Me - On Wings of Song

ME is a program not held together by historical circumstance or some sort of common theme. Instead the works are held together by the performer's commitment: a commitment to the love of music for music's sake. This personal selection by Konstantin Scherbakov, featuring such beautiful melodies as the Bach/Siloti Prelude in E minor, Lyadov Prelude Op.11, no.1, and the Mozart/Thalberg Lacrimosa from the Requiem, flies in the face of the domineering commercialization of musical performance. What we have here is not a case of the performer saying 'Who Cares if You listen?'. It is rather a case of 'Would you Care to Listen to Me?', and there is a great reward for any listener that accepts Konstantin Scherbakov's invitation.

01. Johann Sebastian Bach Prelude in E minor, BWV 855a (arr. A. Siloti)
02. Christoph Willibald von Gluck Dance of the Blessed Spirits from the opera Orfeo ed Euridice (arr. I. Friedman)
03. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Lacrimosa from the Requiem, K. 626 (arr. S. Thalberg)
04. Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Lied ohne Worte Op. 19 no. 1 in E Major
05. Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy "Auf Fluegeln des Gesanges" Op. 34 no. 2 (arr. F. Liszt)
06. Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Lied ohne Worte Op. 102 no. 4 in G Minor
07. Johannes Brahms Intermezzo No. 1 in E-flat major, Op. 117
08. Johann Sebastian Bach Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 639 from Orgelb¿chlein (arr. F. Busoni)
09. Franz Liszt Consolation S172 no. 3
10. Franz Liszt Nocturne S541 no. 3 "Liebestraum"
11. Sergey Rachmaninoff Vocalise, Op. 34 No. 14 (arr. Z. Kocsis)
12. Frederic Chopin Nocturne No. 20 in C sharp minor, Op. posth.
13. Claude Debussy "Clair de Lune" from Suite Bergamasque
14. Anatoly Lyadov Prelude, Op. 11 No. 1
15. Camille Saint-Saeuns "Le cygne" from Carnival of the Animals (arr. A. Siloti)
16. Mikhail Glinka Nocturne in F minor, 'La Separation'
17. Frederic Chopin Nocturne No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 9, No. 2
18. Franz Schubert Impromptu in G-flat major