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Poison d’Amour: Mezzo-Soprano Arias | Delos DE3584

Poison d’Amour: Mezzo-Soprano Arias

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Label: Delos

Cat No: DE3584

Barcode: 0013491358420

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 16th April 2021

Contents

Works

Bizet, Georges

Carmen
» Pres des remparts de Seville 'Seguidilla' (Act 1)

Cilea, Francesco

Adriana Lecouvreur
» Acerba volutta

Gounod, Charles

Sapho
» O ma lyre immortelle

Mascagni, Pietro

Cavalleria rusticana
» Voi lo sapete, o mamma

Massenet, Jules

Werther
» Va! Laisse couler mes larmes (Air des larmes)

Mussorgsky, Modest

Khovanshchina
» Marfa's Aria

Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai

Sadko
» Lubava's Scene and Aria

Saint-Saens, Camille

Samson et Dalila, op.47
» Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix (Act 2)
» Printemps qui commence (Act 1)

Smolsky, Dmitri

The Grey Legend
» Ti pripomni jak lotaz kalisti u lugah mi zbirali

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich

The Maid of Orleans
» Farewell, you native hills and fields 'Joan's Aria'

Thomas, Ambroise

Mignon
» Connais-tu le pays? (Act 1)

Artists

Oksana Volkova (mezzo-soprano)
Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Constantine Orbelian

Works

Bizet, Georges

Carmen
» Pres des remparts de Seville 'Seguidilla' (Act 1)

Cilea, Francesco

Adriana Lecouvreur
» Acerba volutta

Gounod, Charles

Sapho
» O ma lyre immortelle

Mascagni, Pietro

Cavalleria rusticana
» Voi lo sapete, o mamma

Massenet, Jules

Werther
» Va! Laisse couler mes larmes (Air des larmes)

Mussorgsky, Modest

Khovanshchina
» Marfa's Aria

Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai

Sadko
» Lubava's Scene and Aria

Saint-Saens, Camille

Samson et Dalila, op.47
» Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix (Act 2)
» Printemps qui commence (Act 1)

Smolsky, Dmitri

The Grey Legend
» Ti pripomni jak lotaz kalisti u lugah mi zbirali

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich

The Maid of Orleans
» Farewell, you native hills and fields 'Joan's Aria'

Thomas, Ambroise

Mignon
» Connais-tu le pays? (Act 1)

Artists

Oksana Volkova (mezzo-soprano)
Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Constantine Orbelian

About

This richly rewarding album is Oksana Volkova’s first solo album on Delos, though she appeared alongside the late, great Dmitri Hvorostovsky in Delos’s Grammy-nominated 2017 release of Verdi’s complete Rigoletto. Here she delivers powerful, passionate and ravishing performances of (mostly) well-known French, Italian, Russian and Belarusian arias for mezzo-soprano. The composers include Bizet, Thomas, Saint-Saëns, Gounod, Cilea, Massenet and Mascagni; Russian masters heard here are Rimsky-Korsakov, Mussorgsky and Tchaikovsky, alongside a rare treat: an arresting aria by Belarusian composer Dmitri Smolsky, whose music is almost completely unknown in the West.

Glowing instrumental collaboration, as usual, comes courtesy of Maestro Constantine Orbelian, leading his trusty Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra.

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