ANTHOLOGY OF RUSSIAN SONGS

ANTHOLOGY OF RUSSIAN SONGS
By Benton Hess & Ksenia Leletkina

This anthology contains Twenty songs by 14 composers intended for voice students who are looking to explore the Russian repertoire, designed for those who have never sung in Russian, and do not know where to start. It contains songs that vary in difficulty, ranging from simple to more advanced, with approachable accompaniments that can be played by voice teachers. The book also includes a guide to Russian pronunciation, complete with detailed descriptions and the visual representation of every phoneme, as well as phonetic transcriptions and English translations of all songs and brief biographical sketches of composers and poets.

How happy he..........................Alexander Alyabyev
Mountain peaks .......................Alexander Varlamov
Don’t sing, oh lovely one.................Mikhail Glinka
I’m sad.............................Alexander Dargomyzhsky
I loved you....................................Boris Sheremetev
A false note.................................Alexander Borodin
The statue of Tsarskoye Selo.....................César Cui
Why?.................................................Mily Balakirev
Evening song.............................Modest Mussorgsky
My genius, my angel ..................Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Twilight fell on earth...................Pyotr Tchaikovsky
A nightingale...................Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
On the hills of Georgia....Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Of what, in the silence.....Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Delia.........................................Alexander Glazunov
Dream......................................Sergei Rachmaninoff
At the gate where holiness.......Sergei Rachmaninoff
My harp is silent for a reason............. Reinhold Gliè

111 Pages Gloss Comb Binding  Limited Range

ISBN 978-1-878617-80-4