Dmitri Hvorostovsky

Accompanied by pianist Ivari Ilja, this leonine Siberian baritone offers an all-Russian program, pairing songs by Rachmaninoff with selections from Petersburg, a "vocal poem" that Gyorgy Sviridov started in 1975 and completed for Hvorostovsky in 1995. Glowing critical response to the singer's 2004 recording of the work suggests that this should be a night to remember.