Artist: Various Artists

Title: Russian Opera Arias 2 / Various

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Format: CD

Release Date: 2003

Label: Naxos

UPC: 636943484425

Genre: Classical

Album Tracks

1. Introduction
2. Sadko's Melismatic Song (Ah, You Dark Oak Grove!)
3. Danse Des Cosaques
4. Vakula's Aria (Does Your Heart Not Hear My Terrible Grief?)
5. Men's Dance
6. The Young Gypsy's Romance (See, Beneath Yon Firmament)
7. Prince's Cavatina
8. Gypsy Dance
9. Bayan's Song (There Is a Deserted Land)
10. Krakoiak
11. Sobinin's Aria (Brothers. Into the Snow Storm!)
12. Likov's Arioso (Act I) (It's All Different)
13. Likov's Arioso (Act III) (The Thundercloud Has Scurried Past)
14. Entr'acte (Act II)
15. Vaudemont's Romance (No! the Charm of a Feisty Beauty's Embraces)
16. Polovtsian March
17. Vladimire's Aria

Naxos has released a second collection of Russian tenor arias by Vladimir Grishko. Like the first volume, we have a beautiful tenor voice treating us to some rarely heard arias from operas not often performed outside of Russia. Probably the only familiar pieces to non-Russian listeners would be the brief orchestral excerpts from Glinka's A Life For Tsar and Polovtsian March from Borodin's Prince Igor so listening is a treat in and of itself.