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Feodor Chaliapin sings Russian Folk Songs

Recorded 1911, 1921-24, 1926-27, 1929-32, 1934
Download ID: 265034
(Duration 68'12")

Restoration by HTS Studio for Hänssler Classic

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Song of the Volga Boatmen

Celebrated stage directors are the enes who generally get the credit fer translating the dramatic potential of opera music into true stage drama. We easily overlook the fact that long before that became common practice, there were singers who could act just as impressively as they sang.

And if ever there were a singer who perfectly and single-handedly embodied that fusion of music and drama, of opera and theatre, then it was Feodor Chaliapin. The revolutionary effect his acting had on the werld of opera can be compared only with that of Maria Callas much later. In the opinion of Stanislavsky, he was the only one who achieved the synthesis of singing and acting - an otherwise unattainable ideal.

Chaliapin himself made the following appropriate comments on the difference between his approach
and that of others: »In the opera one must sing as if one were speaking. I later became aware that the singers who tried to imitate me were under a misapprehension. They did not sing as if they were speaking, but spoke as if they were singing.«

Many details in these recordings of Chaliapin singing Russian songs prove the aptness of his perception. For all his extraordinary presence and the expressiveness of his singing, he never forsakes the song line. He sings as naturally as others speak. And one does not have to know Russian to understand why Maxim Gorky was so taken with Chaliapin's recording of Mussorgsky's »Song of the Flea«. It is a masterpiece of vocal expressiveness and virtuosity, notably in his varied treatment of the laughter.

Excerpted from enclosed sleevenotes, Thomas Voigt © 2004

 

Track Listing:

  1. Song of the Volga Boatmen
  2. Stenka Rasin
  3. Legend of the Twelve Brigands (arr. Zharoff)
  4. Down the Volga (arr. Alexandroff)
  5. Black Eyes
  6. Dubinuschka
  7. Down The Petersky
  8. Arise Red Sun
  9. Song of the Needy Pilgrim
  10. Doubt
  11. The Old Corporal
  12. Crazy-Headed John
  13. Malashkin, Oh, Could I But Express In Song
  14. They Won't Let Masha Walk By The Brook
  15. The Midnight Review
  16. When The King Went Forth To War
  17. Persian Love Song: The Turbulent Water of Kur
  18. Song of the Flea

Please note: This is not a Pristine Audio historic restoration.



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