Prokofiev: Songs and Romances

Prokofiev: Songs and Romances

8.574030 (Naxos, CD)

DDD
NEW RELEASE (8 May 2020)

Playing time: 66'58"
Tracks: 16
Booklet pages: 24
© 2020 Naxos Rights (Europe) Ltd
Main country of recording: DE
Country of manufacture: DE
Reviewer: Patrick Maxwell
Review of Prokofiev: Songs and Romances published on 6 August 2020


Listen: Prokofiev: Gadkly utyonok (track 1, 0:01-0:56)

Margarita Gritskova, mezzo-soprano
Maria Prinz, piano

Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953):

1 The Ugly Duckling, Op 18 (1914)

Five Poems, Op 23 (1915)
2 II The Little Grey Dress
3 III Trust me
4 V The Sorcerer

Five Poems of Anna Akhmatova, Op 27 (1916)
5 The sun has filled the room
6 Real tenderness
7 Memory of the Sun
8 Hello!
9 The Grey-Eyed King

10 Remember Me! - A Malayan spell, Op 36 No 4 (1921)

11 My grey dove is full of sorrow, Op 60bis, No 1 (1934)

12 Anyutka, Op 66a No 2 (version for voice and piano) (1934)

13 The Chatterbox, Op 68 No 1 (1934)

14 Mark, ye Bright Falcons (The Field of the Dead), Op 78bis No 2 (1939)

15 The rosy dawn is colouring the east, Op 73 No 2 (1936)

16 Katerina, Op 104 No 6 (1944)

Recorded 23-26 April 2019 at Studio 2, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich, Germany

 

 

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