Oksana Volkova, Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra & Constantine Orbelian – Poison d’amour (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Oksana Volkova, Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra & Constantine Orbelian – Poison d’amour (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:08 minutes | 1,05 GB | Genre: Classical
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This richly rewarding album is Oksana Volkova’s first solo album on Delos, though she appeared alongside the late, great Dmitri Hvorostovsky in Delos’s release of Verdi’s complete Rigoletto. Here she delivers powerful, passionate and ravishing performances of (mostly) well-known French, Italian, Russian and Belarusian arias for mezzo-soprano.
The composers include Bizet, Thomas, Saint-Saëns, Gounod, Cilea, Massenet and Mascagni; Russian masters heard here are Rimsky-Korsakov, Mussorgsky and Tchaikovsky, alongside a rare treat: an arresting aria by Belarusian composer Dmitri Smolsky, whose music is almost completely unknown in the West. Glowing instrumental collaboration, as usual, comes courtesy of Maestro Constantine Orbelian, leading his trusty Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra.

Tracklist:
01. Oksana Volkova, Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra & Constantine Orbelian – Gounod: Sapho, CG 1: Ô ma lyre immortelle (08:04)
02. Oksana Volkova, Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra & Constantine Orbelian – Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila, Op. 47, R. 288 (Excerpts): Printemps qui commence (05:01)
03. Oksana Volkova, Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra & Constantine Orbelian – Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila, Op. 47, R. 288 (Excerpts): Mon coeur s’ouvre à ta voix (06:19)
04. Oksana Volkova, Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra & Constantine Orbelian – Smolsky: Hoary Legend: Ti pripomni jak lotaz kalisti u lugah mi zbirali (03:16)
05. Oksana Volkova, Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra & Constantine Orbelian – Thomas: Mignon: Connais-tu le pays (05:07)
06. Oksana Volkova, Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra & Constantine Orbelian – Rimsky-Korsakov: Sadko: All Night I Have Waited for Him in Vain (05:10)
07. Oksana Volkova, Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra & Constantine Orbelian – Massenet: Werther: Va! Laisse couler mes larmes (02:35)
08. Oksana Volkova, Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra & Constantine Orbelian – Tchaikovsky: The Maid of Orleans, TH 6: Farewell, You Native Hills and Fields (07:00)
09. Oksana Volkova, Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra & Constantine Orbelian – Bizet: Carmen, WD 31: Seguidilla “Près des ramparts de Séville” (02:10)
10. Oksana Volkova, Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra & Constantine Orbelian – Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina: Mysterious Forces (05:19)
11. Oksana Volkova, Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra & Constantine Orbelian – Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana: Voi lo sapete o mamma (04:12)
12. Oksana Volkova, Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra & Constantine Orbelian – Massenet: Le Cid: Pleurez! Pleurez mes yeux (05:32)
13. Oksana Volkova, Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra & Constantine Orbelian – Cilea: Adriana Lecouvreur: Acerba voluttà, dolce tortura (04:19)

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