On this CD, the LEGE ARTIS Chamber Choir of St. Petersburg, one of Russia's best choral ensembles, performs Russian folk songs arranged for choir by Mussorgsky, Lyadov, Grechaninov, Sokolov, Stravinsky, Alexandrov, Sveshnikov, Rubtsov, Shostakovich, Mikhailov, Kolovsky, Slonimsky, and Kalistratov, The tradition of folk song arrangement by Russian composers is traced to the origins of professional music in Russian: there has never been a well-known master that would not address this genre and try his abilities in the amazingly poetical world of folk art. The pieces on the program were thoughtfully selected by Boris Abalian. They represent a broad spectrum of composers' names of the 19th and 20th century. Most of the songs appear on a CD for the first time. LEGE ARTIS Chamber Choir | The conductor: | Boris Abalian | | The soloists: | Gennady Bezzubenkov (25)
Sergei Svoisky (2, 15)
Boris Karandasov (2)
Natalia Svoiskaya (7)
Alexandra Vlasenkova (8, 9, 13, 24)
Svetlana Mikhailova (9)
Sharlotta Zotova (24) | | Sound recording: | Denis Petrov | | The author of the texts Rus: | Northern Flowers | | The author of the texts En: | Sergey Suslov | | The designer: | Anastassia Evmenova & Oleg Fakhrutdinov |
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Common time:60'26In total of songs:23 |
