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Record 1

C 10-10617-18

Side 1

Opus 21: Six Romances by Japanese Poets

Suite of six songs for tenor and full orchestra (with two harps)

1. Love (An Epitaph)—Andante

2. Before Suicide—Adagio

3. Immodest Glance—Allegretto

4. For the First and Last Time—Andante

5. Hopeless Love—Adagio

6. Death—Largo

Aleksei MASLENNIKOV (tenor);

Liya Mogilevskaya (piano).

Side 2

Opus 46: Four Romances on Poems of Pushkin

Four songs to verses by Aleksandr Pushkin, of a planned cycle of twelve

1. Renaissance—Moderato

2. A jealous maiden, sobbing bitterly—Allegretto

3. Presentiment—Allegro

4. Stanzas—Adagio

Sergei YAKOVENKOY (baritone);

Mariya Grinberg (piano).

Opus 91: Two Monologues on Verses of Pushkin

2. What does my name mean to you?—Allegro

4. Farewell—Allegretto

Viktor SELIVANOV (baritone);

Lyubov Popova (piano).

Record 2

C10-10521-2

Side 1

Opus 79: From Jewish Folk Poetry

Song cycle for soprano (S), contralto (C), and tenor (T) with piano accompaniment, to traditional Yiddish and Hebrew texts (apart from No. 7 by B. Shafir).

1. Lament for a dead infant—Moderato (S and C)

2. The solicitous mother and aunt—Allegretto (S and C)

3. Lullaby (‘Little son, my fairest’)—Andante (C)

4. Before a long separation—Adagio (S and T)

5. Warning—Allegretto (S)

6. The abandoned father—Moderato (C and T)

7. Song of want—Allegro (T)

8. Winter—Adagio (T, S, and C)

Side 2

9. The good life—Allegretto (T)

10. Song of the young girl—Allegretto (S)

11. Happiness—Allegretto (C, S, and T)

Nina Dorliak (soprano), 

Zara Dolukhanova (mezzo-soprano), 

Aleksei Maslennikov (tenor),

and Dmitri Shostakovich (piano).

Record 3

C 10-10527-06348

Side 1

Opus 100: Spanish Songs

cycle of six traditional folksongs for mezzo-soprano and piano, with the anonymous Spanish lyrics translated into Russian by Sergei Bolotin (Nos. 1 and 3) and Tatyana Sikorskaya (Nos. 2, 4, and 5), and jointly (No. 6).

1. Adios, Granada = Farewell, Granada—Largo

2. Mozuca = Little Stars—Allegro

3. En samir = First Meeting—Largo

4. Ronda = Round Dance (A Birth)—Allegretto

5. Morena salada = Black Eyes—Allegretto

6. [No Spanish title] Dream (Barcarolle)—Allegretto

Complete cycle. 

Nina ISAKOVA (mezzo-soprano); 

Yevgeniya Bruk (piano).

Side 2

Opus 127: Seven Romances on Poems of Aleksandr Blok.

Vocal-instrumental Suite for soprano voice, violin, cello, and piano; settings of poems by Aleksandr Blok.

1. Song of Ophelia—Moderato (accompanied by cello)

2. Gamayun, the bird of prophecy—Adagio (piano)

3. We were together (That troubled night)—Allegretto (violin)

4. The city sleeps (Deep in sleep)—Largo (cello and piano)

5. The storm—Allegro (violin and piano) attacca

6. Secret signs—Largo (violin and cello) attacca

7. Music—Largo (violin, cello, and piano)

Margarita MIROSHNIKOVA (soprano), 

Andrei Korsakov (violin), 

Viktor Simon (cello), 

Iolanta Miroshnikova (piano).

Record 4

C 10-05837-38

Side 1

Opus 140: Six Romances on Verses by British Poets

Orchestral version of Opus 62 for bass soloist and small orchestra.

Yevgeni NESTERENKO (bass)

Side 2

Opus 143a: Six Songs on Poems of Marina Tsvetayeva

Suite for contralto and piano on poems of Marina Tsvetayeva.

1. My poems—Largo

2. Whence this tenderness?—Allegretto

3. Hamlet’s dialogue with his conscience—Largo

4. The Poet and the Tsar—Moderato attacca

5. No, the drum was beating—Allegretto

6. To Anna Akhmatova—Largo

Irina BOGACHEVA (mezzo-soprano);

Sofya Vakman.

Record 5

C 10-09255-26

Side 1

Opus 58a: King Lear.

Incidental music to Grigori Kozintsev’s stage production of William Shakespeare’s tragedy King Lear, in the Russian translation of Mikhail Kuzmin and A. Radlova.

1. Introduction and Ballad of Cordelia—’Beyond a dark sea on a cliff stands a high house’—Moderato.

3–12. The Fool’s Songs.

Opus 123: Preface to the Complete Collection of my Works and a Brief Reflection upon this Preface.

Setting of a jocular poem by the composer (the first four lines paraphrasing Aleksandr Pushkin’s History of a versifier of 1817), for bass voice and grand piano, marked ‘Allegretto'.

Side 2

Opus 121: Five Romances on Texts from ‘Krokodil’

Song cycle for bass voice and grand piano to poems by readers from the ‘Believe it or not’ feature of the satirical magazine Krokodil.

1. The evidence of one’s own manuscript—Moderato

2. A desire too difficult to gratify—Moderato

3. Discretion—Largo

4. Irinka and the Shepherd—Allegro

5. Excessive delight—Moderato

Opus 146: Four Verses of Captain Lebyadkin

Four songs for bass and piano to texts of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, from the novel The Demons.

1. The Love of Captain Lebyadkin (Miss Elizaveta Tushin)—Allegretto

2. The Cockroach—Moderato

3. The Ball to the Benefit the Governesses—Allegretto

4. A Shining Personality (or ‘A Pure Soul’)—Allegretto

Yevgeni Nesterenko (bass);

Yevgeni Shenderovich (piano).

Record 6

C 10-07395-96

Opus 145a: Suite on Verses of Michelangelo

Song cycle for bass voice and piano. Settings of eleven poems by Michelangelo Buonarroti.

1. Truth (Sonnet 3 to Pope Julius II)—Adagio

2. Morning (Sonnet 20)—Allegretto

3. Love (Sonnet 25)—Allegretto

4. Separation (Madrigal—Com’ arò dunque ardire)—Moderato

5. Anger (Sonnet 4 on Rome in the Pontificate of Julius II)—Allegro non troppo [attacca not marked in the score]

6. Dante (Sonnet 1 on Dante Alighieri)—Moderato attacca

7. To the Exile (Sonnet 2 on Dante Alighieri)—Largo

8. Creativity (Sonnet 61 on the death of Vittoria Colonna)—Moderato

9. Night— a dialogue (Dialogue between Giovanni Strozzi and the Sculptor)—Andante

10. Death (Sonnet 69)—Adagio

11. Immortality (Epitaph for Cecchino Bracci Fiorentio—Epigrams 14 and 12)—Allegretto

Yevgeni Nesterenko (bass);

Yevgeni Shenderovich (piano).