"Credit...the success of this recital where it is due: the powerfully stirring voice of bass-baritone Odekhiren Amaize. This is Shakespeare with an immediacy that we have not heard before"
ATLANTA AUDIO SOCIETY, JUNE 2004

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M.I. Glinka (1804-1857)
Ya pomnyu chudnoye mgnoven’ye…I remember a wonderful moment (A. Pushkin)

G.V. Sviridov (1915-1998)
Ronyaet les bagrany svoy ubor…The forest sheds its crimson attire…(A. Pushkin)
Vsyu zemlyu t’moy zavoloklo…The whole world is cast in gloom (R. Burns)
Kak yablochko rumyan…He’s ruddy as an apple (P. Beranger,trans. B. Kurochkin)

S. Rachmanivov (1873-1943)
Obrochnik…The Peasant (A. Fet)

A.S. Dargomizhsky (1813-1869)
Stary Kapral…The old corporal (P. Beranger,trans. B. Kurochkin)

A.D. Sheremetiev (1859-1931)
Ya vas lubil…I loved you  (A. Pushkin)

L. Malashkin (1842-1902)
O, yesli b mog vyrazit’ v zvuke…I, if I could express in words (G. Lishin)

N.K. Metner (1880-1951)
Angel…Angel. Op. 1a (M. Lermontov)
Shepot, robkoye dyhan’ye…Whisp’ring, Nature faintly stirring. Op.24  (A. Fet)

D.B. Kabalevsky (1904 – 1978)
Ten Sonnets (W. Shakespeare, trans. C. Marshak)
Tebe I’ menya pridyotsa horonit’ Op.52,no.1…Or I shall live your epitaph to make…, Sonnet #81
Trudami iznuryon, hochu usnut’ Op.52,no.2…Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed…, Sonnet #27
Lyublyu, no rezhe govoryu ob etom Op.52,no.3/ My love is strengthen’d though more weak in seeming…Sonnet #102
Kogda na sud bezmolvnyh, taynyh dum…Op.52 no.4/ When to the sessions of sweet silent thought…, Sonnet #30
Bog kupidon dremal v tishi lesnoy. Op.52,no.4/ Cupid laid by his brand and fell asleep…, Sonnet #153
Ne izmenyaysya, bud’ samim soboy.Op.52,no.6 O, that you were yourself! But, love, you are…, Sonnet #13
Ty --- Muzyka. Op.52,no.7 /Music to hear, why hears’t thou music sadly? Sonnet #8
Ty pogrusti, kogda umryot poet…,Op.52,no.8 No longer mourn for me when I am dead…, Sonnet #71
Uzh yesli ty razlyubish’…, Op.52, no.9…Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now…, Sonnet #90
Uvy, moi stih ne bleshchet moviznoy…, Op.52, no.10 / Why is my verse so barren of new pride?…Sonnet #76

A. Rubinstein (1829-1894)
Klubitsa volnoyu…Like a rolling wave. Op.34,no.0 (Mirza-Shafi)
Noch’…Night (A. Pushkin)
Ballad Op.115 (I. Turgenev)
Kak solnce nebesam…As the sun to the heavens…Op.34,no.2 (Mirza-Shafi)