Dmitri Hvorostovsky at Carnegie Hall

Here are a few excerpts from what can properly be called a rave review in the March 21, 2005 issue of the New York Times by Anthony Tommasini, following Delos artist Dmitri Hvorostovsky's March 18, 2005 recital at Carnegie Hall:

"…the splendid recital at Carnegie Hall on Friday night by the Siberian-born baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky…was a reminder that for some artists being a Russian singer really means something.
"… in sets of Russian songs by Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky and Rachmaninoff, the charismatic Mr. Hvorostovsky sang peerlessly, bringing to his performances an authoritative feeling for the style, a deep sense of culture and an instinctive ability to match vocal and linguistic colorings.
"…the high point was the performance of Mussorgsky's "Songs and Dances of Death." … Mr. Hvorostovsky was lost to himself, caught up in every moment of the music and the stories, singing with such conversational power that you would have thought he was speaking.
"…with his final encore, he was back on message, singing a hauntingly beautiful solo performance of a soulful Russian folk song. He didn't say what it was or what it was about. It didn't matter."