BBC Music Magazine gives Dmitri Hvorostovsky’s new Russia Cast Adrift recording a four-star review:
“The title sounds political, but the songs are far more personal — the anguish of a young man at odds with the revolutionary-era world, and finding expression in nature. Yesenin’s deceptively plain language and imagery are sensitively echoed in Sviridov’s austere, intensely lyrical vocal lines, with constant echoes of religious chant. The composer’s friend Dmitri Hvorostovsky, with his darkly brooding, anguished tones and exceptionally clear diction, is an ideal interpreter…[and] Constantine Orbelian delivers [Evgeny Stetsyuk’s orchestration] with considerable power.” —Michael Scott Rohan, BBC Music Magazine
