Galina Vishnevskaya, soprano ; Alexander Dedyukhin, piano
"Living stereo."
Recorded live 1960 February 8 Webster Hall, New York City.
Sung in Russian.
Oh, cease thy singing, Maiden Fair = Ne poy, krasavitsa, pri mne, op. 4/4 / Sergei Rachmaninoff ; text, Alexander Pushkin -- I wait for thee = Ya zhdu tebya, op. 14/1 / Sergei Rachmaninoff ; text, Maria Davydova -- Katerina Izmailova's aria, from Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, op. 29 / Dmitri Shostakovich -- The ugly duckling, op. 18 / Sergei Prokofieff ; text, Nina Meshcherskaya after Hans Christian Andersen -- Was I not a little blade of grass in the meadow? = Ya li v pole da na travushke byla?, op. 47/7 / Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ; trext, Ivan Surikov -- Cradle song, op. 16/1 / Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ; text, Apollon Maykov -- Why? = Otchevo?, op. 6/5 / Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ; text, Lev Mey, after Heinrich Heine -- Barcarolle / Mikhail Glinka ; text, N. Kukolnik -- To her / Mikhail Glinka ; text, A. Mitskevich -- Do not excite me without cause = Ne iskoshay menya bez nuzhdy / Mikhail Glinka ; text, E. Baratynsky