ARKHANGELSKY
- Symbol of Faith (Creed)

BURGAMIN
- The Good Thief

CHESNOKOV
- Blessed is the Man

- From My Youth

- Gabriel Appeared

- Let My Prayer

- We Praise Thee

GAETANO DONIZETTI
- La favorita (excerpts)

KHRISTOV
- Praise Ye the Name of the Lord

KOSOLAPOV
- Strenghten, O Lord

PIETRO MASCAGNI
- Cavalleria rusticana

MODEST MOUSSORGSKY
- Songs and Dances of Death (Instr.: D. Shostakovich)

SERGEI RACHMANINOFF
- "My Restless Soul"

- Romances

- Romances

- Songs

NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
- The Tsar's Bride (excerpts)

- The Tsar's Bride

Within the past few years, Dmitri Hvorostovsky has risen to become one of the most sought-after vocalists of his generation. He has given recitals in many of the most important music centres of the world, including Carnegie Hall (New York), La Scala (Milan), Liceo (Barcelona), Queen Elizabeth Hall (London), Tchaikovsky Conservatoire (Moscow), Bastille Opera (Paris), Cultural Centre (Hong Kong), Davies Hall (San Francisco) and the Roy Thompson Hall (Toronto).

He has also given festival recitals in Edinburgh, Aix-en-Provence, Salzburg, and at the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo.

Dmitri Hvorostovsky made his Western operatic début at the Nice Opera in Pique Dame and his Italian début at La Fenice, Venice in Eugene Onegin. At the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, he has sung in performances of I puritani and Eugene Onegin. At the Châtelet Theatre (Paris), he has sung the title role in Eugene Onegin and at La Scala (Milan) and the Liceo (Barcelona), he has performed in I Pagliacci. Hvorostovsky's US operatic début took place in 1993, when he sang the role of Père Germont in La Traviata at the Chicago Lyric Opera; he has also performed this role at the Berlin Staatsoper.

Hvorostovsky was born in the central Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk and studied with Yekaterina Yofel at the Krasnoyarsk High School of Arts.

During the 1994-95 season, Dmitri Hvorostovsky made concert and recital appearances at the Musikverein (Vienna), Hamburg Staatsoper, Wigmore Hall (London), the Philharmoic Hall (Los Angeles), and the Theatre Teresa Carena (Caracas). His operatic engagements included Eugene Onegin at the Monte Carlo Opera, I puritani at the Vienna State Opera, La favorita at the Teatro Colón (Buenos Aires), Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Berlin Staatsoper, Pique Dame at the Metropolitan Opera and Le nozze di Figaro in a new production by Luc Bondy, conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, at the Salzburg Festival.

Operatic plans in 1996 include Pique Dame at the New York Met, Il barbiere di Siviglia at the San Francisco Opera, Hamburg State Opera and Vienna State Opera, La Traviata at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and the Vienna State Opera, Le nozze di Figaro at the Salzburg Festival, and Gounod's Faust at the Chicago Lyric Opera.

During 1995, Dmitri Hvorostovsky appeared in concert with the New York Philharmonic under Valery Gergiev, and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, together with Olga Borodina. Recitals in 1995 included Carnegie Hall (New York), Washington, San Francisco, Fort Worth, Oslo, London, Hamburg, Berlin, Cologne, Munich, Basel, Paris, Lyon and Glasgow.

During 1996, he will perform Mahler's Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen at the Musikverein in Vienna, and Moussorgsky's Songs and Dances of Death with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in Edinburgh and Glasgow.

SAKHNOVSKY
- Cherubic Hymn

- Our Father

STRUMSKI
- Great Doxology

SYREWICZ
Russia's war

SVIRIDOV
- Russia Cast Adrift

PETER ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
- Eugene Onegin

- Opera Arias: Eugene Onegin · Pique Dame · The Sorceress Jolanthe · Mazeppa

- Romances

TOLSTYAKOV
- Come to Me, All You Who Labour

GIUSEPPE VERDI
- Don Carlo (5 Act, 1886 Modena version)

- La Traviata

- Opera Arias: La Traviata · Macbeth · Luisa Miller · Don Carlos · Il Trovatore


VARIOUS

- ARIE ANTICHE

- Opera Arias and Folksongs

- KALINKA Russian Folk Songs

RUSSIAN FOLK SONGS

- BEL CANTO ARIAS
Songs of Love and Desire
Bellini · Donizetti · Rossini

He will also sing in a concert performance of Verdi's Don Carlos at the BBC Promenade Concerts under Bernard Haitink.

Dmitri Hvorostovsky records exclusively for Philips Classics and the operatic albums already released include Eugene Onegin, conducted by Semyon Bychkov, La Traviata with Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and Alfredo Kraus, conducted by Zubin Mehta, and Cavalleria rusticana with Jessye Norman, conducted by Semyon Bychkov. Other releases include an album of Romances by Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff (accompanied by pianist Oleg Boshniakovich) and an album of Opera Arias by Tchaikovsky and Verdi with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev. In 1992 his album of Russian Folk Songs - Dark Eyes - with the Ossipov Russian Folk Orchestra, had enormous success in the cross-over charts in Europe and the US.

Releases in 1994 included Songs and Dances of Death by Moussorgsky, coupled with arias by Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninoff, Borodin and Rubinstein with the Kirov Orchestra under Valery Gergiev, and an album of Bel Canto arias by Rossini, Bellini and Donizetti with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Ion Marin. In 1995 the album My Restless Soul, with songs by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff and Rimsky-Korsakov, was released.