chom v teni vetvey'] which celebrates the ecstasy of love, or 'Does the Day Reign' ['Den' li tsarit'] in which the narrator is made thankful for thoughts of his love one. And there is a 'nature song' in 'I Bless You, Forest' ['Blagoslavlyayu vas, lesa']. But overall the tone is the kind of Romantic era sadness [e.g., Goethe's 'Sorrows of Young Werther'] so prevalent in Europe in the 19th century.

And the melodies are typical of no one but Tchaikovsky, so beloved by music-lovers this past century and a half. Thank you, Dmitri Hvorostovski (and your accompanist, Ivar Ilja) for bringing us such riches.

The total timing for these two CDs is only a bit over 80 minutes, slightly too much for a single CD, and it is priced as if it were only one CD.

Scott Morrison
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