Mark Reizen Glazunov Tschto smolknu weselja glas?

Mark Reizen - Glazunov : Tschto smolknu weselja glas?
Abram Makarov, piano
Thanks to baritone Igor Morosow for his reminiscences of his teacher Mark Reizen:

"Mark Reizen was my first teacher at Moscow's conservatory. He used to be one or maybe the best Russian bass of his generation, but as it was the time of Stalin, he was unable to become famous also outside of the Soviet Union. This problem was the same for many other singers of that time. He had an enormously long career thanks to his unique technique of singing. You know, his teacher used to be an Italian (Bugomelli) singer who left him alone after the Russian revolution, but Mark noted all he was taught and continued his studies alone. It's the same technique he taught afterward to his own student. I'm the only student Mark had. Unfortunately Reizen had some problems at the conservatory and left it when I was his student, so that I had to change to another singer, David Gamrekeli, who was also a great personality and a very kind person and fantastic singer. So, I was lucky, however. Gamrekeli, maybe the best Georgian baritone, also respected Mark Reizen a lot.
The last years of Mark Reizen's life weren't very pleasant, however. He became a widower, which was very hard for him as he was extremely attached to his Rachel, who was also his doctor. At his 90th birthday he received a parcel every month by the government. This was normal at the time, and many other singers also received but in those parcels were only a sausage, a pound of flour, tea, some cans and butter. The old singers got this because it was hard for them to queue up in the shops and at the time of Perestroika most shops used to be rather empty. So, Mark Reizen told me when I visited him: "Have a look, Igor, that's all I earned in my life! But still, he stayed an optimist. Sometimes, when I visited him, he already over 90, drank some drinks with me and started singing funny folk songs from Odessa and danced to them. I almost burst from laughing: what an unique artist! There was the same talent in these songs as in his Gremin or Godunov. This was a totally different Mark Reizen. It was also he who suggested that I leave Russia for Western Europe."

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• mark
• reizen
• glazunov
• russian
• bass
• abram
• makarov
• mosorow

[seancoxen]

The voice resembles Christoff here.

[titaruffo2]

One of the finest voice bass of all times.

Yhanks