Myaskovsky: Vocal Works, Vol. 1 Elizaveta Pakhomova, Tatiana Barsukova, Marina Dichenko, Olga Solovieva

• Nikolay Myaskovsky (1881 - 1950): Lyric Book, Op. 72:
• 1 Myaskovsky: Lyric Book, Op. 72: No. 1, Will I Forget You? 01:49
• 2 Myaskovsky: Lyric Book, Op. 72: No. 2, Like a Sail That Flashes at Times 01:25
• 3 Myaskovsky: Lyric Book, Op. 72: No. 3, Cloudless April Day 02:17
• 4 Myaskovsky: Lyric Book, Op. 72: No. 4, How Often at Night 04:43
• 5 Myaskovsky: Lyric Book, Op. 72: No. 5, My Heart's in the Highlands 03:00
• 6 Myaskovsky: Lyric Book, Op. 72: No. 6, My Bonnie Mary 03:06
• 12 Romances After Lermontov, Op. 40:
• 7 Myaskovsky: 12 Romances After Lermontov, Op. 40: No. 1, A Cossack Lullaby 05:19
• 8 Myaskovsky: 12 Romances After Lermontov, Op. 40: No. 2, I Go Out Alone on the Road 03:16
• 9 Myaskovsky: 12 Romances After Lermontov, Op. 40: No. 3, No, It Is Not You Whom I Love so Ardently 02:01
• 10 Myaskovsky: 12 Romances After Lermontov, Op. 40: No. 4, To the Portrait 01:40
• 11 Myaskovsky: 12 Romances After Lermontov, Op. 40: No. 5, The Sun 01:33
• 12 Myaskovsky: 12 Romances After Lermontov, Op. 40: No. 6, They Loved Each Other 02:06
• 13 Myaskovsky: 12 Romances After Lermontov, Op. 40: No. 7, In an Album 01:24
• 14 Myaskovsky: 12 Romances After Lermontov, Op. 40: No. 8, Romance 02:36
• 15 Myaskovsky: 12 Romances After Lermontov, Op. 40: No. 9, She Sings 01:03
• 16 Myaskovsky: 12 Romances After Lermontov, Op. 40: No. 10, Don't Cry, Don't Cry, My Child 02:54
• 17 Myaskovsky: 12 Romances After Lermontov, Op. 40: No. 11, From an Album 01:50
• 18 Myaskovsky: 12 Romances After Lermontov, Op. 40: No. 12, Forgive Me! We Will Not Meet Again 04:40
• Violin Sonata in F Major, Op. 70 (Final Version):
• 19 Myaskovsky: Violin Sonata in F Major, Op. 70 (Final Version): I. Allegro amabile 08:37
• 20 Myaskovsky: Violin Sonata in F Major, Op. 70 (Final Version): II. Theme, 12 Variations & Coda 11:50
• Total Runtime 01:07:09

Info for Myaskovsky: Vocal Works, Vol. 1

The dignified bearing and quiet wisdom of Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881–1950) gained him the sobriquet of ‘the conscience of Russian music’ – and those qualities are reflected in the unemphatic strength of his music. His orchestral, chamber and instrumental works are regaining the currency they once enjoyed, but his large corpus of songs, many of them understated masterpieces, has yet to attract systematic attention – a situation this series hopes to remedy. The pairing here of his late Violin Sonata with his last two song-cycles for soprano and piano mirrors the Moscow concert in 1947 when all three were given their first performances.

Elizaveta Pakhomova, soprano
Tatiana Barsukova, soprano
Marina Dichenko, violin
Olga Solovieva, piano

Elizaveta Pakhomova
The soprano Elizaveta Pakhomova graduated from the Maimonides Russian State Classical Academy in Moscow, from the class of Nadezhda Krasnaya (a soloist with the Bolshoi Theatre), in 2018. She is a laureate of many international voice competitions, among them the Leopold Mozart Ancient Music Competition in Moscow in 2015 and the ‘Star Rhapsody’ Competition in St Petersburg in 2016. She also received the diploma and the special prize at the Third Natalia Shpiller All-Russian competition of vocalists in Moscow in 2016 and the diploma at the Ninth International Vocal Competition in Astana, in Kazakhstan, in 2017. In 2021 she was the winner of the Boris Tchaikovsky Society International Award. She has performed as a recitalist and as a soloist in Baroque music, singing in cantatas, oratorios and other pieces of sacred music, in many cities in Russia, and has also appeared in Turkey. This album is likewise her debut recording.

Tatiana Barsukova
The soprano Tatiana Barsukova graduated from The P. I. Tchaikovsky Conservatoire in Moscow in 2013, from the vocal class of Clara Kadinskaya, and has participated in master-classes given by Elizabeth Bice, Jan Latham-Koenig and Deborah York. She received a diploma at the international Competizione dell’Opera in Minsk in 2012, and became a laureate of the Nadezhda Obukhova All-Russian Competition of Vocalists in Lipetsk in 2014. At the Elena Obraztsova International Chamber Music Competition in Memory of Conchita Badía, in St Petersburg in 2014, she took the special prize for the best German Romantic Lied performance. She has taken part in concerts in many halls in Moscow, including some in the Moscow Conservatoire, and has appeared as a soloist with such orchestras as the Russian State Symphony Orchestra ‘Novaya Rossiya’, with the conductor Cesario Costa, ‘Russkaya Conservatoria’ Chamber Capella, with the conductor Nikolay Khondzinsky, the Musica Viva Chamber Orchestra, the ‘Soul of Russia’ Folk Instruments Orchestra, the ‘Blagovest’ Ensemble of Sacred Music and the Pfeifer Ensemble of Ancient Music. Among her frequent concert partners are the pianist Natalia Bel’kova and the organist Margarita Es’kina. She makes her debut recording with this album.

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