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The Bolshoi
Friends (White Vinyl LP) [ Beggars Arkive / LP - released 12/Jul/2024 ] The Bolshoi were different. Their songs were dark and subversive, sufficient evidence for many critics to corral them under the 'Gothic' banner at the time of their debut album Friends - but they really only "flirted" with Goth. They oozed dark,... |
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REINHOLD GLIERE
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Glière Conducts Glière: Ballet Suites Nos. 1 & 2 All-Union radio Orchestra, Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, Reinhold Gliere [ Consonance / CD - released 22/Feb/1995 ] Recorded in 1947 |
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NINO ROTA
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Nino Rota Al Bolshoi rchestra Sinfonica del Teatro Bolshoi di Mosca / Solisti del Teatro Bolshoi di Mosca [ Concerto Fonit Cetra / CD - released 2/Aug/1992 ] Recorded in Moscow, Studio Gosteleradio, March 1992. I Tre Ballabili Da "Il Gattopardo" is dance music composed for the film Il Gattopardo. |
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SERGEI RACHMANINOV
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rachmaninoff: Miserly Knight Vladislav Verestnikov, Mikhail Krutikov, Piotr Gluboky, Vladimir Kudriashov, Soloists of the Bolshoi Theatre, Audrey Chistiakov [ Harmonia Mundi Saison Russe / CD - released 7/Sep/1994 ] Recorded in Moscow, May 1993 |
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The Bolshoi
Country Life (Limited Edition LP) [ Beggars Arkive / 2 LP - released 3/May/2024 ] The Bolshoi released three albums during their existence, but they also recorded a fourth album that was never officially released during their tenure. Provisionally titled Country Life, it was released in 2015 as part of a limited 5-CD box... |
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GLINKA / DARGOMIZHSKY / TCHAIKOVSKY / RACHMANINOV / BORODIN
The Bolshoi Experience: Highlights from Russian Operas - Volume 1 Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre Moscow, conducted by Alexander Vedernikov [ Pentatone SACD / SACD - released 5/Jul/2006 ] During the eighteenth century, especially at the time of Catherine the Great, Russia enjoyed a lively opera life; however, it was not until the nineteenth century that the national Russian opera was created. |
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RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Kashchey the Immortal (complete opera) Alexander Arkhipov, Irina Zhurina, Nina Terentieva, Vladislav Verestnikov / Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra & Yurlov Academic Choir, Andrey Chistiakov [ Brilliant Classics Opera Collection / CD - released 22/Jul/2013 ] By 1901 Nikolai Rimsky‐Korsakov had already been a professor at the St Petersburg Conservatory for thirty years and had achieved considerable renown as a composer. |
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SHOSTAKOVICH
The Bolt (complete ballet recorded in 2006) The Bolshoi Ballet / Anasrasia Yatsenko / Andrei Merkuriev / Denis Savin / Morikhiro Iwata / Pavel Sorokin (cond) [ Bel Air Classiques / DVD - released 20/May/2007 ] G :- Composed in 1931 by Dimitri Shostakovich The Bolt, after a book by Viktor Smirnov, is being staged for the first time in more than 70 years. Choreographer Alexei Ratmansky conceived for the Bolshoi, a ballet of the absurd set in a Soviet... |
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DANIEL-FRANCOIS AUBER
Auber: Marco Spada (complete ballet recorded in 2014) BLU-RAY Bolshoi Ballet / David Hallberg, Evguenia Obraztsova, Olga Smirnova / Alexev Bogorad (cond) [ Bel Air Classiques Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Mar/2015 ] Choreography Pierre Lacotte Sets, scenography and costumes Pierre Lacotte Lighting design Damir Ismagilov Performed in 1981 by Rudolf Nureyev and recently added to the Bolshoi's repertoire, this rarely presented swashbuckling ballet, now... |
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DANIEL-FRANCOIS AUBER / PYOTR TCHAIKOVSKY
The Art of David Hallberg at the Bolshoi: Marco Spada & Sleeping Beauty (complete ballets) BLU-RAY Bolshoi Ballet / David Hallberg, with Evguenia Obraztsova, Olga Smirnova, Maria Allash, Svetlana Zakharova, etc [ Bel Air Classiques Blu-Ray / 2 Blu-ray Disc - released 10/Apr/2018 ] "This release is a superb achievement … Alexei Bogorad and the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra play the score as if they had been familiar with it for years … a real treat." MyusicWeb (Marco Spada) |