Russian Romances

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Label
Supraphon
Release Date
July 19, 2019
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      MUSSORGSKY TCHAIKOVSKY GLINK
    • PERFORMER
      Benci, Nagy-Juhasz
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      July 19, 2019
    • UPC
      099925426224
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      SU4262-2
    • LABEL
      Supraphon
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Somneniye (Doubt)

      Composer: Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

      Performer: Jozef Benci, Jana Nagy-Juhász

    2. Ne iskushay menya bez nuzhdi (Do not tempt me needlessly)

      Composer: Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

      Performer: Jozef Benci, Jana Nagy-Juhász

    3. Proshchaniye s Peterburgom (A Farewell to St. Petersburg): No. 11. K Molli (To Molly)

      Composer: Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

      Performer: Jozef Benci, Jana Nagy-Juhász

    4. Ne govori, chto serdtsu bol'no (Say not that it grieves the heart)

      Composer: Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

      Performer: Jozef Benci, Jana Nagy-Juhász

    5. 6 Romances, Op. 57: No. 3. Ne sprashivay (Do not Ask)

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Performer: Jozef Benci, Jana Nagy-Juhász

    6. 12 Romances, Op. 60: No. 12. He Gentle Stars Shone For Us

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Performer: Jozef Benci, Jana Nagy-Juhász

    7. 6 Romances, Op. 27: No. 1. Na son gryadushchiy (At Bedtime)

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Performer: Jozef Benci, Jana Nagy-Juhász

    8. 12 Romances, Op. 60: No. 9. Noch' (Night)

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    9. I Loved You

      Composer: Boris Petrovich Sheremetev

      Performer: Jozef Benci, Jana Nagy-Juhász

    10. Uletela ptashka (The Lovely Bird Has Flown)

      Composer: Alexander Gurilyov

      Performer: Jozef Benci, Jana Nagy-Juhász

    11. Ya pomnyu gluboko (How Well I Remember)

      Composer: Aleksandr Sergeyevich Dargomyzhsky

      Performer: Jozef Benci, Jana Nagy-Juhász

    12. 25 Poems, Op. 57: No. 17. Tsarskoselskaya statuya (The statue at Tsarskoye Selo)

      Composer: César Cui

      Performer: Jozef Benci, Jana Nagy-Juhász

    13. No. 1. Lullaby

      Composer: Modest Mussorgsky

      Performer: Jozef Benci, Jana Nagy-Juhász

    14. No. 2. Serenade

      Composer: Modest Mussorgsky

      Performer: Jozef Benci, Jana Nagy-Juhász

    15. No. 3. Trepak

      Composer: Modest Mussorgsky

      Performer: Jozef Benci, Jana Nagy-Juhász

    16. No. 4. The Field-Marshal

      Composer: Modest Mussorgsky

      Performer: Jozef Benci, Jana Nagy-Juhász


In the 19th century, composers sought inspiration in poetry, and the simplicity and modesty of folk songs. Romances reflecting on loneliness, betrayed love and the misery of the abandoned occupied a special position in Russian lyric poetry in the first half of the 19th century, represented by A. S. Pushkin and other writers. Based on the Romantic poets' works, composers expressed their own intimate feelings, as well as muted defiance. One of the first to have written romances was Mikhail Glinka, the founder of the Russian nationalist music school. A whole generation of his successors, including P. I. Tchaikovsky, embraced the genre, creating numerous romances, mainly set to contemporary Russian poetry. Especially noteworthy among such works is M. P. Mussorgsky's cycle Songs and Dances of Death, made up of four pieces depicting the horror and bizarreness of death, referred to by the composer as "danse macabre". Jozef Benci is a highly esteemed opera and oratorio singer, a soloist of the Slovak National Theatre in Bratislava, who has worked with the Czech Philharmonic and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jirí Belohlávek, performed with Edita Gruberová and other renowned artists. Owing to his robust, yet highly sensitively led voice, a remarkable sense for songs' intimate nature, as well as an immaculate diction, he is a brilliant performer of Russian romances.