Review of Anna Netrebko's Russian Album

Artist:  Anna Netrebko.
Album:  Russian Album.
Recording Studio:  Deutsche Grammophon.
Recording Date:  2006.

Tchaikovsky:
Iolanta Airos No. 1
Romance Op. 38 No. 6
Eugene Onegin Letter Scene from Act I

Rachmaninov:
Song Op. 21 No. 7
Song Op. 4 No. 4
Francesca da Rimini Excerpt from Tableau II

Rimsky-Korsakov:
Tales from the Tsar Saltan from Act IV
The Snow Maiden Scene and Aria from Prologue
The Snow Maiden Finale from Act IV
The Tsar's Bride Scene and Aria from Act IV

Glinka:
A Life for the Tsar Cavitina and Rondo from Act I

Prokofiev:
War and Peace Exerpt from Act I

This was Anna Netrebko's fourth or fifth album for Deutsche Grammophon.  It's entirely in Russian with 19th and early 20th century Russian composers.  The works of the mighty five play prominently in this work.  Much of this I hadn't heard before.  But Russian music has become more mainstream within the classical music repartee. 

But the "miracle from Saint Petersburg" does her magic with this album.  Recommended as a birthday or Xmas present for the discerning opera lover.