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| | Dargomïzhsky, Glinka, Tchaikovsky, Balakirev, Shostakovich, Salmanov, Minkov Elena Prokina (soprano), Elena ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19) |
 | | The Sonnet (1960) by Vadim Salmanov was a real surprise (it comes from his 1960’s song-cycle Spain in the heart). |
 | | English-only text in the booklet (an extra pound on top of the ticket price – no composer credited, wrong date given for the Shostakovich… no composer given for the Salmanov…) stopped full appreciation of this real cri-de-coeur. |
 | | And finally, a sequence of songs from Mark Minkov’s Crying of the Guitar (1921), settings of Lorca, jazz-inflected at times, hypnotic at others. |
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