# Dmitri Shostakovich · Franz Liszt: Suite on Poems by Michelangelo Boanarroti · 3 Sonetti del Petrarca (1st version)

> Dmitri Shostakovich · Franz Liszt: Suite on Poems by Michelangelo Boanarroti · 3 Sonetti del Petrarca (1st…. Ondine ODE 1277-2, CD, released November 2015.

Source: https://ondine.eyelabel.com/catalogue/ode-1277-2

- **Composer:** Dmitri Shostakovich · Franz Liszt
- **Work(s):** Suite on Poems by Michelangelo Boanarroti · 3 Sonetti del Petrarca (1st version)
- **Performers:** Dmitri Hvorostovsky, barotone; Ivari Ilja, piano
- **Label:** Ondine
- **Catalogue no.:** ODE 1277-2
- **Format:** CD
- **Release date:** 1 November 2015
- **EAN / UPC:** 0761195127728
- **Tracks:** 15, total 61:15
- **Genres:** Vocal, Chamber

## Track listing

**Dmitri Shostakovich**

- *Suite on Poems by Michelangelo Bonarroti, Op. 145*
1. Truth (5:15)
2. Morning (3:00)
3. Love (4:41)
4. Separation (1:55)
5. Wrath (1:48)
6. Dante (3:33)
7. To the Exile (4:24)
8. Creativity (2:34)
9. Creativity (2:34)
10. Night (3:34)
11. Death (5:19)
12. Immortality (3:34)

**Franz Liszt**

- *3 Sonetti del Petrarca, S. 270a (1st version)*
13. Pace non trovo (Sonetto 104) (6:45)
14. Benedetto sia il giorno (Sonetto 47) (6:36)
15. l´vidi in terra angelici costumi (SOnetto 123) (5:43)

## About this recording

Ondine's fourth release together with star baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky features a program of sonnets by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) and Franz Liszt (1811-1886). Hvorostovsky is accompanied by his longstanding duo partner, the Estonian pianist Ivari Ilja.

Shostakovich's setting on the poems by Michelangelo is the composer's final masterpiece and among the greatest achievements in 20th century Russian vocal music. The work in 11 movements is filled with deep meaning. In his work Shostakovich, already seriously at that point, contemplates the themes of life and death.

Liszt's three Sonnets by Petrarch are based on the love poems by the Italian Renaissance writer. Liszt wrote numerous sketches for the work and also completed several versions of it. For a good reason Liszt was very satisfied with his work: "I think they have come out exceptionally well, and are more perfect in form than anything I have published until now."

Dmitri Hvorostovsky is recognized as one of the leading and most charismatic baritones of our time, performing internationally at such opera houses as the New York Met, and partnering regularly with singers Renée Fleming and Jonas Kaufmann.

## Features

Booklet with liner notes in English and German and the song texts in the original Russian (transliteration) and in English

## Press

Hvorostovsky offers searching readings of these rugged, jagged songs which are full of resignation and bittersweet regret, of loss and separation (...). There are few things finer than Hvorostovsky in full flight.

Mark Pullinger, Gramophone, December 2015, Editor's Choice

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## Related pages

- [Franz Liszt (1811-1886)](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/composers/liszt-franz.md)
- [Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/composers/shostakovich-dmitri.md)
- [Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/artists/hvorostovsky-dmitri.md)
- [Ivari Ilja, piano](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/artists/ilja-ivari.md)

## Also recommended

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- [In this moonlit night: Lieder by Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky & Taneyev](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/catalogue/ode-1216-2.md): Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone · Ivari Ilya, piano (ODE 1216-2, 2013)
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