Songs (23) of Various Nationality for voice & piano trio, WoO 158a: 15. Air russe. Our girlfriends went. Allegretto
Songs (23) of Various Nationality for voice & piano trio, WoO 158a: 13. Air russe. Lots of gnats have hatched in the wood. Allegro
Songs (23) of Various Nationality for voice & piano trio, WoO 158a: 14. Air russe. Oh, rivers, rivers. Andante assai espressivo
Songs (23) of Various Nationality for voice & piano trio, WoO 158a: 16. Air cosaque 'Schöne Minka, ich muß scheiden!' (Lovely Minka, I must away!). Andante amoroso con
Songs (23) of Various Nationality for voice & piano trio, WoO 158a: 15. Air russe. Our girlfriends went. Allegretto
Songs (23) of Various Nationality for voice & piano trio, WoO 158a: 13. Air russe. Lots of gnats have hatched in the wood. Allegro
Songs (23) of Various Nationality for voice & piano trio, WoO 158a: 14. Air russe. Oh, rivers, rivers. Andante assai espressivo
Songs (23) of Various Nationality for voice & piano trio, WoO 158a: 16. Air cosaque 'Schöne Minka, ich muß scheiden!' (Lovely Minka, I must away!). Andante amoroso con
Pastorale, song without words for voice & piano
Children's Songs, for voice & piano, Op. 13
Piano Trio No. 1 in C minor, Op. 8
Letter to the Poetess Rimma Dallosh (Brief an die Dichterin Rimma Dalos), for soprano & cello
Vocalise, song for voice & piano, Op. 34/14
Suite of Romances (7) for soprano & piano trio, Op. 127
Postscriptum, for mezzo-soprano, cello & piano in G sharp minor : Adagio sognando - Poco con moto - Tempo I
Among the young sopranos bubbling under the cream in the early 2020s has been Katharina Konradi, and here, she steps out with a distinctive program. Her roots are actually not Russian but Kyrgyz, although Russian was her first language. It's an unusual voice, one that can slip, as it were, between different vocal dialects, Eastern and Western, with a silvery edge that can harden as needed. The "Russian roots" of this Chandos release are broad, perhaps uncomfortably so in the Ukraine war era; Mieczyslaw Weinberg, who wrote ...
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Among the young sopranos bubbling under the cream in the early 2020s has been Katharina Konradi, and here, she steps out with a distinctive program. Her roots are actually not Russian but Kyrgyz, although Russian was her first language. It's an unusual voice, one that can slip, as it were, between different vocal dialects, Eastern and Western, with a silvery edge that can harden as needed. The "Russian roots" of this Chandos release are broad, perhaps uncomfortably so in the Ukraine war era; Mieczyslaw Weinberg, who wrote the lovely Jewish songs, Op. 13, was the son of a Ukrainian mother and a Yiddish theater composer father. However, the program of music for voice and piano trio is varied and intriguing, and Konradi and the similarly up-and-coming Trio Gaspard have a good rapport. Beethoven wrote settings of folk songs from many lands, and Konradi chooses to open with some Russian ones; these weren't published until the 20th century, and they still make an odd curtain-raiser (they might have been...
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