Shostakovich: Ten Poems, op. 88. Sviridov: Seven Choruses; Taneyev S. Twelve Choruses, op 27. Conductor G. Sandler (2 CD)

The Choir of Leningrad Radio and Television Company
Conductor Grigory Sandler

Tracklisting:

CD 1

Sergei Taneyev (1856–1915). Twelve choruses to Yakov Polonsky's verse, op. 27

1     At the Grave      4'11''
2     The Ruins of the Tower      4'32''
3     And Saw the Rock from behind a Cloud    5'05''  
4     The Stars      4'01''
5     Over the Mountains Two Lowering Clouds      5'44''
6     In the Days Over the Slumbering      3'31''
7     The Prayer      4'24''
8     Behold the Mist      1'33''
9     From Eternity the Music Suddenly Sounded      4'01''
10   Prometheus      6'27''
11   Evening      2'43''
12   On Bpard Ship     4'00''

Total time: 50'12''

CD 2

Dmitry Shostakovich (1906–1975). Ten poems to revolutionary poets' verse, op. 88

1     Courage, Friends, We are Going Forward (L. Radin)     0'59''
2     One of Many (E. Tarasov)      4'09''
3     Into the Street (unknown)     2'03''
4     Meeting at a Transit Prison (A. Gmirev)      2'04''
5     To the Executed (A. Gmirev)      3'15''
6     The Ninth of January (A. Kots)      4'49''
7     And the Late Salvos Fell Silent (E. Tarasov)      3'56''
8     They were Victorious (A. Gmirev)      1'25''
9     The May Song (A. Kots)      2'25''
10   A Song (V. Tan-Bogoraz after W. Whitman)      5'44''

Georgy Sviridov (1915–1998). Seven Choruses to Russian poets' verse

11   One Blue Evening (S. Esenin)      2'38''
12   And a Son Met His Father (A. Prokofiev)      3'08''
13   How the Song was Born (S. Orlov)      2'48''
14   Of the Lost Youth (N. Gogol)      3'13'' 
15   Sing This Song to Me (S. Esenin)      3'55'' 
16   My Soul is Pining for Heaven (S. Esenin)      4'03''
17   The Herd (S. Esenin)      3'50''

Total time: 54'24''