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The Edmonton Journal
By Elizabeth Withey

Pushkin Romances
Dmitri Hvorostovsky

Dmitri Hvorostovsky sports his best bedroom eyes on the cover of his new album, Pushkin Romances. The opera hunk milks his sex appeal visually and vocally in this recording of 17 songs composed to the writings of Alexander Pushkin, Russia’s greatest poet. It’s a follow to his Tchaikovsky Romances, released last year, also accompanied by Estonian pianist Ivari Ilja. The silver-haired baritone, who recently performed with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, liquefies the listener’s ear with fervent interpretations of works such as Glinka’s The Fire of Longing Burns in My Heart and Rachmaninov’s Don’t Sing to Me, Fair Maiden. It’s always been tenors who make me weak in the knees. But my girlish loins tremble at the elegant, expressive sounds that emerge from this man’s throat.

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