Six Pushkin Poems, Op 32

Date: 1914
For: Voice (medium/high) and piano
Published by: Édition Russe de Musique 1916
Availability: #4 only: Kompozitor (St Petersburg) in Forgotten Pages of Russian Romance (2004)

Recordings

no. 1
Del Grande bar/Pleshakov 1971 LP Orion ORS7157

nos. 1, 2, 6
Savenko bbar/Yampolsky 1995 CD Triton DICC-26049 - nla
Savenko bbar/Berezovsky 2007/Moscow* CD Vista Vera VVCD-00209

nos. 1, 5
Pellegrineschi mez/Klimov 2005 CD Classical Records CR-070

nos. 1, 6
Shaposhnikov bar/Lebedev 1953/5 LP Melodiya M10-44083/4

no. 4
Zarin ten/Braun 1978 LP Melodiya C10-09831/2
Pluzhnikov ten/Shafran 1985 LP Melodiya C10-23791/2
Andrew sop/Tozer 1993 CD Chandos CHAN9327

nos. 4, 5
Pluzhnikov ten/Shafran 1985 LP Melodiya C10-23791/2

no. 5
Schwarzkopf sop/Medtner 1950† 78 Columbia LX1425 CD EMI CDC7-54839-2 reissued by ArkivMusic, EMI 2175752 22cds, EMI 5-65860-2 - nla

Dolukhanova mez/Kozel c.1955 LP Melodiya D 3238/9‡ CD Vista Vera VVCD-00165**, Russian Disc RDCD11342** - nla

Kozlovsky ten/Nikitin 1960 LP Melodiya D 5976/7‡
Galante sop/Vignoles 1999/London* CD Campion RRCD1348
Porackova sop/Achatz c.2001 CD Americus AMR20011018
Kravchuk sop/Konsistorum 2004 CD Henschel, with the biography
Rodgers sop/Martineau 2009 CD Hyperion CDA67773

no. 6
Slobodskaya sop/Medtner 1947 78 HMV DB6565 LP Melodiya M10-45523/4, CD EMI CDC7-54839-2 reissued by ArkivMusic, EMI 2175752 22cds, St-Laurent YSL 78-005, Dante HPC126 - nla

L Simonova mez/Strzhizhivskaya c.1974 LP Melodiya C10-04997/8

Arkhipova mez/Gusel'nikov 1976 LP Melodiya C10-08229/30 CD Boheme CDBMR 903046, The Irina Arkhipova Foundation FA 05-09 7 (Russia)

Kagan-Paley counterten/Berezovsky 1997 CD Victor VICC-60033
Hvorostovsky bar/Ilja 2009 CD Delos DE3392

† In English. See notes to Op 15.

‡ The BIRS discography also lists "Remembrance" Op 32 no 8 (sic) on both these Melodiya LPs. Bennett's book Melodiya: a Soviet Russian L.P. discography lists only "Could I forget (Pushkin)" without an opus number, which fits the text of Op 32 no 5, on each disc. The lack of an opus no., if Bennett is correct, might have led to confusion on the part of the BIRS authors. If a reader is in possession of D 5976/7 please get in touch.

** Incorrectly stated by Russian Disc as recorded in 1966-8 with Svetlanova, and by Vista Vera as 1958 with Svetlanova. See notes to Op 36.

The text of Op 32 no 5 is actually by Pushkin's friend and contemporary Baron Anton Del'vig.

Transcription of Op 32 no 4 for piano solo
by Hamish Milne, unpublished

Milne 1998 CD CRD (vol.6) CRD3509

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