Notes and Editorial Reviews
"Dmitri Hvorostovsky's ongoing collaboration with Delos has explored many worthwhile sides of the Siberian baritone's far-reaching musical interests." - Opera News
Moscow Nights features the cream of postwar Russian popular songs, and highlights inspiring performances by the Moscow Chamber Orchestra and the traditional Russian instrumental ensemble Style of Five.
Maestro Orbelian describes the Moscow Nights program of 17 songs, composed during the post World War II period of the 1950s & 1960s, as songs the entire nation sang. Hvorostovsky says that for the new album he and Orbelian chose from the "best material throughout the Soviet time. I'm convinced that it has great musical and historical
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value, as well as wonderful memories for me, from my childhood." This unique release also includes a very special bonus track: an archival tape of 11-year old Hvorostovsky followed by the present-day Hvorostovsky singing the same song.
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Works on This Recording
1.
How Young We Were by Alexandra Pakhmutova
Performer:
Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Baritone)
Conductor:
Constantine Orbelian
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Moscow Chamber Orchestra,
Style of Five
Period: 20th Century
Written: USSR
Date of Recording: 2004
Venue: Studio 5, State Broadcasting, Moscow, Ru
Length: 5 Minutes 59 Secs.
Language: Russian
2.
Midnight in Moscow by Vasily Solov'yov-Sedoy
Performer:
Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Baritone)
Conductor:
Constantine Orbelian
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Moscow Chamber Orchestra,
Style of Five
Period: 20th Century
Written: USSR
Date of Recording: 2004
Venue: Studio 5, State Broadcasting, Moscow, Ru
Length: 3 Minutes 54 Secs.
Language: Russian
Notes: Arranger: Evgeny Stetsyuk.
3.
Do Not Hurry by Arno Babadjanyan
Performer:
Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Baritone)
Conductor:
Constantine Orbelian
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Moscow Chamber Orchestra,
Style of Five
Period: 20th Century
Written: USSR
Date of Recording: 2004
Venue: Studio 5, State Broadcasting, Moscow, Ru
Length: 3 Minutes 47 Secs.
Language: Russian
Notes: Arranger: Evgeny Stetsyuk.
4.
Whisper of Birches by Konstantin Orbelian
Performer:
Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Baritone)
Conductor:
Constantine Orbelian
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Moscow Chamber Orchestra,
Style of Five
Period: 20th Century
Written: Russia
Date of Recording: 2004
Venue: Studio 5, State Broadcasting, Moscow, Ru
Length: 4 Minutes 21 Secs.
Language: Russian
Notes: Arranger: Evgeny Stetsyuk.
5.
Tenderness by Alexandra Pakhmutova
Performer:
Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Baritone)
Conductor:
Constantine Orbelian
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Moscow Chamber Orchestra,
Style of Five
Period: 20th Century
Written: USSR
Date of Recording: 2004
Venue: Studio 5, State Broadcasting, Moscow, Ru
Length: 2 Minutes 56 Secs.
Language: Russian
Notes: Arranger: Evgeny Stetsyuk.
6.
And the Dawns Are So Quiet Here: Wait For Me by Kiril Molchanov
Performer:
Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Baritone)
Conductor:
Constantine Orbelian
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Moscow Chamber Orchestra,
Style of Five
Period: 20th Century
Written: USSR
Date of Recording: 2004
Venue: Studio 5, State Broadcasting, Moscow, Ru
Length: 4 Minutes 31 Secs.
Language: Russian
Notes: Arranger: Evgeny Stetsyuk.
7.
Three Years by Nikita Bogoslovsky
Performer:
Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Baritone)
Conductor:
Constantine Orbelian
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Moscow Chamber Orchestra,
Style of Five
Period: 20th Century
Written: USSR
Date of Recording: 2004
Venue: Studio 5, State Broadcasting, Moscow, Ru
Length: 3 Minutes 21 Secs.
Language: Russian
Notes: Arranger: Evgeny Stetsyuk.
8.
Evening Song by Vasily Solov'yov-Sedoy
Performer:
Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Baritone)
Conductor:
Constantine Orbelian
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Moscow Chamber Orchestra,
Style of Five
Period: 20th Century
Written: USSR
Date of Recording: 2004
Venue: Studio 5, State Broadcasting, Moscow, Ru
Length: 3 Minutes 12 Secs.
Language: Russian
Notes: Arranger: Evgeny Stetsyuk.
9.
You Are My Melody by Alexandra Pakhmutova
Performer:
Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Baritone)
Conductor:
Constantine Orbelian
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Moscow Chamber Orchestra,
Style of Five
Period: 20th Century
Written: USSR
Date of Recording: 2004
Venue: Studio 5, State Broadcasting, Moscow, Ru
Length: 4 Minutes 57 Secs.
Language: Russian
Notes: Arranger: Evgeny Stetsyuk.
10.
Moscow Windows by Tikhon Khrennikov
Performer:
Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Baritone)
Conductor:
Constantine Orbelian
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Moscow Chamber Orchestra,
Style of Five
Period: 20th Century
Written: USSR
Date of Recording: 2004
Venue: Studio 5, State Broadcasting, Moscow, Ru
Length: 3 Minutes 52 Secs.
Language: Russian
Notes: Arranger: Yuri Yakushev.
11.
There Are So Many Pretty Girls by Isaak Dunayevsky
Performer:
Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Baritone)
Conductor:
Constantine Orbelian
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Moscow Chamber Orchestra,
Style of Five
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1936; USSR
Date of Recording: 2004
Venue: Studio 5, State Broadcasting, Moscow, Ru
Length: 3 Minutes 18 Secs.
Language: Russian
Notes: Arranger: Evgeny Stetsyuk.
12.
I'm Grateful to You by Arno Babadjanyan
Performer:
Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Baritone)
Conductor:
Constantine Orbelian
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Moscow Chamber Orchestra,
Style of Five
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1966
Date of Recording: 2004
Venue: Studio 5, State Broadcasting, Moscow, Ru
Length: 3 Minutes 39 Secs.
Language: Russian
13.
I Love You, Life by Eduard Kolmanovsky
Performer:
Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Baritone)
Conductor:
Constantine Orbelian
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Moscow Chamber Orchestra,
Style of Five
Period: 20th Century
Written: USSR
Date of Recording: 2004
Venue: Studio 5, State Broadcasting, Moscow, Ru
Length: 3 Minutes 50 Secs.
Language: Russian
14.
Evening in the Harbor by Vasily Solov'yov-Sedoy
Performer:
Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Baritone)
Conductor:
Constantine Orbelian
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Moscow Chamber Orchestra,
Style of Five
Period: 20th Century
Written: USSR
Date of Recording: 2004
Venue: Studio 5, State Broadcasting, Moscow, Ru
Length: 3 Minutes 56 Secs.
Language: Russian
Notes: Arranger: Evgeny Stetsyuk.
15.
The Shield and the Sword: Where Does Motherland Come From by Veniamin Basner
Performer:
Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Baritone)
Conductor:
Constantine Orbelian
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Moscow Chamber Orchestra,
Style of Five
Period: 20th Century
Written: USSR
Date of Recording: 2004
Venue: Studio 5, State Broadcasting, Moscow, Ru
Length: 2 Minutes 41 Secs.
Language: Russian
Notes: Arranger: Evgeny Stetsyuk.
16.
The New Adventures of the Invisible Avengers: Russian Field by Yan Frenkel
Performer:
Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Baritone)
Conductor:
Constantine Orbelian
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Moscow Chamber Orchestra,
Style of Five
Period: 20th Century
Written: USSR
Date of Recording: 2004
Venue: Studio 5, State Broadcasting, Moscow, Ru
Length: 3 Minutes 54 Secs.
Language: Russian
Notes: Arranger: Evgeny Stetsyuk.
17.
Motherland Hears by Dmitri Shostakovich
Performer:
Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Baritone)
Conductor:
Constantine Orbelian
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Moscow Chamber Orchestra,
Style of Five
Period: 20th Century
Written: USSR
Date of Recording: 2004
Venue: Studio 5, State Broadcasting, Moscow, Ru
Length: 3 Minutes 35 Secs.
Language: Russian
Notes: This is a bonus track, which starts with the archival home recording of Dmitri Hvorostovsky age 11 singing "Motherland Hears," followed by the same song recorded in 2004 by Hvorostovsky, Orbelian and the MCO.
Arranger: Evgeny Stetsyuk.
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