Karelia State Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Yuri Serov - Kuzmin: Sacred Songs & Incidental Music (2015) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Music for "The Society of Honoured Bell Ringers": No. 1, Introduction to Act I. Adagio
02. Music for "The Society of Honoured Bell Ringers": No. 2, Interlude. Con moto
03. Music for "The Society of Honoured Bell Ringers": No. 3, Appearance. Adagio
04. Music for "The Society of Honoured Bell Ringers": No. 4, Introduction to Act III
05. Music for "The Society of Honoured Bell Ringers": No. 5, Interlude. Allegro
06. Music for "The Society of Honoured Bell Ringers": No. 6, Interlude. Moderato
07. Music for "The Society of Honoured Bell Ringers": No. 7, Final March. Allegretto
08. Music for "Masquerade": Polka
09. Music for "Masquerade": Nina's Romance
10. Music for "Masquerade": Waltz
11. Music for "Masquerade": Final Chorus
12. Sacred Songs: No. 1, Descent of the Virgin into Hell
13. Sacred Songs: No. 2, The Old Man and the Lion
14. Sacred Songs: No. 3, Doomsday
15. Music for "Hinkemann the German": No. 1, Introduction to Act I - Soldiers' Chorus
16. Music for "Hinkemann the German": No. 2, Pastoral
17. Music for "Hinkemann the German": No. 3, Interlude - Waltz
18. Music for "Hinkemann the German": No. 4, Introduction to Act II
19. Music for "Hinkemann the German": No. 5, Country Dance
20. Music for "Hinkemann the German": No. 6, Procession
21. Music for "Hinkemann the German": No. 7, Tango
22. Music for "Hinkemann the German": No. 8, Final March

The great twentieth-century Russian poet, Mikhail Alexeevich Kuzmin, was for much of his early life also passionately devoted to composition. Masterpieces of the vocal miniature, his Sacred Songs for voice and orchestra are settings of his own words based on studies of ancient Russian music. His incidental music for Masquerade is notable for a heartfelt Romance and a closing chorus which draws upon traditional Russian church music. The Society of Honoured Bell Ringers displays Mahlerian and Mozartian influences whilst greater harmonic complexity can be savoured in Kuzmin’s edgier music for Der deutsche Hinkemann.

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