CD 1
The Rymington van Wyck Recordings
1 S. TANEYEV: Nocturne
2 TCHAIKOVSKY: Was I not a blade of grass?
S. TANEYEV
3 Dreams
4 My Heart is Beating
5 In the Silence of the Night
6 TCHEREPNIN: I would have kissed you
RACHMANINOV
7 Lilacs
8 How pleasant it is here!
9 CUI: The Statue at Tsarskoye Sel
TCHAIKOVSKY
10 To Forget So Soon
11 If only I had known
12 The golden cornfields
The Decca recordings
13-15 Three Folksongs (from the collection of RIMSKY-KORSAKOV, arr. IPPOLITOV-IVANOV)
GRETCHANINOV:
16 Lullaby
17 The Dreary Steppe
18 Like an angel
19 My country
BORODIN
20 From my tears sprang flowers
21 The Sea Princess
22 BALAKIREV: Hebrew Melody
CD 2
TCHAIKOVSKY
1 Evgney Onegin: Tatyana’s Letter Scene
London Symphony Orchestra
Anatole Fistoulari
2 Child Song
RACHMANINOV
3 To the children
4 The Little Island
5 The Soldier’s Wife
6 PROKOFIEV: Dunyushka, Op. 104
BLANTER
7 In the forest of the frontline
8 Katyusha
9-11 STRAVINSKY: Three Tales for Children
12-18 KABALEVSKY: Seven Nursery Rhymes
19-24 SHOSTAKOVICH: Six Spanish Songs, Op. 100
Ivor Newton, piano
Oda Slobodskaya, soprano
Recording Producer: Christopher Raeburn (CD2: 2-23)
Recording Engineers: Kenneth Wilkinson (CD2: 1); Arthur Lilley (CD2: 2-23)
Recording Locations: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London, UK, November-December 1938 (CD1: 1-12), May 1945 (CD1, tracks, 13-22), January-February 1961 (CD2, tracks 2-23); Kingsway Hall, London, UK, February 1946 (CD2: 1)
Remastering: Audio Archiving Company, London, UK