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A deep voice of beautiful timbre pouring down powerfully and with inspiration:
artistic intuition and virtuosi technique permit Paata Burchuladze to create
vivid vocal images. These qualities were of major importance to the
jury during Burchuladze's performance at the 7th International Tchaikovsky
Competition in 1982, where the young singer received first prize and a
gold medal. He is in perfect command of the principles of the Russian
vocal school, with emotional artisism and an ability for transformation.
The reviewers of the singer's concerts in England called him "a genuinely
Russian bass".
The plasticity of his musical phrases let the listener vividly
imagine: Ivan Susanin, wise, devotedly in love with his Motherland; Aleko,
torn by doubts, seized with passion; and jealously noble Prince Gremin.
After hearing Burchuladze in "Boris Godunov" the
outstanding conductor Herbert von Karajan exclaimed: "He is a second
Shalyapin!"
A Georgian singer, Paata Burchuladze addresses himself to
Russian song. Together with the Yurlov Choir, he recorded songs which
by right belong to the "treasury" of the musical culture of the
Russian people. He is a real master of his art.
Pavoratti said of Burchuladze in an interview given on TV
"During my professional career, I have never before met a young bass
singer of such talent. I have no doubt that he will enter the opera
art history as one of the most outstanding vocalists of all times."
Paata Burchuladze, bass
arias from operas, Russian folk songs
P. Tchaikovsky
1. Gremin's Aria ("Eugene Onegin", Act III) - 5:38
S. Rachmaninov
2. Aleko's Cavatina ("Aleko") - 5:51
M. Mussorgsky
3. Boris' Recitative and Aria ("Boris Godunov",
Act II) - 5:54
M. Glinka
4. Susanin's Aria ("Ivan Susanin", Act IV) - 5:34
The USSR Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra
Conductor, Mark Ermler
Russian Folk Songs
5. Oh, You Night - 4:45
6. Twelve Highwaymen - 7:50
7. Steppe All Around - 4:25
8. Farewell, My Dead - 3:39
9. Sacred Baikal - 5:16
10. Bludgeon - 5:11
The Yurlov Russian Choir
Artistic Director, Stanislav Gusev
Total time - 54:25
Design by Evgeni Kostitsyn