MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rachmaninov: Songs

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SERGEI RACHMANINOV
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rachmaninov: Songs
Viktoriya Dodoka (soprano) / Iola Shelley (piano)

[ Atoll Records New Zealand / CD ]

Release Date: Thursday 20 April 2006

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NZ-based Russian soprano Viktoriya Dodoka has established a remarkable reputation in New Zealand and Australia with dynamic performances for Canterbury Opera and at the Sydney Opera House. Here she is superbly accompanied by Iola Shelley in a programme of Rachmaninov songs, many of them rarely recorded before.

Viktoriya Dodoka began her musical training in her home city Krasnodar near the Black Sea, later graduating in singing from the Tchaikovsky State Conservatoire in Moscow.

She performed lead roles in a number of productions for Moscow Opera, among them Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro, Violetta in La Traviata, Zerlina in Don Giovanni and Marfa in Rimsky-Korsakoff's The Tsar's Bride. She sang solo soprano with the Stuttgart Bach Academy Choir in concert performances of Bach's Magnificat, Hendel's Nelson Mass and Mozart's Requiem.

In 1996 she won a prestigious honor diploma at the First International Singing Competition at Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre.

Viktoriya immigrated to New Zealand in 2001. She made her New Zealand debut soon after, singing the roles of Olympia /Antonia in Canterbury Opera's production of The Tales of Hoffman.

Iola Shelley - Piano
Welsh-born Iola Shelley was educated in UK and enjoyed a remarkable career as a solo pianist, becoming the youngest student to be awarded Piano Performance Diplomas at both the Royal Academy and Royal College of Music, London.

In New Zealand, she changed her specialisation to chamber music and accompanying, becoming a founding member of the Camerata Chamber group. In addition to teaching advanced students she became an international examiner for the Associated Board of the Royal School of Music.

She has an extensive repertoire and an international reputation as a chamber-music pianist and accompanist.

Tracks:

Op.4 1889 - 1893
1 Oh, never sing to me again
2 The Harvest of Sorrow

Op.8 1893
3 The Water Lily
4 A Dream
5 A Prayer

Op.14 1896
6 A Little Island
7 Spring Waters

Op.21 1900 - 1902
8 Twilight
9 The Lilacs
10 Loneliness
11 How fair this place!
12 Sorrow in Springtime

Op.26 1906
13 Before my Window
14 Night is mournful

Op.34 1910 - 1915
15 Day to Night comparing went the Wind her way
16 Vocalise

Op.38 1916
17 In my Garden at Night
18 To Her
19 Daisies
20 The Pied Piper
21 Dreams
22 "A-Oo" (The Quest)