Russian Light | Sony 88985352232

Russian Light

Label: Sony

Cat No: 88985352232

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 9th June 2017

Contents

Works

Glinka, Mikhail

Ruslan and Lyudmila, op.5
» I am sad, my dear father

Rachmaninov, Sergei

Songs (6), op.4
» no.4 Sing not to me, beautiful maiden
Songs (12), op.14
» no.11 Spring Waters
Songs (12), op.21
» no.7 How fair this spot
Songs (14), op.34
» no.14 Vocalise

Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai

Sadko
» Berceuse
Songs (4), op.2
» no.2 A nightingale sings to the rose
The Golden Cockerel (Le Coq d'Or)
» Hymn to the sun
The Snow Maiden
» Snegurochka's Aria
The Tsar's Bride
» Ivan Sergeyevich (Act 4)

Shostakovich, Dmitri

Moscow-Cheryomushki, op.105
» Lidochka's Song: I used to go to school
» Lidochka's Song: The clock on the square is lit up

Stravinsky, Igor

Le Chant du Rossignol
» The Nightingale's Song

Artists

Olga Peretyatko (soprano)
Ural Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Dmitry Liss

Works

Glinka, Mikhail

Ruslan and Lyudmila, op.5
» I am sad, my dear father

Rachmaninov, Sergei

Songs (6), op.4
» no.4 Sing not to me, beautiful maiden
Songs (12), op.14
» no.11 Spring Waters
Songs (12), op.21
» no.7 How fair this spot
Songs (14), op.34
» no.14 Vocalise

Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai

Sadko
» Berceuse
Songs (4), op.2
» no.2 A nightingale sings to the rose
The Golden Cockerel (Le Coq d'Or)
» Hymn to the sun
The Snow Maiden
» Snegurochka's Aria
The Tsar's Bride
» Ivan Sergeyevich (Act 4)

Shostakovich, Dmitri

Moscow-Cheryomushki, op.105
» Lidochka's Song: I used to go to school
» Lidochka's Song: The clock on the square is lit up

Stravinsky, Igor

Le Chant du Rossignol
» The Nightingale's Song

Artists

Olga Peretyatko (soprano)
Ural Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Dmitry Liss

About

Olga Peretyatko's last album “Rossini!” (2016) received fantastic reviews all over the world. This album received an Echo Klassik award as “aria recital album of the year”.

On her new album “Russian Light”, Olga Peretyatko presents favourite arias and songs from her homeland Russia – by Glinka, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninov, Stravinsky and Shostakovich. Many of them are well known (Rachmaninov’s Vocalise) but there are also unknown rare jewels on the album like the songs from Rachmaninov or the opera arias by Shostakovich. She teamed with the Ural Philharmonic Orchestra, one of the best orchestras in Russia, and excellent for this kind of repertoire with conductor Dimitry Liss, specialist for this repertoire.

The main focus of “Russian Light” falls on excerpts from operas that have left a deep imprint on Russia’s national music. Among these are Glinka’s Ruslan and Ludmila as well as Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Golden Cockerel, The Snow Maiden and The Tsar’s Bride. The latter piece represents a personal triumph for Ms Peretyatko, for she sang the role of Marfa under Daniel Barenboim to open the 2013 season at the Berlin State Opera. With her silvery timbre and solid mastery of coloratura she thrilled not only the audience but the critic of Der Tagespiegel: “Olga Peretyatko projects Marfa as a being so delicate and other-worldly that it strikes the knowledgeable listener to the core.”

Other excerpts on “Russian Light” are taken from operas by Stravinsky and Shostakovich that likewise accompanied Ms Peretyatko on her rise to stardom. In 2009 she stepped in at short notice for an indisposed colleague to sing the role of Lidochka in Shostakovich’s operetta Moscow, Cheryomushki at the Opéra de Lyon. Though she had only two days’ time before the première, she won acclaim for her breathtaking character depiction. In 2010 she sang The Nightingale in Stravinsky’s like-named opera (Le Rossignol) at the festival in Aix-en-Provence. When the production was mounted in New York and Canada the North American critics went wild about her effortless presentation and the “fresh sound of her voice”.

Reviews

For her fourth solo CD, Russian soprano Olga Peretyatko turns to her native repertoire with resplendent results. She is treading in the footsteps of such legends as Nezhdanova, Vishnevskaya and Koshetz, but is unafraid, exploring the coloratura heights with aplomb.  Tully Potter
Daily Mail 27 October 2017

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