ARTHUR LOURIE

Songs and Choruses

Natalia Gerassimova

Russian Chamber Choir

LE CHAPELET / ROSARY

(Anna Akhmatova)

1. Plaisanterie/Pleasantry 1’10

2. Commémoration 4’10

3. Ocarina 2’30

4. Langueur/Languor 1’50

5. Tchastouchka 1’25

LA VOIX DE LA MUSE/THE VOICE OF THE MUSE

(Anna Akhmatova)

6. Tu es pesant, souvenir d’amour

You are heavy, memory of love 2’50

7. On m’a jeté tant de pierres?

They have thrown so many stones at me 3’05

8. QUASI VALSE 2’50

DEUX MAZURKAS POUR PIANO OP. 7 Nos. 1 & 2 5’28

9. No. 1

10. No. 2

11. INCANTATIONS 4’20

(Extraits du “Poemè sans héros”

Poem without heroes)

(Anna Akhmatova)

(1: Deus conservat omnia; 2: Un miroir/a mirror; 3: Comme l’avenir/as the

future; 4: Un petit etre/A little being; 5: Une fume verte/a green haze)

12. LAMENTATIONS DE LA VIERGE 13’35

(Texte francais du XIII siècle)

THE VIRGIN’S LAMENT (13th century text)

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Arthur Lourié SONGS & CHORUSES

13. TROIS ROIS MAGES/THREE WISE KINGS 2’00

(Alexandre Blok)

DANS LE SANCTUAIRE D’UN RÊVE DORÉ

IN THE SANCTUARY OF A GOLDEN FREAM

Cantata for soprano and mixed choir a cappella (Anna Akhmatova)

14. Dans les champs tu t’éloignas in the fields you went away 7’20

15. Une vie qui se consume dans le choeur a life that is spent in the choir 5’10

16. Du royaume du sommeil from the realm of sleep 7’10

Natalia Gerassimova, soprano (1-8, 11-16)

Vladimir Skanavi, piano (1-5, 8-11, 13)

Vladimir Talanov, violin (6-7, 12)

Alexandre Talanov, violin (6-7)

Olga Boulanova, alto (6-7)

Igor Bogouslavsky, alto (6-7, 12)

Alexandre Roudine, cello (12)

Russian Chamber Choir,Tamara Piliptchuk (14-16)

Recording: 1994

Brilliant Classics 9175