Composer: Pauline Viardot-Garcia
Performer: Ina Kancheva, Ludmil Angelov, Christo Tanev, Kamelia Kader
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0303
Release: 2016
Size: 255 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
12 Poems of Pushkin, Fet & Turgenev
01. No. 1. Tsvetok (The Flower)
10 Poems of Pushkin, Lermontov, Koltsov, Tyutchev & Fet
02. No. 3. Ya lyubila yego (I Loved Him)
5 Poems of Lermontov & Turgenev
03. No. 1. Na zare (At Dawn)
12 Poems of Pushkin, Fet & Turgenev
04. No. 4. Polunochnyye obrazy (Midnight Images)
5 Poems of Lermontov & Turgenev
05. No. 2. Utes (The Crag)
06. No. 3. Razgadka (The Answer)
10 Poems of Pushkin, Lermontov, Koltsov, Tyutchev & Fet
07. No. 5. Dlya beregov otchizny dal’ney (For Distant Shores of Homeland)
08. No. 4. Tikho vecher dogorayet (The Light of Evening Quietly Fades)
09. No. 1. Otchego, skazhi? (Tell Me Why)
10. No. 9. Iva (The Willow Tree)
12 Poems of Pushkin, Fet & Turgenev
11. No. 12. Zvezdy (Stars)
12. No. 6. Zaklinaniye (Invocation)
5 Poems of Lermontov & Turgenev
13. No. 4. Razluka (Separation)
12 Poems of Pushkin, Fet & Turgenev
14. No. 2. Na kholmakh Gruzii (Upon the Hills of Georgia)
Romances, Songs, Couplets & Cabaret Songs for Voice & Piano
15. No. 53. Staryy muzh, groznyy muzh
6 Mazurkas de Chopin, Series I
16. No. 1. Seize ans
17. No. 2. Aime-moi
18. No. 3. Plainte d’amour
19. No. 4. Coquette
20. No. 5. L’oiselet
21. No. 6. Separation
6 Mazurkas de Chopin, Series II
22. No. 1. La Fete
23. No. 2. Faible coeur!
24. No. 3. La Jeune Fille
25. No. 4. Berceuse
26. No. 5. La Danse
27. No. 6. La Beaute
Pauline Viardot (1821–1910) was one of the most extraordinary women in the history of music. Daughter of the Spanish tenor Manuel García and sister of the mezzo-soprano Maria Malibran and the baritone Manuel García the Younger, she studied piano with Liszt and counterpoint and harmony with Reicha. She, made her vocal debut, as a mezzo, at the age of sixteen (having already appeared in public as a pianist) and went on to inspire composers of the stature of Berlioz, Chopin, Gounod, Meyerbeer, Saint-Saëns, Schumann and Wagner. She was no mean composer herself, as these passionate songs demonstrate. Twelve of them are arrangements of mazurkas by her good friend Frédéric Chopin; the others set some major poems in Russian, a language she spoke fluently.
Ina Kancheva is the laureate of many prestigious awards – among them Bulgarian Musician of the Year in 2002 and the Montserrat Caballe and Passau International Competitions – and has performed at many festivals in Bulgaria and abroad. Ludmil Angelov’s debut recital in New York was at Lincoln Centre in 1990, since when he has also appeared in many other world’s other major concert halls. His recording of Chopin’s complete rondos and variations was awarded a Grand Prix du Disque Chopin by the National Chopin Institute in Warsaw. He gives master-classes at the New Bulgarian University in Sofia, where he is an honorary professor.