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Feodor Chaliapin: The Complete Recordings (FLAC)

Feodor Chaliapin: The Complete Recordings (FLAC)
Feodor Chaliapin: The Complete Recordings (FLAC)

Performer: Feodor Chaliapin
Number of Discs: 13
Format: FLAC (tracks+cue)
Label: Marston
Catalogue: 51301-2
Release: 2018
Size: 2.65 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes

CD 01
Continental Hotel, Moscow, between 23 and 28 January 1902
01. Kak korol’ shyol na voynu (When the king went forth to war), Op. 7, No. 6 (Koenemann)
02. Akh ty, solntse, solntse krasnoe (O thou sun, fair sun), Op. 10, No. 1 (Slonov)
03. Elegiya: Lunnaya tikhaya noch’ (Elegy: Serene moonlit night) (Korganov)
04. FAUST: Le veau d’or est toujours debout (Na zemle ves’ rod lyudskoy) (Gounod)
05. Solovey (The Nightingale), Op. 60, No. 4 (Tchaikovsky)

Continental Hotel, Moscow, late January or early February 1902
06. Nochen’ka (Night) (Russian folk song)
07. ZHIZN’ ZA TSARYA: Ty pridyosh’, moya zarya (A LIFE FOR THE TSAR: You will come, my dawn) (Glinka)
08. Razocharovaniye (Disappointment), Op. 65, No. 2 (Tchaikovsky)

Saint Petersburg, between 2 and 7 October 1907
09. Pesn’ ubogogo strannika (Song of the Needy Pilgrim) (Manykin-Nevstruev)
10. Kak korol’ shyol na voynu (When the king went forth to war), Op. 7, No. 6 (Koenemann)
11. MEFISTOFELE: Ave Signor! [Prologo] (Boito)
12. FAUST: Vous qui faites l’endormie (Vykhodi, o drug moy nezhnyi) (Gounod)
13. Pesnya Mefistofelya o blokhe (Mephistopheles’s Song of the Flea) (Mussorgsky)
14. FAUST: Le veau d’or est toujours debout (Na zemle ves’ rod lyudskoy) (Gounod)

Milan, October 1907
15. Ekh ty, Van’ka (Crazy-Headed Ivan) (Russian folk song)
16. Nochen’ka (Night) (Russian folk song)
17. Ekh ty, Van’ka (Crazy-Headed Ivan) (Russian folk song)
18. Luchinushka (The Little Birch Splinter) (Russian folk song)

Paris, June 1908
19. RUSLAN I LYUDMILA: O radost’! … Blizok uzh chas torzhestva moego (Oh joy! … Already the hour of my triumph is near) [Farlaf’s Rondo] (Glinka)
20. IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA: La calunnia è un venticello (Rossini)
21. ZHIZN’ ZA TSARYA: Chuyut pravdu! … Ty pridyosh’, moya zarya (A LIFE FOR THE TSAR: They guess the truth! … You will come, my dawn) (Glinka)
22. LAKMÉ: Lakmé, ton doux regard (Lakmé, tvoy vzor pomerknul luchistyi) (Delibes)
23. RUSLAN I LYUDMILA: Vremyon ot vechnoy temnoty (From the dark shroud of eternity) [Ruslan’s Aria, Act 2] (Glinka)

CD 02
Paris, June 1908
1. Dubinushka (The Oak Cudgel) (Russian folk song, arranged by Chaliapin)
2. Ty vzoydi, solntse krasnoe (Arise, fair sun) [Barge-Haulers’ Song] (Russian folk song)
3. Luchinushka (The Little Birch Splinter) (Russian folk song)

Moscow, 26 August 1910
4. Oy, u luzi, ta i pry beryozi (In the meadows, by the birches) (Ukrainian folk song)
5. VRAZHYA SILA: Poteshu-ka svoyu khosyayku … Shirokaya maslenitsa (MALEVOLENT POWER: I’ll amuse my hostess … Merry Shrovetide) [Eremka’s Song, Act 2] (Serov)
6. Vniz po matushke po Volge (Down Mother Volga) (Russian folk song)
7. Iz-pod duba, da iz-pod vyaza (From under the oak, from under the elm) (Russian folk song)
8. Nochen’ka (Night) (Russian folk song)
9. ASKOLDOVA MOGILA: V starinu zhivali dedy (ASKOLD’S TOMB: In olden days our forefathers lived) (Verstovsky)

Moscow, 29 August 1910
10. FAUST: Seigneur, daignez permettre à votre humble servante (Gospod’, pozvol’ rabe tvoey neschastnoy) [Church Scene] (Gounod)
11. FAUST: Il était temps (Spustilas’ t’ma) (Gounod)
12. Ekh ty, Van’ka (Crazy-Headed Ivan) (Russian folk song)
13. DON CARLO: Dormiro sol nel manto mio regal … Ella giammai m’amo (Verdi)
14. Zashumela, razgulyalas’ v pole nepogoda (The tempest rages in the fields) (Sokolov)

Moscow, 31 August 1910
15. BORIS GODUNOV: Eshchyo odno posledneye skazaniye (Yet one more final tale) [Pimen’s Monologue, Act 1] (Mussorgsky)

Moscow, 1 September 1910
16. Dubinushka (The Oak Cudgel) (Russian folk song, arranged by Chaliapin)
17. Ty vzoydi, solntse krasnoe (Arise, fair sun) [Barge-Haulers’ Song] (Russian folk song)
18. Solntse vskhodit i zakhodit (The sun rises and sets) [Russian Prisoners’ Song] (Russian folk song)
19. Luchinushka (The Little Birch Splinter) (Russian folk song)

Saint Petersburg, 30 September 1911
20. BORIS GODUNOV: Kak vo gorode bylo vo Kazani (It all happened in the town of Kazan) [Varlaam’s Aria, Act 1] (Mussorgsky)
21. Mashen’ka (Russian folk song)

CD 03
Saint Petersburg, 15 October 1911
1. BORIS GODUNOV: Proshchay, moy syn, umirayu (Farewell my son, I am dying) (Mussorgsky)
2. BORIS GODUNOV: Zvon! Pogrebal’ny zvon! (The knell! The funeral knell!) (Mussorgsky)
3. KNYAZ’ IGOR: Nateshilsya li, Knyaz’? … Greshno tait’ ya skuki ne lyublyu (PRINCE IGOR: Have you enjoyed yourself, Prince? … I can’t conceal that I dislike boredom) [Prince Galitsky’s Aria, Act 1] (Borodin)
4. DEMON: Ne plach’, ditya (Do not weep, child) (Rubinstein)
5. Nyne otpushchaeshi raba Tvoego, Vladyko (Lord, now let Thy servant depart in peace) [Prayer from the Russian Orthodox Liturgy] (Strokin)

Saint Petersburg, 12 November 1911
6. Die beiden Grenadiere (Vo Frantsiyu dva grenadera) (The Two Grenadiers), Op. 49, No. 1 (Schumann)
7. DEMON: Na vozdushnom okeane (On the ocean of the air) (Rubinstein)
8. Ne osenniy melkiy dozhdichek (It is not autumnal drizzle) (Russian folk song)

Saint Petersburg, 26 November 1911
9. BORIS GODUNOV: Odnazhdy, v vecherniy chas, prishyol ko mne pastukh (Once at eve, a herdsman came to me) [Pimen’s Narration, Act 4] (Mussorgsky)

Milan, 26 April 1912
10. NORMA: Ite sul colle, o Druidi (Bellini)
11. IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA: La calunnia è un venticello (Rossini)
12. MEFISTOFELE: Ave Signor! [Prologo] (Boito)
13. LA SONNAMBULA: Il mulino, il fonte, il bosco … Vi ravviso, o luoghi ameni (Bellini)
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Saint Petersburg, 26 October 1912
14. ROBERT LE DIABLE: Voici donc les débris … Nonnes qui reposez (Le rovine son questa … Suore che riposate) (Meyerbeer)
15. LUCREZIA BORGIA: Vieni la mia vendetta (Donizetti)
16. ERNANI: Che mai vegg’io … Infelice, e tu credevi (Verdi)
17. Vakkhicheskaya pesnya (Chanson bachique) (Glazunov)
18. La Marseillaise (de Lisle)

London, 5 July 1913
19. Bylina ob Il’ye Muromtse (Tale about Ilya Muromets) (Russian folk song, arranged by Kedrov)
20. Sapphische Ode (Oda Safo), Op. 90, No. 4 (Brahms)
21. Ona khokhotala (She laughed) (Lishin)

CD 04
London, 5 July
1. Solovey (The Nightingale), Op. 60, No. 4 (Tchaikovsky)
2. SADKO: O skaly groznye (Against the cruel crags) [Varangian Merchant’s Song] (Rimsky-Korsakov)
3. Bylina o Tsare Ivane Vasil’yeviche Groznom (Tale about Tsar Ivan the Terrible) (Russian folk song, arranged by Liapunov)
4. Bylo u tyoshchen’ki semero zyat’yev (The mother-in-law had seven sons-in-law) (Russian folk song, arranged by Liadov)
5. Oy, zeleny dube na yar pokhylyvsya (Ah, the green oak is bent over the ravine) (Ukrainian folk song)
6. Komarishche (A Great Big Gnat) (comic Ukrainian folk song)

Saint Petersburg, 25 January 1914
7. Proshchal’noye slovo (A Word of Farewell), Op. 12, No. 1 (Slonov)
8. Uznik (The Prisoner) Op. 78, No. 6 (Rubinstein)
9. En svane (Lebed’) (A Swan), Op. 25, No. 2 (Grieg)
10. Na kholmakh Gruzii (On the hills of Georgia) (Rimsky-Korsakov)
11. Vchera my vstretilis’ (When yesterday we met), Op. 26, No. 13 (Rachmaninoff)
12. Sapphische Ode (Oda Safo), Op. 90, No. 4 (Brahms)

Saint Petersburg, 4 April 1914
13. Uznik (The Prisoner), Op. 78, No. 6 (Rubinstein)
14. En svane (Lebed’) (A Swan), Op. 25, No. 2 (Grieg)
15. Proshchal’noye slovo (A Word of Farewell), Op. 12, No. 1 (Slonov)
16. Borte! (Razluka) (Farewell), Op. 25, No. 5 (Grieg)
17. Stambogsrim (Stikhi v albom) (Verses in an Album), Op. 25, No. 3 (Grieg)
18. Kak korol’ shyol na voynu (When the king went forth to war) Op. 7, No. 6 (Koenemann)
19. Aufenthalt (Priyut), No. 5 from SCHWANENGESANG, D. 957 (Schubert)
20. Zashumela, razgulyalas’ v pole nepogoda (The tempest rages in the fields) (Sokolov)
21. ZHIZN’ ZA TSARYA: Chuyut pravdu! … Ty pridyosh’, moya zarya (A LIFE FOR THE TSAR: They guess the truth! … You will come, my dawn) (Glinka)

Hayes, 9 October 1921
22. Das alte Lied (Staraya pesnya) (The Old Song), Op. 4, No. 5 (Grieg)
23. Stambogsrim (Stikhi v albom) (Verses in an Album), Op. 25, No. 3 (Grieg)
24. Solovey (The Nightingale), Op. 60, No. 4 (Tchaikovsky)

Hayes, 10 October 1921
25. Pesnya Mefistofelya o blokhe (Mephistopheles’s Song of the Flea) (Mussorgsky)
26. Prorok (The Prophet), Op. 49, No. 2 (Rimsky-Korsakov)

CD 05
Hayes, 11 October 1921
1. Sidste reis (V posledniy reys) (The Last Voyage), Op. 17, No. 2 (Eyvind Alnæs)
2. O, esli b mog vyrasit’ v zvuke vsyu silu stradaniy moikh (Oh, if only I could express in a sound all the force of my sufferings) (Malashkin)
3. Die beiden Grenadiere (Vo Frantsiyu dva grenadera) (The Two Grenadiers), Op. 49, No. 1 (Schumann)
4. Kak korol’ shyol na voynu (When the king went forth to war), Op. 7, No. 6 (Koenemann)
5. Nochnoy smotr (The Midnight Review) (Glinka)

Hayes, 12 October 1921
6. In questa tomba oscura (Beethoven)
7. Trepak, No. 3 from PESNI I PLYASKI SMERTI (SONGS AND DANCES OF DEATH) (Mussorgsky)
8. BORIS GODUNOV: Kak vo gorode bylo vo Kazani (It all happened in the town of Kazan) [Varlaam’s Aria, Act 1] (Mussorgsky)
9. BORIS GODUNOV: Proshchay, moy syn, umirayu (Farewell my son, I am dying) (Mussorgsky)
10. Il barbiere di Siviglia: La calunnia è un venticello (Rossini)

New York City, 31 January 1922
11. GRYOZY: Kogda, eshchyo ditya, za shkol’noyu stenoyu (Dreams: When still a child within the walls of school) [Recitation] (Nadson)
12. Don Carlo: Dormiro sol nel manto mio regal … Ella giammai m’amo (Verdi)

Hayes, 25 September 1922
13. Kak korol’ shyol na voynu (When the king went forth to war), Op. 7, No. 6 (Koenemann)

Hayes, 9 October 1922
14. SADKO: O skaly groznye (Against the cruel crags) [Varangian Merchant’s Song] (Rimsky-Korsakov)
15. Ey, ukhnem! (Song of the Volga Boatmen) (Russian folk song, arranged by Chaliapin and Koenemann)

Hayes, 23 October 1922
16. BORIS GODUNOV: Eshchyo odno posledneye skazaniye (Yet one more final tale) [Pimen’s Monologue, Act 1] (Mussorgsky)

Camden, New Jersey, 22 November 1922
17. DON CARLO: Dormiro sol nel manto mio regal … Ella giammai m’amo (Verdi)
18. LA SONNAMBULA: Il mulino, il fonte, il bosco … Vi ravviso, o luoghi ameni (Bellini)
19. MEFISTOFELE: Ave signor! [Prologo] (Boito)
20. Ekh ty, Van’ka (Crazy-Headed Ivan) (Russian folk song)
21. KNYAZ’ IGOR: Greshno tait’ ya skuki ne lyublyu (PRINCE IGOR: I can’t conceal that I dislike boredom) [Prince Galitsky’s Aria, Act 1] (Borodin)

CD 06
Hayes, 26 June 1923
1. BORIS GODUNOV: Dostig ya vysshey vlasti (I have attained the highest power) [Boris’s Monologue, Act 2] (Mussorgsky)
2. KNYAZ’ IGOR: Greshno tait’ ya skuki ne lyublyu (PRINCE IGOR: I can’t conceal that I dislike boredom) [Prince Galitsky’s Aria, Act 1] (Borodin)
3. ALEKO: Ves’ tabor spit (All the gypsy camp is sleeping) (Rachmaninoff)

2 July 1923
4. BORIS GODUNOV: Pogrebal’ny zvon! (The funeral knell!) (Mussorgsky)
5. BORIS GODUNOV: Zvon! Pogrebal’ny zvon! (The knell! The funeral knell!) (Mussorgsky)
6. FAUST: Pardon! … Le veau d’or est toujours debout (Gounod)
7. FAUST: Vous qui faites l’endormie (Gounod)

Hayes, 7 July 1923
8. Dubinushka (The Oak Cudgel) (Russian folk song, arranged by Chaliapin)

Hayes, 25 September 1923
9. DON GIOVANNI: Madamina, il catalogo è questo (Mozart)
10. ZHIZN’ ZA TSARYA: Chuyut pravdu! … Ty pridyosh’, moya zarya (A Life for the TSar: They guess the truth … You will come, my dawn) (Glinka)

Camden, New Jersey, 3 January 1924
11. ROBERT LE DIABLE: Voici donc les débris … Nonnes qui reposez (Le rovine son queste … Suore che riposate) (Meyerbeer)
12. LA BOHÈME: Vecchia zimarra (Puccini)
13. Blagoslovlyayu vas, lesa (Blessed be these forests) [Pilgrim’s Song], Op. 47, No. 5 (Tchaikovsky)
14. Le cor (Flégier)

New York City, 4 January 1924
15. Solntse vskhodit i zakhodit (The sun rises and sets) [Russian Prisoners’ Song] (Russian folk song)

Hayes, 14 July 1924
16. KNYAZ’ IGOR: Zdorov li knyaz’? (PRINCE IGOR: Are you well, Prince?) [Khan Konchak’s Aria, Act 2] (Borodin)
17. Vdol’ po Piterskoy (Down the Petersky) (Russian folk song)
18. ZHIZN’ ZA TSARYA: Moyo detishche, Antonidushka (A Life for the TSar: My dearest child, Antonidushka) (Glinka)
19. Somneniye (Doubt) (Glinka)

CD 07
Hayes, 8 October 1924
1. Die beiden Grenadiere (Vo Frantsiyu dva grenadera) (The Two Grenadiers), Op. 49, No. 1 (Schumann)
2. KNYAZ’ IGOR: Ni sna, ni otdykha izmuchennoy dushe (Prince Igor: Neither sleep nor rest for my tormented soul) [Prince Igor’s Aria, Act 2] (Borodin)

Hayes, 26 October 1925
3. BORIS GODUNOV: Da zdravstvuyet Tsar’ Boris Feodorovich! … Skorbit dusha (Long live Tsar Boris Feodorovich! … My heart is heavy) [Coronation Scene] (Mussorgsky)
4. FAUST: Seigneur, daignez permettre à votre humble servante [Church Scene] (Gounod)
5. FAUST: Quand du Seigneur le jour luira [Church Scene, Side Two, Alternative Take] (Gounod)

Hayes, 5 November 1925
6. DEMON: Na vozdushnom okeane (On the ocean of the air) (Rubinstein)
7. DEMON: Ya tot, kotoromu vnimala (I am the one to whom you listened) (Rubinstein)

Hayes, 20 May 1926
8. IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA: La calunnia è un venticello (Rossini)
9. Die beiden Grenadiere (Vo Frantsiyu dva grenadera) (The Two Grenadiers), Op. 49, No. 1 (Schumann)
10. Pesnya Mefistofelya o blokhe (Mephistopheles’s Song of the Flea) (Mussorgsky)
11. Ey, ukhnem! (Song of the Volga Boatmen) (Russian folk song, arranged by Chaliapin and Koenemann)
12. Nochnoy smotr (The Midnight Review) (Glinka)
13. BORIS GODUNOV: Proshchay, moy syn, umirayu (Farewell my son, I am dying) (Mussorgsky)
14. BORIS GODUNOV: Zvon! Pogrebal’ny zvon! (The knell! The funeral knell!) (Mussorgsky)
15. BORIS GODUNOV: Zvon! Pogrebal’ny zvon! (The knell! The funeral knell!) (Mussorgsky)
16. BORIS GODUNOV: Da zdravstvuyet Tsar’ Boris Feodorovich! … Skorbit dusha! (Long live Tsar Boris Feodorovich! … My heart is heavy) [Coronation Scene] (Mussorgsky)

CD 08
Covent Garden, 31 May 1926
1. Ave, Signore degli angeli e dei santi [Prologo]
2. Ave Signor! [Mefistofele’s Entrance, Prologo]
3. Salve Regina [Prologo finale]
4. Son lo spirito che nega [Act 1]
5. Ah! Su! Riggiamo, riggiamo [Ridda e fuga infernale, Act 2]

Camden, New Jersey, 15 March 1927
6. Pesnya Mefistofelya o blokhe (Mephistopheles’s Song of the Flea) (Mussorgsky)

Camden, New Jersey, 16 March 1927
7. BORIS GODUNOV: Kak vo gorode bylo vo Kazani (It all happened in the town of Kazan) [Varlaam’s Aria, Act 1] (Mussorgsky)
8. MEFISTOFELE: Ave signor! [Prologo] (Boito)
9. KNYAZ’ IGOR: Greshno tait’ ya skuki ne lyublyu (PRINCE IGOR: I can’t conceal that I dislike boredom) [Prince Galitsky’s Aria, Act 1] (Borodin)

Camden, New Jersey, 18 March 1927
10. IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA: Dunque la calunnia che cos’è … La calunnia è un venticello (Rossini)
11. LA SONNAMBULA: Il mulino, il fonte, il bosco … Vi ravviso, o luoghi ameni (Bellini)
12. The Blind Ploughman (Clarke)

Liederkranz Hall, New York City, 7 April 1927
13. DON QUICHOTTE: Ô, mon maître, ô mon grand! [Death of Don Quichotte] (Massenet)

Small Queen’s Hall, London, 13 June 1927
14. BORIS GODUNOV: Zvon! Pogrebal’ny zvon! (The knell! The funeral knell!) (Mussorgsky)

Small Queen’s Hall, London, 15 June 1927
15. Prorok (The Prophet), Op. 49, No. 2 (Rimsky-Korsakov)
16. Kak korol’ shyol na voynu (When the king went forth to war), Op. 7, No. 6 (Koenemann)
17. Kak korol’ shyol na voynu (When the king went forth to war), Op. 7, No. 6 (Koenemann)

Small Queen’s Hall, London, 17 June 1927
18. In questa tomba oscura (Beethoven)

CD 09
Paris, 27 September 1927
1. Ty vzoydi, solntse krasnoe (Arise, fair sun) [Barge-Haulers’ Song] (Russian folk song)
2. Iz-pod duba, da iz-pod vyaza (From under the oak, from under the elm) (Russian folk song)
3. Ochi chornye (Black Eyes) (Gypsy romance)

Paris, 29 September 1927
4. Pokayaniya otverzi mi dveri (Open the gates of repentance) (Vedel)

Royal Albert Hall, London, 11 October 1927
5. Vse govoryat: net pravdy na zemle (Everyone says there is no fairness on earth) (Rimsky-Korsakov)
6. Kak nekiy kheruvim (Like a certain cherub) (Rimsky-Korsakov)
7. Ty zasnyosh’ nadolgo, Motsart! (You will sleep forever, Mozart!) (Rimsky-Korsakov)

Small Queen’s Hall, London, 20 October 1927
8. Prorok (The Prophet), Op. 49, No. 2 (Rimsky-Korsakov)
9. In questa tomba oscura (Beethoven)
10. SADKO: O skaly groznye (Against the cruel crags) [Varangian Merchant’s Song] (Rimsky-Korsakov)
11. Ey, ukhnem! (Song of the Volga Boatmen) (Russian folk song, arranged by Chaliapin and Koenemann)
12. KNYAZ’ IGOR: Zdorov li knyaz’? (PRINCE IGOR: Are you well, Prince?) [Khan Konchak’s Aria, Act 2] (Borodin)

Small Queen’s Hall, London, 19 June 1928
13. DON GIOVANNI: Madamina, il catalogo è questo (Mozart)

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, 22 June 1928
Faust (Gounod)
Act 1
14. Rien! En vain j’interroge
15. Mais ce Dieu, que peut-il pour moi?

CD 10
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, 22 June 1928
Faust (Gounod)
Act 2
1. Allons Amis! Point de vaines alarmes! … Le veau d’or
2. Nous nous retrouverons, mes amis!
Act 3
3. Faites-lui mes aveux
4. Salut! Demeure chaste et pure
5. Il était temps! Sous le feuillage sombre
Act 4
6. Qu’attendez-vous encore … Vous qui faites l’endormie

Small Queen’s Hall, London, 30 June 1928
7. Der Doppelgänger (Dvoynik), No. 13 from SCHWANENGESANG, D.957 (Schubert)
8. Der Tod und das Mädchen (Smert’ i devushka), Op. 7, No. 3, D.531 (Schubert)
9. Oh, could I in song tell my sorrow (Malashkin)

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, 4 July 1928
BORIS GODUNOV (Mussorgsky)
10. Da zdravstvuyet Tsar’ Boris Feodorovich! (Salve a te, Zar Boris Theodorovich!) (Long live Tsar Boris Feodorovich!) [Coronation Scene, Side One]
Note: Chaliapin does not sing on this side.
11. A ty, moy syn, chem zanyat? … Dostig ya vysshey vlasti (And you, my son, what are you busy with? … I have attained the highest power) [Boris’s Monologue, Act 2]
12. Ukh, tyazhelo! Day dukh perevedu (Ah, I am suffocating) [Clock Scene]
13. Vashei strasti ya ne veryu, Pane (Il vostro amor mi lascia indifferente) (Do not speak to me of love and passion) [Polonaise – Garden Scene]
Note: Chaliapin does not sing on this side.
14. Vali syuda! Na pen’ sadi, na pen’, rebyata! (Sia tratto qui, sul tronco messo ei sia, fratelli) (Bring him here, put him on the tree trunk, brothers) [Scene of the Riot at Kromy]
15. Chto-zh, poydyom na golosa, boyare? (Su, boiardi, incominciam! Chi parla?) (Come, boyars, let us begin! Who wants to speak?) [Scene in the Duma, Side One]
16. Zhal’, Shuyskogo net knyazya (Ma qui non è Shuysky) (But Shuysky is not here) [Scene in the Duma, Side Two]
17. Ya sozval vas, boyare (I have called you, boyars) [Scene in the Duma, Side Three]
18. Ostav’te nas! Uydite vse! … Proshchay, moy syn, umirayu (Leave us! Everyone go away! … Farewell my son, I am dying) [Farewell of Boris]
19. Plach’te, plach’te, lyudie (Weep, weep, people) [Death of Boris]

CD 11
Small Queen’s Hall, London, 13 June 1929
1. Vdol’ po Piterskoy (Down the Petersky) (Russian folk song, arranged by Alexandrov)
2. Mashen’ka (Russian folk song)
3. Proshchay, radost’, zhizn’ moya (Farewell to thee, my joy, my life) [Siberian Prisoners’ Song] (Russian folk song, arranged by Karatygin)

Small Queen’s Hall, London, 14 June 1929
4. Le cor (Flégier)
5. Staryi kapral (The Old Corporal) (Dargomyzhsky)

Small Queen’s Hall, London, 19 June 1929
6. Ona khokhotala (She laughed) (Lishin)

Small Queen’s Hall, London, 30 June 1929
7. Spoken sketch: Telephone conversation with Sacha Guitry and Yvonne Printemps
8. Nochen’ka (Night) (Russian folk song, arranged by Chaliapin)

Small Queen’s Hall, London, 10 November 1929
9. ALEKO: Ves’ tabor spit (All the gypsy camp is sleeping) (Rachmaninoff)
10. Trepak, No. 3 from PESNI I PLYASKI SMERTI (SONGS AND DANCES OF DEATH) (Mussorgsky)

Salle Pleyel, Paris, 27 February, 1930
11. FAUST: Un rat, plus poltron … Le veau d’or est toujours debout (Gounod)
12. FAUST: Vous qui faites l’endormie (Gounod)
13. FAUST: Vous qui faites l’endormie (Gounod)
14. DON QUICHOTTE: Quelle histoire! … Ça, vous commettez … Quand apparaissent les étoiles [Sancho Panza’s Aria, Act 4] (Massenet)

Salle Chopin, Paris, 12 June 1930
15. Sten’ka Razin (Russian folk song)
16. Somneniye (Doubt) (Glinka)
17. Uznik (The Prisoner), Op. 78, No. 6 (Rubinstein)
18. Nochen’ka (Night) (Russian folk song, arranged by Chaliapin)

CD 12
Salle Pleyel, Paris, 21 January 1931
1. Pokayaniya otverzi mi dveri (Open the gates of repentance) (Vedel)
2. Pokayaniya otverzi mi dveri (Open the gates of repentance) (Vedel)
3. Nyne otpushchaeshi raba Tvoego, Vladyko (Lord, now let Thy servant depart in peace) [Prayer from the Russian Orthodox Liturgy] (Strokin)

Salle Pleyel, Paris, 20 January 1931
4. Nyne otpushchaeshi raba Tvoego, Vladyko (Lord, now let Thy servant depart in peace) [Prayer from the Russian Orthodox Liturgy] (Strokin)
5. VRAZHYA SILA: Poteshu-ka svoyu khosyayku … Shirokaya maslenitsa (MALEVOLENT POWER: I’ll amuse my hostess … Merry Shrovetide) [Eremka’s Song, Act 2] (Serov)

Salle Pleyel, Paris, 23 January 1931
6. BORIS GODUNOV: Da zdravstvuyet Tsar’ Boris Feodorovich! (Long live Tsar Boris Feodorovich!) [Coronation Scene, Side One Only] (Mussorgsky)

Small Queen’s Hall, London, 13 May 1931
7. Somneniye (Doubt) (Glinka)
8. Gelb rollt mir zu Füßen (Klubitsya volnoyu kipucheyu Kur)(The turbulent waters of the Kur are boiling), No. 9 from 12 LIEDER DES MIRZA-SCHAFFY (PERSIAN SONGS), Op. 34 (Rubinstein)
9. Élégie (Massenet)

Kingsway Hall, London, 6 June 1931
10. BORIS GODUNOV: Dostig ya vysshey vlasti (I have attained the highest power) [Boris’s Monologue, Act 2] (Mussorgsky)
11. BORIS GODUNOV: Dostig ya vysshey vlasti (I have attained the highest power) [Boris’s Monologue, Act 2] (Mussorgsky)
12. BORIS GODUNOV: Ukh, tyazhelo! Day dukh perevedu (Ah, I am suffocating) [Clock Scene] (Mussorgsky)
13. BORIS GODUNOV: Ukh, tyazhelo! Day dukh perevedu (Ah, I am suffocating) [Clock Scene] (Mussorgsky)

Kingsway Hall, London, 8 June 1931
14. RUSALKA: Okh, to-to vse vy, devki molodye (Ah, you young lasses are all alike) [Miller’s Aria, Act 1] (Dargomyzhsky)
15. RUSALKA: Zdorovo, zdorovo, zyat’! (Good morrow, son-in-law!) [Mad Scene] (Dargomyzhsky)
16. RUSLAN I LYUDMILA: O radost’! … Blizok uzh chas torzhestva moego (Oh joy! … Already the hour of my triumph is near) [Farlaf’s Rondo] (Glinka)

CD 13
Salle Pleyel, Paris, 26 February 1932
1. Nyne otpushchaeshi raba Tvoego, Vladyko (Lord, now let Thy servant depart in peace) [Prayer from the Russian Orthodox Liturgy] (Strokin)
2. Zhilo dvenadtsat’ razboynikov (The Legend of the Twelve Brigands) (Russian folk song, arranged by Zharov)
3. Pokayaniya otverzi mi dveri (Open the gates of repentance) (Vedel)
4. Vniz po matushke po Volge (Down Mother Volga) (Russian folk song, arranged by Alexandrov)

Salle Pleyel, Paris, 1 March 1932
5. Slava Tebe, Gospodi (Glory to Thee, O Lord) [Twofold Litany], No. 6 from LITURGIA DOMESTICA, Op. 79 (Grechaninov)
6. Slava Tebe, Gospodi (Glory to Thee, O Lord) [Twofold Litany], No. 6 from LITURGIA DOMESTICA, Op. 79 (Grechaninov)
7. Slava Tebe, Gospodi (Glory to Thee, O Lord) [Twofold Litany], No. 6 from LITURGIA DOMESTICA, Op. 79 (Grechaninov)
8. Veruyu! (I believe) [Creed from the Russian Orthodox liturgy] (Arkhangelsky)

Salle Chopin, Paris, 9 January 1933
9. Bolero (Dargomyzhsky)

Salle Chopin, Paris, 13 March 1933
10. Ce château neuf [Chanson du départ de Don Quichotte]
11. Je veux chanter ici [Chanson du Duc]

Salle Chopin, Paris, 9 January 1933
12. Un an, me dure la journée [Chanson à Dulcinée]

Salle Chopin, Paris, 13 March 1933
13. Ne pleure pas, Sancho [Chanson de la mort de Don Quichotte]

Salle Chopin, Paris, 19 March 1934
14. Pesn’ ubogogo strannika (Song of the Needy Pilgrim) (Manykin-Nevstruev)
15. Ty vzoydi, solntse krasnoe (Arise, fair sun) [Barge-Haulers’ Song] (Russian folk song)

Tokyo, 6 February 1936
16. Pesnya Mefistofelya o blokhe (Mephistopheles’s Song of the Flea) (Mussorgsky)
17. Ey, ukhnem! (Song of the Volga Boatmen) (Russian folk song, arranged by Chaliapin and Koenemann)

18. SADKO: O skaly groznye (Against the cruel crags) [Varangian Merchant’s Song] (Rimsky-Korsakov)
19. KNYAZ’ IGOR: Tol’ko b mne dozhdat’sya chesti (PRINCE IGOR: If only I could have the honor) [Prince Galitsky’s Aria, Act 1, Second Stanza] (Borodin)
20. FAUST: O nuit, étends sur eux ton ombre (O, noch’, oden’ ty ikh svoim pokrovom) (Gounod)
21. Nochen’ka (Night) (Russian folk song)
22. Snezhki beloye, pushistye (White, fluffy snow) (Russian folk song)
23. Ekh, vse-to ya glazki, glaza proglyadela (I have worn my eyes out) (Russian folk song)
24. Akh ty, solntse, solntse krasnoe (O thou sun, fair sun), Op. 10, No. 1 (Slonov)

Feodor Chaliapin (1873-1938) (bass) was in the opinion of many the greatest singing actor of the 20th century. Like Enrico Caruso, the name Chaliapin continued to be a household word long after his death. A case in point is that the Sobranie tobacco company continued to market their “Chaliapin” cigarettes into the 1970s. Producing a Chaliapin set has long been a desire of Marston, yet due to the size of the compilation, the production costs, and the time involved, this project has been pushed to the back burner time and time again. With the financial assistance of some of our generous supporters, we have finally released a thirteen-CD set containing every known recording of Feodor Chaliapin numbering well into the two hundreds. This set contains a substantial number of previously unpublished alternative takes, as well as all extant sides from the live performances at Covent Garden and the Royal Albert Hall that were recorded by His Master’s Voice in 1926 through 1928. The booklet accompanying the set includes essays on Chaliapin and his records by Michael Scott and Michael Aspinall, and a reprint of an essay by the great accompanist, Ivor Newton.

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