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Track(s) taken from CDA67274

V al'bome 'In an album', Op 49 No 4

composer
Anton Arensky (1861-1906)
author of text
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)
Lines written in an album at Malta
translator of text
Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841)
1809

Vassily Savenko (bass), Alexander Blok (piano)
Recording details: September 2000
Studio 1, The State House of Broadcasting and Audio-Recording, Moscow, Russia
Produced by Alexander Volkov
Engineered by Alexander Volkov
Release date: September 2001
Total duration: 2 minutes 7 seconds
 

Reviews

‘Russian composers have set many English poems to music, and here we have some of the best’ (Classic FM Magazine)

‘Even more impressive than their two previous collections … a CD that merits a very strong recommendation’ (Fanfare, USA)
ln an album by Anton Arensky completes the settings of texts after Byron in this compilation. This 1809 rendering of Lines written in an album at Malta is by Mikhail Lermontov, whose discovery of Byron's poetry determined the main direction of his own writing. The simplicity of Arensky's musical style matches perfectly the occasional nature of the piece.

from notes by Edward Morgan © 2001

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