Declaration (Priznaniye), song for voice & piano, G. x280
Adèle (Adel'), song for voice & piano, G. x316
Sing not, thou beauty, in my presence (Ne poy, krasavitsa), song for voice & piano, G. x92
I recall that wonderful moment (Ya pomnyu chudnoye mgnoven'ye), song for voice & piano, G. x201
I Am Here, Inezilla (Ya zdes', Inezil'ya: Spanish Romance), song for voice & piano, G. x161
Elegy: The Clouds Begin to Scatter, song for voice & piano, Op. 42/3
Do not sing to me, O lovely one (Ne poy, krasavitsa), song for voice & piano, Op. 51/2
What is My Name to Thee? (Chto v imeni tebe moyem?), song for voice & piano, Op. 4/1
On the Hills of Georgia (Na kholmakh Gruzii), song for voice and piano, Op. 3/4
My voice for thee is sweet and languid (Moy golos dyla tebya i laskovïy), song for voice & piano, Op. 7/1
The Echo (Ekho), song for voice & piano (To the poet No. 1), Op. 45/1
Thou and You (Tï i vï), song for voice & piano, Op. 27/3
The Muse (Musa), song for voice & piano, Op. 29/1
A Rose (Roza), song for voice & piano, Op. 29/6
When Roses Fade (Lish' rozï uvyadayut), song for voice & piano, Op.36/3
The Waltz ("Mogu l' zabït'eto sladkoye mgnoven'ye"), song for voice & piano, Op. 32/5
Pevec ("Vernehmet ihr"), song for voice & piano, Op. 36/7
Noch (Night), romance for voice & piano (after Romance, Op. 44/1)
Zemfira's Song (Pesn' Zemfiri ), for voice & piano
The Nightingale, song for voice & piano, Op. 60/4
Night (Noch'), fantasy for voice & piano
The Magpie (Strekotun'ya beloboka), "musical jest" (song) for voice & piano
To his friends (K druz'yam), for voice & piano
Yunosha i deva (The Girl and the Youth), for voice & piano
Romances (4) on Poems by Pushkin, songs for voice and piano, Op. 46 (arr for harp & strings as Op 46a): 2. Yunoshu, gorku rïdaya (A girl, sobbing bitterly)
The Muse, song for voice & piano, Op. 34/1
Georgian Song ("Do not Sing, My Beauty"), for voice & piano, Op. 4/4
The Statue of Czarskoye-Selo, for voice & piano, Op. 57/17
You and Thou, Op. 57/11
Le désir (My Desire), song, Op. 57/25
To the Fountain of the Bakhchisarai, for voice & piano
British soprano Joan Rodgers has a broad repertoire ranging from Handel and Mozart to Britten, but she has made something of a specialty of Romantic and post-Romantic Russian art song and has recorded discs of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov, as well as a collection by a variety of Russian composers. Here she gathers a diverse assortment of songs that are settings of poetry by Alexander Pushkin. Rodgers' voice is not large; it has a delicacy, almost fragility, that's particularly well suited to this repertoire of mostly ...
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British soprano Joan Rodgers has a broad repertoire ranging from Handel and Mozart to Britten, but she has made something of a specialty of Romantic and post-Romantic Russian art song and has recorded discs of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov, as well as a collection by a variety of Russian composers. Here she gathers a diverse assortment of songs that are settings of poetry by Alexander Pushkin. Rodgers' voice is not large; it has a delicacy, almost fragility, that's particularly well suited to this repertoire of mostly delicate, sophisticated songs. She is utterly secure, with a gleaming tone that's consistent throughout her range, and an irreproachable technique, and these go a long way toward compensating for the lack of a warmer, more robust sound. As an interpreter, she gets right at the core of these songs and never fails to effectively put them across. Her colorful shadings conjure up an impressively wide emotional range, which is essential for a collection this diverse. Most of the songs here don't...
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