Slavic Heroes

1 | PYOTR IL’YICH TCHAIKOVSKY (1840-1893) 4’48
Yevgeniy Onegin / Eugene Onegin Op.24 (1879)
Vy mne pisali... Kogda by zhizn / You wrote to me... Had I wished to be bound
libretto by Konstantin Shilovsky, P.I. Tchaikovsky, Modest Tchaikovsky, after Aleksandr Pushkin 1837

2 | PYOTR IL’YICH TCHAIKOVSKY 2’21
Iolanta Op. 69 (1892)
Robert’s aria: Kto mozhet sravnitsa s Matil’daj majej
Who can compare with my Mathilde
libretto by Modest Tchaikovsky

3 | SERGEI RACHMANINOV (1873-1943) 6’17
Aleko TN ii/70 (1892)
Ves’ tabar spit / The camp is asleep
and cavatina: Kak nezhna priklan’as’ka mne / How tenderly she caressed
libretto by Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, after Aleksandr Pushkin 1827

4 | BEDŘICH SMETANA (1824-1884) 4’00
Čertova stěna JB 1:122 (1882)
Vok’s aria: Jen Jediana / The Devil’s Wall
libretto by Eliška Krásnohorská

5 | STANISŁAW MONIUSZKO (1819-1872) 2’49
Halka (1847-57)
Janusz’s aria: Pewna, jak wiatr wzdycha / As sure as the wind sighs
libretto by Włodzimierz Wolski (after K Wójcicki)

6 | PYOTR IL’YICH TCHAIKOVSKY 5’04
Маzеppа (1881-3)
Mazeppa’s arioso: O Mariya, Mariya! / Oh Maria, Maria!
libretto by Victor Burenin after Aleksandr Pushkin

7 | ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK (1841-1904) 4’19
Šelma sedlák / The Cunning Peasant B. 67 Op. 37 (1877)
Prince’s aria: Kdo jest, jenž slovy vypoví / Who can express in words
Libretto by Josef Otakar Veselý

8 | STANISŁAW MONIUSZKO 3’17
Straszny Dwór / The Haunted Manor (1861-4)
Miecznik’s aria Act 2: Kto z mych dziewek serce której / Who of my maidens whose heart…
libretto by Jan Chęciński

9 | NIKOLAI ANDREYEVICH RIMSKY-KORSAKOV (1844-1908) 4’43
Sadko (1896)
Song of the Venetian guest: Gorod kamennyi, gorodam vsem mat?
City of stone, mother of all cities
libretto by the composer, with assistance from Vladimir Belsky, Vladimir V. Stasov

10 | PYOTR IL’YICH TCHAIKOVSKY 2’42
Yevgeniy Onegin / Eugene Onegin Op.24 (1879)
Uzhel’ ta samaya Tatyana / Can it be the same Tatyana?

11 | STANISŁAW MONIUSZKO 1’49
Verbum Nobile / The word of a nobleman (1860)
Nakaż niech ożywcze słonko / Come, let envigorating sun
libretto by Jan Chęciński

12 | ALEKSANDR BORODIN (1833-87) 7’52
Knyaz’ Igor’ / Prince Igor (1890)
Ni sna, ni otdyha izmuchennaj dushe / No sleep, no rest…
completed by Glazunov and Rimsky-Korsakov
libretto by the composer after Vladimir V. Stassov

13 | KAROL SZYMANOWSKI (1882-1937) 3’56
Król Roger / King Roger Op.46 (1918-24)
Final scene, hymn to Apollo
libretto by Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz (1894-1980)