Pauline Viardot and friends
Contributors: Chernov, Vladimir, 1953-; Antonacci, Anna Caterina; Ardant, Fanny; Watkin, David (Cellist); Harper, David (Pianist); Schofield, Ian; Smith, Georgia; Viardot-García, Pauline, 1821-1910; García, Manuel, 1775-1832; Rossini, Gioacchino, 1792-1868; Gounod, Charles, 1818-1893; Meyerbeer, Giacomo, 1791-1864; Chopin, Frédéric, 1810-1849; Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869
Series: Salotto -- v. 10
Publisher: Opera Rara
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London
Language: rus
Translated from: rus; spa; ita; fre; ger
Format: [sound recording]
Subjects: Songs (Medium voice) with piano; Songs (High voice) with piano; Vocal duets with piano; Vocal trios with piano; Songs (High voice) with instrumental ensemble; Live sound recordings
Notes: Principally songs for 1-3 voices with piano (the 8th and 16th with violoncello), interspersed with biographical narration on Viardot.

Transcriptions of songs by Ian Schofield; narration excerpted from original monologues by Georgia Smith.

Compact discs.

Program notes and chronology of Viardot's life in English, French, German, and Italian, and song texts in Russian, Spanish, Italian, French, and German with English translations (105 p. : ill.) laid in container.

Frederica von Stade, mezzo-soprano (the 3rd-5th, 8th, 11th, 14th, 16th, 19th, and 22nd works) ; Vladimir Chernov, baritone (the 1st, 7th, 10th, 12th, 17th-19th, and 21st-22nd) ; Anna Caterina Antonacci, soprano (the 2nd-3rd, 6th, 9th, 13th, 15th, 20th, and 22nd) ; Fanny Ardant, narrator ; David Watkin, cello (the 8th and 16th) ; David Harper, piano.

Recorded in performance, Feb. 27, 2006, at the Wigmore Hall.

Sung in Russian, Spanish, Italian, French, and German.
Table of contents: title: Dve rozy / Pauline Viardot; title: Celos / Manuel Garcia; title: La regata veneziana / Gioachino Rossini; title: L'absence ; Berceuse ; La chéne et le roseau ; Utës ; Die Sterne ; Scène d'Hermione ; Sinitsa ; Indécision / P. Viardot; title: Chanson de printemps / Charles Gounod; title: Délire / Giacomo Meyerbeer; title: Berceuse / Fryderyk Chopin; title: Allein / P. Viardot; title: La captive : op. 12 / Hector Berlioz; title: En mer ; Buri͡a ; C'est moi ; Ici-bas tous les lilas meurent ; Zaklinanie ; Havanaise / P. Viardot.