Composers Performers

Valentina Levko

Valentina Levko (1926–2018)

mezzo-soprano · Russia

Bach, Johann Sebastian - Oratorio “Matthäus-Passion” (arias & fragments), BWV 244

Bakaleinikov, Vladimir - Temno-vishnevaya shal/Dark cherry shawl, romance

Bizet, Georges - Opera “Carmen” (excerpts), WD 31

Blanter, Matvey - “In the Frontline Forest”, song

Borisov, Boris - Stars in the Sky/Zvezdy na nebe (lyrics by E. Diterikhs)

Cui, Cézar - 25 Poems by Pushkin, op. 57

Cui, Cézar - Burned letter, romance

Dargomyzhsky, Alexander - Romance “The Night Zephyr”, poem by Alexander Pushkin

Glinka, Mikhail - Opera “A Life for the Tsar” (“Ivan Susanin”), CG 87

Glinka, Mikhail - Romance “Do Not Tempt Me”, CG 11

Glinka, Mikhail - Romance “Doubt” for voice and piano, CG 101

Glinka, Mikhail - Romance “How Sweet It Is to Be with You” for voice and piano, CG 119

Glinka, Mikhail - Romance “I Remember a Wondrous Moment” for voice and piano, CG 120

Glinka, Mikhail - Romance “Margaret’s Song” for voice and piano, CG 132

Glinka, Mikhail - Romance “The Fire of Desire Burns in My Blood” for voice and piano, CG 102

Handel, George Frideric - Selected Numbers from “Serse”, HWV 40

Kabalevsky, Dmitriy - 3 Eight-Line Poems by Rasul Gamzatov for mezzo-soprano and piano, op. 74

Kabalevsky, Dmitriy - 5 Romances on poems by Rasul Gamzatov for mezzo-soprano and piano, op. 76

Kabalevsky, Dmitriy - Requiem for Mezzo-soprano, Baritone, Mixed Chorus, Children’s Chorus and Orchestra, Op. 72

Mahler, Gustav - Symphony No. 3 in D minor, GMW 31

Martini, Jean Paul Egide - Romance `Plaisir d’Amour` (1784)

Medtner, Nikolay - 3 romances for voice and piano, Op. 3

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus - Aria “Ombra felice” for alto and orchestra, KV 255

Ponchielli, Amilcare - Arias

Prokofiev, Sergey - “Ivan the Terrible”, film music, Op. 116

Rachmaninov, Sergei - “Before the icon”, song for voice and piano, Op. 21/10

Rachmaninov, Sergei - “The ring”, song for voice and piano, Op. 26/14

Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay - Five Romances by lyrics A.Pushkin, op. 51

Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay - Four Romances, op. 26

Rubinstein, Anton - Romances, songs

Saint-Saens, Camille - Opera “Samson et Dalila” (excerpts), Op. 47 (R. 288)

Schubert, Franz - “Erlkönig”, song for voice and piano, D. 328; Op. 1

Stradella, Alessandro - Aria "Pieta, Signore"

Tolstaya, Tatiana Konstantinovna - Romance `I`ll say no` (A. Fet)

Varlamov, Alexander - Romance “Why do you sit until the midnight” (lyrics by S. Stromilov)

Verdi, Giuseppe - Opera “Falstaff”

Verdi, Giuseppe - Opera “Il trovatore” (selected numbers)