Track listing
15 tracks · 57:56Franz Schubert
- 1 Du bist die Ruh, D.776 4:46
- 2 Seligkeit, D.433 1:55
- 3 Ave Maria, D.839 7:06
Franz Liszt
- 4 Oh, quand je dors 5:19
Reynaldo Hahn
- 5 Si mes vers avaient des ailes! 2:25
Maurice Ravel
- 6 Vocalise 3:26
Alfred Bachelet
- 7 Chère Nuit 4:38
Sergei Rachmaninov
- 8 Vocalise 6:16
- 9 Zdes' khorosho 2:17
- 10 Ne poi, krasavitsa (Oh, do not sing to me), Op. 4/4 (Pushkin) 4:52
Richard Strauss
- 11 Ich wollt ein Sträusslein binden, Op. 68/2 2:51
- 12 Meinem Kinde, Op. 41/1 2:49
- 13 Ich schwebe... 1:57
- 14 Morgen!, Op. 27/4 4:15
- 15 Amor 3:04
Features
Booklet with liner notes in English, German, French and Finnish and the song lyrics in the original language and in English
The artists
Dilbèr
The coloratura soprano Dilbèr was born in Kashgar, a trading centre on the ancient Silk Road, in what is now the Uighur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang in northwestern China. She gave her first concert at the age of nine, and went on to study at the Beijing Music Academy, becoming first female singer to take the highest degree (MA). In 1984 she also became known in the West after taking 2nd prize in the 1st International Mirjam Helin Singing Competition in Helsinki. Thereafter, she has appeared regularly with the Finnish National Opera.
Ilkka Paananen
Ilkka Paananen studied the piano with Jarmo Räty at the Kuopio Conservatory, with Eero Heinonen at the Sibelius Academy, with Phyllis Sellick in London and in masterclasses with Dmitri Bashkirov, Ralf Gothóni, Dalton Baldwin and others. He was the winner of the Maj Lind Piano Competition in 1982 and the Danish Sonning Foundation in 1985.