Caccini - Ave Maria - Irina Arkhipova

Great Russian mezzo - passed away on , 2010. RIP! I had the privilege to hear that very piece live, being at her concert in then Leningrad in the early 80-s, and still remember vividly packed to full capacity the Great Hall of the Leningrad Philharmonic and tears on the faces of hundreds and hundreds of people (my face included), when the last note vanished in the air... Shortly after I even wrote a small poem about that unforgettable experience (in my native Russian, of course). Here it i