Russian Operatic Arias

Edited by David Fanning

This landmark series opens up exciting vistasof challenging and rewarding repertoire for the discerning and adventurous singer.

As with the Edition Peters companion volumes of French Operatic Arias, this Russian series presents many of the justly celebrated arias, but also juxtaposes them with other less familiar gems, which undoutedly deserve wider recognition.

Much of the selected repertoire is eminently suitable for audition purposes, so that each volume is a treasure trove for professional singers and students.

Soprano...................................................................................EP 7580

Glinka Down the river to our village (A Life for the Tsar); Glinka Captive and in dark despair (Ruslan and Lyudmila); Serov I remember the days of my youth (Judith); Borodin Ah! Bitter woe (Prince Igor); Musorgsky Ah, do not weep my darling (The Fair at Sorochintsy); Tchaikovsky I cannot hide my love (Letter Scene) (Yevgeny Onegin); Tchaikovsky When your eyes look down from old Nizhny town (The Enchantress); Tchaikovsky My beloved where are you? (The Enchantress); Tchaikovsky Sorrow and fear overwhelm me (The Queen of Spades); Rimsky-Korsakov Why do so many people praise me? (Christmas Eve); Rimsky-Korsakov Dream walked by the riverside (Sadko); Rimsky-Korsakov In Novgorod we lived not far from Vanya (The Tsar’s Bride); Rimsky-Korsakov All seeing Sun, you rise in glory (The Golden Cockerel); Rachmaninov Ah, do not weep, my Paulo (Francesca da Rimini); Shostakovich Look at nature (The Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District)

Mezzo-Soprano.....................................................................EP 7581

Arensky Sleep, my darling dear (Dream on the Volga); Borodin Night is falling now (Prince Igor); Dargomyzhsky Days of love and fond affection (Rusalka); Glinka Dream divine, enchanting sight! (Ruslan and Lyudmila); Glinka Ah, she brings joy (Ruslan and Lyudmila); Musorgsky Go, Ruzya (Boris Godunov); Musorgsky Forces of prophecy (Khovanshchina); Musorgsky Through the marshes she made her way (Khovanshchina); Rimsky-Korsakov Says the rain-cloud to the thunder one day (The Snow Maiden); Rimsky-Korsakov All through this night (Sadko); Rimsky-Korsakov The potion is prepared (Kashchey the Deathless); Shchedrin Through the leafy forest (Not Love Alone); Tchaikovsky Ah, Tanya, Tanya (Yevgeny Onegin); Tchaikovsky Farewell, dear land, familiar fields and meadows (The Maid of Orleans); Tchaikovsky My friends, take heed of me (The Queen of Spades); Tchaikovsky That’s enough now! (The Queen of Spades) Tenor.....................................................................................EP 7582

Borodin Ah! Hear my call! (Prince Igor); Dargomyzhshy Here all things remind me of days gone forever (Rusalka); Glinka Brothers in Arms (A life for the Tsar); Glinka In a distant land (Ruslan and Lyudmila); Musorgsky Weep, my eyes, with bitter tears flowing (Boris Godunov); Musorgsky Ah, why, my heart, with such sorrow laden? (The Fair at Sorochintsy); Rimsky-Korsakov Sleep, my love (May Night); Rimsky-Korsakov How rich, how wondrous rich (The Snow Maiden); Rimsky-Korsakov The glorious day is going (The Snow Maiden); Rimsky-Korsakov Dark the oak-trees in the wildwood growing! (Sadko); Rimsky-Korsakov Unnumbered Diamonds (Sadko); Rimsky-Korsakov Calm now the angry sky (The Tsar’s Bride); Shostakovich Cousin Masha makes me laugh (The Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District); Tchaikovsky I love you, I love you, Olga (Yevgeny Onegin); Tchaikovsky Farewell, farewell, o springtime all too fleeting (Yevgeny Onegin); Tchaikovsky Where battle rages, and honour calls me (Mazeppa); Tchaikovsky Once I could march towards my goal (The Queen of Spades); Tchaikovsky What is our life? (The Queen of Spades); Verstovsky Soft! A gentle zephyr goes (Askold’s Grave)

Baritone..................................................................................EP 7583

Borodin No sleep, no rest (Prince Igor); Glinka Great Perun, a damask sword from you I pray (Ruslan and Lyudmila); Musorgsky My pow’r is absolute (Boris Godunov); Musorgsky Fast asleep the soldiers lie (Khovanshchina); Rachmaninoff The gypsies sleep (Aleko); Rimsky-Korsakov With her houses of stone, city-mother of all (Sadko); Rubinstein Your weeping, child, will not restore him (The Demon); Tchaikovsky Were I a man like any other (Yevgeny Onegin); Tchaikovsky Oh, Maria, Maria (Mazeppa); Tchaikovsky Her image lingers day and night (The Enchantress); Tchaikovsky Our Muscovite Venus, the toast of Versailles (The Queen ofSpades); Tchaikovsky You know my love, my adoration (The Queen of Spades); Tchaikovsky There’s none who can equal Matilda the fair! (Iolanta); Verstovsky Brothers, listen to the story (Askold’s Grave)

Bass......................................................................................EP 7584

Borodin Preserve me from the melancholy life (Prince Igor); Dargomyzhsky You’re all alike (Rusalka); Glinka Truth is dawning! (A Life for the Tsar); Glinka Soon shall I glory in victory’s hour (Ruslan and Lyudmila); Musorgsky One final page (Boris Godunov); Musorgsky Way back when in Kazan (Boris Godunov); Musorgsky I’ve scaled the peak of power (Boris Godunov); Musorgsky Ah! Mercy! (Boris Godunov); Prokofiev Surrender? (War and Peace); Rimsky-Korsakov Oh grey the cliff confronts the roaring ocean (Sadko); Rimsky-Korsakov She sleeps in peace (The Tsar’s Bride); Serov Gentle concubines of Babylon (Judith); Tchaikovsky Love wields her life-enriching power (Yevgeny Onegin); Tchaikovsky What will he say? (Iolanta)