Choral Works

CESAR CUI (1835-1918)

premiere recordings

1

A Feast in Time of Plague

31:39

A dramatic setting in one act of Alexander Pushkin's 'Little Tragedy'

Andrei Baturkin baritone - Chairman

Alexei Martinov tenor - Young Man

Dmitri Stepanovich bass - Priest

Ludmila Kuznetsova mezzo-soprano - Mary

Tatiana Sharova soprano - Louisa

Three Scherzos, Op. 82

18:47

2

No. 1 in C major

4:43

in C-Dur - en ut majeur

3

No. 2 in F major

7:49

in F-Dur - en fa majeur

4

No. 3 in C minor

6:09

in c-Moll - en ut mineur

5

Les Deux Ménétriers, Op. 42

6:14

Text by Jean Richepin, in Russian translation

Tatiana Sharova soprano

6

Fair Spring

9:15

Echoes of War, Op. 66 No. 4

Text by N. Malashkin

Ludmila Kuznetsova mezzo-soprano

7

Budrys and His Sons, Op. 98

5:31

A ballad for solo voice and orchestra

Text by Adam Mickiewicz, in the Russian translation by Alexander Pushkin

Andrei Baturkin baritone

Valeri Polyansky

14 & 15 July 1999