Alexander Kipnis: Prima Voce | Nimbus - Prima Voce NI7950

Alexander Kipnis: Prima Voce

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Label: Nimbus - Prima Voce

Cat No: NI7950

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 31st March 2008

Contents

Works

Dargomizhsky
Rusalka: Miller’s Aria

Tchaikovsky
Yevgeny Onegin: Prince Gremin’s Aria

Borodin
Prince Igor: Prince Galitsky’s Aria, I hate a dreary life

Rimsky-Korsakov
Sadko: Song of the Viking Guest

Mussorgsky
Song of the flea

Mussorgsky
Boris Godunov: Introduction & Opening Chorus / Coronation Scene / Varlaam’s song – Once upon a time…Come now comrades, fill up your glass / I have attained the highest power / Duologue between Boris and Shuysky…Clock scene - Give me air, I suffocate / Farewell & Death of Boris

Artists

Alexander Kipnis (bass)

Works

Dargomizhsky
Rusalka: Miller’s Aria

Tchaikovsky
Yevgeny Onegin: Prince Gremin’s Aria

Borodin
Prince Igor: Prince Galitsky’s Aria, I hate a dreary life

Rimsky-Korsakov
Sadko: Song of the Viking Guest

Mussorgsky
Song of the flea

Mussorgsky
Boris Godunov: Introduction & Opening Chorus / Coronation Scene / Varlaam’s song – Once upon a time…Come now comrades, fill up your glass / I have attained the highest power / Duologue between Boris and Shuysky…Clock scene - Give me air, I suffocate / Farewell & Death of Boris

Artists

Alexander Kipnis (bass)

About

In the search for suitable and evocative words to describe a particular vocal quality, usually for the bass voice one would expect adjectives like deep, black, sonorous, cavernous, thundering, impressive or even noble. Rarely is the word beautiful used. However, in the case of Alexander Kipnis, it most certainly applies.

Alexander Kipnis was born into a very poor family in Zhitomir, Ukraine on l February 1891. They were very proud of the extraordinary quality of his singing voice, which attracted the attention of a visiting cantor from Bessarabia, who heard him as a soloist in the local synagogue choir. So taken was he by the boy’s natural talent, that, with a promise of some payment, the cantor persuaded Alexander’s mother to let him leave home and become a chorister at his synagogue.

Alexander was befriended by one of the older singers with whom he lodged and who taught him the rudiments of music and also some Lieder. Kipnis then won a scholarship to enter the Warsaw Conservatoire, initially to study conducting, but of course he continued to sing, his voice having broken and become a bass. He decided to move to Berlin, undertaking further vocal studies with the well-known teacher Ernst Grenzebach.

This compilation is a tribute to one of the greatest bass voices ever to have recorded.

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