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Viacheslav Ivanov in music of Myaskovsky, Lourié, Shebalin, Gretchaninov

 

Nikolai Yakovlevich Myaskovsky (1881-1950)

Three Sketches to Words by Viacheslav Ivanov, op.8 (1908)

1.      The Temple Valley

2.      Pan and Psyche

3.      The Storm”

 

Arthur Sergeevich Lourié (1892-1966)

Greek Songs to Texts from Sappho translated by Viacheslav Ivanov (1914)

Book 1

4.      Lament for Adonis (O Cypris!...)

5.      Erotic Fragment (I love delight…)

6.      Hymnal Fragment (Cretan girls…)

7.      Garden of Nymphs (Round the hidden cave of Nymphs…)

8.      From Wedding Songs (Make the roof higher…)

9.      Prayers to Aphrodite (I will offer you a white she-goat…)

Book 2

10.  From Wedding Songs (How lovely you are!...)

11.  From Wedding Songs (Maiden blossom!...)

12.  Erotic Fragment (Dear mother!...)

13.  Erotic Fragment (Fall asleep on the breasts of your love…)

14.  Waiting (The moon is gone…)

15.  Erotic Fragment (I drag myself again…)
 

Alexander Tikhonovich Gretchaninov (1864-1956)

At the Well, Triptych to Words by Viacheslav Ivanov, Op.73 (1916)

16.  Under the Cypress Tree

17.  The Well

18.  Christ Is Risen!

 

Vissarion Yakovkevich Shebalin (1922-1923)

Five Fragments from Sappho translated by Viacheslav Ivanov, Op.5 (1922-1923)

19.  I love delight,

20.  I have a little daughter

21.  The time will come: you will lie

22.  Round the hidden cave of Nymphs, the moisture

23.  It was not wild wind shaking

 

Alexander Tikhonovich Gretchaninov (1864-1956)

Roman Sonnets to Words by Viacheslav Ivanov, Op.160 (1940)

24.  Square of Spain

25.  The Turtle Fountain

26.  Merman

27.  A Sunset at Pincio

28.  The Trevi Fountain

 

Total time: 53:52

 

Mila Shkirtil, mezzo-soprano

Yuri Serov, piano