Sladko Zivljenje

In this continuation of his successful series of ‘songs without words' – songs for voice and piano transcribed for cello and piano – Mischa Maisky left the Austro-Germanic repertoire he had previously explored behind and turned to the songs of his motherland in this disc of Russian songs called "Vocalise." For fans of Maisky's earlier discs of Schubert, Mendelssohn and Brahms, no more needed to be said: the same sweetly singing tone, the same warm-hearted phrasing, the same vibrato, portamento and glissando that distinguished Maisky's those discs was fully present here.

Dedicated to the blessed memory!
Araxia Davtian began her musical education as a pianist. Upon graduation from music school she continued her education as a vocalist in the college of music and then in the Yerevan Conservatory where she studied with R. Gulabian. In 1979 she became a prize-winner at the Glinka Competition, and in 1984 she won First Prize at the International Viotti Competition in Italy.
Vladimir Yurigin-Klevke studied at the Moscow Conservatory under Heinrich Neuhaus and Jacov Zak and was a First Prize-winner at the 1969 National Piano Competition of Contemporary Soviet Music.