Dmitri Hvorostovsky (baritone), Ivari Ilja (piano)
"Bringing them all to life is Hvorostovsky's performance - passionate, brooding or forceful with Pushkin's flowing lines, in a manner which might be a bit overpowering in less emotional music, but is exactly right for these songs...His word-sense and diction remain exemplary...Ivari Ilja is an equally spirited accompanist."
Borodin:
Dlya beregov otchizni dal'noy (For the Shores of thy Far Native Land)
Cui:
The Fountain Statue at Tsarskoye Selo, Op. 57 No. 17
Ya vas ljubil (I loved you)
Dargomïzhsky:
Yunosha I deva (A girl and a boy)
Glinka:
Ja pomnu chudnoe mgnovenie (Oh, I recall that lovely moment)
Priznaniye (Confession)
V krovi gorit ogon zhelania (The Fire of Longing Burns in My Heart)
Nochnoi Zefir (The Night Zephyr)
Medtner:
Ya perezhil svoi zhelania (Gone Are my Heart's Desires), Op. 3 No. 2
Buria Mglou nebo kroet (The Snowstorm Covers the Sky with Darkness), Op. 13 No. 1
Mechtatelu (To a Dreamer)
Rachmaninov:
Sing not, O lovely one (Ne poi, krasavitsa, pri mne), Op. 4 No. 4
Rimsky Korsakov:
The clouds begin to scatter (Elegy), Op. 42 No. 3
On the hills of Georgia, Op. 3 No. 4
Sviridov:
Roniayet les bagrianiy svoi ubor (The Crimson Forest Sheds its Attire)
Tchaikovsky:
The Nightingale Op. 60 No. 4
Vlasov:
The Fountain of Bakhchisarai