The Nightingales Songs includes 23 songs performed by the female chamber choir founded in 1966 and bearing the name of the great choral conductor Vassil Arnaudov after his death. A number of the songs have been practised and sung many times under his direction and it is in this sense that the CD is of retrospective and commemorative character. The ensemble demonstrates its great scope of repertoire, performing works from the Renaissance, Classicism, and the 20th century. Many of the works have long become emblematic for the choir. The Vassil Arnaudov Sofia Chamber Choir is also deeply connected with the Bulgarian compositional output. Some of the works have been performed for the first time by the choir.
Nightingales Songs
[1] Erasmus Widmann - Wohlauf, ihr Gäste gut 2'07''
[2] Clement Janequin - Ce moys de May 1'49''
[3] Thomas Morley - Good morrow, fair ladies of the May 1'57''
[4] L. W. Beethoven - Ich liebe dich (Herrosee) 2'09''
[5] Franz Schubert - Die Nachtigall (Unger) 3'33''
[6] Robert Schumann - In Meeres Mitten (Rückert) 3'22''
[7] Robert Schumann - Meerfey (Eichendorff) 2'10''
[8] Robert Schumann - Der Wassermann (Kerner) 1'53''
[9] Sergei Rachmaninov - Angel (Lermontov) 2'41''
[10] Pancho Vladigerov - Chorus from the opera ''Tsar Kaloyan'' 1'32''
[11] Philip Koutev - Dragana and the nightingale 3'11''
[12] Philip Koutev - Lyulyai, Done 1'08''
[13] Milko Kolarov - Winter (Rakovsky) 1'44''
[14] Ivan Spasov - Sumna v sunnite gradini (Liliev) 3'43''
[15] Dobri Hristov - Tebe poem 2'14''
[16] Pavel Chesnokov - Hvalite imya Gospodne 1'47''
[17] P. I. Tchaikovsky - Dostoino est 2'24''
[18] Franz Schubert (arr. T. Popov) - Ave Maria (Scott) 5'10''
[19] Francis Poulenc - Ave Maria 2'01''
[20] Francis Poulenc - Ave verum corpus 3'20''
[21] Giuseppe Verdi - Laudi alla Vergine Maria (Dante) 6'01''
[22] W. A. Mozart - Ave verum corpus 3'04''
[23] Domenico Scarlatti - Salve Regina 6'59''
DDD 67'08''
Vassil Arnaudov Sofia Chamber Choir
Irina Stiglich, piano and organ
Conductors: Irina Stiglich, Theodora Pavlovitch
