Pushkin Romances from Dmitri Hvorostovsky

Your free download this week is from Dmitri Hvorostovsky's disc of Pushkin Romances – our August Disc of the Month. From his five-star recital of songs setting the words of the great Russian writer Pushkin, we've chosen César Cui's song I Loved You.

'For Russians, Pushkin is Shakespeare and Byron combined, the founding father of literature in the native language,' writes Michael Scott Rohan in BBC Music Magazine. 'Bringing them all to life is Hvorostovsky's performance – passionate, brooding or forceful with Pushkin's flowing lines.'

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