Ода Слободская / Воспоминания / Oda Slobodskaya / Reminiscences

The great Russian Soprano Oda Abramovna Slobodskaya, 1888(1895?) Vilno -1970 London. She studied at the Conservatoire in St Petersburg with Natalia Iretskaya, a pupil of Pauline Viardot. She left Russia as principal soprano in Fyodor Chaliapin's company and later settled in England. This is the first of three Russian Folk Songs collected by Rimsky-Korsakov and arranged by Ippolitov-Ivanov.
Piano -- Ivor Newton.