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Track(s) taken from CDA67274

Ozymandiya 'Ozymandias' 'Sonnet', Op 15

composer
Boris Lyatoshinsky (1895-1968)
1924
author of text
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
Sonnet 'Ozymandias'
translator of text
Konstantin Bal'mont (1867-1942)

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: 4 minutes 22 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)
The dramatic, declamatory style of Ozymandias, also of 1924, corresponds to the bleak imagery of what is perhaps Shelley's most famous poem.

from notes by Edward Morgan © 2001

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