B. Shtokolov. O, IF I COULD EXPRESS IN A SOUND. Russian romance.

It was the celebratory video devoted to 75 from the date of Shtokolov's birth. B.Shtokolov is 73 years old here.
1) After he performed of a wellknown Russian romance "O, if I could express in a sound",
2) the second wife of the artist (his first wife died in 1990) is telling about his childhood, that he was born in the centre of Siberia, in the city of Novokuznetsk in a big family. In youth he has entered in the sea school. There he has learnt what is such the romanticist of the sea, love for Motherland. It has carried with himself through all his life.
At the end of the World War II Boris has returned to Ural.
And he's entered in the school of Military Air Forces.
On a school-leaving party he sang 2 songs "Eh, roads..." & "Sad willows".
On that party there was a marshal of the USSR Zhukov. At the end of it he called up Boris to himself and told him "There are many men such as you in aircraft, but YOU should sing"
And since that time all his life was connected with singing, only with singing.

О, если б мог выразить в звуке
(words by Lishin, music by Malashkin, XIX cent)
Всю силу страданий моих,
В душе моей стихли бы муки
И ропот сомнений затих.

И я б отдохнул, дорогая,
Страдание высказав всё,
И я б отдохнул, дорогая!
Страдание высказав всё!

Заветному звуку внимая
Разбилось бы сердце твоё!
Заветному звуку внимая,
Разбилось бы сердце твоё!!!

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[mayatatyana1]

Thank you. Spectacular voice! Maya

[bobb60]

This must have been close to the time of his death. Fairly powerful if a bit unsteady compared to Musashi Tsu's recording of Shtokolov as a young man. Many thanks to Muuha 14 for her remarks. It's difficult to come by any extensive biographical material on Shtokolov. One can only imagine how he might have sounded in Don Carlos or any number of basso profundo roles. We have only Gremin's aria on U-Tube.