It's good news that the acclaimed album Mussorgsky: Songs and Romances (Stone Records label), featuring Katherine Broderick and pianist Sergey Rybin, has just been reissued.
Here some press reviews:
"Sumptuous". (Opera Now)
"Katherine Broderick favours nuance and expression against raw dramatic power, enhanced by bright tone and diction clearer than many native singers. Sergey Rybin's accompaniments, strikingly fluent and idiomatic, no doubt contribute to Broderick's apparent ease in Russian." (BBC Music Magazine)
"Katherine Broderick’s soprano has Wagnerian power but she controls it well to produce gorgeous pianos (…). Recorded in the warm acoustic of Oxford’s St John the Evangelist Church, this is a most enjoyable recital." (Gramophone)
"A thrilling recital of songs by Mussorgsky including his famous cycles “Songs And Dances of Death” and “Sunless” together with some rarely-heard but equally-ravishing gems. Pianist Sergey Rybin, an expert in the field of Russian song, joins prize-winning soprano Katherine Broderick, and together they provide performances that are simply ravishing. For anyone with an interest in Russian music, or art song in general, this is essential listening." (prestomusic.com)
"This recording made me listen to Mussorgsky's songs with new ears. I was unfamiliar with many of his earlier songs, and hearing again the later ones made you marvel at what he achieved. His writing, particularly for piano, evokes so many later composers but is so much his own as well. Sergey Rybin makes a superb advocate, bringing incredible skill and subtlety to the piano writing and forming a great partnership with Katherine Broderick. Broderick sings with power and passion, but subtlety and delicacy too, showing remarkable control of her dramatic soprano voice." (Robert Hugill, planethugill.com)
This album is available on all good streaming platforms.
10.06.26
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