Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone ; with (variously) Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra ; Valery Gergiev, conductor ; Philharmonia Orchestra ; Ion Marin, conductor ; Kirov Orchestra, St. Petersburg ; Valery Gergiev, conductor ; Academy of St. Martin in the Fields ; Neville Marriner, conductor ; Oleg Boshnyakovich and Mikhail Arkadiev, piano
Duration: CD 1 75:52; CD 2 70:33
Credits and program notes by George Hall in English, French & German on insert
La traviata: Di Provenza il mar ; Il trovatore: Il balen del suo sorriso ; Don Carlo: Per me giunto...O Carlo, ascolta / Verdi -- Barbiere di Siviglia: Largo al foctotum / Rossini -- L'elisir d'amore: Com Paride vezzoso ; Lucia di Lammermoor: Cruda, funesta smania / Donizetti -- I puritani: Ah! per sempre io ti perdei / Bellini -- Don Pasquale: Bella siccome un angelo / Donizetti -- Eugene Onegin: You wrote to me ; Can this really be the same Tatyana ; Queen of spades: You are so sad, my dearest ; Iolante: Who can compare with my own darling Matilda / Tchaikovsky -- The demon: On the ocean of the air / Rubinstein -- Sadko: Town of stone ; The Tsar's bride: Still the beauty haunts my mind ; What do you want (with Olga Borodina) / Rimsky-Korsakov -- Serse: Ombra mai fu / Handel -- Orfeo ed Euridice: Che faro senza Euridice? / Gluck -- Tito Manlio: Se il cor guerriero / Vivaldi -- La constanza in amor vince l'inganno: Selve amiche / Caldara -- Caro mio ben / Giordani -- Let me not hear you sing, my beauty ; In the mysterious silence of the night / Rachmaninoff -- No, only those who have longed ; Ah, if only you could for one moment ; Once again, as before, I am alone / Tchaikovsky -- Songs and dances of death / Mussorgsky -- Tears -- The pedlars -- Elegy -- Dark eyes -- Kalinka