Chopin / Kancheva / Angelov / Tanev / Kader: Viardot: Songs

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Title:

Viardot: Songs

Artist:

Chopin / Kancheva / Angelov / Tanev / Kader

Label:

Toccata

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

5060113443038

Genre:

Classical

Release Date:

2016-01-08

Number of Discs:

1

Pauline Viardot (1821-1910) was one of the most extraordinary women in the history of music. Daughter of the Spanish tenor Manuel García and sister of the mezzo-soprano Maria Malibran, she studied piano with Liszt and counterpoint and harmony with Reicha, made her debut, also as a mezzo, at the age of sixteen and went on to inspire composers of the stature of Berlioz, Chopin, Gounod, Meyerbeer, Saint-Saëns, Schumann and Wagner, and she was no mean composer herself, as these passionate songs demonstrate. Twelve of them are arrangements of mazurkas by her good friend Frédéric Chopin; the others set some major poems in Russian, a language she spoke fluently.

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