Composer: Nikolay Myaskovsky
Performer: Tatiana Barsukova, Olga Solovieva, Elizaveta Pakhomova, Marina Dichenko
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0355
Release: 2021
Size: 586 MB
Recovery: +3%
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Lyric Book, Op. 72
01. No. 1, Will I Forget You?
02. No. 2, Like a Sail That Flashes at Times
03. No. 3, Cloudless April Day
04. No. 4, How Often at Night
05. No. 5, My Heart’s in the Highlands
06. No. 6, My Bonnie Mary
Romances After Lermontov, Op. 40
07. No. 1, A Cossack Lullaby
08. No. 2, I Go Out Alone on the Road
09. No. 3, No, It Is Not You Whom I Love so Ardently
10. No. 4, To the Portrait
11. No. 5, The Sun
12. No. 6, They Loved Each Other
13. No. 7, In an Album
14. No. 8, Romance
15. No. 9, She Sings
16. No. 10, Don’t Cry, Don’t Cry, My Child
17. No. 11, From an Album
18. No. 12, Forgive Me! We Will Not Meet Again
Violin Sonata, Op. 70
19. I. Allegro amabile
20. II. Theme, 12 Variations & Coda
The dignified bearing and quiet wisdom of Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881–1950) gained him the sobriquet of ‘the conscience of Russian music’ – and those qualities are reflected in the unemphatic strength of his music. His orchestral, chamber and instrumental works are regaining the currency they once enjoyed, but his large corpus of songs, many of them understated masterpieces, has yet to attract systematic attention – a situation this series hopes to remedy. The pairing here of his late Violin Sonata with his last two song-cycles for soprano and piano mirrors the Moscow concert in 1947 when all three were given their first performances.