‎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

Galina Gorchakova, Valery Gergiev, Mariinsky Orchestra

2:20

Have no fear

Yuri Marusin, Galina Gorchakova, Valery Gergiev, Mariinsky Orchestra

1:57

Fairest maid, I cannot sit long here

Galina Gorchakova, Valery Gergiev, Yuri Marusin, Mariinsky Orchestra

2:47

Who are you, good maiden

Valery Gergiev, Yuri Marusin, Galina Gorchakova, Mariinsky Orchestra

2:43

Oh, my beautiful and virtuous maiden

Yuri Marusin, Galina Gorchakova, Valery Gergiev, Mariinsky Orchestra

1:41

Day and night we praise

Yuri Marusin, Galina Gorchakova, Valery Gergiev, Mariinsky Orchestra

2:42

Dearest, without joy how can we live

Galina Gorchakova, Valery Gergiev, Mariinsky Orchestra

3:32

Oh, give praise

Valery Gergiev, Yuri Marusin, Galina Gorchakova, Mariinsky Orchestra

2:19

You my turtle dove

Valery Gergiev, Yuri Marusin, Mariinsky Orchestra

1:13

When we came

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

0:59

Oh, return to me

Valery Gergiev, Yuri Marusin, Galina Gorchakova, Mariinsky Orchestra

1:00

in the field

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

0:36

Where is your home

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

1:45

Show us now

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

2:11

From deep Yara lake

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

2:42

Lord, our God

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

2:58

Who are we

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

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

Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Galusin, 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

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

2:39

Pray to our God

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

1:16

Down the highways

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

3:26

Gaida! Gai!

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

2:13

If you will perform

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

1:42

Gaida! Gai!

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

3:10

Peace tou you, good people of Kitezh

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

2:44

Fyodor, brother

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

1:56

Fyodor, brother

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

2:18

How? how can she

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

1:53

O glory, O wealth and vain earthly life

Valery Gergiev, Nikolai Ohotnikov, Mariinsky Orchestra

4:14

Heavenly and wonderful Tsaritsa

Nikolai Ohotnikov, Nikolai Putilin, Valery Gergiev, 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

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

1:32

Sorrow to sad Kitezh

Olga Korzhenskaya, Valery Gergiev, 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

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

4:20

Mist is rising thickly

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

2:18

Interlude "The battle at Kerzhenets"

Valery Gergiev, Mariinsky Orchestra

4:23

See our oaken grove

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

5:26

Oh, my Tartar comrades brave and true

Vladimir Ognovienko, Bulat Minjelkiev, Valery Gergiev, Mariinsky Orchestra

2:09

Not ravens black

Vladimir Ognovienko, Valery Gergiev, 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, Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Galusin, Mariinsky Orchestra

2:05

No., I hear it still

Vladimir Galusin, Valery Gergiev, Galina Gorchakova, Mariinsky Orchestra

1:01

Can it be "Thank heaven", Grishenka

Valery Gergiev, Galina Gorchakova, Vladimir Galusin, Mariinsky Orchestra

2:45

Go free, o slave of God

Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Galusin, Galina Gorchakova, 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

Galina Gorchakova, Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Galusin, Mariinsky Orchestra

2:55

I'm no sinner

Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Galusin, Galina Gorchakova, Mariinsky Orchestra

2:25

Mother Earth

Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Galusin, Galina Gorchakova, 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

Larissa Diadkova, Galina Gorchakova, Valery Gergiev, Mariinsky Orchestra

3:58

You, can it be you my eyes behold

Yuri Marusin, Valery Gergiev, Galina Gorchakova, Mariinsky Orchestra

2:05

Are you really here

Valery Gergiev, Yuri Marusin, Galina Gorchakova, Mariinsky Orchestra

2:53

See how he has come

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

2:20

He who takes our bread

Valery Gergiev, Yuri Marusin, Galina Gorchakova, Mariinsky Orchestra

0:57

Christ, my Lord and Master

Valery Gergiev, Galina Gorchakova, 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

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

0:46

Kingdom bright and beautiful

Galina Gorchakova, Valery Gergiev, Mariinsky Orchestra

2:09

Over flowers, flowers of azure blue

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

2:26

Lord have mercy on your soul

Valery Gergiev, Nikolai Ohotnikov, Galina Gorchakova, Mariinsky Orchestra

2:23

Why this light so bright

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

2:27

Stay here with us now forever

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

1:46

Stay here with us now forever

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

2:21

Grishenka, in spirit you are weak

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

6:09

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Composer
Yuri Marusin

Vocals, Tenor
Galina Gorchakova

Soprano, Vocals
Nikolai Putilin

Vocals, Baritone, Baryton
Nikolai Ohotnikov

Bass

Anna Barry

Producer, Executive Producer
Evert Menting

Editing Engineer
Tjeerd Veeger

Editing Engineer
Jochen Rudelt

Editing Engineer
Nico de Koning

Recording Engineer, Engineer
Jan Wesselink

Recording Engineer, Engineer
Rico Yntema

Editing Engineer
Jean-Marie Geijsen

Recording Engineer, Engineer
Onno Scholtze

Engineer, Balance Engineer

Rimsky-Korsakov: The Invisible City of Kitezh

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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Yuri Marusin

Galina Gorchakova

Nikolai Putilin

Nikolai Ohotnikov

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Rimsky-Korsakov: The Invisible City of Kitezh

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