Composer: Mikhail Glinka, Sergey Prokofiev, Sergey Rachmaninov, Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky, Giacomo Puccini
Performer: Anna Netrebko, Dmitry Voropaev, Vladimir Moroz
Orchestra: Mariinsky Orchestra
Conductor: Valery Gergiev
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Catalogue: 4776384
Release: 2006
Size: 257 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Tchaikovsky: Iolanta
01. “Atchevo eta prezhde ne znala”
Rachmaninov: Songs, Op. 21
02. VII. Zdes′ khorosho
Rachmaninov: Ne poy, krasavitsa, pri mne, Op. 4
03. No. 4 – Orch. by Nikolai Saveliev
Rimsky-Korsakov: The Tale of Tsar Saltan / Act II
04. “Ty, tsarevich, moy spasitel”
Rimsky-Korsakov: The Snow Maiden – Opera in Four Acts with a Prologue / Prologue
05. “Au, au – Akh, bednaya Snegurochka, dikarka – S podruzhkami po yagodu khodit¿¿
Rimsky-Korsakov: The Snow Maiden – Opera in Four Acts with a Prologue / Act IV
06. “Velikiy car¿! Sprosi menya sto raz”
Rimsky-Korsakov: The Tsar’s Bride / Act IV
07. Scene & Aria: Ivan Sergeich, khochesh
Tchaikovsky: Pimpinella, Op. 38
08. No. 6 – Arr. by Elena Firsova
Glinka: A Life for the Tsar – Ivan Susanin (Gorodetsky) / Act I
09. V pole, pole, cistoye glyazu
Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91
10. “Chuda, kak harasha ana”
Rachmaninov: Francesca da Rimini Op. 25
11. “O ne rydai, mai Paolo”
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin, Op. 24, TH. 5 / Act I
12. Letter Scene. “Puskai pogibnu ya, no prezde”
Puccini: La Bohème / Act I
13. “O soave fanciulla”
Anna Netrebko frames her recital with the two great heroines of Russian 19th- and 20th- century opera: Tatyana in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin and Natasha in Prokofiev’s War and Peace. …Netrebko gives the characters’ contrasted moods of anxiety, Natasha full of foreboding, Tatyana bursting with youthful hope. Her soft singing is exquisite and there is none of the edginess in the voice that can sometimes mar Slavonic sopranos. The songs by Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky are heard in rather overblown orchestral arrangements, but Netrebko sings them all with ravishing tone. The Mariinsky Orchestra and Gergiev are, of course, in their element, and the recording, especially the balance between voice and orchestra, is fine throughout. This is the best disc Netrebko has made so far and should make many new friends for Russian opera.