Includes biographical note on insert.

Recorded between Sept. 11, 1913 and 1934.

Sung in Russian; the 6th and 22nd-23rd works originally in German; the 5th-7th originally in French.

Mayskaya noch'. Spi, moya krasavitza : Levko's aria (4:08) ; Snegurochka. Polna chudes moguchaya priroda : Tzar Berendy's aria (3:01) / Rimsky-Korsakov

Nero. O pechal i toska (4:17) ; Demon. Obernuvshis sokolom : Prince Sinodais aria (3:00) / Rubinstein

Lohengrin. Mein lieber Schwan! / Wagner (4:11)

Faust. Salut! demeure chaste et pure / Gounod (4:10)

Werther. Pourquoi me réveiller / Massenet (2:53)

Les pêcheurs de perles. Je crois entendre encore / Bizet (3:55)

Rusalka. Nevolno k etim grustnym beregam : the prince's aria / Dargomyzhsky (4:22)

Dubrowski. O, dai mne zabven'e : Vladimir's aria / Nabravnik (3:19)

Eugene Onegin. Kuda, kuda vi udalilis : Lenski's aria, act II / Tchaikovsky (4:43)

O, Bozhe, kak khorosh prokhladniy vecher = O God, how beautiful is this cool night / Amani (3:18)

Ne govorite mne, on umer = Don't tell me he died / Rechkunova (1:35)

Ya vnov' odin = Alone again / Borodin (3:15)

Rastvorilos okno = I opened the window (1:52) ; Kolybel'naya pesnya = A lullaby (3:08) ; Sred' shumnogo bala = Amid a noisy ball (2:10) / Tchaikovsky

Skroy menya, burnaya noch' = Hide me, stormy night / Dargomyzhsky (2:35)

Sladko pel dusha solovushka = Sweetly sang the nightingale / Gliere (2:39)

Ya opyat' odinok = I am alone again : op. 26, no. 9 / Rachmaninoff (2:12)

Travushka = Grass / Varlamov (2:31)

Wiegenlied / Flies (2:42)

Am Meer : no. 12 from Schwanengesang / Schubert (3:42).

Operas > Excerpts.