{"id":17240,"date":"2025-05-06T06:36:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T04:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/?p=17240"},"modified":"2025-05-06T17:59:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T15:59:15","slug":"episode-356-get-to-know-irina-arkhipova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/06\/episode-356-get-to-know-irina-arkhipova\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 356. Get to Know Irina Arkhipova"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mega-menu-wrap-primary\" class=\"mega-menu-wrap\"><div class=\"mega-menu-toggle\"><div class=\"mega-toggle-blocks-left\"><\/div><div class=\"mega-toggle-blocks-center\"><\/div><div class=\"mega-toggle-blocks-right\"><div class='mega-toggle-block mega-menu-toggle-animated-block mega-toggle-block-1' id='mega-toggle-block-1'><button aria-label=\"Menu\" class=\"mega-toggle-animated mega-toggle-animated-slider\" type=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"mega-menu-primary\">\n                  <span class=\"mega-toggle-animated-box\">\n                    <span class=\"mega-toggle-animated-inner\"><\/span>\n                  <\/span>\n                <\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><ul id=\"mega-menu-primary\" class=\"mega-menu max-mega-menu mega-menu-horizontal mega-no-js\" data-event=\"hover_intent\" data-effect=\"slide\" data-effect-speed=\"200\" data-effect-mobile=\"slide\" data-effect-speed-mobile=\"200\" data-mobile-force-width=\"body\" data-second-click=\"go\" data-document-click=\"collapse\" data-vertical-behaviour=\"standard\" data-breakpoint=\"600\" data-unbind=\"true\" data-mobile-state=\"collapse_all\" data-mobile-direction=\"vertical\" data-hover-intent-timeout=\"300\" data-hover-intent-interval=\"100\"><li class=\"mega-menu-item mega-menu-item-type-post_type mega-menu-item-object-page mega-menu-item-home mega-align-bottom-left mega-menu-flyout mega-menu-item-19160\" id=\"mega-menu-item-19160\"><a class=\"mega-menu-link\" href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/\">Home<\/a><\/li><li class=\"mega-menu-item mega-menu-item-type-post_type mega-menu-item-object-page mega-align-bottom-left mega-menu-flyout mega-menu-item-19161\" id=\"mega-menu-item-19161\"><a class=\"mega-menu-link\" href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/about-daniel\/\">About Daniel<\/a><\/li><li class=\"mega-menu-item mega-menu-item-type-post_type mega-menu-item-object-page mega-current_page_parent mega-align-bottom-left mega-menu-flyout mega-menu-item-19171\" id=\"mega-menu-item-19171\"><a class=\"mega-menu-link\" href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/all-episodes\/\">All Episodes<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Episode 356. Get to Know Irina Arkhipova<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"340\" height=\"50\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelody.blubrry.net\/?powerpress_embed=1526-podcast&amp;powerpress_player=mediaelement-audio\" title=\"Blubrry Podcast Player\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>SOCIAL SHARE<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><strong>SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-horizontal is-content-justification-left is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-7e5fce0a wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link no-border-radius wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/countermelody.blubrry.net\/\">SUBSCRIBE VIA YOUR FAVORITE PODCAST PLATFORM<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1139\" height=\"754\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Irina-in-the-Mirror.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17535\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Irina-in-the-Mirror.png 1139w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Irina-in-the-Mirror-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Irina-in-the-Mirror-1024x678.png 1024w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Irina-in-the-Mirror-768x508.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1139px) 100vw, 1139px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:38px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Directly after the disastrous November election in the United States, I compiled a setlist for two episodes self-explanitorially entitled \u201cMezzos on the Verge\u201d and \u201cMezzos in Extremis.\u201d One of the featured singers was the great Russian mezzo-soprano Irina Arkhipova, whose 100th birthday on January 2 of this year was one of the few positive things to happen in January! I happened to have a number of LPs featuring Arkhipova, and this episode features material from a number of those records, plus a CD reissue from a few years back entitled \u201cThe Art of Irina Arkhipova,\u201d which features the 1970 recording of Mussorgsky and Rachmaninov songs that the singer made in Moscow with my teacher John Wustman while they were judges in that year\u2019s Tchaikovsky Competition. Arkhipova is also featured in songs by Tchaikovsky; Russian opera arias by Rimsky-Korsakov and Mussorgsky; and selections from both <em>Carmen<\/em> and <em>Il Trovatore<\/em>, which feature tenors Zurab Andzhaparidzye and Vladislav Piavko, the latter of whom was also Arkhipova\u2019s prot\u00e9g\u00e9 (and later husband).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:47px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-custom-size\" style=\"font-size:30px\"><strong> RECORDINGS HEARD IN THIS EPISODE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:55px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"596\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Arkhipova-Melodiya.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Arkhipova-Melodiya.jpg 596w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Arkhipova-Melodiya-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Arkhipova-Melodiya-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 596px) 100vw, 596px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Pyotr Il\u2019yich Tchaikovsky, Lev Aleksandrovich Mey [after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]: \u041d\u0435\u0442, \u0442\u043e\u043b\u044c\u043a\u043e \u0442\u043e\u0442, \u043a\u0442\u043e \u0437\u043d\u0430\u043b [None but the lonely heart], Op. 6\/6. Semyon Stuchevsky [1965]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Irina-and-Zurab.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Irina-and-Zurab.jpg 720w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Irina-and-Zurab-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Arkhipova and Andzhaparidzye as Carmen and Jos\u00e9<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Georges Bizet, Henri Meilhac, Ludovic Hal\u00e9vy [after Prosper M\u00e9rim\u00e9e]: Pr\u00e8s des remparts de S\u00e9ville (<em>Carmen<\/em>) [sung in Russian]. Zurab Andzhaparidzye, Alexander Melik-Pashayev, Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theater [early 1960s]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"629\" height=\"614\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/JW-MMO-closeup.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17524\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/JW-MMO-closeup.png 629w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/JW-MMO-closeup-300x293.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 629px) 100vw, 629px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">John Wustman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Sergei Rachmaninov, Afanasy Afanas\u2019yevich Fet: \u0412 \u043c\u043e\u043b\u0447\u0430\u043d\u044c\u0438 \u043d\u043e\u0447\u0438 \u0442\u0430\u0439\u043d\u043e\u0439 [In the silence of the night], Op. 4\/3. John Wustman [1970]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"761\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Irina-Amneris-761x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Irina-Amneris-761x1024.png 761w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Irina-Amneris-223x300.png 223w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Irina-Amneris-768x1033.png 768w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Irina-Amneris.png 782w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 761px) 100vw, 761px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov [after Alexander Ostrovsky]: Lel\u2019s First Song (<em>Snegurochka<\/em>). Alexander Melik-Pashayev, Bolshoi Theater Orchestra [1963]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"561\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Arkhipova-Piano-and-Fur-Stole.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Arkhipova-Piano-and-Fur-Stole.jpg 561w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Arkhipova-Piano-and-Fur-Stole-281x300.jpg 281w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 561px) 100vw, 561px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Pyotr Il\u2019yich Tchaikovsky, Aleksandra Santagano-Gorchakova [after \u00c9douard Turquety]: \u0421\u0435\u0440\u0435\u043d\u0430\u0434\u0430. \u0422\u044b \u043a\u0443\u0434\u0430 \u043b\u0435\u0442\u0438\u0448\u044c, \u043a\u0430\u043a \u043f\u0442\u0438\u0446\u0430 [Serenade. Whither are you flying], Op. 65\/1. Semyon Stuchevsky [1965]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"661\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Arkhipova-Santuzza.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Arkhipova-Santuzza.jpg 500w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Arkhipova-Santuzza-227x300.jpg 227w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Pyotr Il\u2019yich Tchaikovsky, Aleksandra Santagano-Grchakova [after Augustine-Malvina Souville Blanchecotte]: \u0421\u043b\u0451\u0437\u044b [Tears], Op. 65\/5. Semyon Stuchevsky [1965]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"399\" height=\"541\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Irina-Marfa.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17525\" style=\"width:513px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Irina-Marfa.jpg 399w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Irina-Marfa-221x300.jpg 221w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Modest Mussorgsky: As a young girl [Marfa\u2019s Aria] (<em>Khovanshchina<\/em>). Boris Khaikin, Bolshoi Theater Orchestra [1963]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"592\" height=\"780\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Irina-as-Glam-as-She-Gets.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Irina-as-Glam-as-She-Gets.png 592w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Irina-as-Glam-as-She-Gets-228x300.png 228w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 592px) 100vw, 592px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Pyotr Il\u2019yich Tchaikovsky, Daniil Rathaus: \u0412 \u044d\u0442\u0443 \u043b\u0443\u043d\u043d\u0443\u044e \u043d\u043e\u0447\u044c [In this moonlit night], Op. 73\/3. Igor Guselnikov [1978]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pyotr Il\u2019yich Tchaikovsky, Daniil Rathaus: \u041d\u043e\u0447\u044c [Night], Op. 73\/2. Igor Guselnikov [1978]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pyotr Il\u2019yich Tchaikovsky, Daniil Rathaus: \u0421\u043d\u043e\u0432\u0430, \u043a\u0430\u043a \u043f\u0440\u0435\u0436\u0434\u0435 [Again, as before, alone], Op. 73\/6. Igor Guselnikov [1978]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"516\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Arkhipova-Marina-or-Eboli.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Arkhipova-Marina-or-Eboli.jpg 516w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Arkhipova-Marina-or-Eboli-215x300.jpg 215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Anton Arensky, Alexander Pushkin: Zarema\u2019s Aria (<em>The Fountain of Bakhchisarai<\/em>). Alexander Melik-Pashayev, Bolshoi Theater Orchestra [1963]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Arkhipova-Mussorgsky-Rachmaninov-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Arkhipova-Mussorgsky-Rachmaninov-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Arkhipova-Mussorgsky-Rachmaninov-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Arkhipova-Mussorgsky-Rachmaninov-1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Original Melodiya release of this legendary recording<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Sergei Rachmaninov, Alexander Pushkin: \u041d\u0435 \u043f\u043e\u0439, \u043a\u0440\u0430\u0441\u0430\u0432\u0438\u0446\u0430 [Oh, do not sing to me again], Op. 4-4. John Wustman [1970]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"538\" height=\"787\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Irina-Befurred.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Irina-Befurred.png 538w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Irina-Befurred-205x300.png 205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 538px) 100vw, 538px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Sergei Rachmaninov, Aleksey Pleshcheyev [after Heinrich Heine]: \u0421\u043e\u043d [A Dream], Op. 8\/5. John Wustman [1970]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"533\" height=\"818\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Irina-Headshot.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Irina-Headshot.png 533w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Irina-Headshot-195x300.png 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Sergei Rachmaninov, Aleksei Apukhtin [after Alfred de Musset]: \u041e\u0442\u0440\u044b\u0432\u043e\u043a \u0438\u0437 \u0410. \u041c\u044e\u0441\u0441\u0435 [Fragment from Musset], Op. 21\/6. John Wustman [1970]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"548\" height=\"725\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Irina-Arkhipova-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Irina-Arkhipova-1.png 548w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Irina-Arkhipova-1-227x300.png 227w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Sergei Rachmaninov, Aleksey Pleshcheyev [after Heinrich Heine]: \u0414\u0438\u0442\u044f, \u043a\u0430\u043a \u0446\u0432\u0435\u0442\u043e\u043a \u0442\u044b \u043f\u0440\u0435\u043a\u0440\u0430\u0441\u043d\u0430 [Child, you are as beautiful as a flower], Op. 8\/2. John Wustman [1970]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"575\" height=\"825\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Irina-Carmen-Flowers.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17539\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Irina-Carmen-Flowers.png 575w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Irina-Carmen-Flowers-209x300.png 209w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Sergei Rachmaninov, Ekaterina Beketova: \u0421\u0438\u0440\u0435\u043d\u044c [Lilacs], Op. 21\/5. 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