Romances and scenes from operas after works by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Alexander Pushkin

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Pyotr Tchaikovsky
“Mignon’s Song” on poem by Fyodor Tyutchev after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, op. 25 No 3
Maria Lobanova (soprano)

Franz Schubert

Gesänge des Harfners aus “Wilhelm Meister”, D.478
Daniil Chesnokov (bass)

“Rastlose Liebe”, D.138
Ruslana Koval (soprano)

“Erlkönig”, D.328
Alexander Kireyev (baritone)

“Wandrers Nachtlied”, D.768
Alexander Roslavets (bass)

Alexander Varlamov
“Tops of dreaming highlands” on poem by Mikhail Lermontov after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Anna Nalbandyants (soprano)

Franz Schubert
Lied der Mignon: “Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt”, D.877
Ruslana Koval (soprano)

Pyotr Tchaikovsky
“None but the Lonely Heart” on poem by Lev Mey after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, op. 6 No 6
Ilya Kutyukhin (baritone)

Ludwig van Beethoven
Aus Goethes Faust (“Es war einmal ein König”), Op. 75, No. 3
Alexander Roslavets (bass)

Modest Mussorgsky
Mephistopheles’s Song in Auerbach’s Cellar
Alexander Roslavets (bass)

Charles Gounod
From “Faust”:

Marguerite’s aria “Ah, je ris de me voir”
Anna Nalbandyants (soprano)

Faust’s cavatina “Salut! demeure chaste et pure”
Pavel Valuzhin(tenor)

Alexander Pushkin

Sergei Rachmaninov

“Do Not Sing, My Beauty”, op. 4 No 4
Kristina Mkhitaryan (soprano)

The Young Gypsy’s romance from “Aleko”
Pavel Valuzhin (tenor)

Alexander Borodin
“For the shores of the distant fatherland”
Alexander Kireyev (baritone)

Mikhail Glinka
“I remember the wonderful moment”
Kristina Mkhitaryan (soprano)

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

From “Eugene Onegin”:

Onegin’s aria “Vy mne pisali”
Ilya Kutyukhin (baritone)

Gremin’s aria “Lyubvi vse vozrasty pokorny”
Daniil Chesnokov (bass)

From “The Queen of Spades”:

Eletsky’s aria “Ya vas lyublyu”
Alexander Kireyev (baritone)

Liza’a arioso " Ah, istomilas’ ya gorem"
Maria Lobanova (soprano)

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Tsarevna Swan-Bird’s aria “Ty, tsarevich, moy spasitel” from the opera “The Tale of Tsar Saltan”
Kristina Mkhitaryan (soprano)

Georgy Sviridov

“The crimson forest sheds its attire”
Maria Lobanova (soprano)

“Coming to Izhory”
Pavel Valuzhin (tenor)


Piano part: Semyon Skigin, Elena Burova, Elizaveta Dmitrieva, Sergei Konstantinov

Coach: Semyon Skigin, professor at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin