VVCD - 00238

Soloists of the Bolshoy Theatre                                            volume 1
Pavel Lisitsian, baritone         
            Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)                      
1   Duet of Aida and Amonsaro from the opera Aida                                                         7.37
2   Renato’s Arioso from the opera Un ballo in maschera                                                  2.37
3  Renato’s Scene and aria from the opera Un ballo in maschera                                       6.42
4  Germont’s aria from the opera La Traviata                                                                     4.41
5 Germont /Violetta’s scene and aria from the opera La Traviata18.12
Charles Gounod (1818-1893)
6  Tercet  from the opera Faust                                                                                            3.39
7  Charles Gounod. Death of Valentinefrom the opera Faust                                           4.49
8  Charles Gounod. Valentine’s Cavatina  from the opera Faust                                       4.15
            Ruggiero Leoncavallo (1857-1919)
9  Prologue  from the opera Pagliacci                                                                                 7.32
10  Duet of Silvio and Nedda from the opera Pagliacci                                                     9.05
11Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924). Duet of Rudolph and Marcel
            from the opera La Boheme4.43

Total: 74.25

Soloists: Natalia Sokolova (1, Aida’s part); Elisaveta Shumskaya (5, Violetta’s part);– Аlexei Pirogov (6, Mephistofel’s part);  Ivan Koslovsky (6, Faust’s part ); Natalia Spiller (10, Nedda’s part); Sergei Lemeshev (11, Rudolph’s part)

Orchestras: Bolshoy Theatre Symphony Orchestra (1, 6-10); KRI Symphony Orchestra (2,3);USSR State Symphony Orchestra 4,5); All-Union Radio Symphony Orchestra (11)
Conductors: Alexander Melik-Pashayev (1,9,10); Alexander Orlov (4,5); Оnisim Bron (2,3); Vassili Nebolsin (6-8); Samuil Samosud (11)

Recorded:1947 (4,5);1948 (10); 1951(9); 1952(2,3); 1954(1,6-8,11)