RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Sněhurka opera. ČAJKOVSKIJ: Šípková Růženka balet (6CD)

CD1-3
 
Rimsky-Korsakov
Snow Maiden
(Opera in 4 acts with a prologue)
 
Libretto by the composer after the play by A.Ostrovsky

Chorus and Orchestra of the Bolshoi theatre, Moscow
Conductor - Evgeny Svetlanov
Recording: Moscow, 1957
 
CZAR BERENDEY - Ivan Kozlovsky
BEAUTY SPRING - Veronica Borisenko
FATHER FROST - Alexey Kryvchenya
SNOWMAIDEN - Vera Firsova
LESHI - Andrey Sokolov
LEL, HERDSMAN - Larissa Avdeeva
KUPAVA - Galina Vishnevskaya
SHROVETIDE - M.SKAZIN
BOBIL-BAKULA - A.Hosson
BOBILIKHA, HIS WIFE - V.Petrova
MIZGIR - Y.Galkin
BERMJATA - V.Gavryushov
CZAR"S SON - L.Sverdlova
HERALDS - E.Parchomenko, T.Chernyakov, D.Bedrossyan, S.Koltypin 
 

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
THE SLEEPING BEAUTY
 
Ballet in three acts with prologue, Op. 66
Libretto by I. Vsevolozhsky after Ch. Perrault’s fairy tale
 
CD 4
Introduction
1. Prologue
2. March
3. Scene with Dances. Pas de six
4. Introduction
5. Adagio variations
6. Fairy Candide (Fairy of Sincerity)
7. Fairy Fleur de Farine
8. Bread Crumb Fairy
9. Fairy – Twittering Canary
10. Fairy of Violent Passions
11. Lilac Fairy
12. Coda
13. Finale
 
Act I
14. Scene
15. Waltz
16. Scene. Pas d’action
17. Adagio
18. Dance of Maids of Honour and Pages
19. Aurora Variation
20. Coda
21. Finale
 
CD 5
Act II
Scene 1
1. Entracte and Scene
2. Blind-man’s-buff
3. Scene
4. Dance of Duchesses
5. Dance of Baronesses
6. Dance of Countesses
7. Dance of Marquises. Farandole
8. Scene
9. Dance
10. Scene
11. Pas d’action
12. Aurora’s Variation
13. Coda
14. Scene
15. Panorama
16. Entr’acte
Scene 2
17. Symphonic Entr’acte “Dream” and Scene
18. Finale
 
CD 6
Act III
1. March
2. Polonaise
3. Pas de quatre
4. Fairy of Gold
5. Fairy of Silver
6. Fairy of Sapphires
7. Fairy of Diamonds
8. Coda
9. Pas de caractere
10. Pas de quatre
11. Cinderella and Prince Fortune
12. The Blue Bird and Princess Florine
13. Coda
14. Pas de character. Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf
15. Cinderella and Prince Fortune
16. Pas berrichon
17. Coda
18. Introduction
19. Entrée
20. Adagio
21. Prince Desire
22. Aurora
23. Coda
24. Saraband
25. Finale
26. Apoheosis
 
The USSR State Symphony Orchestra
EVGENY SVETLANOV, conductor
 
Orchestra soloists:
Heinrich Friedheim, violin
Feodor Luzanov, cello
Nadezhda Tolstaya, harp
Vladimir Sokolov, clarinet
Anatoli Liubimov, oboe
 
Recorded in Moscow, 1980