A selection of songs by programme maker Menno Feenstra.
Russian songs.
1. Mikhail Glinka. 5 songs. a. The inspection of the night. b. Sleep, my angel. c. What is wrong, young girl. d. Where is our rose? e. The Lark.
Boris Christoff, bass. Alexander Labinsky, piano. Gaston Marchesini, cello (b+d).
2. Peter Iljitsj Tsjaikofski. 5 songs. a. The nightingale, opus 60/4. b. Last Night, opus 60/1. c. Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt, opus 6/6. d. Lullaby, opus 16/1. e. Why?, opus 6/5.
Elisabeth Söderström, soprano. Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano.
3. Sergei Rachmaninov. 6 songs. a. The morning opus 4/2. b. the silence of the secret night, opus 4/3. c. In my soul, opus 14/10. d. Faith, opus 21/1. e. By the fresh grave, opus 21/2. f. Fragment of Alfred de Musset, opus 21/6.
Paata Burchuladze, bass. Ludmila Ivanova, piano.
4. Folk song.
Elegie: Kagda, dusha (When my soul).
Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone. Ossipov Russian Folk Music Orchestra led by Nikolai Kalinin.
