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Author Tavener, John, composer

Title Akhmatova requiem / John Tavener
Published London : NMC Recordings, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource (1 audio file)
Contents Akhmatova requiem (52:20) -- Six Russian folk songs. O dark autumn night ; In the garden stands a pretty birch tree ; Darling, let us walk by the banks of the Volga ; I have seen the great wide world ; Pretty maid, why do you stare so longingly ; Kalinka (16:16)
Notes Previously issued by Chester Classics in its BBC Radio classics series
Credits Text of Akhmatova requiem by Anna Akhmatova
Performer With Phyllis Bryn-Julson, soprano ; John Shirley-Quirk, bass-baritone ; BBC Symphony Orchestra ; Gennady Rozhdestvensky, conductor (1st work) ; Elise Ross, soprano; The Nash Ensemble (2nd work)
Event 1st work recorded live 1981 August 27 Royal Albert Hall, London
2nd work recorded live 1979 September 2 Roundhouse, London
Notes Sung in Russian
Hard copy version record
Subject Akhmatova, Anna Andreevna, 1889-1966 -- Musical settings
SUBJECT Akhmatova, Anna Andreevna, 1889-1966 fast
Subject Sacred vocal duets with orchestra.
Funeral music.
Songs (High voice) with instrumental ensemble.
Folk songs, Russian.
Folk songs, Russian
Funeral music
Sacred vocal duets with orchestra
Songs (High voice) with instrumental ensemble
Genre/Form Musical settings
Musical settings.
Mises en musique.
Form Streaming audio
Author Akhmatova, Anna Andreevna, 1889-1966, author
Bryn-Julson, Phyllis, singer
Ross, Elise, singer
Shirley-Quirk, John, singer
RozhdestvenskiÄ­, GennadiÄ­, conductor
Container of (work): Tavener, John. Akhmatova requiem
Container of (work): Tavener, John. Russian folk songs
BBC Symphony Orchestra, instrumentalist
Nash Ensemble, instrumentalist
Other Titles Vocal music. Selections