[ Philips Portrait of an Artist / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Saturday 10 June 2006
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"A mezzo-soprano is usually a woman with a tragic past, a tragic life - strong women, wilful women, and these roles have strengthened me as a character" (Olga Borodina)
CD 1
Saint-Saëns
1.Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix
Samson et Dalila
Orchestra of Welsh National Opera
Carlo Rizzi
Rossini
2.Una voce poco fa … Io sono docile
3.Dunque io son… Tu non m'inganni?*
*with Dmitri Hvorostovsky as Figaro
Il barbiere di Siviglia
English Chamber Orchestra
Patrick Summers
Handel
4. Frondi tenere e belle … Ombra mai fu Serse
Orchestra of Welsh National Opera
Carlo Rizzi
Verdi
5. Al suon del tamburo
6. Rataplan
La forza del destino
Kirov Orchestra and Chorus, Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg
Valery Gergiev
7. Nei giardin del bello saracin ostello
Don Carlo
Chorus & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Bernard Haitink
Rossini
8. Ah! quel giorno ognor rammento
Semiramide
Orchestra of Welsh National Opera
Carlo Rizzi
Ponchielli
9. Voce di donna o d'angelo le mie catene ha sciolto (Romanza)
La Gioconda
Orchestra of Welsh National Opera
Carlo Rizzi
Saint-Saëns
10. Samson, recherchant ma présence, ce soir doit venir en ces lieux
Samson et Dalila
Orchestra of Welsh National Opera
Carlo Rizzi
11. J'ai gravi la montagne … Salut à vous, mon père!
Samson et Dalila
With Dmitri Hvorostovsky
English Chamber Orchestra
Patrick Summers
Berlioz
12. Heureux enfants aux coeurs de flamme
Roméo et Juliette
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Wiener Philharmoniker
Sir Colin Davis
Purcell
13. Thy hand, Belinda … When I am laid in earth
Dido and Aeneas
Orchestra of Welsh National Opera
Carlo Rizzi
Rossini
14. Nacqui all'affanno
La Cenerentola
Orchestra of Welsh National Opera
Carlo Rizzi
CD 2
Tchaikovsky
1. Nyet, tolko tot kto zna, op.6 no.6l
Larissa Gergieva piano
2. Uzh polnoch' blizitsya
The Queen of Spades
Orchestra of Welsh National Opera
Carlo Rizzi
3. Kak ya lyublyu pod zvuki pesen etikh… Uzh kak po mostu, mostochku
Eugene Onegin
Orchestre de Paris
Semyon Bychkov
4. Da, chas nastal! … Prostite vy
The Maid of Orleans
Orchestra of Welsh National Opera
Carlo Rizzi
5. Uzh vecher
The Queen of Spades
Kirov Orchestra, Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg
Valery Gergiev
6. Snova, kak prezhde, odin op.73 no.6
Larissa Gergieva piano
Moussorgsky
7. Noch'
Larissa Gergieva piano
8. Ty, Ruzya, mnye nye nuzhna sevodnya… Kak tomitel'no i vyalo dni za dnyami dlyatsa
Boris Godounov
Kirov Orchestra, Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg
Valery Gergiev
9. Postav'! - Sily potajnye
Khovanshchina
Kirov Orchestra, Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg
Valery Gergiev
Borodin
10. Merknet svyet dnevnoy
11. Ty li, Vladimir moy?
Prince Igor
Kirov Orchestra and Chorus, Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg
Valery Gergiev
Rimsky-Korsakov
12. Redeyet oblakov letuchaya gryada, op.42 no.3
Larissa Gergieva piano
13. Zachem ty? … Znat' nye lyubish bolshe ty svoyu Lyubashu
with Dmitri Hvorostovsky
14. Vot do chevo ya dozhila
The Tsar's Bride
Kirov Orchestra, Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg
Valery Gergiev
Falla
15. El paño moruno
16. Asturiana
17. Nana
Seven Spanish Folk Songs, Nos.1, 3 & 5
Semyon Skigin piano
Rachmaninoff
18. Blagoslovi, dushe moya
Vespers
St Petersburg Chamber Choir
Nikolai Korniev