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On sale -50%Russian composer Georgy Sviridov was a student of Shostakovich, but except in the Music for Chamber Orchestra (1964), and not even in all of that, there's not much of a resemblance. Sviridov seems to revel in taking genres and styles that might easily become trite and making something fresh from them. Nowhere is this more notable than in the opening three-part Sneg idyot (Snow Is Falling), to texts by Boris Pasternak. Sample the opening section, which could almost be a singsong exercise for schoolchildren, alternating between a couple of notes and harmonies, but remains distinctive. The titular song cycle is a setting of poems by Sergey Yesenin that are nationalistic in the best way, with lovely evocations of the Russian landscape and soul; the title, taken from the song of the same name, is not a political critique, but a beautiful evocation of flight. The vocal lines are deliberate and dignified, again simple and more tonal than even Shostakovich, but distinctive. There is a competing version of the song cycle by Dmitri Hvorostovsky, but this one, in an arrangement for mezzo-soprano that the conductor's father worked on in his last days, has an attractive personal quality. Naxos refers listeners to a website for the texts; the URL given on the packaging does not work at this writing, but the page can be found by searching for Sviridov on the main Naxos website.
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Snow Is Falling (Georgy Vasil'yevich Sviridov)
St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Yuri Serov, Conductor - Georgy Vasil'yevich Sviridov, Composer - Rimsky-Korsakov College of Music Female Choir, Choir, MainArtist - St. Petersburg Radio and Television Children's Choir, Choir - Danil Zosin, Engineer
(C) 2017 Naxos (P) 2017 Naxos
St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Yuri Serov, Conductor - Georgy Vasil'yevich Sviridov, Composer - Rimsky-Korsakov College of Music Female Choir, Choir, MainArtist - St. Petersburg Radio and Television Children's Choir, Choir
(C) 2017 Naxos (P) 2017 Naxos
St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Yuri Serov, Conductor - Georgy Vasil'yevich Sviridov, Composer - Rimsky-Korsakov College of Music Female Choir, Choir, MainArtist - St. Petersburg Radio and Television Children's Choir, Choir
(C) 2017 Naxos (P) 2017 Naxos
Music for Chamber Orchestra (Georgy Vasil'yevich Sviridov)
St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Yuri Serov, Conductor - Georgy Vasil'yevich Sviridov, Composer - Sergei Voloshchuk, Artist, MainArtist - Nikolai Mazhara, Artist - Danil Zosin, Engineer
(C) 2017 Naxos (P) 2017 Naxos
St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Yuri Serov, Conductor - Georgy Vasil'yevich Sviridov, Composer - Nikolai Mazhara, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2017 Naxos (P) 2017 Naxos
St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Yuri Serov, Conductor - Georgy Vasil'yevich Sviridov, Composer - Nikolai Mazhara, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2017 Naxos (P) 2017 Naxos
Russia Adrift (Arr. L. Rezetdinov) (Georgy Vasil'yevich Sviridov)
St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Yuri Serov, Conductor - Lyudmila Shkirtil, Artist, MainArtist - Georgy Vasil'yevich Sviridov, Composer - Leonid Rezetdinov, Composer - Danil Zosin, Engineer
(C) 2017 Naxos (P) 2017 Naxos
St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Yuri Serov, Conductor - Lyudmila Shkirtil, Artist, MainArtist - Georgy Vasil'yevich Sviridov, Composer - Leonid Rezetdinov, Composer
(C) 2017 Naxos (P) 2017 Naxos
St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Yuri Serov, Conductor - Lyudmila Shkirtil, Artist, MainArtist - Georgy Vasil'yevich Sviridov, Composer - Leonid Rezetdinov, Composer
(C) 2017 Naxos (P) 2017 Naxos
St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Yuri Serov, Conductor - Lyudmila Shkirtil, Artist, MainArtist - Georgy Vasil'yevich Sviridov, Composer - Leonid Rezetdinov, Composer
(C) 2017 Naxos (P) 2017 Naxos
St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Yuri Serov, Conductor - Lyudmila Shkirtil, Artist, MainArtist - Georgy Vasil'yevich Sviridov, Composer - Leonid Rezetdinov, Composer
(C) 2017 Naxos (P) 2017 Naxos
St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Yuri Serov, Conductor - Lyudmila Shkirtil, Artist, MainArtist - Georgy Vasil'yevich Sviridov, Composer - Leonid Rezetdinov, Composer
(C) 2017 Naxos (P) 2017 Naxos
St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Yuri Serov, Conductor - Lyudmila Shkirtil, Artist, MainArtist - Georgy Vasil'yevich Sviridov, Composer - Leonid Rezetdinov, Composer
(C) 2017 Naxos (P) 2017 Naxos
St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Yuri Serov, Conductor - Lyudmila Shkirtil, Artist, MainArtist - Georgy Vasil'yevich Sviridov, Composer - Leonid Rezetdinov, Composer
(C) 2017 Naxos (P) 2017 Naxos
St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Yuri Serov, Conductor - Lyudmila Shkirtil, Artist, MainArtist - Georgy Vasil'yevich Sviridov, Composer - Leonid Rezetdinov, Composer
(C) 2017 Naxos (P) 2017 Naxos
St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Yuri Serov, Conductor - Lyudmila Shkirtil, Artist, MainArtist - Georgy Vasil'yevich Sviridov, Composer - Leonid Rezetdinov, Composer
(C) 2017 Naxos (P) 2017 Naxos
St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Yuri Serov, Conductor - Lyudmila Shkirtil, Artist, MainArtist - Georgy Vasil'yevich Sviridov, Composer - Leonid Rezetdinov, Composer
(C) 2017 Naxos (P) 2017 Naxos
St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Yuri Serov, Conductor - Lyudmila Shkirtil, Artist, MainArtist - Georgy Vasil'yevich Sviridov, Composer - Leonid Rezetdinov, Composer
(C) 2017 Naxos (P) 2017 Naxos
Album review
Russian composer Georgy Sviridov was a student of Shostakovich, but except in the Music for Chamber Orchestra (1964), and not even in all of that, there's not much of a resemblance. Sviridov seems to revel in taking genres and styles that might easily become trite and making something fresh from them. Nowhere is this more notable than in the opening three-part Sneg idyot (Snow Is Falling), to texts by Boris Pasternak. Sample the opening section, which could almost be a singsong exercise for schoolchildren, alternating between a couple of notes and harmonies, but remains distinctive. The titular song cycle is a setting of poems by Sergey Yesenin that are nationalistic in the best way, with lovely evocations of the Russian landscape and soul; the title, taken from the song of the same name, is not a political critique, but a beautiful evocation of flight. The vocal lines are deliberate and dignified, again simple and more tonal than even Shostakovich, but distinctive. There is a competing version of the song cycle by Dmitri Hvorostovsky, but this one, in an arrangement for mezzo-soprano that the conductor's father worked on in his last days, has an attractive personal quality. Naxos refers listeners to a website for the texts; the URL given on the packaging does not work at this writing, but the page can be found by searching for Sviridov on the main Naxos website.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 18 track(s)
- Total length: 01:04:49
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Lyudmila Shkirtil
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Naxos
- Genre: Classical
(C) 2017 Naxos (P) 2017 Naxos
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