Laughing With Novikova / Obukhova in Song

Sidney Jones (Composer), Johann II [Junior] Strauss (Composer), Jacques Offenbach (Composer), Franz Lehar (Composer), Franz von Suppe (Composer), Modest Mussorgsky (Composer), N. Strelnikov (Composer), Alexander Egorovich Varlamov (Composer), Sergey Rachmaninov (Composer), Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky (Composer), Alexander L'vovich Gurilyov (Composer), Matvey Blanter (Composer), K. Listov (Composer), Nikolai Pavlovich Budashkin (Composer), Claudia Novikova (Performer), Nadezhda Obukhova (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Claudia Novikova, Nadezhda Obukhova
• Composer: Sidney Jones, Johann II [Junior] Strauss, Jacques Offenbach, Franz Lehar, Franz von Suppe, et al.
• Audio CD (October 20, 1998)
• Label: Eclectra Records
• ASIN: B00000DCRO
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #601,818 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The Geisha, operetta: Song of the Laugh (insertion aria by N. Lambelt)

2. Die Fledermaus (The Bat), operetta (RV 503): Mein Herr Marquis

3. La Périchole, operetta in 2 acts: Ah, quel diner

4. La Périchole, operetta in 2 acts: Que veulent dire

5. Vilja-Lied ('Es lebt eine Vilja') (from 'Die lustige Witwe')

6. Boccaccio, operetta: Isobel's Couplets

7. Sorochintsď Fair (Sorochinskaya yarmarka), comic opera (incomplete): Krivrya's Song

8. Die Fledermaus (The Bat), operetta (RV 503): Duet with Gedroitz

9. Holopka, operetta: Duet with Gedroitz

10. Waiting (Longing), song

11. I have grown fond of sorrow, song for voice & piano, Op. 8/4: I Fell in Love to My Sorrow

12. Not a word, O my friend, song for voice & piano, Op. 6/2

13. Serenade: 'O child beneath my window', song for voice & piano, Op. 63/6

14. My Dear Mother

15. Snowstorm

16. Work(s): Resignation

17. Don't You Wake Her at Dawn, for voice & piano

18. Golden Wheat

19. Garden Grapes

20. Rustle, My Cornfield

See all 21 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Remarkable light opera delight - so musical, so whimsical, November 8, 2009

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This review is from: Laughing With Novikova / Obukhova in Song (Audio CD)

The voice of Claudia Novikova is just delightful - a new discovery for me. Her laughter in the aria "Song of the Laugh" in particular is amazing - so natural yet perfectly on pitch, perfect in timing. I feel like I'm in a small theater somewhere, carried away with the voices. Obukhova is another find. Some of the tracks are a bit scratchy, transferred from 78's, but if you put that aside, the vocal quality is warm, whimsical, and a perfectly light touch that takes me soaring.