This box set features Valentina Levko in a wide variety of repertoire, ranging from Baroque arias by Bach and Handel, through the art songs of Schubert and Brahms, towards great opera scenes from Prince Igor, Ruslan & Ludmilla, Ivan Susanin, Queen of Spades, Rossini, Verdi, the songs of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff, and a superb collection of Russian folk songs. "In a career of 50 years, I have rarely encountered such a voice, rounded, youthful, with an uncommon timbre and astonishing warmth," said the legendary Sol Hurok.
9 Brooding, Op. 8 No. 3 (Plescheyev, from Taras Shevchenko)
10 Believe Me Not, Friend, Op. 14 No. 7 (Tolstoy)
11 Night (Rathauz)
12 For Long There Has Been Little Consolation in Love, Op. 14 No. 3 (Fet)
13 A Prayer, Op. 8 No. 6 (Heine, Trans. Plescheyev)
14 You Took All I Had Away, Op. 26 No. 2 (Tyutchev)
15 Oh, Do Not Grieve, Op. 14 No. 8 (Apukhtin)
16 Before the Icon, Op. 21 No. 10 (Golenischev-Kutuzov)
17 In the Silence of the Secret Night, Op. 4 No. 3 (Fet) Songs By Rachmaninov
- Disc 7 -
1 No, Not You Ardently I Love (Lermontov)
2 Elegy (Delvig)
3 I Shall Tell You Nothing (Fet)
4 Morning's Fog (Turgenev)
5 All Is Quiet (Tolstaya)
6 Prayer (Lermontov)
7 Step Away
8 The Plane-Trees Are Slumbering (Meisels)
9 I Remember the Evening (Zhandr)
10 Bright Is the Night (Prigozhy)
11 No, He Didn't Love Me
12 Not for Nothing I Was Afraid Meeting You
13 Gate (Obukhov)
14 Stars in the Sky (Diterikhs)
15 Why Does the Heart Beat So Loud?
- Disc 8 -
1 The Little Bell (F. Glinka)
2 Embrace Me, Kiss Me (Koltsov)
3 I Feel Sorry for You
4 Oh, Do Not Kiss Me
5 Girl's Sorrow (Koltsov)
6 And This World Has No Eyes
7 Do Not Stir Up Memories (Davidov)
8 Do Not Scold Me (Razorenov)
9 The Old Husband (Gipsy Song After Pushkin)
10 Russian Carriage-And-Three (Viazemsky)
11 Red Sarafan (Tsyganov)
12 Song of Ilinichna (Music for a Tragedy By Nestor Kukolnik 'Count Kholmski')
13 Oh, If I Had Known (Gypsy Song - Dmitriev)
14 I Loved Him (Koltsov)
15 Reminder
16 I Loved You (Pushkin)
- Disc 9 -
1 The Old Lime Tree Arr. Sergei Pogrebov
2 Matushka-Matushka Arr. Alexander Varlamov 1801-1848
3 Why Do You Sit Up Until Midnight?
4 Why Are You Looking at the Road? (Nekrasov) Arr. Vera Gorodovskaya
5 Lost Among High Wheat
6 Bush of a Guelder-Rose at a Valley
7 Oh, You Wide Steppes Arr. Vera Gorodovskaya 1919-1999
8 Across Blue Skies the Clouds Drift Arr. Sergei Rachmaninov 1873-1943
9 Belilitzi, Rumyanitzi Arr. Vera Podolskaya
10 A Dark Cherry Shawl Arr. Sergei Prokofiev 1891-1953
11 Green Grove Arr. Sergei Prokofiev
12 My Sweet Dreams
13 Don't Blame Me
14 Lost Roads
15 Remember As I a Young Girl Was (Grebenka)
16 Walled Till Dark
17 Over the Fields (Roslavlev)
- Disc 10 -
1 Incantation of Water and Fire (Trans. Balmont) (Balmont Settings, No. 1)
2 Ivan the Terrible (Lugovskoy): Ocean - Sea
3 Ivan the Terrible (Lugovskoy): Song About the Beaver
4 Russian Song
5 Serenade from Ruy Blas (Hugo, Trans. Schepkina-Kupernik)
6 Strana Ottsov (The Land of Our Fathers) Excerpts (Isaakyan): No. 1 Sufferings of Love
7 Strana Ottsov (The Land of Our Fathers) Excerpts (Isaakyan): No. 2 Be Afraid of Black Eyes
8 Strana Ottsov (The Land of Our Fathers) Excerpts (Isaakyan): No. 3 Exile
9 Strana Ottsov (The Land of Our Fathers) Excerpts (Isaakyan): No. 4 a Smoke of Fatherland
10 Three Octaves (Gamzatov) Dedicated to Valentina Levko
11 In Deep Dark Woods (Transcr. Pushkin)
12 The Motherland Readied It's Son (Lisyansky)
13 Ancient Russian Fortress (Lisyansky)
14 The Years Fly (From the Volunteers) (Dolmatovsky)
15 Song of Love (From a Simple Story) (Dorizo)
16 Reminiscence (Fadeeva)
17 Song of Words (R. Rozhdestvensky)
18 Be the One (R. Rozhdestvensky)
19 Vocalise
20 Snowfall (Chebotariov)
21 Song of a Young Mother
22 May I Tell You Something (Plyatztovsky)
23 Sleeping Mountains (Trans. Gaykovich)
- Disc 11 -
1 Malagueña (Spanish)
2 The Hunter (Portuguese)
3 Havana Song (In Russian) (Greg, Trans. Gorchakova)
4 Black Fan (In Russian)
5 La Spagnola (In Italian)
6 Cranes Fly (In Russian)
7 On Alpine Slopes Austrian Folk Song (Austrian Song in Russian)
8 Tirol Tango (Polish)
9 Waters Ripple and Flow (Czech)
10 Marosh (Hungarian Song in Russian)
11 Lorsque Tout Est Fini (French)
12 No, I Regret Nothing (Italian)
13 Neapolitan Tarantella (Italian)
14 Il Bacio (Italian)
This box set features Valentina Levko in a wide variety of repertoire, ranging from Baroque arias by Bach and Handel, through the art songs of Schubert and Brahms, towards great opera scenes from Prince Igor, Ruslan & Ludmilla, Ivan Susanin, Queen of Spades, Rossini, Verdi, the songs of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff, and a superb collection of Russian folk songs. "In a career of 50 years, I have rarely encountered such a voice, rounded, youthful, with an uncommon timbre and astonishing warmth," said the legendary Sol Hurok.
