MUSSORGSKY: Songs. Sergei Leiferkus, Semyon Skigin (4CD)

CD1
Pesni i plyaski smerti (Songs and Dances of Death) (Golenishchev-Kutuzov)
1 I. Kolïbel’naya (Lullaby)                                                                                                     5’12
2 II. Serenada (Serenade)                                                                                                    4’29
3 III. Trepak                                                                                                                          4’55
4 IV. Polkovodets (The Field-Marshal)                                                                                 5’50
 
Detskaya (The Nursery) (Mussorgsky)
5 I. S nyaney (With Nurse)                                                                                                   1’67
6 II. V uglu (In the Corner)                                                                                                    1’44
7 III. Zhuk (The Beetle)                                                                                                         2’22
8 IV. S kukloy (With the Doll)                                                                                               2’08
9 V. Na son gryadushchiy (Going to Sleep)                                                                         2’13
10 VI. Poyekhal na palochke (On the Hobbyhorse)                                                            3’32
11 VII. Kot Matros (The Cat Sailor)                                                                                      2’41
12 Rayok (The Gallery) (Mussorgsky)                                                                                14’31
13 Zabïtïy (Forgotten) (Golenishchev-Kutuzov)                                                                  2’31
14 Seminarist (The Seminarist) (Mussorgsky)                                                                  4’31
15 Sveti Savishna (Darling Savishna) (Mussorgsky)                                                        1’16
16 Svetskaya skazochka: kozyol (A Society Tale: The Goat) (Mussorgsky)                  2’31
17 Pesnya Mefistofelya v pogrebke Auerbakha                                                             3’07
(Mephistopheles’s Song in Auerbach’s Cellar) (Goethe, trans. Strugovshchikov)
 
Total time                                                                                                                              66’00
 
 
CD2
1 Nadgrabnoye pis’mo (Epitaph) (Mussorgsky)                                                               3’40
2 Neponyatnaya (The Misunderstood One) (Mussorgsky)                                                2’12
3 Ne bozhim gromom udarilo (Not like thunder, trouble struck) (Tolstoy)                       2’37
4 Gornimi tikho letela dusha nebesami (Softly the spirit flew up to heaven) (Tolstoy) 2’54
5 Spes’ (Pride) (Tolstoy)                                                                                                      2’10
6 Oy, chest’li to molodtsu len pryasti? (Is spinning man’s work?) (Tolstoy)                  2’00
7 Ya videl noch (The Vision) (Golenishchev-Kutuzov)                                                      2’43
8 Rassevayetsya, rasstupayetsya (It scatters and breaks) (Tolstoy)                               2’11
9 Pesn’ Yaremï ‘Na Dnepre’ (Yarema’s Song ‘On the Dnieper’) (Shevchenko, trans. Mey)      6’10
10 Kolïbel’naya Eryomushki (Eremushka’s Lullaby) (Nekrasov)                                     3’57
11 Pirushka (The Feast) (Kol’tsov)                                                                                     2’37
12 Klassik (The Classicist) (Mussorgsky)                                                                          3’15
13 Iz slyoz moikh (From my tears) (Heine, trans. Mikhaylov)                                           2’28
 
Bez solntsa (Sunless) (Golenishchev-Kutuzov)
14 I. V chetïryokh stenakh (Within four walls)                                                                      2’08
15 II. Menya tï v tolpe ne uznala (You did not know me in the crowd)                                1’06
16 III. Okonchen prazdnïy, shumnïy den’ (The useless, noisy day is ended)                      3’47
17 IV. Skuchay (Be bored)                                                                                                   2’20
18 V. Elegiya (Elegy)                                                                                                            4’24
19 VI. Nad rekoy (On the River)                                                                                          5’09
 
Total time                                                                                                                              58’38
 
 


CD3
1 Gde tï, zvezdochka? (Where art thou, little star?) (Grekov)                                           4’18
2 Vesyolïy chas (The Joyous Hour) (Kol’tsov)                                                                   2’09
3 List’ya shumeli unïlo (The leaves rustled sadly) (Pleshcheyev)                                    3’55
4 Mnogo yest’ u menya teremov i sadov (I have many palaces and gardens) (Kol’tsov)         3’14
5 Molitva (Prayer) (Lermontov)                                                                                           3’09
6 Otchego, skazhi (Tell me why) (Pleshcheyev)                                                               2’41
7 Chto vam slova lyubvi? (What are words of love to you?) (Ammosov)                        1’55
8 Duyut vetrï, vetrï buynïye (The winds blow, the wild winds) (Kol’tsov)                          5’02
9 No yesli bï s toboyu ya vstretit’sya mogla (But if I could meet thee again) (Kurochkin)        2’36
10 Malyutka: akh, zachem tvoy glazki poroyu? (Dear one, why are thine eyes sometimes so cold?) (Pleshcheyev)                                                                                                                      2’35
11 Pesn’ startsa: stanu skromno u poroga (Old Man’s Song) (Goethe, trans. ?Mussorgsky)            2’55
12 Tsar’ Saul (King Saul) (Byron, trans. Kozlov)                                                                2’58
13 Noch’ (Night) (Pushkin)                                                                                                  3’46
14 Kalistratushka (Little Kalistrat) (Nekrasov)                                                                   6’15
15 Otverzhennaya: opït rechitativa (The Outcast: Essay in Recitative) (Holz-Miller)     2’44
16 Kolïbel’naya pesnya (Cradle Song) (from Ostrovsky’s Voyevoda)                             4’45
17 Salammbô – Pesn baleartsa (Balearic Song) (Mussorgsky)                                        3’13
 
Total time                                                                                                                              58’18
 
 
Compact Disc 4 42’57
1 Gde tï, zvezdochka? (Where art thou, little star?) (Grekov)                                           4’03
2 Noch’ (Night) (Pushkin)                                                                                                    4’30
3 Gopak (Hopak) (Shevchenko, trans. Mey)                                                                      3’39
4 Krapivnaya gora (The nettle mountain) (Mussorgsky)                                                   2’47
5 Akh tï, p’yanaya teterya! (You drunken sot!) (Mussorgsky)                                          3’19
6 Sirotka (The Orphan) (Mussorgsky)                                                                                2’12
7 Strekotun’ya beloboka (The Magpie) (Pushkin)                                                            2’09
8 Detskaya pesenka (Child’s Song) (Mey)                                                                         1’30
9 Ozornik (The Ragamuffin) (Mussorgsky)                                                                       2’01
10 Vechernyaya pesenka (Evening Song) (Pleshcheyev)                                                1’12
11 Po gribï (Gathering Mushrooms) (Mey)                                                                         1’43
12 Strannik (The Wanderer) (Rückert, trans. Pleshcheyev)                                             1’30
13 Po nad Donom sad tsvetyot (A garden blooms by the Don) (Kol’tsov)                      2’30
14 Yevreyskaya pesnya (Hebrew Song) (Mey)                                                                 3’25
15 Zhelaniye serdtsa (Meines Herzens Sehnsucht) (Anon, trans. Usov)                         2’49
16 Zhelaniye (Ich wollt’ meine Schmerzen ergössen) (Heine, trans. Mey)                        3’30
 
Total time                                                                                                                              42’57
 
Sergei Leiferkus baritone
Semyon Skigin piano