The Art Songs

Mykola Lysenko: The Art Songs

Mykola Lysenko, Ukraine’s preeminent composer of the 19th century; the most comprehensive collection of 124 art songs recorded on 6 CDs by today’s greatest classical musicians. Featuring A Poet’s Love, Lysenko’s song cycle composed to the poetry of Heinrich Heine and inspired by Schumann’s Dichterliebe song cycle. Recorded at Toronto’s prestigious Glenn Gould Studio by Pavlo Hunka.

Disque No 1

NATURE

Lysenko, Mykola

1. The Sailboat
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2. The Reaper
3. The Setting Sun
4. A Boat Drifts On
5. The Wind Howls through the Vale
6. The Dnieper River Rages
7. A Coral Necklace
8. Swindler
9. You’re Not Mine
10. To Lose One’s Bloom and Fade Away
11. I Believe in Beauty
12. The Princess
13. The Jilted Maiden
14. On a Clear Night
15. Blossoms in the Valley
16. Should Only Roses Bloom?
17. Never to Have Loved
18. The Fleeting Moments of Youth

Disque No 2

LOVE

Lysenko, Mykola

1. I Saw Heaven in a Dream
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2. Oriental Melody
3. Early One Spring
4. Do Not Look At the Moon in Spring
5. One Sad Spring
6. The Muscovite Hussar Has Not Returned
7. Should We Meet Again
8. Surrender Your Heart to Me
9. Parting
10. My Grave
11. Where Are You?
12. The Wide Valley
13. A Serene Evening
14. The Cove
15. Ribbon to Ribbon
16. My Beloved
17. Forsaken
18. They Loved, Then Parted Friends
19. The Sweetest Eyes
20. A Broidered Kerchief
21. We Met and Married
22. Confession
23. Heavenly Love
24. I Rose at Dawn

Disque No 3

FATE

Lysenko, Mykola

1. I Saw Heaven in a Dream
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2. Nothing, Simply Nothing
3. Indifference
4. The Spinner
5. A Lullaby
6. A Mother’s Sorrow
7. The Wind Rests in the Grove
8. Destiny
9. The Cuckoo’s Call
10. A Piper’s Tune
11. The Plowman
12. Yearning
13. The Rose of Jericho
14. In Captivity
15. Should Your Spirit Age…
16. I Fell in Love
17. Bury Your Sorrow
18. Solitude
19. Past a Maple to a Dell
20. Dancing Shoes
21. In the Garden by the Ford
22. We Sang and then Parted
23. My Heart is Ablaze

Disque No 4

A HISTORICAL THEME

Lysenko, Mykola

1. Brothers, Kneel and Pray!
2. To the Island of Khortytsia
3. When We Were Cossacks
4. Unrest on the Steppes
5. A Floating Cloud
6. A Mist Across the Valley
7. Kateryna’s Deception
8. Why Are You Touched With Sombreness?
9. In the Village of Subotiv
10. Illicit Love
11. Yaroslavna’s Lament
12. The Slave

Disque No 5

A PHILOSOPHICAL THEME

Lysenko, Mykola

1. My Dagger, I Shall Sharpen You Well!
2. Thought Follows Thought
3. The Sun is Setting
4. May My Spirit Run Free
5. Ukrainian Melody
6. A Burdened Soul
7. My Plea
8. To Defy One’s Fate
9. Evening
10. Rich as Wine
11. The Fires Blaze
12. The Waif
13. Camomile Blooms on the Hill
14. Humanity
15. The Orphan
16. Yarema’s Song
17. Yarema’s Serenade
18. Hetmany!

Disque No 6

THE SONG CYCLE – “A POET’S LOVE”

Lysenko, Mykola

1. Spring Awoke My Heart
2. Why Have the Roses Grown Pale?
3. My Deep Sadness
4. I Do Not Regret
5. The World Is Dull, the World Is Blind
6.  To Thy Cheeks the Fires of Summer
7. When Two Must Part
8. In Luxurious, Mysterious Beauty
9. In the North, On the Cliff
10. On the Wings of Songs
11. A Dream
12. Dear Maiden of the Sea
13. In My Dream I Wept
14. She Who Was Born of the Waves
15. Broken Harp Strings
16. On the Gray Cliff Blooms a Poppy
17. Asters
18. You Are Tender as the Night
19. Autumn in the Air
20. Love
21. Summer Evening
22. The Cherry Orchard
23. In the Darkness of the Night
24. Scatter in the Wind
25. Don’t Forget Youthful Days
26. Don’t Forget Youthful Days (Duet)
27. So This is the Path
28. I Did Not Curse You
29. The Boundless Plain
30. Princely Moon