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