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Anna Akhmatova

CD MANU 5022

FIRST RELEASE

Playing time: [c57'40"]
Tracks: 3
Booklet pages: 32
© 2008 Video Pacific Communications Ltd
Reviewer: Howard Smith
Review of Anna Akhmatova published on 12 April 2011

Terence O'Neill-Joyce, voice
Alexander Ivashkin, cello
Támas Vesmás, piano
Symphony Orchestra of Moscow
Valeri Polyansky, conductor

Poems of Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) translated into English by Judith Hemschemeyer:

1 Poem Without A Hero
Shostakovich: Moderato (Cello Concerto No 1, Op 107)
Shostakovich: Largo (Cello Concerto No 2, Op 126)
Britten: Lento solenne (Suite for solo cello Op 87)
Prokofiev: Adagio (Cinderella, Op 97 bis)

2 Midnight Verses
Beethoven: Sonata in C, Op 102 No 1 (opening section of first movement)
Beethoven: Sonata in D Op 102 No 2 - Adagio con molto sentimento d'affetto

3 Requiem
Giya Kancheli: Having wept for solo cello (1994)

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