Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Ivari Ilja

Voir Child, thou art as beautiful as a flower, Op.8 no.2 à

Stockholm, Suède Rome, Italie Naples, Italie

Dmitri Hvorostovsky opens the new season at Wigmore Hall

Evan Dickerson, 8th September

Across town the Proms were sounding their final hurrah for another year, but Wigmore Hall opened their 2012/13 season with an altogether more serious repertoire of Rachmaninov and Shostakovich songs.

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Rachmaninov, Sergueï (1873-1943)	Child, thou art as beautiful as a flower, Op.8 no.2
Rachmaninov, Sergueï (1873-1943)	Morning, Op.4 no.2
Rachmaninov, Sergueï (1873-1943)	At the gate of the holy monastery
Rachmaninov, Sergueï (1873-1943)	In my soul, Op.14 no.10
Rachmaninov, Sergueï (1873-1943)	Night is sorrowful, Op.26 no.12
Rachmaninov, Sergueï (1873-1943)	Do you remember the evening?
Rachmaninov, Sergueï (1873-1943)	I am alone again, Op.26 no.9
Rachmaninov, Sergueï (1873-1943)	Zdes' khorosho (Ici il fait bon), Op.21 no. 7
Rachmaninov, Sergueï (1873-1943)	The raising of Lazarus, Op.34 no.6
Rachmaninov, Sergueï (1873-1943)	Les Lilas, Op.21 no.5
Rachmaninov, Sergueï (1873-1943)	I await you, (Ja zhdu tebja) Op.14 no.1
Chostakovitch, Dimitri (1906-1975)	Michelangelo Suite on Verses by Buonarroti for bass and piano, Op.145