Mila Baslawskaya

Dmitry Ferschtman, Mila Baslawskaya – The Cello’s Russian Voice (2009)
DSF Stereo DSD64/2.82MHz | Time – 01:01:05 minutes | 2,44 GB | Genre: Classical
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In our youth, music and poetry were the lifeblood of our Soviet upbringing. They provided colour and meaning to the drab existence of many Russians. Together with the breathtaking Russian countryside, they became almost like a religion in the atheist Soviet Union.“If a musician is a true artist, his experience of the music of poetry is just as acute as that of the poetry of music”. These words of the great Russian pianist and teacher Heinrich Neuhaus became our motto. As classically- trained musicians, we were not only fascinated by Russian classical music but also by Russian classical poetry. Nowhere are these two high art forms so interwoven as in the Russian Art Song.

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