Mujer Fatal: Portrait of a Woman

~ Release by Aigul Akhmetshina, Antonio Pappano (see all versions of this release, 2 available)

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1Mujer fatal
recording engineer:
Philip Siney (sound engineer) (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
producer:
Stephen Johns (producer)
editor:
Ian Watson (editor/engineer/producer)
piano:
Antonio Pappano (conductor and pianist) (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
mezzo-soprano vocals:
Aigul Akhmetshina (mezzo-soprano) (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
Universal Music Operations Limited (not for release label use! UK&IE subsidiary of UMG, legal name of Universal Music UK) (in 2026)
recorded at:
World Heart Beat Studios in London (Greater London), England, United Kingdom (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
recording of:
Mujer fatal (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
lyricist:
Sheila del Bosque Fuentes
composer:
Elena Roussanova
Elena Roussanova5:45
2Cinco canciones negras: No. 1, Cuba dentro de un piano
recording engineer:
Philip Siney (sound engineer) (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
producer:
Stephen Johns (producer)
editor:
Ian Watson (editor/engineer/producer)
piano:
Antonio Pappano (conductor and pianist) (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
mezzo-soprano vocals:
Aigul Akhmetshina (mezzo-soprano) (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
Universal Music Operations Limited (not for release label use! UK&IE subsidiary of UMG, legal name of Universal Music UK) (in 2026)
recorded at:
World Heart Beat Studios in London (Greater London), England, United Kingdom (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
recording of:
Cinco canciones negras, nº 1: Cuba dentro de un piano (for voice and piano) (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
lyricist:
Rafael Alberti (Spanish poet)
composer:
Xavier Montsalvatge (Catalan composer) (in 1945)
part of:
Cinco canciones negras (for voice and piano)
Xavier Montsalvatge4:16
3Cinco canciones negras: No. 4, Canción de cuna para dormir a un negrito
recording engineer:
Philip Siney (sound engineer) (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
producer:
Stephen Johns (producer)
editor:
Ian Watson (editor/engineer/producer)
piano:
Antonio Pappano (conductor and pianist) (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
mezzo-soprano vocals:
Aigul Akhmetshina (mezzo-soprano) (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
Universal Music Operations Limited (not for release label use! UK&IE subsidiary of UMG, legal name of Universal Music UK) (in 2026)
recorded at:
World Heart Beat Studios in London (Greater London), England, United Kingdom (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
recording of:
Cinco canciones negras, nº 4: Canción de cuna para dormir a un negrito (for voice and piano) (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
lyricist:
Ildefonso Pereda Valdés
composer:
Xavier Montsalvatge (Catalan composer) (in 1945)
part of:
Cinco canciones negras (for voice and piano)
Xavier Montsalvatge2:36
4La rosa y el sauce
recording engineer:
Philip Siney (sound engineer) (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
producer:
Stephen Johns (producer)
editor:
Ian Watson (editor/engineer/producer)
piano:
Antonio Pappano (conductor and pianist) (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
mezzo-soprano vocals:
Aigul Akhmetshina (mezzo-soprano) (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
Universal Music Operations Limited (not for release label use! UK&IE subsidiary of UMG, legal name of Universal Music UK) (in 2026)
recorded at:
World Heart Beat Studios in London (Greater London), England, United Kingdom (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
recording of:
La rosa y el sauce (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
lyricist:
Francisco Silva y Valdés
composer:
Carlos Guastavino (Argentinean composer)
Carlos Guastavino2:31
5El día que me quieras
recording engineer:
Philip Siney (sound engineer) (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
producer:
Stephen Johns (producer)
editor:
Ian Watson (editor/engineer/producer)
piano:
Antonio Pappano (conductor and pianist) (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
mezzo-soprano vocals:
Aigul Akhmetshina (mezzo-soprano) (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
Universal Music Operations Limited (not for release label use! UK&IE subsidiary of UMG, legal name of Universal Music UK) (in 2026)
recorded at:
World Heart Beat Studios in London (Greater London), England, United Kingdom (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
recording of:
El día que me quieras (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
lyricist:
Alfredo Le Pera (in 1935)
composer:
Carlos Gardel (in 1935)
publisher:
FNA
Carlos Gardel3:50
6Bésame mucho
recording engineer:
Philip Siney (sound engineer) (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
producer:
Stephen Johns (producer)
editor:
Ian Watson (editor/engineer/producer)
piano:
Antonio Pappano (conductor and pianist) (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
mezzo-soprano vocals:
Aigul Akhmetshina (mezzo-soprano) (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
arranger:
Jonathan Lakeland (pianist)
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
Universal Music Operations Limited (not for release label use! UK&IE subsidiary of UMG, legal name of Universal Music UK) (in 2026)
recorded at:
World Heart Beat Studios in London (Greater London), England, United Kingdom (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
recording of:
Bésame mucho (Kiss Me Much, Bésame, bésame mucho como si fuera esta noche la última vez) (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
lyricist and composer:
Consuelo Velázquez (in 1940)
publisher:
Peer International Corporation (BMI)
Consuelo Velázquez arr. Jonathan Lakeland3:46
7Adieux de l’hôtesse arabe, op. 21 no. 4
recording engineer:
Philip Siney (sound engineer) (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
producer:
Stephen Johns (producer)
editor:
Ian Watson (editor/engineer/producer)
piano:
Antonio Pappano (conductor and pianist) (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
mezzo-soprano vocals:
Aigul Akhmetshina (mezzo-soprano) (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
Universal Music Operations Limited (not for release label use! UK&IE subsidiary of UMG, legal name of Universal Music UK) (in 2026)
recorded at:
World Heart Beat Studios in London (Greater London), England, United Kingdom (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
recording of:
Adieux de l'hôtesse arabe, op. 21 no. 4 (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
lyricist:
Victor Hugo (French poet and novelist)
composer:
Georges Bizet (French composer) (in 1866)
part of:
Hugh Macdonald Catalogue (Bizet GB #s) (number: GB 77) and Winton Dean Catalogue (Bizet WD #s) (number: WD 72)
part of:
Vingt mélodies, op. 21
Georges Bizet4:36
8Vocalise-étude en forme de habanera, M.51
recording engineer:
Philip Siney (sound engineer) (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
producer:
Stephen Johns (producer)
editor:
Ian Watson (editor/engineer/producer)
piano:
Antonio Pappano (conductor and pianist) (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
mezzo-soprano vocals:
Aigul Akhmetshina (mezzo-soprano) (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
Universal Music Operations Limited (not for release label use! UK&IE subsidiary of UMG, legal name of Universal Music UK) (in 2026)
recorded at:
World Heart Beat Studios in London (Greater London), England, United Kingdom (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
recording of:
Vocalise-Étude en forme de habanera (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
composer:
Maurice Ravel (French composer)
part of:
Catalogue Marcel Marnat des œuvres de Maurice Ravel (number: M. 51)
Maurice Ravel3:02
9Je te veux
recording engineer:
Philip Siney (sound engineer) (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
producer:
Stephen Johns (producer)
editor:
Ian Watson (editor/engineer/producer)
piano:
Antonio Pappano (conductor and pianist) (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
mezzo-soprano vocals:
Aigul Akhmetshina (mezzo-soprano) (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
Universal Music Operations Limited (not for release label use! UK&IE subsidiary of UMG, legal name of Universal Music UK) (in 2026)
recorded at:
World Heart Beat Studios in London (Greater London), England, United Kingdom (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
recording of:
Je te veux (for voice and piano) (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
lyricist:
Henry Pacory (poet)
composer:
Erik Satie (French composer) (in 1897)
Erik Satie4:11
10Я любила его
recording engineer:
Philip Siney (sound engineer) (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
producer:
Stephen Johns (producer)
editor:
Ian Watson (editor/engineer/producer)
piano:
Antonio Pappano (conductor and pianist) (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
mezzo-soprano vocals:
Aigul Akhmetshina (mezzo-soprano) (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
Universal Music Operations Limited (not for release label use! UK&IE subsidiary of UMG, legal name of Universal Music UK) (in 2026)
recorded at:
World Heart Beat Studios in London (Greater London), England, United Kingdom (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
recording of:
Я любила его (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
lyricist:
Алексей Кольцов (Aleksey Koltsov, XIX century Russian poet)
composer:
Милий Алексеевич Балакирев (Mily Balakirev, composer, pianist, conductor)
Mily Balakirev2:17
11Песнь Миньоны: «Нет, только тот, кто знал», op. 6 no. 6
recording engineer:
Philip Siney (sound engineer) (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
producer:
Stephen Johns (producer)
editor:
Ian Watson (editor/engineer/producer)
piano:
Antonio Pappano (conductor and pianist) (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
mezzo-soprano vocals:
Aigul Akhmetshina (mezzo-soprano) (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
Universal Music Operations Limited (not for release label use! UK&IE subsidiary of UMG, legal name of Universal Music UK) (in 2026)
recorded at:
World Heart Beat Studios in London (Greater London), England, United Kingdom (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
recording of:
6 Romances, op. 6, no. 6: None but the Lonely Heart (Нет, только тот, кто знал) (6 Romances, Op. 6: No. 6. None but the Lonely Heart, original for voice and piano) (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
lyricist:
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (in 1795)
composer:
Пётр Ильич Чайковский (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian romantic composer) (in 1869-11)
dedicated to:
Анна Полякова-Хвостова (XIX c. opera and chamber singer, mezzo-soprano)
translator:
Лев Мей (Lev Mei, XIX c. poet, prose writer, playwright, translator) (in 1857)
part of:
Thematic and Bibliographical Catalogue of P. I. Čajkovskij's Works (number: ČW 216)
part of:
6 Romances, op. 6
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky2:51
12Восточный романс, op. 2 no. 2
recording engineer:
Philip Siney (sound engineer) (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
producer:
Stephen Johns (producer)
editor:
Ian Watson (editor/engineer/producer)
piano:
Antonio Pappano (conductor and pianist) (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
mezzo-soprano vocals:
Aigul Akhmetshina (mezzo-soprano) (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
Universal Music Operations Limited (not for release label use! UK&IE subsidiary of UMG, legal name of Universal Music UK) (in 2026)
recorded at:
World Heart Beat Studios in London (Greater London), England, United Kingdom (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
recording of:
Восточный романс: «Пленившись розой, соловей», op. 2 no. 2 (Eastern Song: The Nightingale Enslaved by the Rose, Op. 2 No. 2) (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
lyricist and librettist:
Алексей Кольцов (Aleksey Koltsov, XIX century Russian poet)
composer:
Николай Андреевич Римский‐Корсаков (Nikolai Rimsky‐Korsakov, Russian composer)
part of:
4 Romances, op. 2
Nikolai Rimsky‐Korsakov2:43
13№5 Пейзаж из Плач гитары
recording engineer:
Philip Siney (sound engineer) (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
producer:
Stephen Johns (producer)
editor:
Ian Watson (editor/engineer/producer)
piano:
Antonio Pappano (conductor and pianist) (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
mezzo-soprano vocals:
Aigul Akhmetshina (mezzo-soprano) (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
Universal Music Operations Limited (not for release label use! UK&IE subsidiary of UMG, legal name of Universal Music UK) (in 2026)
recorded at:
World Heart Beat Studios in London (Greater London), England, United Kingdom (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
recording of:
Плач гитары: no. 5. Пейзаж (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
lyricist:
Federico García Lorca (Spanish poet, playwright and composer)
composer:
Марк Минков (Mark Minkov)
translator:
Марина Цветаева (Marina Tsvetaeva)
part of:
Плач гитары
Mark Minkov3:29
14The Man I Love (From “Strike Up the Band”)
recording engineer:
Philip Siney (sound engineer) (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
producer:
Stephen Johns (producer)
editor:
Ian Watson (editor/engineer/producer)
piano:
Antonio Pappano (conductor and pianist) (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
mezzo-soprano vocals:
Aigul Akhmetshina (mezzo-soprano) (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
Universal Music Operations Limited (not for release label use! UK&IE subsidiary of UMG, legal name of Universal Music UK) (in 2026)
recorded at:
World Heart Beat Studios in London (Greater London), England, United Kingdom (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
recording of:
The Man I Love (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
lyricist:
Ira Gershwin (in 1924)
composer:
George Gershwin (composer) (in 1924)
publisher:
New World Company, New World Music Corp., Productions et Éditions Cinématographiques Françaises, Warner/Chappell Music Holland BV, WB Music Corp. (1929–2019) (until 2019-05-28) and WC Music Corp. (from 2019-05-28 to present)
included in:
An American in Paris (2015 Broadway musical)
part of:
Lady, Be Good (full musical)
part of:
New York, New York (1977 musical film soundtrack)
George Gershwin4:11
15Lucky to Be Me (From “On the Town”)
recording engineer:
Philip Siney (sound engineer) (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
producer:
Stephen Johns (producer)
editor:
Ian Watson (editor/engineer/producer)
piano:
Antonio Pappano (conductor and pianist) (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
mezzo-soprano vocals:
Aigul Akhmetshina (mezzo-soprano) (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
Universal Music Operations Limited (not for release label use! UK&IE subsidiary of UMG, legal name of Universal Music UK) (in 2026)
recorded at:
World Heart Beat Studios in London (Greater London), England, United Kingdom (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
recording of:
On the Town: Lucky to Be Me (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
lyricist:
Betty Comden and Adolph Green
composer:
Leonard Bernstein (American conductor, composer, pianist)
publisher:
Jalni Publications Inc., The Leonard Bernstein Music Publishing Co., LLC, Universal Music Publishing AB (Sweden), Warner Bros. (holding: file NO releases) and Warner Bros. Music (publisher; do NOT use as release label)
part of:
On the Town
Leonard Bernstein3:16
16Somewhere (From “West Side Story”)
recording engineer:
Philip Siney (sound engineer) (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
producer:
Stephen Johns (producer)
editor:
Ian Watson (editor/engineer/producer)
piano:
Antonio Pappano (conductor and pianist) (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
mezzo-soprano vocals:
Aigul Akhmetshina (mezzo-soprano) (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
Universal Music Operations Limited (not for release label use! UK&IE subsidiary of UMG, legal name of Universal Music UK) (in 2026)
recorded at:
World Heart Beat Studios in London (Greater London), England, United Kingdom (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
recording of:
West Side Story: Ballet Sequence: Somewhere (Consuelo and Company) (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
lyricist:
Stephen Sondheim
composer:
Leonard Bernstein (American conductor, composer, pianist)
publisher:
Amberson Enterprises, Inc., Campbell Connelly & Co. Ltd., Chappell & Co Ltd., Chappell & Co., Inc. (USA), G. Schirmer, G. Schirmer Inc., PolyGram Music Publishing Ltd., The Leonard Bernstein Music Publishing Co., LLC, Universal - Polygram and Universal Music Publishing Ltd. (UK subsidiary of Universal Music Publishing Group)
part of:
West Side Story: Ballet Sequence
Leonard Bernstein2:25
17Speak Low (From “A Touch of Venus”)
recording engineer:
Philip Siney (sound engineer) (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
producer:
Stephen Johns (producer)
editor:
Ian Watson (editor/engineer/producer)
piano:
Antonio Pappano (conductor and pianist) (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
mezzo-soprano vocals:
Aigul Akhmetshina (mezzo-soprano) (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
Universal Music Operations Limited (not for release label use! UK&IE subsidiary of UMG, legal name of Universal Music UK) (in 2026)
recorded at:
World Heart Beat Studios in London (Greater London), England, United Kingdom (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
recording of:
Speak Low (One Touch of Venus) (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
lyricist:
Ogden Nash
composer:
Kurt Weill (composer)
publisher:
Chappell & Co.
part of:
One Touch of Venus (1943 musical)
Kurt Weill4:15
18Tell Me the Truth About Love (From “Cabaret Songs”)
recording engineer:
Philip Siney (sound engineer) (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
producer:
Stephen Johns (producer)
editor:
Ian Watson (editor/engineer/producer)
piano:
Antonio Pappano (conductor and pianist) (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
mezzo-soprano vocals:
Aigul Akhmetshina (mezzo-soprano) (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
Universal Music Operations Limited (not for release label use! UK&IE subsidiary of UMG, legal name of Universal Music UK) (in 2026)
recorded at:
World Heart Beat Studios in London (Greater London), England, United Kingdom (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
recording of:
Cabaret Songs: No. 1. Tell me the truth about love (from 2025-06-12 until 2026-04-12)
lyricist:
W. H. Auden
composer:
Benjamin Britten (English composer, conductor, and pianist) (from 1937 until 1939)
part of:
Cabaret Songs
Benjamin Britten5:20

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photography:Dave Meyer (filmmaker) (task: session photography)
liner notes:Mark Pullinger
liner notes translator:Francis Marchal (linernotes, traduction french)
Anne Schneider (liner notes, translator)
executive producer:Dominic Fyfe
design:Paul Chessell (art director) (task: cover design)
booklet editor:WLP London Ltd
artwork:Teniqua Crawford (task: cover art)
copyrighted (©) by and phonographic copyright (℗) by:Universal Music Operations Limited (not for release label use! UK&IE subsidiary of UMG, legal name of Universal Music UK) (in 2026)

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artist & repertoire support:Joanne Baines