Russian Operatic Arias for Baritone

Description

This landmark series opens up exciting vistas of challenging and rewarding repertoire for the discerning and adventurous singer. As with the Peters companion volumes of French Operatic Arias, this Russian series presents many of the justly celebrated arias, but also juxtaposes them with other less familiar gems, which undoubtedly deserve wider recognition. Much of the selected repertoire is eminently suitable for audition purposes, so that each volume is a treasure trove for professional singers and students.

Pieces

• Verstovsky: Brothers, listen to the story from Askold's Grave (Аскольдова могила)
• Great Perun, a mask sword from you I pray from Glinka: Ruslan and Lyudmila (Руслан и Людмила)
• Your weeping child, I will not restore him from Rubinstein: Der Dämon
• No sleep, no rest from Borodin: Prince Igor
• my pow'r is absolute from Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov (Борис Годунов), Op. 9
• Fast asleep the soldiers lie from Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina (Хованщина)
• Were I a man like any other from Tchaikovsky: Yevgeny Onegin (Eugene Onegin), ČW 5, Op. 24
• Her image lingers day and night from Tchaikovsky: The Enchantress (Чародейка), ČW 9
• Oh, Maria, Maria! from Tchaikovsky: Mazepa (Мазепа), ČW 7, TH 7
• Our Muscavite Venus, the toast of Versailles from Tchaikovsky: The Queen of Spades (Pique Dame), ČW 10, Op. 68
• You know my love, my adoration from Tchaikovsky: The Queen of Spades (Pique Dame), ČW 10, Op. 68
• There's none who can equal Matilda the fair! from Tchaikovsky: Iolanta (Иоланта), ČW 11, Op. 69
• With her houses of stone, city-mother of all from Rimsky-Korsakov: Sadko (Садко)
• The gypsies sleep from Rachmaninoff: Aleko (Алеко) (1892)