Various Artists - Poison D'amour - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

This richly rewarding album is Oksana Volkova's first solo album on Delos, though she appeared alongside the late, great Dmitri Hvorostovsky in Delos's GRAMMY®-nominated 2017 of Verdi's complete Rigoletto. Here she delivers powerful, passionate and ravishing performances of (mostly) well-known French, Italian, Russian and Belarusian arias for mezzo-soprano. The composers include Bizet, Thomas, Saint-Sae¨ns, Gounod, Cilea, Massenet and Mascagni; Russian masters heard here are Rimsky-Korsakov, Mussorgsky and Tchaikovsky, alongside a rare treat an arresting aria by Belarusian composer Dmitri Smolsky, whose music is almost completely unknown in the West. Glowing instrumental collaboration, as usual, comes courtesy of Maestro Constantine Orbelian, leading his trusty Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra. Album Tracks 1. Sapho~O ma lyre immortelle 2. Samson et Dalila~Printemps qui commence 3. Samson et Dalila~Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix 4. Gray Legend~Ti pripomni jak lotaz kalisti u lugah mi zbirali (Remember How We Once Plucked Marigolds in the Meadows) 5. Mignon~Connais-tu le pays 6. Sadko~Vsyu noch zhdala ego ya ponaprasnu 7. Cid~Pleurez! pleurez mes yeux 8. Maid of Orleans~Prostite vi, kholomi, polia rodniye 9. Carmen~Seguidilla 10. Khovanshchina~Sily potainye 11. Cavalleria Rusticana~Voi lo sapete o mamma 12. Werther~Va! Laisse couler mes larmes 13. Adrianna Lecouvreur~Acerba voluttà