"Les noces" and other choral music
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"Les noces" and other choral music
Hyperion, c1991
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"Les noces", peasant songs, motets, etc.
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Ballet cantata for solo voices (SATB), mixed chorus, 4 pianos and 6 percussionists (6th work); for unacc. women's voices (7th) and with 4 horns (8th); for unacc. mixed chorus (1st-5th and 9th-15th); for male voices and instrumental ensemble (16th)
Sung in Russian (1st-11th works), Latin (12th-14th and 16th) and English (15th)
Jane Ginsborg, soprano (6th work) ; Elena Medvedovskaya, alto (6th) ; John Potter, tenor (6th) ; Alexander Nazarov, bass (6th) ; The Voronezh Chamber Choir (1st-11th) ; Women's voices of the New London Chamber Choir (7th-8th) ; New London Chamber Choir (6th and 12th-15th) ; Men's voices of the New London Chamber Choir (16th) ; New London Chamber Ensemble (6th, 8th and 16th) ; James Wood (6th-8th and 12th-16th), Oleg Shepel (9th-11th), conductors
Recorded in the Royal College of Music, London, on 13, 14 October 1990
Compact disc
Texts in Russian (romanized), Latin and English with English and German (7th-8th and 12th-16th) translation
Hyperion: CDA66410
Contents of Works
- Five bridal folk songs from the Voronezh district (traditional). Now, little grey duck
- Good day, my fair one
- Oh, mother, my little head hurts
- Oh, come to me (Lament)
- Indoors, outside
- Svadebka = Les noces = The wedding
- Podblyudnye : four Russian peasant songs (1914/17)
- Podblyudnye : four Russian peasant songs (1954)
- Otshe nash (1926, Slavonic version) = Our Father = Pater noster
- Bogoroditse devo (1934, Slavonic version) = Blessed Virgin = Ave Maria
- Simvol very (1964, Slavonic version) = Symbol of faith = Credo
- Tres sacrae cantiones. Da pacem Domine (1959) / Carlo Gesualdo ; completed by Stravinsky
- Assumpta est Maria (1959) / Carlo Gesualdo ; completed by Stravinsky
- Illumina nos (1957) / Carlo Gesualdo ; completed by Stravinsky
- The dove descending breakes the air (1962)
- Introitus : T S Eliot in memoriam (1965)