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Rachmaninov: Songs
RecommendedEvelina Dobraceva, Ekaterina Siurina (sopranos), Justina Gringyte (mezzo-soprano), Daniil Shtoda (tenor), Andrei Bondarenko, Rodion Pogossov (baritones), Alexander Vinogradov (bass) & Iain Burnside (piano)
I was quickly won over by Andrei Bondarenko's burnished baritone sound and sensitivity...The two sopranos are top-note perfect...At times, the heavier-weight voices of mezzo Justina Gringyte... —
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2014, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2014, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Shortlisted - Solo Vocal
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Alder needs her linguistic wits about her – pianist Joseph Middleton too as he responds to or prefigures her changing colours and inflections. Both triumph across a nightscape in which dreaming... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 3rd January 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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The Times Records of the Year, 2020
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Gimenez is both singing virtuoso and colour washing accompanist, dispatching vocal lines with extraordinary lyricism. —
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Sitkovetsky sings with real passion, and is emotive, even if that means compromising beauty of tone on occasion. —
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Rachmaninov: Songs, Vol. 3
Joan Rodgers (soprano), Maria Popescu (contralto), Alexandre Naoumenko (tenor), Sergei Leiferkus (baritone), Howard Shelley (piano)
This set opens with a powerful dramatic outpouring, Letter to KS Stanislavsky. In fact it's a formal letter of apology, for unavoidable absence from a gathering, which Rachmaninov sent for Chaliapin... —
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Melnikov shows unerring judgement in programming and execution. Melnikov's partnership with soprano Elena Brilova in the near-contemporary songs written for the dazzling Nina Koshetz… surely... —
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