‎Rimsky-Korsakov: The Invisible City of Kitezh by St. Petersburg Chorus of the Kirov Opera

Introduction "In Praise of the Wilderness"

Valery Gergiev, Mariinsky Orchestra

3:06

Ah, dear forest deep

Valery Gergiev, Galina Gorchakova, Mariinsky Orchestra

3:08

Where are you my friends

Valery Gergiev, Galina Gorchakova, Mariinsky Orchestra

2:20

Have no fear

Galina Gorchakova, Valery Gergiev, Yuri Marusin, Mariinsky Orchestra

1:57

Fairest maid, I cannot sit long here

Valery Gergiev, Galina Gorchakova, Yuri Marusin, Mariinsky Orchestra

2:47

Who are you, good maiden

Yuri Marusin, Valery Gergiev, Galina Gorchakova, Mariinsky Orchestra

2:43

Oh, my beautiful and virtuous maiden

Galina Gorchakova, Valery Gergiev, Yuri Marusin, Mariinsky Orchestra

1:41

Day and night we praise

Yuri Marusin, Valery Gergiev, Galina Gorchakova, Mariinsky Orchestra

2:42

Dearest, without joy how can we live

Galina Gorchakova, Valery Gergiev, Mariinsky Orchestra

3:32

Oh, give praise

Galina Gorchakova, Valery Gergiev, Yuri Marusin, Mariinsky Orchestra

2:19

You my turtle dove

Valery Gergiev, Yuri Marusin, Mariinsky Orchestra

1:13

When we came

Yuri Marusin, Valery Gergiev, Kirov Chorus, St. Petersburg, Mariinsky Orchestra

0:59

Oh, return to me

Galina Gorchakova, Yuri Marusin, Valery Gergiev, Mariinsky Orchestra

1:00

in the field

Valery Gergiev, Kirov Chorus, St. Petersburg, Mariinsky Orchestra

0:36

Where is your home

Galina Gorchakova, Valery Gergiev, Nikolai Putilin, Mariinsky Orchestra, Kirov Chorus, St. Petersburg

1:45

Show us now

Nikolai Gassiev, Valery Gergiev, Kirov Chorus, St. Petersburg, Mariinsky Orchestra

2:11

From deep Yara lake

Valery Gergiev, Mikhail Kit, Mariinsky Orchestra, Kirov Chorus, St. Petersburg

2:42

Lord, our God

Valery Gergiev, Nikolai Gassiev, Mariinsky Orchestra, Kirov Chorus, St. Petersburg

2:58

Who are we

Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Galusin, Kirov Chorus, St. Petersburg, Mariinsky Orchestra

1:12

Oh, you kindest masters

Vladimir Galusin, Valery Gergiev, Mariinsky Orchestra, Kirov Chorus, St. Petersburg

2:04

What I cannot see is not for me

Vladimir Galusin, Valery Gergiev, Mariinsky Orchestra, Kirov Chorus, St. Petersburg

2:18

Ringing, clanging comes the marriage train

Nikolai Putilin, Valery Gergiev, Mariinsky Orchestra, Kirov Chorus, St. Petersburg

2:18

Get away

Vladimir Galusin, Nikolai Putilin, Galina Gorchakova, Valery Gergiev, Kirov Chorus, St. Petersburg, Mariinsky Orchestra

2:39

Pray to our God

Galina Gorchakova, Valery Gergiev, Nikolai Putilin, Vladimir Galusin, Kirov Chorus, St. Petersburg, Mariinsky Orchestra

1:16

Down the highways

Valery Gergiev, Kirov Chorus, St. Petersburg, Mariinsky Orchestra

3:26

Gaida! Gai!

Vladimir Galusin, Bulat Minjelkiev, Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Ognovienko, Mariinsky Orchestra, Kirov Chorus, St. Petersburg

2:13

If you will perform

Galina Gorchakova, Bulat Minjelkiev, Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Ognovienko, Vladimir Galusin, Mariinsky Orchestra

1:42

Gaida! Gai!

Galina Gorchakova, Bulat Minjelkiev, Vladimir Ognovienko, Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Galusin, Kirov Chorus, St. Petersburg, Mariinsky Orchestra

3:10

Peace tou you, good people of Kitezh

Nikolai Putilin, Yuri Marusin, Valery Gergiev, Mariinsky Orchestra, Kirov Chorus, St. Petersburg

2:44

Fyodor, brother

Valery Gergiev, Nikolai Putilin, Mariinsky Orchestra, Kirov Chorus, St. Petersburg

1:56

Fyodor, brother

Yuri Marusin, Valery Gergiev, Nikolai Putilin, Kirov Chorus, St. Petersburg, Mariinsky Orchestra

2:18

How? how can she

Valery Gergiev, Nikolai Putilin, Yuri Marusin, Mariinsky Orchestra, Kirov Chorus, St. Petersburg

1:53

O glory, O wealth and vain earthly life

Nikolai Ohotnikov, Valery Gergiev, Mariinsky Orchestra

4:14

Heavenly and wonderful Tsaritsa

Nikolai Putilin, Valery Gergiev, Nikolai Ohotnikov, Mariinsky Orchestra, Kirov Chorus, St. Petersburg

0:41

Rising to the sky

Olga Korzhenskaya, Valery Gergiev, Mariinsky Orchestra

1:03

Oh, how terrible the hand of God

Valery Gergiev, Nikolai Ohotnikov, Yuri Marusin, Nikolai Putilin, Mariinsky Orchestra, Kirov Chorus, St. Petersburg

1:32

Sorrow to sad Kitezh

Valery Gergiev, Olga Korzhenskaya, Mariinsky Orchestra

1:43

Our great Kitezh ruined shamefully

Valery Gergiev, Nikolai Ohotnikov, Mariinsky Orchestra

0:55

Heavenly and wonderful Tsaritsa

Olga Korzhenskaya, Valery Gergiev, Mariinsky Orchestra, Kirov Chorus, St. Petersburg

2:49

See, the will of God descends to earth

Yuri Marusin, Valery Gergiev, Nikolai Ohotnikov, Kirov Chorus, St. Petersburg, Mariinsky Orchestra

1:35

Rising they came, dark was the night

Valery Gergiev, Yuri Marusin, Kirov Chorus, St. Petersburg, Mariinsky Orchestra

2:01

Sisters, no more waiting

Nikolai Ohotnikov, Olga Korzhenskaya, Valery Gergiev, Mariinsky Orchestra, Kirov Chorus, St. Petersburg

4:20

Mist is rising thickly

Valery Gergiev, Olga Korzhenskaya, Nikolai Ohotnikov, Nikolai Putilin, Mariinsky Orchestra, Kirov Chorus, St. Petersburg

2:18

Interlude "The battle at Kerzhenets"

Valery Gergiev, Mariinsky Orchestra

4:23

See our oaken grove

Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Ognovienko, Vladimir Galusin, Bulat Minjelkiev, Kirov Chorus, St. Petersburg, Mariinsky Orchestra

5:26

Oh, my Tartar comrades brave and true

Vladimir Ognovienko, Valery Gergiev, Bulat Minjelkiev, Mariinsky Orchestra

2:09

Not ravens black

Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Ognovienko, Kirov Chorus, St. Petersburg, Mariinsky Orchestra

2:12

Oh, dear sweetheart my love

Valery Gergiev, Galina Gorchakova, Mariinsky Orchestra

1:45

Hear me, maiden fair

Galina Gorchakova, Vladimir Galusin, Valery Gergiev, Mariinsky Orchestra

2:05

No., I hear it still

Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Galusin, Galina Gorchakova, Mariinsky Orchestra

1:01

Can it be "Thank heaven", Grishenka

Vladimir Galusin, Galina Gorchakova, Valery Gergiev, Mariinsky Orchestra

2:45

Go free, o slave of God

Galina Gorchakova, Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Galusin, Mariinsky Orchestra

2:07

Oh, dear friends I am now free again

Vladimir Galusin, Valery Gergiev, Mariinsky Orchestra, Kirov Chorus, St. Petersburg

4:06

Oh, now more can I walk

Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Galusin, Galina Gorchakova, Mariinsky Orchestra

2:55

I'm no sinner

Galina Gorchakova, Vladimir Galusin, Valery Gergiev, Mariinsky Orchestra

2:25

Mother Earth

Galina Gorchakova, Vladimir Galusin, Valery Gergiev, Mariinsky Orchestra

3:04

Woe is me

Vladimir Galusin, Valery Gergiev, Mariinsky Orchestra

1:29

Grishenka

Galina Gorchakova, Valery Gergiev, Mariinsky Orchestra

3:05

Looking here, I see strange flowers

Galina Gorchakova, Valery Gergiev, Mariinsky Orchestra

2:20

As I look I see strange flowers here

Valery Gergiev, Galina Gorchakova, Mariinsky Orchestra

1:47

Hear the singing of the joyful birds

Galina Gorchakova, Valery Gergiev, Larissa Diadkova, Mariinsky Orchestra

3:58

You, can it be you my eyes behold

Valery Gergiev, Galina Gorchakova, Yuri Marusin, Mariinsky Orchestra

2:05

Are you really here

Valery Gergiev, Yuri Marusin, Galina Gorchakova, Mariinsky Orchestra

2:53

See how he has come

Yuri Marusin, Valery Gergiev, Tatiana Krastsova, Galina Gorchakova, Mariinsky Orchestra

2:20

He who takes our bread

Galina Gorchakova, Yuri Marusin, Valery Gergiev, Mariinsky Orchestra

0:57

Christ, my Lord and Master

Galina Gorchakova, Valery Gergiev, Mariinsky Orchestra

2:00

Interlude

Tatiana Krastsova, Valery Gergiev, Larissa Diadkova, Mariinsky Orchestra

2:30

Interlude part 2

Valery Gergiev, Mariinsky Orchestra

1:23

Doors to paradise

Tatiana Krastsova, Larissa Diadkova, Valery Gergiev, Galina Gorchakova, Kirov Chorus, St. Petersburg, Mariinsky Orchestra

0:46

Kingdom bright and beautiful

Galina Gorchakova, Valery Gergiev, Mariinsky Orchestra

2:09

Over flowers, flowers of azure blue

Galina Gorchakova, Valery Gergiev, Yuri Marusin, Mariinsky Orchestra, Kirov Chorus, St. Petersburg

2:26

Lord have mercy on your soul

Valery Gergiev, Galina Gorchakova, Nikolai Ohotnikov, Mariinsky Orchestra

2:23

Why this light so bright

Valery Gergiev, Olga Korzhenskaya, Yuri Marusin, Nikolai Putilin, Galina Gorchakova, Nikolai Ohotnikov, Larissa Diadkova, Tatiana Krastsova, Mariinsky Orchestra

2:27

Stay here with us now forever

Galina Gorchakova, Yuri Marusin, Larissa Diadkova, Nikolai Ohotnikov, Tatiana Krastsova, Valery Gergiev, Kirov Chorus, St. Petersburg, Mariinsky Orchestra

1:46

Stay here with us now forever

Nikolai Ohotnikov, Yuri Marusin, Valery Gergiev, Galina Gorchakova, Kirov Chorus, St. Petersburg, Mariinsky Orchestra

2:21

Grishenka, in spirit you are weak

Nikolai Ohotnikov, Valery Gergiev, Nikolai Putilin, Galina Gorchakova, Kirov Chorus, St. Petersburg, Mariinsky Orchestra

6:09

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Composer
Yuri Marusin

Vocals, Tenor
Nikolai Putilin

Vocals, Baritone
Nikolai Ohotnikov

Bass
Valery Gergiev

Conductor

Anna Barry

Producer, Executive Producer
Jean-Marie Geijsen

Recording Engineer, Engineer
Jochen Rudelt

Editing Engineer
Nico de Koning

Recording Engineer, Engineer
Jan Wesselink

Recording Engineer, Engineer
Rico Yntema

Editing Engineer
Evert Menting

Editing Engineer
Tjeerd Veeger

Editing Engineer
Onno Scholtze

Engineer, Balance Engineer

Rimsky-Korsakov: The Invisible City of Kitezh

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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Yuri Marusin

Nikolai Putilin

Nikolai Ohotnikov

Valery Gergiev

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Rimsky-Korsakov: The Invisible City of Kitezh

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