For thirty years, from 1960 to 1990, Nicolai Ghiaurov was an indispensable figure on the international operatic scene. His voluminous base, incisive delivery and imposing presence meant that he was in demand in every centre of opera. His range of roles stretched from Mozart and Rossini through to Verdi and Puccini and many parts in the French nineteenth-century repertory to the rewarding roles written for basses in Russian opera. Although his voice had a distinctively Slavic tinge, unlike other basses from Eastern Europe, even Chaliapin, he had the strength of tone and unfailing grasp of legato also to sing Italian repertory with true authenticity.
This 2CD set includes all his Russian recital material for Decca– in opera, art song and popular/folk song – from the stunningly recorded 1962 and 1964 Russian arias with the LSO and Edward Downes to the recital of art songs by Tchaikovsky, Borodin, Glinka, Rubinstein and Dargomizhsky with his first wife Zlatina Ghiaurov.
Avuncular and a great colleague on stage, Ghiaurov also made a record with a traditional Russian ensemble. It includes the song ‘Stenka Razin’, which later achieved mass popularity in its Seekers hit ‘The Carnival Is Over’.
‘the Bulgarian bass shows himself a mighty master of the long, weighty phrase. … The recording is strong, the accompaniment by Edward Downes most helpful. A fine record of a ‘new’ and noble basso’ (Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky arias: CD1: 1–5) Gramophone
‘considerable stature and presence and that rolling majestical gravity in the voice … The recording is exceptionally vivid’ (Glinka, Rubinstein, Tchaikovsky, Borodin: CD1: 6–9) Gramophone
CD1
MIKHAIL GLINKA: Chuyut pravdu … Ti vzoyidyosh (A Life for the Tsar)
ANTON RUBINSTEIN: Ja tot, katoramu vnimala (The Demon)
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY: Gospod moi, yesli greshen ya (Iolanta)
ALEXANDER BORODIN:
Zdorov-li, Knaz? (Prince Igor)
Greshno tait, ya skuki ne lyublya (Prince Igor)
NICOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: A skaly groznyje drab’atsa s r’ovem volny (Sadko)
MODEST MUSSORGSKY: Smirenniy inok … Odnazhdy, v vecherniy chas (Boris Godunov)
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY: Lyubvi vsye vozrasti pokorni (Eugene Onegin)
SERGEI RACHMANINOV: Ves’ tabar spit (Aleko)
London Symphony Orchestra
Edward Downes
CD2
PETER ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY:
Nyet, tolko tot, kto znal
Ni slova o drug moy
Serenada Don-Zhuana
To bylo ranneyu vesnoï
Sryed shumnovo bala
Blagoslavlyayu vas, lesa
ALEXANDER BORODIN: Dlya beregov otschizni dal’noi
MIKHAIL GLINKA: Nochnoy smotr
ANTON RUBINSTEIN: Melodya
ALEXANDER DARGOMIZHSKY:
Chervyak
Nochnoi defir stroont efir
Starij Kapral
Zlatina Ghiaurov, piano
ANONYMOUS
Utyos
Ei, Ukhnyem
Dubinushka
Bandura
Stenka Razin
Vdolj po Peterskoy
Vtyomnon lesye
Ochi chornye
Nochenka
Dvenadsat’ razboynikov
Proshchai radost
Kaval Orchestra & Chorus
Atanas Margaritov
Nicolai Ghiaurov, bass
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