SVIRIDOV,G.: Hymns to the Motherland (CD)

STATE CAPELLA OF ST. PETERSBURG
Conductor Vladislav Tchernushenko

GEORGY SVIRIDOV (1915-1998)
Five choruses on verses of Russian poets
1. Lost youth
2. Blue evening
3. When the son met his father
4. How the song was born
5. Herd

Hymns to the Motherland. Cantata for mixed choir on verses by F. Sologub
6. Our North
7. Russian Heart
8. Sadness of open space

Three poems by A. Pushkin
9. Where is our rose?
10. In Russia there is a town of Luga
11. If life cheats on you

Three choruses from incidental music to A. K. Tolstoy’s play “Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich” 12. Sacred love
13. Prayer
14. Verses of atonement

Three choir miniatures
15. Round dance
16. Spring song
17. Christmas carol

Vassily Timonin, tenor (1)
Tatiana Muratova, soprano; Janna Polevtsova, mezzo-soprano; Vladimir Romanchuk, baritone; Valery Starodubtsev, bass (6)
Julia Antonova, soprano (12)

Total time 60.47

Recorded by Petersburg Recording Studio, 1982-1983