Shostakovich: Suite on poems by Michelangelo / Liszt: Petrarch Sonnets
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DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH / FRANZ LISZT
Shostakovich: Suite on poems by Michelangelo / Liszt: Petrarch Sonnets
Dmitri Hvorostovsky (baritone) & Ivari Ilja (piano)
[ Ondine / CD ]
Release Date: Saturday 1 July 2017
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This second release of star baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky for Ondine features Russian Lieder by Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky and Taneyev. Dmitri Hvorostovsky is recognized as one of the leading and most charismatic baritones of our time, performing internationally at such opera houses as the New York Met, and partnering regularly with singers Renée Fleming and Jonas Kaufmann. Together with his longstanding duo partner, Estonian pianist Ivari Ilja, they have frequently performed to great critical acclaim.
"Hvorostovsky and Ilja capture the right degree of bleakness, anger and intensity. There is something of the iron fist in a velvet glove to Hvorostovsky's voice here, and that velvet thins just often enough to reveal the edge beneath. His baritone may now be a touch too craggy for Liszt's Petrarch Sonnets, but he and Ilja shape them stylishly." (Guardian)
"Hvorostovsky's baritone, still one of the great voices, can combine dark timbre with an emotional warmth to offset the granitic style; while pianist Ivari Ilja, although unable to mimic apocalyptic trumpets at the start of the flickering harp at the end, conjures up all the rest with austere commitment." (BBC Music Five Stars)
"There's no grandstanding here, as can be his way in opera. Hvorostovsky offers searching readings of these rugged, jagged songs which are full of resignation and bittersweet regret, of loss and separation...Ivari Ilja, Hvorostovsky's regular accompanist, catches the prickly anger in 'Creativity', hammering at his forge." Gramophone Editor's Choice Dec 2015
Tracks:
Liszt:
Sonetti di Petrarca (3) for voice & piano, S270
1st version
Shostakovich:
Suite on verses by Michelangelo Buonarroti, for bass & piano, Op. 145
