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Tchaikovsky, Piotr Ilyich (1840-93) Sred’ shumnogo bala (Amid the din of the ball), Op. 38 No. 3 None but the lonely heart, Op. 6 No. 6 Over Burning Ashes, Op.25 No.2 Moy geni, moy angel, moy drug (My genius, my angel, my friend) Lullaby, Op. 16 No. 1 Primiren’ye (Reconciliation), Op. 25 No. 1 Zakatilos solntse (The sun has set), Op. 73 No. 4 The Fearful Moment, Op.28 No.6 The mild stars shone for us, Op. 60 No. 12 If only I had known, Op.47, No.1 The lights were being dimmed, Op. 63, No. 5 Not a Word, My Friend, Op.6 No.2 Why? Op.6 No.5 Was I not a blade of grass?, Op. 47 No. 7 The gypsy song, Op. 60, No. 7 Do not believe, my friend Op. 6 No. 1 To bilo ranneyu vesnoy (It happened in the early spring), Op. 38 No. 2 Cuckoo, Op.54 No.8 Den’ li tsarit? (Does the day reign?), Op. 47 No. 6 Solitude (‘Again, as before, alone’), Op. 73 No. 6 Third release on ONYX from young Dutch mezzo and rising star Christianne Stotijn Beautiful collection of 20 Tchaikovsky songs representing the whole range of his creative life from his first performed composition “My Genius, My angel, my friend,” written when we was 16, through to the last published song from the year of his death “Again, as before, alone”. Includes favourites such as “None but the Lonely Heart” and “Why?” but also rarely heard songs such as “Mild Stars Looked down”, “The Cuckoo” and “The Gypsy Song” Christianne learnt Russian especially for this recording and toured it widely before recording it with her superb pianist Julius Drake. This recording should do much to re-evaluate Tchaikovsky as one of the greatest composers of song and not just a writer of pretty tunes.
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