Rachmaninov: Songs / Burnside, Siurina, Etc

Evelina Dobraceva (soprano), Ekaterina Siurina (soprano), Justina Gringyte (mezzo-soprano), Daniil Shtoda (tenor), Andrei Bondarenko (baritone), Rodion Pogossov (baritone), Alexander Vinogradov (bass), Iain Burnside (piano)

This is the first complete recording in twenty years of Rachmaninov's complete published songs. Delphian's set employs seven singers, hand-picked by renowned pianist Iain Burnside. All are native Russian speakers, and each song is performed in the key in which Rachmaninov wrote it, respecting both the specificity of vocal color and the carefully designed tonal and expressive trajectory within each opus. For the first twenty-five years of his career Rachmaninov regularly expressed himself in song, from Tchaikovskian beginnings to the extraordinarily personal range of vocal and pianistic utterance in his final two collections. Burnside and his singers bring these works to shimmering, crackling, and magnificent life.

Price: $39.98