SHCHEDRIN,R.: Dead souls - Mrtvé duše (2CD)

Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov – Alexander Voroshilo (baritone); Nozdryov – Vladislav Piavko (tenor);
Korobochka – Larissa Avdeyeva (mezzo-soprano); Sobakevich – Boris Morozov (bass); Plyushkin – Galina Borisova (mezzo-soprano); Manilov – Vitali Vlasov (tenor)
Soloists, choir and orchestra of the USSR State Academic Bolshoi Theatre
Choirmasters – Igor Agafonnikov, Stanislav Gusev
Chief Choirmaster – Alexander Rybnov
Moscow Chamber Choir, artistic director – Vladimir Minin
Soloists of the Academic Choir of Russian Song of the All-Union Radio and Television
Conductor – Yuri Temirkanov

CD 1
ACT 1: 1. Introduction 2.18; 2. Lunch at the Procurator’s (decimetto) 6.03; 3. The Road (quintet) 3.07;
4. Manilov 11.33; 5. A Pot-Holed Road 2.10; 6. Korobochka 9.15; 7. Songs 2.18; 8. Nozdryov 13.51
ACT 2: 9. Sobakevich 11.54; 10. Selifan the Coachman (quartet) 3.44; 11. Plyushkin 11.02
Total time 77.16

CD 2
ACT 2: 1. The Soldier’s Mother’s Lament 3.12; 2. The Governor’s Ball 16.34
ACT 3: 3. Introduction 1.51; 4. Chichikov 2.54; 5. Two Ladies (duet) 4.36; 6. Gossip around Town
(common ensemble) 11.06; 7. Mourning the Procurator 2.53; 8. Scene and Finale (quintet) 8.34
Total time 51.43

Recorded in 1977.