Bolshoi Opera Soloist Yuri Nechaev Recital

Modest Mussorgsky
Monologue of Boris from Boris Godunov

Pyotr Tchaikovsky
“I Bless You, Forests” on poem by Alexei Tolstoy, Op.47 No 5
“Exploit” on poem by Alexei Khomyakov, Op.60 No 11
“Softly the Spirt Flew up to Heaven” on poem by Alexei Tolstoy, Op.47 No 2
“At Bedtime” on poem by Nikolai Ogaryov, Op.27 No 1
“Does the Day Reign?” on poem by Alexei Apukhtin, Op.47 No 6
“Modern Greek Song” on poem by Apollon Maykov , Op.16 No 6
“Death” on poem by Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Op.57 No 5

Sergei Rachmaninov
“No Prophet I” on poem by Alelxander Kruglov, Op.21 No 11
“Brooding” on poem by Alexei Pleshcheyev after Taras Shevchenko, Op.8 No3
“Tis Time!” on poem by Semyon Nadson, Op.14 No 12
“A Prayer” on poem by Alexei Pleshcheyev after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Op.8 No 6
“Before the Icon” on poem by Arseny Golenishchev-Kutuzov, Op.21 No 10
“The Peasant” on poem by Afanasy Fet, Op.34 No 11
“Christ Is Risen” on poem by Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Op.26 No 6
“At the Gates of the Holy Abode” on poem by Mikhail Lermontov
“He Took All from Me” on poem by Fyodor Tyutchev, Op.26 No 2
“Child! Thou Art as Beautiful as a Flower” on poem by Alexei Pleshcheyev after Heinrich Heine, Op. 8 No 2
“A Prayer” (“Teach me, o God”) on poem by Konstanin Romanov
“All Nature Sings” on poem by Fyodor Sologub

Modest Mussorgsky
“At Bedtime” (from The Nursery)

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
“The Octave” to poem by Apollon Maykov, Op.45 No 3
“The Prophet” on poem by Alexander Pushkin, Op.49 No 2
“Angel and Demon” on poem by Apollon Maykov, Op. 52 No 2

Yuri Nechaev (baritone)
Natalia Levitina (soprano)
Piano part — Valery Gerasimov