Alexandrov Ensemble soloists
Encyclopedia
This is an alphabetical list of the basso profondo
, bass
, bass-baritone
and tenor
soloists who have performed with the Alexandrov Ensemble (under its various titles) since its establishment in 1928. It is difficult to differentiate between regular and guest soloists, since many have alternated between the one category and the other during their careers, so they are all listed together. Soloists of whom no recordings have yet been found have been listed below as "other soloists".
, and perhaps hear a few old 78rpm
recordings on YouTube, but could not Google in English for their images or musical biographies. Since April 2009, to a certain extent, they can. Therefore this article is part of the soloists' history.
In 2004 Max Loppert said of Georgy Vinogradov: "How is it possible for any singer of this caliber to have been (outside Russia) this unknown?".
One could say the same of the whole group. Before April 2009, almost all online resources on this subject were in Russian
and Japanese
, and even these were limited in content, so far as the biographies of most soloists were concerned. The dearth of information in the West could be partly attributable to the language barrier
and the Cold War
. One could speculate that scandals such as those 1951 rumours surrounding Vinogradov could have pressured the Alexandrov Ensemble to exercise particular discretion regarding publicity of their valuable star turns.
Even so, there is almost no online information about the tenor
Victor Nikitin, who made a beautiful 78 rpm recording of Cold Waves Lapping in the 1940s, and his last traceable recording appears to have been made in 1951, the same year as the rumours of a bar-room brawl and the end of Georgy Vinogradov's career
.
One can draw no conclusions, but - outside Russia at least - an air of mystery surrounds some of these great singers.
here and here.
(b.Moscow 12 April 1903; d.Georgia
1 November 1966). (Russian
: Георгий Абрамов). Bass
soloist. Honoured Artist of Russia (1944). From 1918 to 1928 he worked as a mechanic or plumber in Moscow State University. In 1930 he entered an operatic singing competition on All-Union Radio. As a result of this, from 1931 to 1966 he was soloist of the All-Union Radio and Television, taking part in opera productions. He was a concert singer, promoting the works of Soviet
composers, and became the definitive singer of songs such as Roads, Novikova, Treasured Stone, Single Accordion, Mokrousov, and especially Bryansk Forest (by Katz)
.
From 1954 to 1958 he was a music teacher at Gnessin State Musical College
. He toured in Poland, Hungary, Romania
and East Germany
.
With Georgy Vinogradov and Vladimir Zakharov he recorded For those who are in Transit (S. Katz - A. Fatyanov), and the beautiful folksong Already as the Sea
.
With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded A Bryansk Forest (recorded 1948) for the All-Union Radio Committee.
: Николай А. Абрамов), tenor
soloist. With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded: Smuglyanka duet with Nikolay Savchuk (music: Novikov; lyrics: Ya Shvedov), unknown duet with A. Kusleev, Praying, unknown duet with L.M. Kharitonov, Here's the Deal (1963), Black Crow duet with A. Eisen (1956), Nut Brown Maiden duet with I. Savchuk (1953, 1956)
,
The Little Bells (1956)
. Unfortunately, Nicolai Abramov's name was frequently incorrectly attributed on recordings, notably on the Kultur video of 1965 that is available in the West.
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Current soloist in the Ensemble.
, 1933; d. 12 January 2011)
.
(Russian
: Георгий Яковлевич Андрющенко); also spelled "Andryushenko"; tenor
soloist of the Bolshoi Theatre
, People's Artist of Russia
(1973). He studied at Gnessin State Musical College
, and joined the Alexandrov Ensemble as a soloist in 1958. He performed at the Bolshoi Theatre 1963-1979,
had a wide repertoire and was one of the leading tenors in a troupe which toured the world. From 1974 to 1976 he was the supervisor of the trainee group of Bolshoi Theatre soloists. From 1979 he was director of the Moscow Ice Ballet Ensemble. In the late 80s he worked as general director of GosTsirk; he was the head of all circuses in Russia, and he published an article in Dei/Disillusionist magazine about a circus tour to the Vatican in 1982.
Within the Bolshoi Theatre his recorded operatic arias include the following: as Prince Andrei Khovansky in Modest Mussorgsky
's opera Khovanshchina
(1979); as Mikhailo Tucha in Pskovityanka (or A Girl from Pskov); as Alexey in Optimistic Tragedy by Kholminov; as Masalsky in October by Muradeli; as Marquise in The Gambler by Sergei Prokofiev
from the story by Dostoyevsky; as Semyon in Semyon Kotko by Sergei Prokofiev.
here.
(b.1937; d.26 August 2002). (Russian
: В.И. Анисимов), bass
soloist (of the Odessa
Opera House). People's Artist of Ukraine
and Honoured Artist of Russia (1973). In 1962 he graduated from the Urals State Conservatory. From 1962 he was a soloist at Sverdlovsk, Ukraine and from 1967 at the Odessa Opera and Ballet Theatre. He gave 40 performances at the Bolshoi Theatre
and gained a fine reputation throughout the USSR for singing in Verdi's opera
Rigoletto
. From 1980 he was soloist of the Moscow Philharmonic. He also taught at the Institute of Contemporary Art in the USSR
.
With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded Veterans (music: Boris Alexandrov; lyrics S. Bencken).
: Г.И. Бабаев; also translated George Babayev), tenor
soloist, Stalin Prize Laureate. With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded Song of the Young Soldiers duet with V. Puchkov (music: P. Akulenko; lyrics: Ya Shvedov), Song of the Klim Voroshilov duet with Yuri Louth (music: Alexander Alexandrov; lyrics: O. Kolychev), Aside Native (music: A. Alexandrov; lyrics: S. Mikhalkov), Seasoned Cook (music: Z. Компанеец; lyrics: I. Lakshin), Song of the Bluhera duet with V. Pankov (music: Alexander Alexandrov; lyrics: S. Alymov), I Myself (Slovak song).
: Евгений Михайлович Беляев). Outside the USSR, one of the most celebrated tenor
soloists under Boris Alexandrov was Evgeny Belyaev
or Evgeny Mikhailovich Belyaev (1926–1994)
. He was born September 11, 1926 in the Bryansk Oblast
, and served in the subdivision of zenith troops during World War II. He then graduated from Gnessin State Musical College
. In 1947 he was a soloist of the Ensemble of Song and Dance of the Carpathian
military district, and in 1952 a Member of CPSU (Communist Party of the Soviet Union
). In 1955 he was a soloist of the Ensemble of Song and Dance of the Soviet Army of Alexandrov. In 1967 he was made People's Artist of the USSR
, and in 1978 he won the State Prize of the USSR. He died in 1994 (February 21 or 22nd).
Two of his most famous performances are Oh the Rye and Nightingale. The lyric of Nightingale asks the nightingale to be quiet as the soldiers are sleeping; i.e. they have died. One of his most popular recordings with The Alexandrov Ensemble is Kalinka
.
: Петр Дмитриевич Богачёв), bass-baritone
soloist. Honoured Artist of Russia. With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded In the Ocean Gave duet with S. Ivanov (music: B. Korostylev; lyrics: B. Bezhaev), It's a Long Time Since We Were Home duet with S. Ivanov (music: V.Solovev-Sedoy; lyrics: A. Fatyanov), We, the Army People duet with S. Ivanov (music: G. Movsesyan; lyrics: Robert Rozhdestvensky), Listen, Beauty duet with S. Ivanov (music: E. Martin; lyrics: M. Plyatskovsky), Your Soldiers duet with S. Ivanov (music: B. Gamal; lyrics: A. Sofronov), We go, We Go Into the Army duet with Ivan Bukreev (music: B. Aleksandrov; lyrics: V. Tatarinov), Smuglianka, duet with S. Ivanov (music: A. Novikov; lyrics: Y. Chvedov),The Samovars duet with S. Ivanov (music A. Novikov; lyrics: S. Alimov) (1982/92)
, Nut Brown Girl duet with S. Ivanov (1989/92, 2003), Endless Sea duet with S. Ivanov, We Protect the Country duet with S. Ivanov, Afield duet with S. Ivanov (1992), Evening on the Roads duet with S. Ivanov (1992), Distant Northern Town trio with V.S. Buzurov and S. Ivanov (1992), Dixie duet with S. Ivanov 1992, Greetings from the Troops duet with S. Ivanov, Our Army duet with S. Ivanov (1984)
.
Soloist of the Ensemble. (b.1924; d.1998). (Russian
: Иван Семенович Букреев), lyric tenor
soloist, People's Artist of the USSR
, People's Artist of Russia
. In World War II he was in the Air Force, and was seriously wounded in battle. In 1944 he graduated from the Gnessin State Musical College
, and became a soloist in the Air Force ensemble. It has been suggested in the West that he was overshadowed by E. Belyaev
, but Leonid Mikhailovich Kharitonov
remembers the following:
Kharitonov only ever sang duets with one person, and that was Bukreev. With the Alexandrov Ensemble from 1953 to 1987/88 Bukreev gained a high reputation and recorded: Take Soldiers (music: Y. Milutin; lyrics: M. Lisyansky), Submariners' Waltz (music: V. Alexandrov; lyrics: Igor Morozov) (1965), Rides the Border (music: B. Muradeli; lyrics: A. Annual), We Go, We Go Into the Army duet with P. Bogachev (music: B. Aleksandrov; lyrics: V. Tatarinov), The Soldier (music: B. Mokrousov; lyrics: C. Islands), Our Soldiers (music: L. Lyadov; lyrics: A. Zharov), Good Guy (music: A. Doluhanyan; lyrics: Nekrasova L.), Song of Prague (music: M. Blanter; lyrics: Anon) (1960), At Least (music: A. Doluhanyan; lyrics: M. Lisyansky), A Wave (music: A Doluhanyan; lyrics: M. Lisyansky), Soldier's Ways duet with Edward Labkovsky (music: B. Aleksandrov; lyrics: B. Dubrovin), Russian Accordion (music: B. Muradeli; lyrics: E. Savinov), I Took You into the Tundra (music: M. Fradkin; lyrics: M. Plyatskovsky) (performed 1982
),
Bird Cherry (music: M. Blanter; lyrics: M. Isakovsky), South-West Region (music: Yu Milyutin; lyrics: E. Dolmatovskaya), I Will Never Forget You (music: E. Kolmanovsky; lyrics: K. Vanshenkin) (ca.1965), Moscow Nights
(music: V. Soloviev-Sedoi; lyrics: M. Matousovski) (1958), Bella Ciao
duet with P. Slastnoi (Italian partisan song; arr. B. Pogrebov) (ca.1966)
,
Bucharest Love, Homeland Night, Wait a Day to Return (1956), Song of the Border Defence Troops, two unknown solos, Spring of 1945 duet with Boris Shemyakov, Sky Blue Eyes (1978), Near the Garden trio with I.I. Savchuk and E. Belyaev
, American Soldiers, That Soldier Heads Up, Far Away (1978), The Girls I Cry, Early Apple Blossom, Regiment Polka duet with V.P. Gorlanov, Ready Rocket Forces duet with V.L. Ruslanov, City of Rostov, In Our Company, Vasya-Vasilyok duet with L.M. Kharitonov (ca.1965), I'll Always be a Soldier.
Bass-baritone
soloist. (b.Yekaterinoslav 21 November 1902; d.17 March 1995). Honoured Artist of Russia (1944).In Simferopol
he was a scenery operator at the Drama Theatre. After graduating from the Dnepropetrovsk Music College, he studied in Leningrad
. From 1929 he was a soloist at the Opera in Dnepropetrovsk, and from 1931 at the Nemirovicha-Danchenko Musical Theatre in Moscow.
From 1934, he recorded songs. With V. Kandelaki he sang jazz, and he sang with the popular orchestra directed by B. Knushevitsky, and with Boris Alexandrov's Song and Dance Ensemble of All-Union Radio and band. His main repertoire was the songs of Soviet composers. From 1942 to 1967 he was a soloist of the All-Union Radio. For 25 years he performed fine duets with the lyric tenor
Vladimir Nechaev (1908–1969)
whom he had met during World War II
.
With the Ensemble of the All-Union Radio Committee under Boris Alexandrov he recorded Evening in the Roadstead/Night on the Road duet with P. Mikhailov (recorded 1942)
.
This is a baritone-tenor duet, and the choir includes women sopranos. He also recorded Nightingale in the 1940s as a baritone-tenor duet with Georgi Pavlovich Vinogradov
,
It's a Long Time Since We Were Home duet with V. Nechaev
.
: Е.Бурчаков), bass-baritone
soloist. With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded Not a - Do Not Know (music: S. Tulika; lyrics: V. Malkov).
: Виктор Сергеевич Бузлов). Tenor
soloist. Joined the Ensemble ca.1970. Since 1990 he has recorded with the Don Cossack Choir and V. Gavva, singing religious songs. With the Alexandrov Ensemble he has recorded The Birch Tree (1987), Distant Northern Town trio with S. Ivanov and P. Bogachev (1992), Moscow
.
: Черных, Владимир), tenor soloist. With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded Jet Pilot, Ballad of the Red Army, Loyalty duet (possibly with G. Andryushchenko
),
Hail to the Infantry! with V. Shkaptsov (1978) and unknown song
.
here.
Soloist of the choir. ; Tenor
soloist. With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded Lights Black Sun (music: A. Doluhanyan; lyrics: M. Lisyansky), The Birch Tree (1956)
,
Snowflakes (1956)
.
here.
(Russian
: В.Дмитриев), bass
soloist. With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded the beautiful and dramatic Halt, Who Goes There! (music: B. Muradeli; lyrics: E. Dolmatovskaya).
See photos here. (Russian
: Артур Артурович Эйзен), bass-baritone
soloist. (b.Moscow 8 June 1927; d.Moscow 26 February 2008). Soloist of the Bolshoi Theatre
, Honoured Artist of Russia (1956), Order of the Red Banner of Labour
(1971), People's Artist of the USSR
(1976), Order of Friendship of Peoples
(1988). With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded: Elegy, Oh No John (1956), Cold Waves Lapping (1956), Black Raven, duet with N.A. Abramov (1956), 4 unknown solos (1956), Song of the Volga Boatmen.
:Василий Елисеев), tenor
with countertenor
capability, i.e. with smooth transition to upper range, and good tone and projection throughout. There is a long tradition of countertenors in the Orthodox Church; this tradition continued during the Soviet era. With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded: Listen. On the Kultur video from which the screenshot is taken, Eliseev is incorrectly named as Nicolai A. Abramov.
Critical commentary on a music video featuring Vasily Eliseev
(See screenshot, left): Eliseev sings Listen on the music video Soviet Army Chorus and Dance Ensemble The song, Listen, takes full advantage of Eliseev's countertenor
capability. According to Eliseev's apparent age in the screenshot, he was probably born in the 1920s and spent his early career in World War II: a time of great hardship for the general populace. Music was a great solace for the troops and the people, and the Alexandrovs felt the need to produce a full range of compositions
. They needed soprano
s for their choir and soloists, but were not permitted them. Eliseev filled a need for a beautiful and highly trained voice, to allow not just extended chords for drama and pathos in the video, but chords to provide a beauty and spiritual dimension in the arrangement of Listen, in which a political prisoner voices his dreams of Outside. Just as the spiritual dimension of the song appears to reach through the music to beyond the studio, so this singer appears to be conscious of a level beyond himself, as seen in the screenshot, and as heard in his ethereal upper register.
here.
(Russian
: Станислав Иванович Фролов), magnificent Russian basso profondo
(from GABTa). Ten years after graduation he worked as a film camera operator. He was then admitted to the State Music School in the Komi-Zyryan Autonomous Oblast
. From 1960 to 1962 he was employed by the Kyrgyz Academy Theatre, then from 1964 to 1967 by the Belarus
ian Opera and Ballet. He joined the Bolshoi Theatre
in Moscow as soloist, and in 1970 joined their tour to Japan. He joined the Alexandrov Ensemble in 1976, and was part of its tour to Japan in the same year
.
With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded Great October Holiday (music: Boris Alexandrov; lyrics: S. Bencken), Song of the Dnieper (music: M. Fradkin
music: E. Dolmatovskaya), The Red Cavalry (Civil War song: D. Pokrass)
,
Song of the Fatherland, Song of the Golden Calf from the opera Faust
(1995), Soldiers' Song (1983)
.
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(Russian
: Валерий Гавва), fine Russian bass
. (b. Donetsk
, Ukraine
, 1947). He is descended from an old Cossack
family. He attended the Industrial University of Rostov
, and did military service in the Ural
s. After that, he studied music at the University of Donetsk
in Ukraine
. After graduating, he became an operatic soloist. In 1987 he joined the Ensemble as a bass
soloist, and became People's Artist of the USSR
. He did a 1996 tour to Japan with the National Opera Theatre of Leningrad
, singing in Modest Mussorgsky
's opera Boris Godunov
. He broadcast with the Don Cossack Choir, and recorded in 1994 and 1995. In 2002 he performed with the Moscow Radio and Television Choir in Korea
.
With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded Treasured Stone (music: B. Mokrousov; lyrics A. Zharov), Poem of the Ukraine (music: Alexander Alexandrov; lyrics: O. Kolychev), Dark Eyes
with A. Molostov, trumpet (trad; arr. Dmitri Oleg Yachinov)
. He has made many more recordings
.
Soloist of the Ensemble. (b.1912). (Russian
: Константин Григорьевич Герасимов). People's Artist of Russia
(1962); bass-baritone
soloist. After graduating from the College of Light Industry he studied singing while working as a clerk in charge of plant management. In 1936 he enlisted as an army sniper so as to be allowed into the Alexandrov Ensemble to get musical training and experience. In 1969 he became a leading baritone soloist.
With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded The Death of Varyag (music: A. Turischev; lyrics: R. Greynts; E.Studinskaya) (1959/63), Barrow (music: V.Solovev-Sedoy; lyrics: E. Dolmatovskaya), Marine Guard (music: Y. Milutin; lyrics: V.Lebedev-Kumach), Moscow-Beijing (music: B. Muradeli; lyrics: M. Vershinin) (1950), We Are For Peace (music: S. Tulika; lyrics: A. Zharov), Song of the Ballistic Missile duet with A. Sergeev (music: S. Tulika; lyrics: M. Andronov), It's a Long Way to Tipperary
(1956)
,
Song of Japan, Our Bodyguard duet with V.V. Puckkov (1951), Near the Border, Song of the Military Alliance (1960), unknown operatic aria, Song of Russia (1960/63)
.
, 1947), bass
soloist. From 1967 to 1973 he studied at Gnessin State Musical College
. In 1972 he began working as a soloist at the Bolshoi Theatre
. He was a Glinka
Competition winner in 1973, and in 1974 he won the grand prize in the Toulouse
International Competition. He was also professor at the Gnessin State Musical College
. He became People's Artist of the USSR
. He performed as a guest soloist for the Alexandrov Ensemble on tours to Japan. He recorded with the Bolshoi Theatre
company
.
: Владимир П. Горланов), tenor
soloist from mid-1950s until 1960. With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded: Virgin Land (1960), Song of the Defence, Regiment Polka duet with I.S. Bukreev
.
; died 25 March 2003 in Simferopol
. (Russian
: Николай Тимофеевич Гресь), tenor
soloist. Honoured Artist of Russia (1966). During World War II he sustained an injury resulting in a brain contusion. From 1946 he was a soloist of the Black Sea Fleet
Ensemble. From 1955 to 1963 he was a soloist of the Bolshoi Theatre
, and his debut with the Bolshoi was 11 February 1956 in Moscow. He then joined the Alexandrov Ensemble until 1973. After leaving the Ensemble he worked briefly in Moscow teaching automobile engineering, then moved to Simferopol in the Ukraine, where he became an administrator in the Simferopol Philharmonic Society. In his last years he suffered poor health and died suddenly in hospital at Simferopol. Some newspaper and magazine articles about Gres are listed at Slovari Yandex. In 2001 in the Crimea a biography of Gres was published under the title The whole life with a song (Всю жизнь – с песней), by I.Turchin (И. Турчин).
With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded I was going back from Berlin (music: I. Dunaevsky; lyrics: L. Oshanin) (1966), The Birch Tree (1965)
,
Truth of the Century (1970), The River Flows (1963), French Marching Song (Походная) lyrics by E.Mugel (1963), My Friends (duet with A.S. Sibirtsev), and Let us remember, comrades (duet with A.S. Sibirtsev 1960s, music A.V.Alexandrov, lyrics S.Alymov), When I go to the quick river (Как пойду я на быструю речку) (1955), The Grey Cuckoo (1965), Obelisks (music: Smolsky; lyrics: Yasen) or Обелиски (Д. Смольский - М. Ясень) (1966), The Song of the Headman from the opera The Night of May by Rimsky-Korsakov or Песня про Голову из оперы "Майская ночь" (Н. Римский - Корсаков) (1955; 1967), I Have Travelled the Whole Universe (1969), also known as I wandered through the world, the part of Sobinin in Ivan Susanin (Life of the Tsar) opera by Glinka. He also recorded Soviet Flag (music: B.A. Alexandrov; lyrics: P.Arsky (П. Арский)) (1969), and Fanikuli-Fanikula (1969).
composition about a man sitting under a birch tree, whittling and thinking of women. It is usually categorised as a folk song as the name of the composer has been lost. However it is clearly a professional composition of a quality comparative to those of medieval
Northern Europe
an composers of troubadour
songs, such as Dufay
and Binchois
. This performance is part of the history of the early music
revival movement. In the 19th century, rediscovered early music
, along with folk music
, was usually arranged to be performed in the grand orchestra
l or Italian opera
tic style. However, such music had always survived in church music
, in one form or another, and people were used to hearing it performed in the style of traditional European church choir
s: no vibrato
; pure and clear tone; adjusting the voice production to the acoustics
of the building. In church music
, the building was always the secondary soundbox
for the vocal instrument (the nasal cavity
being the first). From the 1950s, early music performance reverted to this ecclesiastical
style of singing. So the Alexandrov Ensemble performance of ca.1963 was very modern for its time. Gres sings like a church choir
baritone
, with the same appearance of spiritual joy as any oratorio
soloist. The screenshot does not capture such a moment, but it does show the sheer effort that the performance required. His voice is responding to a building-soundbox
too; in this case a recording studio
. The Russian
practice of the time was to film outdoors and then dub
the sound later. Studio dubbing
tends to appear artificial today, but on this occasion it is advantageous, as the church choral
style does need a building-soundbox
. From the 1970s, some early music singers, such as the Martin Best Ensemble, started to reflect what may have been the contemporary late medieval performance-style of troubadour
songs: that is, the Arab singing style which can still be heard in Islamic sung prayer. Hence Gres' performance now sounds a little dated, but remains nonetheless one of the finest recorded performances of this song.
: Сергей Васильевич Иванов), tenor
soloist. Honoured Artist of Russia. With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded In the Ocean Gave duet with P. Bogachev (music: B. Korostylev; lyrics: B. Bezhaev), It's a Long Time Since We Were Home duet with P. Bogachev (music: V.Solovev-Sedoy; lyrics: A. Fatyanov), We, the Army People duet with P. Bogachev (music: G. Movsesyan; lyrics: Robert Rozhdestvensky), Listen, Beauty duet with P. Bogachev (music: E. Martin; lyrics: M. Plyatskovsky), Soldier System solo (music: I. Yakushenko; lyrics: A. Shaferan), Your Soldiers duet with P. Bogachev (music: B. Gamal; lyrics: A. Sofronov), Smuglianka, duet with P. Bogachev (music: A. Novikov; lyrics: Y. Chvedov)
,
The Samovars duet with P. Bogachev (music A. Novikov; lyrics: S. Alimov) (1982/92)
,
Endless Sea duet with P. Bogachev, The Hero Walks in the Urals solo (1983), Who Protects the Country duet with P. Bogachev, Afield duet with P. Bogachev (1992), Nut Brown Girl duet with P. Bogachev (1989/92, 2003), Evening on the Roads duet with P. Bochachev 1992, Distant Northern Town trio with S.V. Buzurov and P. Bogachev (1992), Dixie duet with P. Bogachev (1992), Greetings from the Troops duet with P. Bogachev, unknown duet with V. Gavva (1992), Our Army duet with P. Bogachev (1984)
.
(trad; arr. Dmitri Oleg Yachinov)
,
Gandzia (trad; arr. Dmitri Oleg Yachinov)
: Катеринский, Владимир Николаевич) bass-baritone
soloist. In the 1940s and 1950s he recorded with the Alexandrov Ensemble: unknown duet with N.A. Abramov (1954), Siberian Child Went to War, Evening on the Roads with V.I. Nikitin, Mary (1951)
.
Soloist of the Ensemble. (b.Golumet, Irkutsk Oblast
1933). (Russian
: Л.М. Харитонов). People's Artist of Russia
, Honoured Artist of Russia; bass-baritone
soloist. Known as Lenya Kharitonov. When his father went missing in World War II, his mother brought him up. At the age of 14yrs he studied locally to be a welder, and began to perform as a singer. At 17 years old he started auditioning at Irkutsk Philharmonic, then at Moscow Philharmonic, and finally was accepted by Moscow Conservatory
. This was very difficult because as a Siberian he did not have even a matriculation certificate, but his strong singing voice spoke for him. For nearly 20 years he was a member of the Red Song and Dance Ensemble of the Soviet army (later the Alexandrov Ensemble): in the choir from 1953 to 1965, and a soloist from 1965 to 1972. He subsequently became a soloist with the Moscow Philharmonic. He performed successfully in most concert halls in Russia: On tour he visited the entire country, including the Kremlin Palace concert hall. He was the pride of Russia, sang at concerts for the Government and for foreign delegations. After that he went on tour abroad a great deal
. His biography is here.
With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded The Ballad of the Russian Boy (music: Novikov; lyrics: Oshanin L.), John Reid Goes to Petrograd (music: Novikov; lyrics: M. Vershinin), It is Not the End of the War (music: B. Muradeli; lyrics: M. Andronov), Here Lenin Lived (music: B. Terentiev; lyrics: A. Fatyanov), Lenin's Guard (music: B Aleksandrov; lyrics: M Khotimsk), My Native Land (music: O. Feltsman; lyrics: Oshanin L.), Not Old Soul Veterans (music: Tulika S.; lyrics: Y. Belinsky), Song of Peace (music: B. Muradeli; lyrics: V. Kharitonov), Sedina (music: A. Ekimyan; lyrics: F. Laube), Son of the Fatherland (music: S. Tulika; lyrics: V. Lazarev), The Song of Russia (music: St. Tulika; lyrics: V. Kharitonov), Song of the Volga Boatmen
,
Death of Varyag
.
: Иван Семёнович Козловский). (b.Mali, Poltava
, Ukraine
1900; d.1993); a lyric tenor
. Order of the National Anthem (1941); People's Artist of the USSR
(1940). He made his debut at the Kharkiv
Opera Theatre. From 1926 to 1954 he was a member of the Bolshoi Theatre
. He was professor at Gnessin State Musical College
1956 to 1980, continuing over the age of 80. In Russia has been considered the best tenor in the first half of the 20th century. From the 1920s he recorded opera
. In the 1950s with the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded martial music and Russian folk songs, including Song of the Red Navy (1953), In Front of the Forest, and Raw Wilderness
. Nikita Khrushchev
said in his autobiography that Kozlovsky was Joseph Stalin
`s favourite tenor and that Koszlovsky was unhappy about this.
: Андрей Куслеев), bass-baritone
soloist. With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded Cold Waves Lapping duet with E. Belyaev
(music: F. Bogoroditsky; lyrics: Ya Repninsky), Shooting Kommunarov duet with E. Belyaev
(music: V.Tan-Bogoraz), a duet with Abramov, Execution of the Warrior Revolution duet with E. Belyaev
, Marching song duet with I.A. Didenko, Song of the Red Army Cavalry (recorded 1954), Travel Far duet with V.V. Puchkov
.
: И.Кузнецов), tenor
soloist. With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded Saw the Father and Son (music: (Russian
: Компанеец Z.); lyrics: Y. Shvedov)
.
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and
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(b.Kazakhstan
24 July 1938
).
(Russian
: Эдуард Максович Лабковский), bass
soloist. Honoured Artist of Russia (1978); People's Artist of Russia
(1988). He moved to Moscow aged 3yrs, after his father, a Soviet official, died. There he worked in an aircraft factory as a fitter-assembler before attending Gnessin State Musical College
as a singer instructed by A. Adana. After graduation he took part in a Puccini
opera at Moscow Conservatory
, did a tour singing across the country from Transdniestria to Sakhalinthen, then joined the Ensemble in 1972. On behalf of the Ensemble, he travelled the country performing solos with a sextet of musicians from the orchestra, and entertaining troops where they were in service
.
He also performed on film and television, but has been ill recently
.
With the Alexandrov Ensemble, he recorded Take an Overcoat (music: V. Levashov; lyrics: B. Okudzhava), The Entire Country - It is Our Job (music: B. Terentiev; lyrics: V. Kharitonov), Hot Snow (music: A. Pakhmutova; lyrics: M. Lvov) (1980), Victory Day (music: D. Tuhmanov; lyrics: V. Kharitonov) (1992), Conductors of War (music: B. Figotin; lyrics F. Laube), Otgremeli Near Moscow has Long Battles (music: A. Kukushkin; lyrics: B. Zishenkova), Paratroopers' Song (music: M. Minkov; lyrics: I. Shaferan), Letter From the Depths (music: B. (Russian
: Калистратов); lyrics: M. Reytman), Under the Balkan Stars (music: M. Blanter; lyrics: M. Isakovsky), Before it is Too Late (music: A. Pakhmutova; lyrics: N. Dobronravov), Soldiers' Ways duet with Ivan Bukreev (music: B. Aleksandrov; lyrics: B. Dubrovin), Fifth Ocean (music: W. Korostelev; lyrics: B. Bezhaev), Home Country (music: G. Movsesyan; lyrics: B. Gin), Forties (music: I. Katayev; lyrics: D. Samoylov), Tulskaya Defence (music: Novikov; lyrics: V. Guryan), The Shield and Sword (P. Ovsiannikov - S. Volkov), Men (1978), Take the Mantle (1975), Commissars (1980), Parachute Song, The Russians Want War? (1989), Separation, My Country
.
here and
here.
(b. Leningrad
22 October 1932). Fine tenor
soloist. (Russian
: К.П. Лисовский); also translated as Lissovsky, Lisovskiy or Lisovski. (People's Artist of Russia
(1983), winner of competitions named after Glinka and Tchaikovsky. In 1951 he graduated from the Gorky Aviation Technical School and was sent to the factory. In 1953 was accepted into the Moscow Conservatory
where he studied for three years. From 1954 he did military service and sang in the Alexandrov Ensemble, then from 1965 to 1997 he was soloist for the Moscow State Academic Philharmonic Society. In 1967 he graduated from Gnessin State Musical College
. He was winner of the Glinka All-Union vocalists' competition (1965) and the International Tchaikovsky Competition (1966). He sang a wide repertoire besides opera
, and performed in more than 30 countries. He has performed on the radio, and recorded on vinyl and CDs. Since 1980, he has taught at the Russian Academy of Music (Associate Professor since 1989)
. One of his recordings is Golden Lights (music: V.Solovev-Sedoy; lyrics: A. Fatyanov, S. Fogelson)
With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded: The Birch Tree (trad; arr. Dmitri Oleg Yachinov)
.
: Ю.Лаут), tenor
soloist. With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded Song of the Klim Voroshilov duet with Georgiy Babaev (music: Alexander Alexandrov; lyrics: O. Kolychev), Artillery March duet with Oleg Razumovsky (music: Novikov; lyrics: S. Vasiliev).
here and
here.
(b.Moscow 4 March 1947). (Russian
: А.П. Мартынов); also translated as Martinov and Martin), tenor
soloist. (People's Artist of Russia
(2003), Professor of the Moscow Conservatory
, Laureate of international competitions). He graduated from Gnessin State Musical College
in 1970 with a diploma for violin. In 1976 he graduated with honours from the Moscow Conservatory
as a singer. Since 1972 he has recorded for television in the USSR and Russia, totalling many hours of music: opera, operetta, oratorio, cantata, duets, romances and songs of composers of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, folk songs, recordings of symphonic, chamber, folk, and pop music, and with instrumental ensembles. He won second prize at the International Vocal Competition in Budapest
, Hungary in 1975, and fourth prize at the International Vocal Competition in Aldeburgh
, UK in 1978. He was a member of the international jury of the Dmitry Shostakovich contest at Hanover
, Germany, in 1997. He is involved with the Shubertovskogo music company in Moscow. He has recorded Song of the Space Gulls (music: C. sheets; lyrics: L. Kondyrev)
With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded In a Sunny Forest Clearing (music: V.Solovev-Sedoy; lyrics: A. Fatyanov), The Roads (music: A. Novikov; lyrics: L. Ochanine; arr. V. Samsonenko)
.
soloist. With the Ensemble of the All-Union Radio Committee under Boris Alexandrov he recorded Evening in the Roadstead/Night on the Road duet with Vladimir Bunchikov (recorded 1942)
This is a bass-baritone
–tenor
duet, and the choir includes women soprano
s.
P. Mikhailov could be identical with Pavel Mihailov, who recorded with a jazz orchestra in the popular radio style of the 1930s. In most of his recordings he uses a light voice suitable for radio or film, but in some, such as Boat, Mihailov exhibits the kind of powerful tenor, favoured by the Alexandrov Ensemble, to be heard above the choir and orchestra
.
(Russian
: Виктор Иванович Никитин), tenor
soloist, born in Voronezh
and died in Moscow.Information from Leonid Kharitonov, soloist of the Alexandrov Ensemble. His dates of birth and death are unknown, but it is possible that he was born 1914−1918 and we know he was alive in 1988. He joined the Ensemble around 1938. He was already known as "Mr Kalinka" before World War II. He recorded many songs with the Alexandrov Ensemble, including Song of the Red Fleet Sailors (recorded 1943) and Kalinka. Legend in Russia says that when he sang to entertain the Russian
troops at the Eastern Front
in World War II, the Germans
on the other side stopped shooting to listen. At the Alexandrov Ensemble August 1948 Peace Concert in East Berlin, he sang encores of Kalinka and received high praise. He returned to the Ensemble choir in 1952, by his own choice, and remained with the Ensemble until at least 1965.
: В.Панков), tenor
soloist. With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded Song of the Bluhera duet with Georgiy Babaev (music: Alexander Alexandrov; lyrics: S. Alymov)
.
: Н.С. Полозков). With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded: Ah Lovely Night (1956)
.
: Леонид В. Пшеничный), tenor
soloist (People's Artist of Russia
). With the Alexandrov Ensemble, he recorded Birch Dreams (music: B. Geviksman; lyrics: G. Fere), In the Dugouts
(music: K. sheets; lyrics: A. Surkov), Where Are You Now, Odnopolchane Friends? (music: V.Solovev-Sedoy; lyrics: A. Fatyanov), Let Lit (music: M. Tabachnikov; lyrics: I. Frenkel), Katyusha
(music: M. Blanter; lyrics: M. Isakovsky), My Favourite (music: M. Blanter; lyrics: E. Dolmatovskaya), Parade of Victory (music: V. Pleshakov; lyrics: B. Levtov), Oh, the Road (music: Novikov; lyrics: Oshanin L.), My Country (trad; arr. B. Alexandrov).
: Всеволод В. Пучков), tenor
soloist (later Mariinsky Theatre
soloist). With the Alexandrov Ensemble in the 1940s and 50s he recorded Song of Peace and Friendship (music: B. Shainsky, M. Jordan; lyrics: M. Lisyansky), Song of the Young Soldiers duet with Georgiy Babaev (music: P. Akulenko; lyrics: Ya Shvedov) (1950), unknown operatic aria (1951), Travel Far, Ten Thousand Years of Our Country duet with G.I. Babaev (1951), In a Sunny Forest Clearing, Russia, unknown song (1954), Our Bodyguard duet with K.G. Gerasimov (1951)
.
: Олег Н. Разумовский), bass-baritone
soloist. With Georgy Vinogradov he recorded We Assumed Polsveta (music: S. Katz; lyrics: A. Sofronov)
.
With the Alexandrov Ensemble in the 1940s to 60s he recorded American Soldiers' Song (music: B. Hills), In the Battle for the Motherland (music: Компанеец Z.; lyrics: L. Oshanin), In a good hour! (music: K. sheets; lyrics: A. Zharov), Goodbye, Mom (music: V.Solovev-Sedoy; lyrics: A. Galić), Pub (music: B. Hills), As for the Kama, the River (music: V.Solovev-Sedoy; lyrics: Vladimir Gusev), Krasnoflotskaya Smile (music: N. Budashkin; lyrics: A. Fidrovsky), Swallow-Kasatochka (music: E. Zharkovsky; lyrics: O. Kolychev), Artillery March duet with Yuri Louth (music: Novikov; lyrics: S. Vasiliev), Sailor's Waltz (music: V. Sorokin; lyrics: S. Fogelson), It's a Long Way to Tipperary
(music: D. Judge; lyrics S. Bolotin), Night (Music: L.D. Utesov; lyrics: I. Fradkin), Eternal Glory to our Hero duet with B.G. Shapenko, Dance Dance, Echo Across the River, Farewell, Song of the Coachman, Song of the Unified (1949), When We Part
.
soloist at the Mariinsky Theatre
and Bolshoi Theatre
. With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded The Fond Stone, transmitted on Soviet
All-Union radio in 1947
, Song of the Volga Boatmen (trad; arr. Dmitri Oleg Yachinov)
.
: Вадим Львович Русланов). People's Artist of the USSR
(1974); bass
soloist. His mother was an actress; he attended drama school, and became an actor attached to a Moscow theatre. However he still had a passion for music and studied at Gnessin State Musical College
. He joined the Alexandrov Ensemble in 1958.
With the Alexandrov Ensemble during the 1960s and 70s he recorded: And the Song Goes to War (music: M. Fradkin; lyrics: C. Islands), Cranes (music: J. Frenkel; Lyrics: R. Gamzatov), Solidarity March (music: S. Tulika; lyrics: A. Sofronov), A Peaceful Country (music: A. Averkin; lyrics: A. Turkin), Angels Brothers or Brothers in Heaven (music: A. Averkin; lyrics: P. Gradov) (ca.1965), Invisible Soldiers of the Front (music: Novikov; lyrics: P. Gradov), Song of the Faraway Homeland (music: M. Tariverdiyev; lyrics: Robert Rozhdestvensky), Victory (music: V. Shainsky; lyrics: L. Oshanin), Regimental Band duet with Vadim V. Shkaptsov (music: L. Lyadov; lyrics: G. Hodos), Do you Hear me, Paris (music: A. Ostrovsky; lyrics: L. Oshanin), Soldiers Pribautki duet with E. Belyaev (music: A. Doluhanyan; lyrics: G. Hodos), Soldiers Are Always Soldiers (music: V.Solovev-Sedoy; lyrics: M. Matusovsky) (1960/68), Oh No John, Ballad of the Eternal, Dance Dance (1975), Take the Mantle (1980), The Wind Sounds (1966), He is a Man, Kutuzov's Heart, Military Musician, Murderers Roam the Earth, Farewell Love (1966), Third Battalion, Voices of the Earth, Song of Unity, Sentry Post, My Friends I Believe, Paris, Old Soldier's Song, Bravo the Soldiers (1969), Song of Friendship, World Peace, Daughter is Water (1966), The Stone (1973), Rocket Troops March, Ready Rocket Forces duet with I.S. Bukreev, The Russians Want War? (1963/64), Song of Russia (ca.1965), Song of the Russian Soldiers, Our Country Russia (1960)
.
(Russian
: Иван Иванович Савчук), tenor
soloist. With the Alexandrov Ensemble in the 1950s he recorded Smuglyanka duet with Ivan Abramov (music: Novikov; lyrics: Ya Shvedov), Dark Eyes (1956), Sweet Fruit, Nut-Brown Girl (1953, 1956), Nut Brown Maiden duet with N. Abramov (1956)
,
Happy Girl, Near the Garden trio with I.S. Bukreev and E. Belyaev
, Bandura both as solo and as duet with V. Fedorov (1951/56)
,
I Look Up at the Sky, Black Eyebrows (1956)
.
See
a typical, jolly image.
Soloist of the Ensemble. (Russian
: Алексей Тихонович Сергеев). Born 24 January 1919 in Gerasimovka
in the Tambov
region of Russia. People's Artist of the USSR
(1967), State Prize of the USSR. Graduated from Gnessin State Musical College
. From 1940 to 1968 he was bass
singer with the Alexandrov Ensemble; promoted to soloist 1950. Performed in recitals from 1968.
With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded Ballad of the Tank (music: IE Zharkovsky; lyrics: Yuri Kamenetsky; M. Kravchuk) (1951?), Memoirs of Algiers (music: B. Muradeli; lyrics: E. Dolmatovskaya), Duma of the Motherland (music: S. Tulika; lyrics: V. Malkov), Stars Lovely Homeland (music: I. Dunaevsky; lyrics: M. Matusovsky) (1965?), Nothing Was Said (music: V.Solovev-Sedoy; lyrics: A. Fatyanov), On the Rocks, Granite Rocks (music: B. Terentiev; lyrics: AN Bukin), Bryansky Partisan Song duet with E. Belyaev (music: D. Kabalevsky; lyrics: V.Lebedev-Kumach), Song of the Ballistic Missile (music: S. Tulika; lyrics: M. Andronov), Third Battalion (music: B. Mokrousov; lyrics: A. Fatyanov), Soldiers Carry Out the Order (music: O. Feltsman; lyrics: V. Sergeev), Stenka Razin
(1951/56/63)
,
Along Peterskaya Road/Street (trad; arr. Dmitri Oleg Yachinov) (1956/60/66)
,
Ah Nastasia (trad; arr. B. Alexandrov) (1968)
,
unknown operatic aria, Song of the Volga Boatmen, Ukrainian Poem (1956/60/63)
,
See the Village, unknown song, Under the Elm, Under the Oak (1963, 2007)
,
Can You Hear Me Brother, Marching Song, Cossack Cossack, Work Song (1956), Her Son-in-Law, Cheesecake, If I Had a Hammer
(1956)
,
The Motto of the Struggle, Uncle (1951), Red Sun (1960), Rain, Bryansk Forest, Old Urals, Soldier's Farewell, Star, Song of the Poplar, Groove, Ballad of the Moscow Boy, The Little Bells, Night, Spend an Evening (1977), Lenin Lived Here, Story of Russia, Only Russia
. He is buried in Moscow, not far from his fellow soloist Evgeny Belyaev
, in a section of Novodevichy Cemetery
affiliated branch (Russian
: Новоде́вичье кла́дбище) located in Kuntsevo District
.
: Борис Г. Шапенко), bass
soloist of the Bolshoi Theatre
. Honoured Artist of Russia. With the Alexandrov Ensemble in the 1960s he recorded It is the Soviet Navy (music: K. Sheets; lyrics: V. Guryan), Song of the Volga Boatmen (music: M. Fradkin)
,
The Long-Range Guns Are Silent (music: M. Blanter; lyrics: M. Matusovsky), Rodina (music: S. Tulika; lyrics: Yu Polukhin), Evening on the Road/Night on the Road (1980s) duet with E. Belyaev (music: V.Solovev-Sedoy; lyrics: A. Churkin), Eternal Glory duet with O.N. Razumovsky, Song of the Red Army Cavalry, Country, unknown opera aria, Spring in Berlin (1965), The Fun and Joy (1969), Song of Russia
.
: Борис Шемяков), bass-baritone
soloist from the 1970s onward. With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded: Sailors March duet with V. Shkaptsov, Spring 1945 duet with I.S. Bukreev, Hawks
.
:Владимир Шкапцов), bass
soloist in the 1960s and 70s. In 1957 he graduated from Gnessin State Musical College
. With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded: Regimental Band duet with Vadim Ruslanov (music: L. Lyadov; lyrics: G. Hodos), Sailors March duet with B. Shemyakov, Song of the March-Past duet with A.S. Sibirtsev, Hail to the Infantry! duet with V. Chernykh
.
: Василий Иванович Штефуца), current tenor
soloist. People's Artist of the USSR
(1993). From a farming family in the Ukraine
. He sang in the choir of the Uzhhorod
School of Music, then attended Gnessin State Musical College
, graduating in 1965. With the Alexandrov Ensemble he was at first in the choir, then as a soloist from 1970 he recorded You are One of Us (music: A. Doluhanyan; lyrics: M. Lisyansky), Moscow (music: D. Tuhmanov; lyrics: B. Dubrovin), Kalinka
and Korobelniki
(both trad.; arr. Dmitri Oleg Yachinov).
He won a prize in the Polish
song festival of 1972
.
: Александр Сергеевич Сибирцев), dramatic tenor
soloist. People's Artist of the USSR
. Studied at Gnessin State Musical College
. From 1963 he was a soloist of the Opera and Ballet Theatre in Gorky. In 1964 he spent a year as a soloist of the Alexandrov Ensemble, then became soloist of Perm
and Samara Opera. With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded: My Friends duet with N.T. Gres, unknown song duet with N.T. Gres, Song of the March-Past with N.T. Shkaptsov
.
duet with I. Bukreev (Italian partisan song; arr. B. Pogrebov)
here and
here.
Guest soloist. (b.Donetsk
, Ukraine
September 25, 1932; d. 29 July 1999; ). People's Artist of the USSR
(before 1978), People's artist of Ukraine, State Taras Shevchenko prize-winner
.
He was born into a mining family, and graduated from Donetsk Polytechnic Institute in 1954, having taken singing lessons at Olexander Korobeichenko from 1950. He began his career in Donetsk
, where there is now a monument in his memory
. He did 12 performances at the Metropolitan Opera in Kiev
, then graduated from Kiev Conservatory
in 1978. For 30 years he was soloist at the Taras Shevchenko National Opera and Ballet Theatre in Kiev
, and performed at Expo 67
in Montreal
.
He performed as soloist for Alexandrov Ensemble during its UK tour 1988, singing Kalinka and others
. He recorded 18 LPs: arias, romances and songs
.
, 16 September 1977). Bass-baritone. Graduated from the A. Schnittke Moscow State Institute of Music in 2002. He was a soloist of the Tver Philharmonic from 1999 to 2000, then joined the Ensemble in 2005. As of 2010 he sings for the Ensemble as a guest soloist. With the Ensemble he has performed in various concerts including Quebec 2008, where he sang the song known in the west as Those Were the Days
, but which is a Russian song called Дорогой длинною or By the Long Road by Boris Fomin
.
: А.Сыроватко-Золотарёв), tenor
soloist. With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded I Am From Berlin (music: I. Dunaevsky; lyrics: L. Oshanin).
here.
Guest soloist. (b.Yerevan 1958). Renowned Armenian bass
soloist. (Russian
: Б.Р. Туманян) (People's Artist of Armenia, soloist of Yerevan Opera and the Metropolitan Opera
, the winner of the Tchaikovsky contest). With the Alexandrov Ensemble in ca.1960 he sang Granada
and the Toreador Song from Bizet's Carmen
, and received a seemingly endless ovation
In 2008 he celebrated his 50th anniversary as a bass soloist with the Opera
. In 2007 Tumanyan was interviewed by M. Zatikyan
. His biography is
here.
here.
(b.Moscow 1916; d.1990). (Russian
: Алексей Усманов), tenor
soloist. He began singing in the amateur choir of the Automobile Club before World War II. He wanted to join the choir of the All-Union Radio, but World War II began. As a soldier he fought bravely when an armoured personnel carrier
was hit; for this he was awarded the Order of the Red Star
. In the late 1940s he became a soloist of All-Union Radio, and in the early 1960s began to record duets with Victor Selivanov
.
With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded You Often Write Soldier (music: B. Terentiev; lyrics: S. Bencken). In 1954 he took part in a recording of The Enchantress by Pyotr Tchaikovsky
with the Moscow Philharmonia State Orchestra and Radio USSR chorus.
(Russian
: Г.П. Виноградов), tenor
soloist (b.Kazan
16 November 1908; d.Moscow 11 November 1980). Honoured Artist of Russia (1949). From about 1937 he sang jazz, opera and Soviet lyric songs on Radio Moscow and in World War II he sang with the USSR Committee of Defense Model Orchestra. From 1943 to 1951 he was a soloist with the Alexandrov Ensemble; however in 1951 there was apparently a bar-room brawl which embarrassed the Soviet government, and finished his career
. See his own page
for further information.
With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded Two Maxims (recorded 1943)
,
Oh the Road
,
In a Forest at the Front (recorded 1945), Nightingale (recorded 1950), Dark Night (recorded 1945)
. In the 1940s he also recorded Nightingale as a duet with the baritone Vladimir Bunchikov
, and The Bending Branch (or Luchina
)
as a solo with the Alexandrov Ensemble
: И.Ф. Волков) (Bass
soloist of the Novosibirsk Opera House). He sang with the Alexandrov Ensemble in the 1970s and 80s, and performed Dark Eyes
/Black Eyes (1978)
.
: Борис Григорьевич Жайворонок) bass-baritone
soloist. People's Artist of Russia
and Honoured Artist of Ukraine (1972). In 1964 he graduated from the Kharkiv
Institute of Arts. From 1965 he was soloist at the Kharkiv
Opera and Ballet. He was with the Alexandrov Ensemble 1981-1998 and he recorded The Enemies of the Burned Home (music: M. Blanter; lyrics: M. Isakovsky), My Moscow (music: I.M. Dunaevsky; lyrics: S. Agranyan, M. Lisyansky), Ogonek (lyrics: M. Isakovsky), It is time to Take the Road (music: V.Solovev-Sedoy; lyrics: S. Fogelson), Farewell, Rocky Mountains (music: E. Zharkovsky; lyrics: A.N. Bukin), Troika and Granada
.
(b.1942): a soloist with the Ensemble from 1962. With the Alexandrov ensemble he performed Den Pobedy
on Soviet TV (1976).
A.I. Mischenko (Russian
: А.И. Мищенко) (from GABTa).
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Vasily Ivanovich Shtefutsa. See image
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Edward Maxovich Labkovsky. See image
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S.V. Ivanov Honoured Artist of Russia. See image here.
P.D. Bogachev Honoured Artist of Russia. See image here.
V.P. Maystruk Honoured Artist of Russia
A.A. Gvozdetsky Honoured Artist of Russia
B.M. Mizyuk Honoured Artist of Russia
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Ensign Victor Sanin. See image
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Ensign Dmitry Bykov. See image
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Ensign Vadim Petrovich Ananyev. See image
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Tatiana Deryabkina Honoured Artist of Russia
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Bass (voice type)
A bass is a type of male singing voice and possesses the lowest vocal range of all voice types. According to The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, a bass is typically classified as having a range extending from around the second E below middle C to the E above middle C...
, bass
Bass (voice type)
A bass is a type of male singing voice and possesses the lowest vocal range of all voice types. According to The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, a bass is typically classified as having a range extending from around the second E below middle C to the E above middle C...
, bass-baritone
Bass (voice type)
A bass is a type of male singing voice and possesses the lowest vocal range of all voice types. According to The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, a bass is typically classified as having a range extending from around the second E below middle C to the E above middle C...
and tenor
Tenor
The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C in choral music, and up to high C in solo work. The low extreme for tenors is roughly B2...
soloists who have performed with the Alexandrov Ensemble (under its various titles) since its establishment in 1928. It is difficult to differentiate between regular and guest soloists, since many have alternated between the one category and the other during their careers, so they are all listed together. Soloists of whom no recordings have yet been found have been listed below as "other soloists".
Introduction
Until April 2009, when this article was created, little or nothing was generally known outside Russia about these fine soloists: as a group, or (in most cases) as individuals. People in the West could read a few of their names on current Alexandrov Ensemble CDs and DVDsAlexandrov Ensemble discography
This is a list of recordings made by the Alexandrov Ensemble since 1928. Within each section they are in alphabetical order of record labels.- Facets: Leningrad Cowboys - Total Balalaika Show :...
, and perhaps hear a few old 78rpm
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recordings on YouTube, but could not Google in English for their images or musical biographies. Since April 2009, to a certain extent, they can. Therefore this article is part of the soloists' history.
In 2004 Max Loppert said of Georgy Vinogradov: "How is it possible for any singer of this caliber to have been (outside Russia) this unknown?".
One could say the same of the whole group. Before April 2009, almost all online resources on this subject were in Russian
Russian language
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and Japanese
Japanese language
is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...
, and even these were limited in content, so far as the biographies of most soloists were concerned. The dearth of information in the West could be partly attributable to the language barrier
Language barrier
Language barrier is a figurative phrase used primarily to indicate the difficulties faced when people who have no language in common attempt to communicate with each other...
and the Cold War
Cold War
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. One could speculate that scandals such as those 1951 rumours surrounding Vinogradov could have pressured the Alexandrov Ensemble to exercise particular discretion regarding publicity of their valuable star turns.
Even so, there is almost no online information about the tenor
Tenor
The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C in choral music, and up to high C in solo work. The low extreme for tenors is roughly B2...
Victor Nikitin, who made a beautiful 78 rpm recording of Cold Waves Lapping in the 1940s, and his last traceable recording appears to have been made in 1951, the same year as the rumours of a bar-room brawl and the end of Georgy Vinogradov's career
.
One can draw no conclusions, but - outside Russia at least - an air of mystery surrounds some of these great singers.
Status of soloists
Apart from guest soloists, there are two ways of contracting a soloist in the Alexandrov Ensemble:- A soloist of the choir is a constant member of the choir and only sometimes has one or two solo performances with certain songs specially selected for their personal vocal capabilities.
- Soloist of the Ensemble is a higher grade, meaning that the singer is a soloist on a constant basis and never - or no longer - takes part in the choir.
Georgi Abramov
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(b.Moscow 12 April 1903; d.Georgia
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1 November 1966). (Russian
Russian language
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: Георгий Абрамов). Bass
Bass (voice type)
A bass is a type of male singing voice and possesses the lowest vocal range of all voice types. According to The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, a bass is typically classified as having a range extending from around the second E below middle C to the E above middle C...
soloist. Honoured Artist of Russia (1944). From 1918 to 1928 he worked as a mechanic or plumber in Moscow State University. In 1930 he entered an operatic singing competition on All-Union Radio. As a result of this, from 1931 to 1966 he was soloist of the All-Union Radio and Television, taking part in opera productions. He was a concert singer, promoting the works of Soviet
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
composers, and became the definitive singer of songs such as Roads, Novikova, Treasured Stone, Single Accordion, Mokrousov, and especially Bryansk Forest (by Katz)
.
From 1954 to 1958 he was a music teacher at Gnessin State Musical College
Gnessin State Musical College
The Gnessin State Musical College and Gnessin Russian Academy of Music is a prominent music school in Moscow, Russia...
. He toured in Poland, Hungary, Romania
Romania
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and East Germany
.
With Georgy Vinogradov and Vladimir Zakharov he recorded For those who are in Transit (S. Katz - A. Fatyanov), and the beautiful folksong Already as the Sea
.
With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded A Bryansk Forest (recorded 1948) for the All-Union Radio Committee.
Nicolai A. Abramov
(RussianRussian language
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: Николай А. Абрамов), tenor
Tenor
The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C in choral music, and up to high C in solo work. The low extreme for tenors is roughly B2...
soloist. With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded: Smuglyanka duet with Nikolay Savchuk (music: Novikov; lyrics: Ya Shvedov), unknown duet with A. Kusleev, Praying, unknown duet with L.M. Kharitonov, Here's the Deal (1963), Black Crow duet with A. Eisen (1956), Nut Brown Maiden duet with I. Savchuk (1953, 1956)
,
The Little Bells (1956)
. Unfortunately, Nicolai Abramov's name was frequently incorrectly attributed on recordings, notably on the Kultur video of 1965 that is available in the West.
Vadim Petrovich Ananyev
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Current soloist in the Ensemble.
Georgy Yakovlevich Andryushchenko
(b. Aravan, KyrgyzstanKyrgyzstan
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, 1933; d. 12 January 2011)
.
(Russian
Russian language
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: Георгий Яковлевич Андрющенко); also spelled "Andryushenko"; tenor
Tenor
The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C in choral music, and up to high C in solo work. The low extreme for tenors is roughly B2...
soloist of the Bolshoi Theatre
Bolshoi Theatre
The Bolshoi Theatre is a historic theatre in Moscow, Russia, designed by architect Joseph Bové, which holds performances of ballet and opera. The Bolshoi Ballet and Bolshoi Opera are amongst the oldest and most renowned ballet and opera companies in the world...
, People's Artist of Russia
People's Artist of Russia
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(1973). He studied at Gnessin State Musical College
Gnessin State Musical College
The Gnessin State Musical College and Gnessin Russian Academy of Music is a prominent music school in Moscow, Russia...
, and joined the Alexandrov Ensemble as a soloist in 1958. He performed at the Bolshoi Theatre 1963-1979,
had a wide repertoire and was one of the leading tenors in a troupe which toured the world. From 1974 to 1976 he was the supervisor of the trainee group of Bolshoi Theatre soloists. From 1979 he was director of the Moscow Ice Ballet Ensemble. In the late 80s he worked as general director of GosTsirk; he was the head of all circuses in Russia, and he published an article in Dei/Disillusionist magazine about a circus tour to the Vatican in 1982.
Within the Bolshoi Theatre his recorded operatic arias include the following: as Prince Andrei Khovansky in Modest Mussorgsky
Modest Mussorgsky
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky was a Russian composer, one of the group known as 'The Five'. He was an innovator of Russian music in the romantic period...
's opera Khovanshchina
Khovanshchina
Khovanshchina is an opera in five acts by Modest Mussorgsky. The work was written between 1872 and 1880 in St. Petersburg, Russia. The composer wrote the libretto based on historical sources...
(1979); as Mikhailo Tucha in Pskovityanka (or A Girl from Pskov); as Alexey in Optimistic Tragedy by Kholminov; as Masalsky in October by Muradeli; as Marquise in The Gambler by Sergei Prokofiev
Sergei Prokofiev
Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century...
from the story by Dostoyevsky; as Semyon in Semyon Kotko by Sergei Prokofiev.
Valentin Ivanovich Anisimov
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(b.1937; d.26 August 2002). (Russian
Russian language
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: В.И. Анисимов), bass
Bass (voice type)
A bass is a type of male singing voice and possesses the lowest vocal range of all voice types. According to The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, a bass is typically classified as having a range extending from around the second E below middle C to the E above middle C...
soloist (of the Odessa
Odessa
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Opera House). People's Artist of Ukraine
People's Artist of Ukraine
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and Honoured Artist of Russia (1973). In 1962 he graduated from the Urals State Conservatory. From 1962 he was a soloist at Sverdlovsk, Ukraine and from 1967 at the Odessa Opera and Ballet Theatre. He gave 40 performances at the Bolshoi Theatre
Bolshoi Theatre
The Bolshoi Theatre is a historic theatre in Moscow, Russia, designed by architect Joseph Bové, which holds performances of ballet and opera. The Bolshoi Ballet and Bolshoi Opera are amongst the oldest and most renowned ballet and opera companies in the world...
and gained a fine reputation throughout the USSR for singing in Verdi's opera
Opera
Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...
Rigoletto
Rigoletto
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. From 1980 he was soloist of the Moscow Philharmonic. He also taught at the Institute of Contemporary Art in the USSR
.
With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded Veterans (music: Boris Alexandrov; lyrics S. Bencken).
Georgiy I. Babaev
(RussianRussian language
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: Г.И. Бабаев; also translated George Babayev), tenor
Tenor
The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C in choral music, and up to high C in solo work. The low extreme for tenors is roughly B2...
soloist, Stalin Prize Laureate. With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded Song of the Young Soldiers duet with V. Puchkov (music: P. Akulenko; lyrics: Ya Shvedov), Song of the Klim Voroshilov duet with Yuri Louth (music: Alexander Alexandrov; lyrics: O. Kolychev), Aside Native (music: A. Alexandrov; lyrics: S. Mikhalkov), Seasoned Cook (music: Z. Компанеец; lyrics: I. Lakshin), Song of the Bluhera duet with V. Pankov (music: Alexander Alexandrov; lyrics: S. Alymov), I Myself (Slovak song).
Evgeny Belyaev
Soloist of the Ensemble. (RussianRussian language
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: Евгений Михайлович Беляев). Outside the USSR, one of the most celebrated tenor
Tenor
The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C in choral music, and up to high C in solo work. The low extreme for tenors is roughly B2...
soloists under Boris Alexandrov was Evgeny Belyaev
Evgeny Belyaev
Evgeny Mikhailovich Belyaev, also written as Yevgeny Belyayev , was a Russian tenor soloist of the Alexandrov Ensemble under Boris Alexandrov...
or Evgeny Mikhailovich Belyaev (1926–1994)
. He was born September 11, 1926 in the Bryansk Oblast
Bryansk Oblast
Bryansk Oblast is a federal subject of Russia . Its administrative center is the city of Bryansk. Population: 1,278,087 .-History:...
, and served in the subdivision of zenith troops during World War II. He then graduated from Gnessin State Musical College
Gnessin State Musical College
The Gnessin State Musical College and Gnessin Russian Academy of Music is a prominent music school in Moscow, Russia...
. In 1947 he was a soloist of the Ensemble of Song and Dance of the Carpathian
Carpathian
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military district, and in 1952 a Member of CPSU (Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
The Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the only legal, ruling political party in the Soviet Union and one of the largest communist organizations in the world...
). In 1955 he was a soloist of the Ensemble of Song and Dance of the Soviet Army of Alexandrov. In 1967 he was made People's Artist of the USSR
People's Artist of the USSR
People's Artist of the USSR, also sometimes translated as National Artist of the USSR, was an honorary title granted to citizens of the Soviet Union.- Nomenclature and significance :...
, and in 1978 he won the State Prize of the USSR. He died in 1994 (February 21 or 22nd).
Two of his most famous performances are Oh the Rye and Nightingale. The lyric of Nightingale asks the nightingale to be quiet as the soldiers are sleeping; i.e. they have died. One of his most popular recordings with The Alexandrov Ensemble is Kalinka
.
Pyotr Dmitrievich Bogachev
(RussianRussian language
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: Петр Дмитриевич Богачёв), bass-baritone
Bass (voice type)
A bass is a type of male singing voice and possesses the lowest vocal range of all voice types. According to The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, a bass is typically classified as having a range extending from around the second E below middle C to the E above middle C...
soloist. Honoured Artist of Russia. With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded In the Ocean Gave duet with S. Ivanov (music: B. Korostylev; lyrics: B. Bezhaev), It's a Long Time Since We Were Home duet with S. Ivanov (music: V.Solovev-Sedoy; lyrics: A. Fatyanov), We, the Army People duet with S. Ivanov (music: G. Movsesyan; lyrics: Robert Rozhdestvensky), Listen, Beauty duet with S. Ivanov (music: E. Martin; lyrics: M. Plyatskovsky), Your Soldiers duet with S. Ivanov (music: B. Gamal; lyrics: A. Sofronov), We go, We Go Into the Army duet with Ivan Bukreev (music: B. Aleksandrov; lyrics: V. Tatarinov), Smuglianka, duet with S. Ivanov (music: A. Novikov; lyrics: Y. Chvedov),The Samovars duet with S. Ivanov (music A. Novikov; lyrics: S. Alimov) (1982/92)
, Nut Brown Girl duet with S. Ivanov (1989/92, 2003), Endless Sea duet with S. Ivanov, We Protect the Country duet with S. Ivanov, Afield duet with S. Ivanov (1992), Evening on the Roads duet with S. Ivanov (1992), Distant Northern Town trio with V.S. Buzurov and S. Ivanov (1992), Dixie duet with S. Ivanov 1992, Greetings from the Troops duet with S. Ivanov, Our Army duet with S. Ivanov (1984)
.
Ivan Semionovich Bukreev
Russian language
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: Иван Семенович Букреев), lyric tenor
Tenor
The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C in choral music, and up to high C in solo work. The low extreme for tenors is roughly B2...
soloist, People's Artist of the USSR
People's Artist of the USSR
People's Artist of the USSR, also sometimes translated as National Artist of the USSR, was an honorary title granted to citizens of the Soviet Union.- Nomenclature and significance :...
, People's Artist of Russia
People's Artist of Russia
People's Artist of Russia, also sometimes translated as National Artist of Russia, is an honorary title granted to citizens of Russia.It succeeded both the all-Soviet union award People's Artist of the USSR , and more directly the local republic award, People's Artist of the RSFSR , after the...
. In World War II he was in the Air Force, and was seriously wounded in battle. In 1944 he graduated from the Gnessin State Musical College
Gnessin State Musical College
The Gnessin State Musical College and Gnessin Russian Academy of Music is a prominent music school in Moscow, Russia...
, and became a soloist in the Air Force ensemble. It has been suggested in the West that he was overshadowed by E. Belyaev
Evgeny Belyaev
Evgeny Mikhailovich Belyaev, also written as Yevgeny Belyayev , was a Russian tenor soloist of the Alexandrov Ensemble under Boris Alexandrov...
, but Leonid Mikhailovich Kharitonov
Leonid Mikhailovich Kharitonov
Leonid Mikhailovich Kharitonov is a Russian bass-baritone singer, born 18 September 1933 in the village of Golumet, Irkutsk Oblast. He has been honoured with: People's Artist of Russia and Honoured Artist of Russia. In the West he is noted for his 1965 video of the Song of the Volga Boatmen.-...
remembers the following:
"Bukreev didn’t have any specific reaction to Belyaev's success. Actually, he was glad for his colleague. Besides, it would be quite strange to compare them since they were different kinds of tenor – Belyaev was lyric tenor (higher voice) and Bukreev was a lyric and dramatic tenor (deeper voice). Bukreev never performed as a soloist abroad. Belyaev sang only three songs abroad and was mainly famous for the Kalinka song. In Russia they had equal popularity. Bukreev was teetotal and was a good husband and father to his wife and daughter."
Kharitonov only ever sang duets with one person, and that was Bukreev. With the Alexandrov Ensemble from 1953 to 1987/88 Bukreev gained a high reputation and recorded: Take Soldiers (music: Y. Milutin; lyrics: M. Lisyansky), Submariners' Waltz (music: V. Alexandrov; lyrics: Igor Morozov) (1965), Rides the Border (music: B. Muradeli; lyrics: A. Annual), We Go, We Go Into the Army duet with P. Bogachev (music: B. Aleksandrov; lyrics: V. Tatarinov), The Soldier (music: B. Mokrousov; lyrics: C. Islands), Our Soldiers (music: L. Lyadov; lyrics: A. Zharov), Good Guy (music: A. Doluhanyan; lyrics: Nekrasova L.), Song of Prague (music: M. Blanter; lyrics: Anon) (1960), At Least (music: A. Doluhanyan; lyrics: M. Lisyansky), A Wave (music: A Doluhanyan; lyrics: M. Lisyansky), Soldier's Ways duet with Edward Labkovsky (music: B. Aleksandrov; lyrics: B. Dubrovin), Russian Accordion (music: B. Muradeli; lyrics: E. Savinov), I Took You into the Tundra (music: M. Fradkin; lyrics: M. Plyatskovsky) (performed 1982
),
Bird Cherry (music: M. Blanter; lyrics: M. Isakovsky), South-West Region (music: Yu Milyutin; lyrics: E. Dolmatovskaya), I Will Never Forget You (music: E. Kolmanovsky; lyrics: K. Vanshenkin) (ca.1965), Moscow Nights
Moscow Nights
"Moscow Nights" or "Midnight in Moscow" is a Russian song, and one of those best known outside its homeland.The song was originally created as "Leningradskie Vechera" by composer Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi and poet Mikhail Matusovsky in 1955 , but at the request of the Soviet Ministry of Culture, the...
(music: V. Soloviev-Sedoi; lyrics: M. Matousovski) (1958), Bella Ciao
Bella ciao
"Bella ciao" is an Italian partisan song of World War II.-History:The song Bella Ciao was sung by the left-wing anti-fascist resistance movement in Italy, a movement composed of anarchists, communists, socialists and also by militant anti-fascist partisans...
duet with P. Slastnoi (Italian partisan song; arr. B. Pogrebov) (ca.1966)
,
Bucharest Love, Homeland Night, Wait a Day to Return (1956), Song of the Border Defence Troops, two unknown solos, Spring of 1945 duet with Boris Shemyakov, Sky Blue Eyes (1978), Near the Garden trio with I.I. Savchuk and E. Belyaev
Evgeny Belyaev
Evgeny Mikhailovich Belyaev, also written as Yevgeny Belyayev , was a Russian tenor soloist of the Alexandrov Ensemble under Boris Alexandrov...
, American Soldiers, That Soldier Heads Up, Far Away (1978), The Girls I Cry, Early Apple Blossom, Regiment Polka duet with V.P. Gorlanov, Ready Rocket Forces duet with V.L. Ruslanov, City of Rostov, In Our Company, Vasya-Vasilyok duet with L.M. Kharitonov (ca.1965), I'll Always be a Soldier.
Vladimir Abramovich Bunchikov
Bass-baritone
A bass-baritone is a high-lying bass or low-lying "classical" baritone voice type which shares certain qualities with the true baritone voice. The term arose in the late 19th century to describe the particular type of voice required to sing three Wagnerian roles: the Dutchman in Der fliegende...
soloist. (b.Yekaterinoslav 21 November 1902; d.17 March 1995). Honoured Artist of Russia (1944).In Simferopol
Simferopol
-Russian Empire and Civil War:The city was renamed Simferopol in 1784 after the annexation of the Crimean Khanate to the Russian Empire by Catherine II of Russia. The name Simferopol is derived from the Greek, Συμφερόπολις , translated as "the city of usefulness." In 1802, Simferopol became the...
he was a scenery operator at the Drama Theatre. After graduating from the Dnepropetrovsk Music College, he studied in Leningrad
Leningrad
Leningrad is the former name of Saint Petersburg, Russia.Leningrad may also refer to:- Places :* Leningrad Oblast, a federal subject of Russia, around Saint Petersburg* Leningrad, Tajikistan, capital of Muminobod district in Khatlon Province...
. From 1929 he was a soloist at the Opera in Dnepropetrovsk, and from 1931 at the Nemirovicha-Danchenko Musical Theatre in Moscow.
From 1934, he recorded songs. With V. Kandelaki he sang jazz, and he sang with the popular orchestra directed by B. Knushevitsky, and with Boris Alexandrov's Song and Dance Ensemble of All-Union Radio and band. His main repertoire was the songs of Soviet composers. From 1942 to 1967 he was a soloist of the All-Union Radio. For 25 years he performed fine duets with the lyric tenor
Tenor
The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C in choral music, and up to high C in solo work. The low extreme for tenors is roughly B2...
Vladimir Nechaev (1908–1969)
whom he had met during World War II
.
With the Ensemble of the All-Union Radio Committee under Boris Alexandrov he recorded Evening in the Roadstead/Night on the Road duet with P. Mikhailov (recorded 1942)
.
This is a baritone-tenor duet, and the choir includes women sopranos. He also recorded Nightingale in the 1940s as a baritone-tenor duet with Georgi Pavlovich Vinogradov
Georgi Pavlovich Vinogradov
Georgi Pavlovich Vinogradov , Honoured Artist of Russia, was a Russian tenor: a popular World War II singer on Radio Moscow, recording artist, and soloist with the Alexandrov Ensemble.- Musical training :...
,
It's a Long Time Since We Were Home duet with V. Nechaev
.
E. Burchak
(RussianRussian language
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: Е.Бурчаков), bass-baritone
Bass-baritone
A bass-baritone is a high-lying bass or low-lying "classical" baritone voice type which shares certain qualities with the true baritone voice. The term arose in the late 19th century to describe the particular type of voice required to sing three Wagnerian roles: the Dutchman in Der fliegende...
soloist. With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded Not a - Do Not Know (music: S. Tulika; lyrics: V. Malkov).
Victor Sergeievich Buzurov
(RussianRussian language
Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...
: Виктор Сергеевич Бузлов). Tenor
Tenor
The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C in choral music, and up to high C in solo work. The low extreme for tenors is roughly B2...
soloist. Joined the Ensemble ca.1970. Since 1990 he has recorded with the Don Cossack Choir and V. Gavva, singing religious songs. With the Alexandrov Ensemble he has recorded The Birch Tree (1987), Distant Northern Town trio with S. Ivanov and P. Bogachev (1992), Moscow
.
Vladimir Chernykh
(RussianRussian language
Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...
: Черных, Владимир), tenor soloist. With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded Jet Pilot, Ballad of the Red Army, Loyalty duet (possibly with G. Andryushchenko
),
Hail to the Infantry! with V. Shkaptsov (1978) and unknown song
.
- Critical commentary on a music video featuring Chernykh and Bukreev (see image left): They sing The Grey Cuckoo on Soviet Army Chorus and Dance Ensemble This screenshot illustrates the sheer lack of public ego among the tenors of the Ensemble. In the West, a duet or trio of lyric tenors is always something of a competition for audience attention on the part of the singers - but here it is always a matter of humility to the music: blending; complementing; adjusting of the voice for perfect harmony of dynamic and musicality. The duettists always behave like the army choristers, whom Boris Alexandrov famously described as being so well-discipined due to regular square-bashing. This, of course, was a joke as they are clearly as exhaustively rehearsed as any Georg SoltiGeorg SoltiSir Georg Solti, KBE, was a Hungarian-British orchestral and operatic conductor. He was a major classical recording artist, holding the record for having received the most Grammy Awards, having personally won 31 as a conductor, including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. In addition to his...
choir. This screenshot shows them not showing off, but simply working. It helps to illustrate that this army choir was really born of the Kazan CathedralKazan CathedralKazan Cathedral or Kazanskiy Kafedralniy Sobor , also known as the Cathedral of Our Lady of Kazan, is a cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church on the Nevsky Prospekt in St. Petersburg...
choir where Alexander Alexandrov learned his trade all those decades ago. The choir was never a sport of the operatic stage where Boris was trained.
Ivan Alexandrovich Didenko
See imagehere.
Soloist of the choir. ; Tenor
Tenor
The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C in choral music, and up to high C in solo work. The low extreme for tenors is roughly B2...
soloist. With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded Lights Black Sun (music: A. Doluhanyan; lyrics: M. Lisyansky), The Birch Tree (1956)
,
Snowflakes (1956)
.
V. Dmitriev
See imagehere.
(Russian
Russian language
Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...
: В.Дмитриев), bass
Bass (voice type)
A bass is a type of male singing voice and possesses the lowest vocal range of all voice types. According to The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, a bass is typically classified as having a range extending from around the second E below middle C to the E above middle C...
soloist. With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded the beautiful and dramatic Halt, Who Goes There! (music: B. Muradeli; lyrics: E. Dolmatovskaya).
Arthur Arturovich Eisen
Russian language
Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...
: Артур Артурович Эйзен), bass-baritone
Bass-baritone
A bass-baritone is a high-lying bass or low-lying "classical" baritone voice type which shares certain qualities with the true baritone voice. The term arose in the late 19th century to describe the particular type of voice required to sing three Wagnerian roles: the Dutchman in Der fliegende...
soloist. (b.Moscow 8 June 1927; d.Moscow 26 February 2008). Soloist of the Bolshoi Theatre
Bolshoi Theatre
The Bolshoi Theatre is a historic theatre in Moscow, Russia, designed by architect Joseph Bové, which holds performances of ballet and opera. The Bolshoi Ballet and Bolshoi Opera are amongst the oldest and most renowned ballet and opera companies in the world...
, Honoured Artist of Russia (1956), Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Order of the Red Banner of Labour
The Order of the Red Banner of Labour was an order of the Soviet Union for accomplishments in labour and civil service. It is the labour counterpart of the military Order of the Red Banner. A few institutions and factories, being the pride of Soviet Union, also received the order.-History:The Red...
(1971), People's Artist of the USSR
People's Artist of the USSR
People's Artist of the USSR, also sometimes translated as National Artist of the USSR, was an honorary title granted to citizens of the Soviet Union.- Nomenclature and significance :...
(1976), Order of Friendship of Peoples
Order of Friendship of Peoples
The Order of Friendship of Peoples was an order of the Soviet Union, and was awarded to persons , organizations, enterprises, military units, as well as administrative subdivisions of the USSR for accomplishments in strengthening of inter-ethnic and international friendship and cooperation, for...
(1988). With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded: Elegy, Oh No John (1956), Cold Waves Lapping (1956), Black Raven, duet with N.A. Abramov (1956), 4 unknown solos (1956), Song of the Volga Boatmen.
Vasily Eliseev
Soloist of the choir. Birthdate unknown; died aged ca.40 years. (RussianRussian language
Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...
:Василий Елисеев), tenor
Tenor
The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C in choral music, and up to high C in solo work. The low extreme for tenors is roughly B2...
with countertenor
Countertenor
A countertenor is a male singing voice whose vocal range is equivalent to that of a contralto, mezzo-soprano, or a soprano, usually through use of falsetto, or far more rarely than normal, modal voice. A pre-pubescent male who has this ability is called a treble...
capability, i.e. with smooth transition to upper range, and good tone and projection throughout. There is a long tradition of countertenors in the Orthodox Church; this tradition continued during the Soviet era. With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded: Listen. On the Kultur video from which the screenshot is taken, Eliseev is incorrectly named as Nicolai A. Abramov.
Critical commentary on a music video featuring Vasily Eliseev
Countertenor
A countertenor is a male singing voice whose vocal range is equivalent to that of a contralto, mezzo-soprano, or a soprano, usually through use of falsetto, or far more rarely than normal, modal voice. A pre-pubescent male who has this ability is called a treble...
capability. According to Eliseev's apparent age in the screenshot, he was probably born in the 1920s and spent his early career in World War II: a time of great hardship for the general populace. Music was a great solace for the troops and the people, and the Alexandrovs felt the need to produce a full range of compositions
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
. They needed soprano
Soprano
A soprano is a voice type with a vocal range from approximately middle C to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music. In four-part chorale style harmony, the soprano takes the highest part, which usually encompasses the melody...
s for their choir and soloists, but were not permitted them. Eliseev filled a need for a beautiful and highly trained voice, to allow not just extended chords for drama and pathos in the video, but chords to provide a beauty and spiritual dimension in the arrangement of Listen, in which a political prisoner voices his dreams of Outside. Just as the spiritual dimension of the song appears to reach through the music to beyond the studio, so this singer appears to be conscious of a level beyond himself, as seen in the screenshot, and as heard in his ethereal upper register.
Vladimir Fyodorov
The only basso profondo that the Ensemble ever had. With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded: Bandura duet with Nikolai Polozkov (1956).Stanislav Ivanovich Frolov
See imagehere.
(Russian
Russian language
Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...
: Станислав Иванович Фролов), magnificent Russian basso profondo
Bass (voice type)
A bass is a type of male singing voice and possesses the lowest vocal range of all voice types. According to The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, a bass is typically classified as having a range extending from around the second E below middle C to the E above middle C...
(from GABTa). Ten years after graduation he worked as a film camera operator. He was then admitted to the State Music School in the Komi-Zyryan Autonomous Oblast
Komi-Zyryan Autonomous Oblast
Komi-Zyryan Autonomous Oblast, one of several autonomous oblast's that existed in the former Soviet Union, was created August 22, 1921. It was the predecessor of the Komi Republic. The seat of the Oblast was located in Ust-Sysolsk ....
. From 1960 to 1962 he was employed by the Kyrgyz Academy Theatre, then from 1964 to 1967 by the Belarus
Belarus
Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...
ian Opera and Ballet. He joined the Bolshoi Theatre
Bolshoi Theatre
The Bolshoi Theatre is a historic theatre in Moscow, Russia, designed by architect Joseph Bové, which holds performances of ballet and opera. The Bolshoi Ballet and Bolshoi Opera are amongst the oldest and most renowned ballet and opera companies in the world...
in Moscow as soloist, and in 1970 joined their tour to Japan. He joined the Alexandrov Ensemble in 1976, and was part of its tour to Japan in the same year
.
With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded Great October Holiday (music: Boris Alexandrov; lyrics: S. Bencken), Song of the Dnieper (music: M. Fradkin
music: E. Dolmatovskaya), The Red Cavalry (Civil War song: D. Pokrass)
,
Song of the Fatherland, Song of the Golden Calf from the opera Faust
Faust (opera)
Faust is a drame lyrique in five acts by Charles Gounod to a French libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré from Carré's play Faust et Marguerite, in turn loosely based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust, Part 1...
(1995), Soldiers' Song (1983)
.
Valery Gavva
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(Russian
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: Валерий Гавва), fine Russian bass
Bass (voice type)
A bass is a type of male singing voice and possesses the lowest vocal range of all voice types. According to The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, a bass is typically classified as having a range extending from around the second E below middle C to the E above middle C...
. (b. Donetsk
Donetsk
Donetsk , is a large city in eastern Ukraine on the Kalmius river. Administratively, it is a center of Donetsk Oblast, while historically, it is the unofficial capital and largest city of the economic and cultural Donets Basin region...
, Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
, 1947). He is descended from an old Cossack
Cossack
Cossacks are a group of predominantly East Slavic people who originally were members of democratic, semi-military communities in what is today Ukraine and Southern Russia inhabiting sparsely populated areas and islands in the lower Dnieper and Don basins and who played an important role in the...
family. He attended the Industrial University of Rostov
Rostov
Rostov is a town in Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia, one of the oldest in the country and a tourist center of the Golden Ring. It is located on the shores of Lake Nero, northeast of Moscow. Population:...
, and did military service in the Ural
Ural (region)
Ural is a geographical region located around the Ural Mountains, between the East European and West Siberian plains. It extends approximately from north to south, from the Arctic Ocean to the bend of Ural River near Orsk city. The boundary between Europe and Asia runs along the eastern side of...
s. After that, he studied music at the University of Donetsk
Donetsk
Donetsk , is a large city in eastern Ukraine on the Kalmius river. Administratively, it is a center of Donetsk Oblast, while historically, it is the unofficial capital and largest city of the economic and cultural Donets Basin region...
in Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
. After graduating, he became an operatic soloist. In 1987 he joined the Ensemble as a bass
Bass (voice type)
A bass is a type of male singing voice and possesses the lowest vocal range of all voice types. According to The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, a bass is typically classified as having a range extending from around the second E below middle C to the E above middle C...
soloist, and became People's Artist of the USSR
People's Artist of the USSR
People's Artist of the USSR, also sometimes translated as National Artist of the USSR, was an honorary title granted to citizens of the Soviet Union.- Nomenclature and significance :...
. He did a 1996 tour to Japan with the National Opera Theatre of Leningrad
Leningrad
Leningrad is the former name of Saint Petersburg, Russia.Leningrad may also refer to:- Places :* Leningrad Oblast, a federal subject of Russia, around Saint Petersburg* Leningrad, Tajikistan, capital of Muminobod district in Khatlon Province...
, singing in Modest Mussorgsky
Modest Mussorgsky
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky was a Russian composer, one of the group known as 'The Five'. He was an innovator of Russian music in the romantic period...
's opera Boris Godunov
Boris Godunov (opera)
Boris Godunov is an opera by Modest Mussorgsky . The work was composed between 1868 and 1873 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is Mussorgsky's only completed opera and is considered his masterpiece. Its subjects are the Russian ruler Boris Godunov, who reigned as Tsar during the Time of Troubles,...
. He broadcast with the Don Cossack Choir, and recorded in 1994 and 1995. In 2002 he performed with the Moscow Radio and Television Choir in Korea
Korea
Korea ) is an East Asian geographic region that is currently divided into two separate sovereign states — North Korea and South Korea. Located on the Korean Peninsula, Korea is bordered by the People's Republic of China to the northwest, Russia to the northeast, and is separated from Japan to the...
.
With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded Treasured Stone (music: B. Mokrousov; lyrics A. Zharov), Poem of the Ukraine (music: Alexander Alexandrov; lyrics: O. Kolychev), Dark Eyes
Dark Eyes (song)
Dark Eyes is a Russian song.The lyrics of the song were written by a Ukrainian poet and writer Yevhen Hrebinka. The first publication of the poem was in Literaturnaya gazeta on 17 January 1843....
with A. Molostov, trumpet (trad; arr. Dmitri Oleg Yachinov)
. He has made many more recordings
.
Konstantin Grigorievich Gerasimov
Russian language
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: Константин Григорьевич Герасимов). People's Artist of Russia
People's Artist of Russia
People's Artist of Russia, also sometimes translated as National Artist of Russia, is an honorary title granted to citizens of Russia.It succeeded both the all-Soviet union award People's Artist of the USSR , and more directly the local republic award, People's Artist of the RSFSR , after the...
(1962); bass-baritone
Bass (voice type)
A bass is a type of male singing voice and possesses the lowest vocal range of all voice types. According to The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, a bass is typically classified as having a range extending from around the second E below middle C to the E above middle C...
soloist. After graduating from the College of Light Industry he studied singing while working as a clerk in charge of plant management. In 1936 he enlisted as an army sniper so as to be allowed into the Alexandrov Ensemble to get musical training and experience. In 1969 he became a leading baritone soloist.
With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded The Death of Varyag (music: A. Turischev; lyrics: R. Greynts; E.Studinskaya) (1959/63), Barrow (music: V.Solovev-Sedoy; lyrics: E. Dolmatovskaya), Marine Guard (music: Y. Milutin; lyrics: V.Lebedev-Kumach), Moscow-Beijing (music: B. Muradeli; lyrics: M. Vershinin) (1950), We Are For Peace (music: S. Tulika; lyrics: A. Zharov), Song of the Ballistic Missile duet with A. Sergeev (music: S. Tulika; lyrics: M. Andronov), It's a Long Way to Tipperary
It's a Long Way to Tipperary
It's a Long Way to Tipperary is a British music hall and marching song written by Jack Judge and co-credited to, but not co-written by, Henry James "Harry" Williams. It was allegedly written for a 5 shilling bet in Stalybridge on 30 January 1912 and performed the next night at the local music hall...
(1956)
,
Song of Japan, Our Bodyguard duet with V.V. Puckkov (1951), Near the Border, Song of the Military Alliance (1960), unknown operatic aria, Song of Russia (1960/63)
.
Pyotr Gluboky
See image here. (b. VolgogradVolgograd
Volgograd , formerly called Tsaritsyn and Stalingrad is an important industrial city and the administrative center of Volgograd Oblast, Russia. It is long, north to south, situated on the western bank of the Volga River...
, 1947), bass
Bass (voice type)
A bass is a type of male singing voice and possesses the lowest vocal range of all voice types. According to The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, a bass is typically classified as having a range extending from around the second E below middle C to the E above middle C...
soloist. From 1967 to 1973 he studied at Gnessin State Musical College
Gnessin State Musical College
The Gnessin State Musical College and Gnessin Russian Academy of Music is a prominent music school in Moscow, Russia...
. In 1972 he began working as a soloist at the Bolshoi Theatre
Bolshoi Theatre
The Bolshoi Theatre is a historic theatre in Moscow, Russia, designed by architect Joseph Bové, which holds performances of ballet and opera. The Bolshoi Ballet and Bolshoi Opera are amongst the oldest and most renowned ballet and opera companies in the world...
. He was a Glinka
Mikhail Glinka
Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka , was the first Russian composer to gain wide recognition within his own country, and is often regarded as the father of Russian classical music...
Competition winner in 1973, and in 1974 he won the grand prize in the Toulouse
Toulouse
Toulouse is a city in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern FranceIt lies on the banks of the River Garonne, 590 km away from Paris and half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea...
International Competition. He was also professor at the Gnessin State Musical College
Gnessin State Musical College
The Gnessin State Musical College and Gnessin Russian Academy of Music is a prominent music school in Moscow, Russia...
. He became People's Artist of the USSR
People's Artist of the USSR
People's Artist of the USSR, also sometimes translated as National Artist of the USSR, was an honorary title granted to citizens of the Soviet Union.- Nomenclature and significance :...
. He performed as a guest soloist for the Alexandrov Ensemble on tours to Japan. He recorded with the Bolshoi Theatre
Bolshoi Theatre
The Bolshoi Theatre is a historic theatre in Moscow, Russia, designed by architect Joseph Bové, which holds performances of ballet and opera. The Bolshoi Ballet and Bolshoi Opera are amongst the oldest and most renowned ballet and opera companies in the world...
company
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Vladimir P. Gorlanov
(RussianRussian language
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: Владимир П. Горланов), tenor
Tenor
The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C in choral music, and up to high C in solo work. The low extreme for tenors is roughly B2...
soloist from mid-1950s until 1960. With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded: Virgin Land (1960), Song of the Defence, Regiment Polka duet with I.S. Bukreev
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Nikolai Timofeyevich Gres
Soloist of the Ensemble. Born 28 December 1920 in KobeliakyKobeliaky
-Famous people from Kobeliaky:* Nikolai Timofeyevich Gres, soloist with the Bolshoi Theatre and the Alexandrov Ensemble-References:* * * * Kobeliaki on Ukrainian Wikipedia...
; died 25 March 2003 in Simferopol
Simferopol
-Russian Empire and Civil War:The city was renamed Simferopol in 1784 after the annexation of the Crimean Khanate to the Russian Empire by Catherine II of Russia. The name Simferopol is derived from the Greek, Συμφερόπολις , translated as "the city of usefulness." In 1802, Simferopol became the...
. (Russian
Russian language
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: Николай Тимофеевич Гресь), tenor
Tenor
The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C in choral music, and up to high C in solo work. The low extreme for tenors is roughly B2...
soloist. Honoured Artist of Russia (1966). During World War II he sustained an injury resulting in a brain contusion. From 1946 he was a soloist of the Black Sea Fleet
Black Sea Fleet
The Black Sea Fleet is a large operational-strategic sub-unit of the Russian Navy, operating in the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea since the late 18th century. It is based in various harbors of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov....
Ensemble. From 1955 to 1963 he was a soloist of the Bolshoi Theatre
Bolshoi Theatre
The Bolshoi Theatre is a historic theatre in Moscow, Russia, designed by architect Joseph Bové, which holds performances of ballet and opera. The Bolshoi Ballet and Bolshoi Opera are amongst the oldest and most renowned ballet and opera companies in the world...
, and his debut with the Bolshoi was 11 February 1956 in Moscow. He then joined the Alexandrov Ensemble until 1973. After leaving the Ensemble he worked briefly in Moscow teaching automobile engineering, then moved to Simferopol in the Ukraine, where he became an administrator in the Simferopol Philharmonic Society. In his last years he suffered poor health and died suddenly in hospital at Simferopol. Some newspaper and magazine articles about Gres are listed at Slovari Yandex. In 2001 in the Crimea a biography of Gres was published under the title The whole life with a song (Всю жизнь – с песней), by I.Turchin (И. Турчин).
With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded I was going back from Berlin (music: I. Dunaevsky; lyrics: L. Oshanin) (1966), The Birch Tree (1965)
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Truth of the Century (1970), The River Flows (1963), French Marching Song (Походная) lyrics by E.Mugel (1963), My Friends (duet with A.S. Sibirtsev), and Let us remember, comrades (duet with A.S. Sibirtsev 1960s, music A.V.Alexandrov, lyrics S.Alymov), When I go to the quick river (Как пойду я на быструю речку) (1955), The Grey Cuckoo (1965), Obelisks (music: Smolsky; lyrics: Yasen) or Обелиски (Д. Смольский - М. Ясень) (1966), The Song of the Headman from the opera The Night of May by Rimsky-Korsakov or Песня про Голову из оперы "Майская ночь" (Н. Римский - Корсаков) (1955; 1967), I Have Travelled the Whole Universe (1969), also known as I wandered through the world, the part of Sobinin in Ivan Susanin (Life of the Tsar) opera by Glinka. He also recorded Soviet Flag (music: B.A. Alexandrov; lyrics: P.Arsky (П. Арский)) (1969), and Fanikuli-Fanikula (1969).
Critical commentary on a music video featuring Nikolai Gres
(see screenshot right): Gres sings The Birch Tree on the music video Soviet Army Chorus and Dance Ensemble This is a late medievalLate Middle Ages
The Late Middle Ages was the period of European history generally comprising the 14th to the 16th century . The Late Middle Ages followed the High Middle Ages and preceded the onset of the early modern era ....
composition about a man sitting under a birch tree, whittling and thinking of women. It is usually categorised as a folk song as the name of the composer has been lost. However it is clearly a professional composition of a quality comparative to those of medieval
Late Middle Ages
The Late Middle Ages was the period of European history generally comprising the 14th to the 16th century . The Late Middle Ages followed the High Middle Ages and preceded the onset of the early modern era ....
Northern Europe
Northern Europe
Northern Europe is the northern part or region of Europe. Northern Europe typically refers to the seven countries in the northern part of the European subcontinent which includes Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Finland and Sweden...
an composers of troubadour
Troubadour
A troubadour was a composer and performer of Old Occitan lyric poetry during the High Middle Ages . Since the word "troubadour" is etymologically masculine, a female troubadour is usually called a trobairitz....
songs, such as Dufay
Guillaume Dufay
Guillaume Dufay was a Franco-Flemish composer of the early Renaissance. As the central figure in the Burgundian School, he was the most famous and influential composer in Europe in the mid-15th century.-Early life:From the evidence of his will, he was probably born in Beersel, in the vicinity of...
and Binchois
Gilles Binchois
Gilles de Binche , also known as Gilles de Bins , was a Franco-Flemish composer, one of the earliest members of the Burgundian School, and one of the three most famous composers of the early 15th century...
. This performance is part of the history of the early music
Early music
Early music is generally understood as comprising all music from the earliest times up to the Renaissance. However, today this term has come to include "any music for which a historically appropriate style of performance must be reconstructed on the basis of surviving scores, treatises,...
revival movement. In the 19th century, rediscovered early music
Early music
Early music is generally understood as comprising all music from the earliest times up to the Renaissance. However, today this term has come to include "any music for which a historically appropriate style of performance must be reconstructed on the basis of surviving scores, treatises,...
, along with folk music
Folk music
Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....
, was usually arranged to be performed in the grand orchestra
Orchestra
An orchestra is a sizable instrumental ensemble that contains sections of string, brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments. The term orchestra derives from the Greek ορχήστρα, the name for the area in front of an ancient Greek stage reserved for the Greek chorus...
l or Italian opera
Opera
Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...
tic style. However, such music had always survived in church music
Church music
Church music may be defined as music written for performance in church, or any musical setting of ecclestiacal liturgy, or music set to words expressing propositions of a sacred nature, such as a hymn. This article covers music in the Judaeo-Christian tradition. For sacred music outside this...
, in one form or another, and people were used to hearing it performed in the style of traditional European church choir
Choir
A choir, chorale or chorus is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform.A body of singers who perform together as a group is called a choir or chorus...
s: no vibrato
Vibrato
Vibrato is a musical effect consisting of a regular, pulsating change of pitch. It is used to add expression to vocal and instrumental music. Vibrato is typically characterised in terms of two factors: the amount of pitch variation and the speed with which the pitch is varied .-Vibrato and...
; pure and clear tone; adjusting the voice production to the acoustics
Musical acoustics
Musical acoustics or music acoustics is the branch of acoustics concerned with researching and describing the physics of music – how sounds employed as music work...
of the building. In church music
Church music
Church music may be defined as music written for performance in church, or any musical setting of ecclestiacal liturgy, or music set to words expressing propositions of a sacred nature, such as a hymn. This article covers music in the Judaeo-Christian tradition. For sacred music outside this...
, the building was always the secondary soundbox
Resonator
A resonator is a device or system that exhibits resonance or resonant behavior, that is, it naturally oscillates at some frequencies, called its resonant frequencies, with greater amplitude than at others. The oscillations in a resonator can be either electromagnetic or mechanical...
for the vocal instrument (the nasal cavity
Nasal cavity
The nasal cavity is a large air filled space above and behind the nose in the middle of the face.- Function :The nasal cavity conditions the air to be received by the other areas of the respiratory tract...
being the first). From the 1950s, early music performance reverted to this ecclesiastical
Ecclesiology
Today, ecclesiology usually refers to the theological study of the Christian church. However when the word was coined in the late 1830s, it was defined as the science of the building and decoration of churches and it is still, though rarely, used in this sense.In its theological sense, ecclesiology...
style of singing. So the Alexandrov Ensemble performance of ca.1963 was very modern for its time. Gres sings like a church choir
Choir
A choir, chorale or chorus is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform.A body of singers who perform together as a group is called a choir or chorus...
baritone
Bass (voice type)
A bass is a type of male singing voice and possesses the lowest vocal range of all voice types. According to The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, a bass is typically classified as having a range extending from around the second E below middle C to the E above middle C...
, with the same appearance of spiritual joy as any oratorio
Oratorio
An oratorio is a large musical composition including an orchestra, a choir, and soloists. Like an opera, an oratorio includes the use of a choir, soloists, an ensemble, various distinguishable characters, and arias...
soloist. The screenshot does not capture such a moment, but it does show the sheer effort that the performance required. His voice is responding to a building-soundbox
Resonator
A resonator is a device or system that exhibits resonance or resonant behavior, that is, it naturally oscillates at some frequencies, called its resonant frequencies, with greater amplitude than at others. The oscillations in a resonator can be either electromagnetic or mechanical...
too; in this case a recording studio
Recording studio
A recording studio is a facility for sound recording and mixing. Ideally both the recording and monitoring spaces are specially designed by an acoustician to achieve optimum acoustic properties...
. The Russian
Russians
The Russian people are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Russia, speaking the Russian language and primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries....
practice of the time was to film outdoors and then dub
Dubbing (music)
In sound recording, dubbing is the transfer or copying of previously recorded audio material from one medium to another of the same or a different type. It may be done with a machine designed for this purpose, or by connecting two different machines: one to play back and one to record the signal...
the sound later. Studio dubbing
Dubbing (music)
In sound recording, dubbing is the transfer or copying of previously recorded audio material from one medium to another of the same or a different type. It may be done with a machine designed for this purpose, or by connecting two different machines: one to play back and one to record the signal...
tends to appear artificial today, but on this occasion it is advantageous, as the church choral
Choir
A choir, chorale or chorus is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform.A body of singers who perform together as a group is called a choir or chorus...
style does need a building-soundbox
Resonator
A resonator is a device or system that exhibits resonance or resonant behavior, that is, it naturally oscillates at some frequencies, called its resonant frequencies, with greater amplitude than at others. The oscillations in a resonator can be either electromagnetic or mechanical...
. From the 1970s, some early music singers, such as the Martin Best Ensemble, started to reflect what may have been the contemporary late medieval performance-style of troubadour
Troubadour
A troubadour was a composer and performer of Old Occitan lyric poetry during the High Middle Ages . Since the word "troubadour" is etymologically masculine, a female troubadour is usually called a trobairitz....
songs: that is, the Arab singing style which can still be heard in Islamic sung prayer. Hence Gres' performance now sounds a little dated, but remains nonetheless one of the finest recorded performances of this song.
Sergei Vasilievich Ivanov
(RussianRussian language
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: Сергей Васильевич Иванов), tenor
Tenor
The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C in choral music, and up to high C in solo work. The low extreme for tenors is roughly B2...
soloist. Honoured Artist of Russia. With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded In the Ocean Gave duet with P. Bogachev (music: B. Korostylev; lyrics: B. Bezhaev), It's a Long Time Since We Were Home duet with P. Bogachev (music: V.Solovev-Sedoy; lyrics: A. Fatyanov), We, the Army People duet with P. Bogachev (music: G. Movsesyan; lyrics: Robert Rozhdestvensky), Listen, Beauty duet with P. Bogachev (music: E. Martin; lyrics: M. Plyatskovsky), Soldier System solo (music: I. Yakushenko; lyrics: A. Shaferan), Your Soldiers duet with P. Bogachev (music: B. Gamal; lyrics: A. Sofronov), Smuglianka, duet with P. Bogachev (music: A. Novikov; lyrics: Y. Chvedov)
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The Samovars duet with P. Bogachev (music A. Novikov; lyrics: S. Alimov) (1982/92)
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Endless Sea duet with P. Bogachev, The Hero Walks in the Urals solo (1983), Who Protects the Country duet with P. Bogachev, Afield duet with P. Bogachev (1992), Nut Brown Girl duet with P. Bogachev (1989/92, 2003), Evening on the Roads duet with P. Bochachev 1992, Distant Northern Town trio with S.V. Buzurov and P. Bogachev (1992), Dixie duet with P. Bogachev (1992), Greetings from the Troops duet with P. Bogachev, unknown duet with V. Gavva (1992), Our Army duet with P. Bogachev (1984)
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- Critical commentary on a music video featuring Ivanov and Bogachev (see screenshot left): They sing Smuglianka in the DVD SilvaMellowdrama recordsMellowdrama Records is a soundtrack record labelCurrently, the label focuses on unusual and niche film scores. A notable entry in their music catalogue is Zbigniew Preisner's “The Beautiful Country”, and, including "Frolic", a soundtrack album from “Curb Your Enthusiasm” that includes the show's...
America, The Alexandrov Red Army Choir Orchestra - Live in Paris. This performance displays the modern aspect of the Ensemble: performers who are still very much part of the choir, and who still sing in the traditional soldierly, undramatic style, but who are now free to exchange little smiles with the audience, the conductor and each other, as seen in the screenshot - partly reflecting the light subject-matter of the song, and partly in polite acknowledgement of their worldwide popularity as duettists. These are trained and professional singers, who can still perform a light-hearted song in the same intimate manner as lads in a student bar, and this creates immediate empathy in the audience. This is fine, professional singing with an effect as light as air. These performers are able to demonstrate very gently the plane on which musicians live while on stage: the kind of musical ecstasy which only happens when a performance goes just right.
B. Jaivoronok
With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded TroikaTroika
The general meaning of the Russian and Bulgarian word troika is three of a kind, a collection of three or simply the number three. It may also mean:-Politics:* Troika of judges or political leaders...
(trad; arr. Dmitri Oleg Yachinov)
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Gandzia (trad; arr. Dmitri Oleg Yachinov)
Vladimir Nikolaevich Katerinsky
(RussianRussian language
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: Катеринский, Владимир Николаевич) bass-baritone
Bass (voice type)
A bass is a type of male singing voice and possesses the lowest vocal range of all voice types. According to The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, a bass is typically classified as having a range extending from around the second E below middle C to the E above middle C...
soloist. In the 1940s and 1950s he recorded with the Alexandrov Ensemble: unknown duet with N.A. Abramov (1954), Siberian Child Went to War, Evening on the Roads with V.I. Nikitin, Mary (1951)
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Leonid M. Kharitonov
Irkutsk Oblast
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1933). (Russian
Russian language
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: Л.М. Харитонов). People's Artist of Russia
People's Artist of Russia
People's Artist of Russia, also sometimes translated as National Artist of Russia, is an honorary title granted to citizens of Russia.It succeeded both the all-Soviet union award People's Artist of the USSR , and more directly the local republic award, People's Artist of the RSFSR , after the...
, Honoured Artist of Russia; bass-baritone
Bass-baritone
A bass-baritone is a high-lying bass or low-lying "classical" baritone voice type which shares certain qualities with the true baritone voice. The term arose in the late 19th century to describe the particular type of voice required to sing three Wagnerian roles: the Dutchman in Der fliegende...
soloist. Known as Lenya Kharitonov. When his father went missing in World War II, his mother brought him up. At the age of 14yrs he studied locally to be a welder, and began to perform as a singer. At 17 years old he started auditioning at Irkutsk Philharmonic, then at Moscow Philharmonic, and finally was accepted by Moscow Conservatory
Moscow Conservatory
The Moscow Conservatory is a higher musical education institution in Moscow, and the second oldest conservatory in Russia after St. Petersburg Conservatory. Along with the St...
. This was very difficult because as a Siberian he did not have even a matriculation certificate, but his strong singing voice spoke for him. For nearly 20 years he was a member of the Red Song and Dance Ensemble of the Soviet army (later the Alexandrov Ensemble): in the choir from 1953 to 1965, and a soloist from 1965 to 1972. He subsequently became a soloist with the Moscow Philharmonic. He performed successfully in most concert halls in Russia: On tour he visited the entire country, including the Kremlin Palace concert hall. He was the pride of Russia, sang at concerts for the Government and for foreign delegations. After that he went on tour abroad a great deal
. His biography is here.
With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded The Ballad of the Russian Boy (music: Novikov; lyrics: Oshanin L.), John Reid Goes to Petrograd (music: Novikov; lyrics: M. Vershinin), It is Not the End of the War (music: B. Muradeli; lyrics: M. Andronov), Here Lenin Lived (music: B. Terentiev; lyrics: A. Fatyanov), Lenin's Guard (music: B Aleksandrov; lyrics: M Khotimsk), My Native Land (music: O. Feltsman; lyrics: Oshanin L.), Not Old Soul Veterans (music: Tulika S.; lyrics: Y. Belinsky), Song of Peace (music: B. Muradeli; lyrics: V. Kharitonov), Sedina (music: A. Ekimyan; lyrics: F. Laube), Son of the Fatherland (music: S. Tulika; lyrics: V. Lazarev), The Song of Russia (music: St. Tulika; lyrics: V. Kharitonov), Song of the Volga Boatmen
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Death of Varyag
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Ivan Semionovich Kozlovsky
See image here. (RussianRussian language
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: Иван Семёнович Козловский). (b.Mali, Poltava
Poltava
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, Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
1900; d.1993); a lyric tenor
Tenor
The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C in choral music, and up to high C in solo work. The low extreme for tenors is roughly B2...
. Order of the National Anthem (1941); People's Artist of the USSR
People's Artist of the USSR
People's Artist of the USSR, also sometimes translated as National Artist of the USSR, was an honorary title granted to citizens of the Soviet Union.- Nomenclature and significance :...
(1940). He made his debut at the Kharkiv
Kharkiv
Kharkiv or Kharkov is the second-largest city in Ukraine.The city was founded in 1654 and was a major centre of Ukrainian culture in the Russian Empire. Kharkiv became the first city in Ukraine where the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was proclaimed in December 1917 and Soviet government was...
Opera Theatre. From 1926 to 1954 he was a member of the Bolshoi Theatre
Bolshoi Theatre
The Bolshoi Theatre is a historic theatre in Moscow, Russia, designed by architect Joseph Bové, which holds performances of ballet and opera. The Bolshoi Ballet and Bolshoi Opera are amongst the oldest and most renowned ballet and opera companies in the world...
. He was professor at Gnessin State Musical College
Gnessin State Musical College
The Gnessin State Musical College and Gnessin Russian Academy of Music is a prominent music school in Moscow, Russia...
1956 to 1980, continuing over the age of 80. In Russia has been considered the best tenor in the first half of the 20th century. From the 1920s he recorded opera
Opera
Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...
. In the 1950s with the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded martial music and Russian folk songs, including Song of the Red Navy (1953), In Front of the Forest, and Raw Wilderness
. Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War. He served as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, or Premier, from 1958 to 1964...
said in his autobiography that Kozlovsky was Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was the Premier of the Soviet Union from 6 May 1941 to 5 March 1953. He was among the Bolshevik revolutionaries who brought about the October Revolution and had held the position of first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee...
`s favourite tenor and that Koszlovsky was unhappy about this.
Andrey Kusleev
(RussianRussian language
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: Андрей Куслеев), bass-baritone
Bass-baritone
A bass-baritone is a high-lying bass or low-lying "classical" baritone voice type which shares certain qualities with the true baritone voice. The term arose in the late 19th century to describe the particular type of voice required to sing three Wagnerian roles: the Dutchman in Der fliegende...
soloist. With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded Cold Waves Lapping duet with E. Belyaev
Evgeny Belyaev
Evgeny Mikhailovich Belyaev, also written as Yevgeny Belyayev , was a Russian tenor soloist of the Alexandrov Ensemble under Boris Alexandrov...
(music: F. Bogoroditsky; lyrics: Ya Repninsky), Shooting Kommunarov duet with E. Belyaev
Evgeny Belyaev
Evgeny Mikhailovich Belyaev, also written as Yevgeny Belyayev , was a Russian tenor soloist of the Alexandrov Ensemble under Boris Alexandrov...
(music: V.Tan-Bogoraz), a duet with Abramov, Execution of the Warrior Revolution duet with E. Belyaev
Evgeny Belyaev
Evgeny Mikhailovich Belyaev, also written as Yevgeny Belyayev , was a Russian tenor soloist of the Alexandrov Ensemble under Boris Alexandrov...
, Marching song duet with I.A. Didenko, Song of the Red Army Cavalry (recorded 1954), Travel Far duet with V.V. Puchkov
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I. Kuznetsov
(RussianRussian language
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: И.Кузнецов), tenor
Tenor
The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C in choral music, and up to high C in solo work. The low extreme for tenors is roughly B2...
soloist. With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded Saw the Father and Son (music: (Russian
Russian language
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: Компанеец Z.); lyrics: Y. Shvedov)
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Edward Maxovich Labkovsky
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(b.Kazakhstan
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24 July 1938
).
(Russian
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: Эдуард Максович Лабковский), bass
Bass (voice type)
A bass is a type of male singing voice and possesses the lowest vocal range of all voice types. According to The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, a bass is typically classified as having a range extending from around the second E below middle C to the E above middle C...
soloist. Honoured Artist of Russia (1978); People's Artist of Russia
People's Artist of Russia
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(1988). He moved to Moscow aged 3yrs, after his father, a Soviet official, died. There he worked in an aircraft factory as a fitter-assembler before attending Gnessin State Musical College
Gnessin State Musical College
The Gnessin State Musical College and Gnessin Russian Academy of Music is a prominent music school in Moscow, Russia...
as a singer instructed by A. Adana. After graduation he took part in a Puccini
Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini was an Italian composer whose operas, including La bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, and Turandot, are among the most frequently performed in the standard repertoire...
opera at Moscow Conservatory
Moscow Conservatory
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, did a tour singing across the country from Transdniestria to Sakhalinthen, then joined the Ensemble in 1972. On behalf of the Ensemble, he travelled the country performing solos with a sextet of musicians from the orchestra, and entertaining troops where they were in service
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He also performed on film and television, but has been ill recently
.
With the Alexandrov Ensemble, he recorded Take an Overcoat (music: V. Levashov; lyrics: B. Okudzhava), The Entire Country - It is Our Job (music: B. Terentiev; lyrics: V. Kharitonov), Hot Snow (music: A. Pakhmutova; lyrics: M. Lvov) (1980), Victory Day (music: D. Tuhmanov; lyrics: V. Kharitonov) (1992), Conductors of War (music: B. Figotin; lyrics F. Laube), Otgremeli Near Moscow has Long Battles (music: A. Kukushkin; lyrics: B. Zishenkova), Paratroopers' Song (music: M. Minkov; lyrics: I. Shaferan), Letter From the Depths (music: B. (Russian
Russian language
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: Калистратов); lyrics: M. Reytman), Under the Balkan Stars (music: M. Blanter; lyrics: M. Isakovsky), Before it is Too Late (music: A. Pakhmutova; lyrics: N. Dobronravov), Soldiers' Ways duet with Ivan Bukreev (music: B. Aleksandrov; lyrics: B. Dubrovin), Fifth Ocean (music: W. Korostelev; lyrics: B. Bezhaev), Home Country (music: G. Movsesyan; lyrics: B. Gin), Forties (music: I. Katayev; lyrics: D. Samoylov), Tulskaya Defence (music: Novikov; lyrics: V. Guryan), The Shield and Sword (P. Ovsiannikov - S. Volkov), Men (1978), Take the Mantle (1975), Commissars (1980), Parachute Song, The Russians Want War? (1989), Separation, My Country
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Konstantin Pavlovich Lisovsky
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(b. Leningrad
Leningrad
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22 October 1932). Fine tenor
Tenor
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soloist. (Russian
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: К.П. Лисовский); also translated as Lissovsky, Lisovskiy or Lisovski. (People's Artist of Russia
People's Artist of Russia
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(1983), winner of competitions named after Glinka and Tchaikovsky. In 1951 he graduated from the Gorky Aviation Technical School and was sent to the factory. In 1953 was accepted into the Moscow Conservatory
Moscow Conservatory
The Moscow Conservatory is a higher musical education institution in Moscow, and the second oldest conservatory in Russia after St. Petersburg Conservatory. Along with the St...
where he studied for three years. From 1954 he did military service and sang in the Alexandrov Ensemble, then from 1965 to 1997 he was soloist for the Moscow State Academic Philharmonic Society. In 1967 he graduated from Gnessin State Musical College
Gnessin State Musical College
The Gnessin State Musical College and Gnessin Russian Academy of Music is a prominent music school in Moscow, Russia...
. He was winner of the Glinka All-Union vocalists' competition (1965) and the International Tchaikovsky Competition (1966). He sang a wide repertoire besides opera
Opera
Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...
, and performed in more than 30 countries. He has performed on the radio, and recorded on vinyl and CDs. Since 1980, he has taught at the Russian Academy of Music (Associate Professor since 1989)
. One of his recordings is Golden Lights (music: V.Solovev-Sedoy; lyrics: A. Fatyanov, S. Fogelson)
With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded: The Birch Tree (trad; arr. Dmitri Oleg Yachinov)
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Yuseph Laut
(RussianRussian language
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: Ю.Лаут), tenor
Tenor
The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C in choral music, and up to high C in solo work. The low extreme for tenors is roughly B2...
soloist. With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded Song of the Klim Voroshilov duet with Georgiy Babaev (music: Alexander Alexandrov; lyrics: O. Kolychev), Artillery March duet with Oleg Razumovsky (music: Novikov; lyrics: S. Vasiliev).
Alexei P. Martynov
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(b.Moscow 4 March 1947). (Russian
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: А.П. Мартынов); also translated as Martinov and Martin), tenor
Tenor
The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C in choral music, and up to high C in solo work. The low extreme for tenors is roughly B2...
soloist. (People's Artist of Russia
People's Artist of Russia
People's Artist of Russia, also sometimes translated as National Artist of Russia, is an honorary title granted to citizens of Russia.It succeeded both the all-Soviet union award People's Artist of the USSR , and more directly the local republic award, People's Artist of the RSFSR , after the...
(2003), Professor of the Moscow Conservatory
Moscow Conservatory
The Moscow Conservatory is a higher musical education institution in Moscow, and the second oldest conservatory in Russia after St. Petersburg Conservatory. Along with the St...
, Laureate of international competitions). He graduated from Gnessin State Musical College
Gnessin State Musical College
The Gnessin State Musical College and Gnessin Russian Academy of Music is a prominent music school in Moscow, Russia...
in 1970 with a diploma for violin. In 1976 he graduated with honours from the Moscow Conservatory
Moscow Conservatory
The Moscow Conservatory is a higher musical education institution in Moscow, and the second oldest conservatory in Russia after St. Petersburg Conservatory. Along with the St...
as a singer. Since 1972 he has recorded for television in the USSR and Russia, totalling many hours of music: opera, operetta, oratorio, cantata, duets, romances and songs of composers of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, folk songs, recordings of symphonic, chamber, folk, and pop music, and with instrumental ensembles. He won second prize at the International Vocal Competition in Budapest
Budapest
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, Hungary in 1975, and fourth prize at the International Vocal Competition in Aldeburgh
Aldeburgh
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, UK in 1978. He was a member of the international jury of the Dmitry Shostakovich contest at Hanover
Hanover
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, Germany, in 1997. He is involved with the Shubertovskogo music company in Moscow. He has recorded Song of the Space Gulls (music: C. sheets; lyrics: L. Kondyrev)
With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded In a Sunny Forest Clearing (music: V.Solovev-Sedoy; lyrics: A. Fatyanov), The Roads (music: A. Novikov; lyrics: L. Ochanine; arr. V. Samsonenko)
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P. Mikhailov
TenorTenor
The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C in choral music, and up to high C in solo work. The low extreme for tenors is roughly B2...
soloist. With the Ensemble of the All-Union Radio Committee under Boris Alexandrov he recorded Evening in the Roadstead/Night on the Road duet with Vladimir Bunchikov (recorded 1942)
This is a bass-baritone
Bass-baritone
A bass-baritone is a high-lying bass or low-lying "classical" baritone voice type which shares certain qualities with the true baritone voice. The term arose in the late 19th century to describe the particular type of voice required to sing three Wagnerian roles: the Dutchman in Der fliegende...
–tenor
Tenor
The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C in choral music, and up to high C in solo work. The low extreme for tenors is roughly B2...
duet, and the choir includes women soprano
Soprano
A soprano is a voice type with a vocal range from approximately middle C to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music. In four-part chorale style harmony, the soprano takes the highest part, which usually encompasses the melody...
s.
P. Mikhailov could be identical with Pavel Mihailov, who recorded with a jazz orchestra in the popular radio style of the 1930s. In most of his recordings he uses a light voice suitable for radio or film, but in some, such as Boat, Mihailov exhibits the kind of powerful tenor, favoured by the Alexandrov Ensemble, to be heard above the choir and orchestra
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Victor Ivanovich Nikitin
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: Виктор Иванович Никитин), tenor
Tenor
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soloist, born in Voronezh
Voronezh
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and died in Moscow.Information from Leonid Kharitonov, soloist of the Alexandrov Ensemble. His dates of birth and death are unknown, but it is possible that he was born 1914−1918 and we know he was alive in 1988. He joined the Ensemble around 1938. He was already known as "Mr Kalinka" before World War II. He recorded many songs with the Alexandrov Ensemble, including Song of the Red Fleet Sailors (recorded 1943) and Kalinka. Legend in Russia says that when he sang to entertain the Russian
Russians
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troops at the Eastern Front
Eastern Front (World War II)
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in World War II, the Germans
Germans
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on the other side stopped shooting to listen. At the Alexandrov Ensemble August 1948 Peace Concert in East Berlin, he sang encores of Kalinka and received high praise. He returned to the Ensemble choir in 1952, by his own choice, and remained with the Ensemble until at least 1965.
V. Pankov
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: В.Панков), tenor
Tenor
The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C in choral music, and up to high C in solo work. The low extreme for tenors is roughly B2...
soloist. With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded Song of the Bluhera duet with Georgiy Babaev (music: Alexander Alexandrov; lyrics: S. Alymov)
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N.S. Polozkov
(RussianRussian language
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: Н.С. Полозков). With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded: Ah Lovely Night (1956)
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Leonid V. Pshenichniy
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: Леонид В. Пшеничный), tenor
Tenor
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soloist (People's Artist of Russia
People's Artist of Russia
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). With the Alexandrov Ensemble, he recorded Birch Dreams (music: B. Geviksman; lyrics: G. Fere), In the Dugouts
Zemlyanka (song)
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(music: K. sheets; lyrics: A. Surkov), Where Are You Now, Odnopolchane Friends? (music: V.Solovev-Sedoy; lyrics: A. Fatyanov), Let Lit (music: M. Tabachnikov; lyrics: I. Frenkel), Katyusha
Katyusha (song)
Katyusha, Katusha or Katjusha is a Soviet wartime song about a girl longing for her beloved, who is away on military service. The music was composed in 1938 by Matvei Blanter and the lyrics were written by Mikhail Isakovsky. It was first performed by Valentina Batishcheva in the Column Hall of...
(music: M. Blanter; lyrics: M. Isakovsky), My Favourite (music: M. Blanter; lyrics: E. Dolmatovskaya), Parade of Victory (music: V. Pleshakov; lyrics: B. Levtov), Oh, the Road (music: Novikov; lyrics: Oshanin L.), My Country (trad; arr. B. Alexandrov).
Vladimir Vsevolod Puchkov
(RussianRussian language
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: Всеволод В. Пучков), tenor
Tenor
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soloist (later Mariinsky Theatre
Mariinsky Theatre
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soloist). With the Alexandrov Ensemble in the 1940s and 50s he recorded Song of Peace and Friendship (music: B. Shainsky, M. Jordan; lyrics: M. Lisyansky), Song of the Young Soldiers duet with Georgiy Babaev (music: P. Akulenko; lyrics: Ya Shvedov) (1950), unknown operatic aria (1951), Travel Far, Ten Thousand Years of Our Country duet with G.I. Babaev (1951), In a Sunny Forest Clearing, Russia, unknown song (1954), Our Bodyguard duet with K.G. Gerasimov (1951)
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Oleg N. Razumovsky
(RussianRussian language
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: Олег Н. Разумовский), bass-baritone
Bass (voice type)
A bass is a type of male singing voice and possesses the lowest vocal range of all voice types. According to The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, a bass is typically classified as having a range extending from around the second E below middle C to the E above middle C...
soloist. With Georgy Vinogradov he recorded We Assumed Polsveta (music: S. Katz; lyrics: A. Sofronov)
.
With the Alexandrov Ensemble in the 1940s to 60s he recorded American Soldiers' Song (music: B. Hills), In the Battle for the Motherland (music: Компанеец Z.; lyrics: L. Oshanin), In a good hour! (music: K. sheets; lyrics: A. Zharov), Goodbye, Mom (music: V.Solovev-Sedoy; lyrics: A. Galić), Pub (music: B. Hills), As for the Kama, the River (music: V.Solovev-Sedoy; lyrics: Vladimir Gusev), Krasnoflotskaya Smile (music: N. Budashkin; lyrics: A. Fidrovsky), Swallow-Kasatochka (music: E. Zharkovsky; lyrics: O. Kolychev), Artillery March duet with Yuri Louth (music: Novikov; lyrics: S. Vasiliev), Sailor's Waltz (music: V. Sorokin; lyrics: S. Fogelson), It's a Long Way to Tipperary
It's a Long Way to Tipperary
It's a Long Way to Tipperary is a British music hall and marching song written by Jack Judge and co-credited to, but not co-written by, Henry James "Harry" Williams. It was allegedly written for a 5 shilling bet in Stalybridge on 30 January 1912 and performed the next night at the local music hall...
(music: D. Judge; lyrics S. Bolotin), Night (Music: L.D. Utesov; lyrics: I. Fradkin), Eternal Glory to our Hero duet with B.G. Shapenko, Dance Dance, Echo Across the River, Farewell, Song of the Coachman, Song of the Unified (1949), When We Part
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Mark Reizen
(1895–1992). Basso profondoBass (voice type)
A bass is a type of male singing voice and possesses the lowest vocal range of all voice types. According to The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, a bass is typically classified as having a range extending from around the second E below middle C to the E above middle C...
soloist at the Mariinsky Theatre
Mariinsky Theatre
The Mariinsky Theatre is a historic theatre of opera and ballet in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Opened in 1860, it became the preeminent music theatre of late 19th century Russia, where many of the stage masterpieces of Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, and Rimsky-Korsakov received their premieres. The...
and Bolshoi Theatre
Bolshoi Theatre
The Bolshoi Theatre is a historic theatre in Moscow, Russia, designed by architect Joseph Bové, which holds performances of ballet and opera. The Bolshoi Ballet and Bolshoi Opera are amongst the oldest and most renowned ballet and opera companies in the world...
. With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded The Fond Stone, transmitted on Soviet
Soviet Union
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All-Union radio in 1947
, Song of the Volga Boatmen (trad; arr. Dmitri Oleg Yachinov)
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Vadim Lvovich Ruslanov
Soloist of the Ensemble. (b.1926). (RussianRussian language
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: Вадим Львович Русланов). People's Artist of the USSR
People's Artist of the USSR
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(1974); bass
Bass (voice type)
A bass is a type of male singing voice and possesses the lowest vocal range of all voice types. According to The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, a bass is typically classified as having a range extending from around the second E below middle C to the E above middle C...
soloist. His mother was an actress; he attended drama school, and became an actor attached to a Moscow theatre. However he still had a passion for music and studied at Gnessin State Musical College
Gnessin State Musical College
The Gnessin State Musical College and Gnessin Russian Academy of Music is a prominent music school in Moscow, Russia...
. He joined the Alexandrov Ensemble in 1958.
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Ivan Ivanovich Savchuk
Russian language
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: Иван Иванович Савчук), tenor
Tenor
The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C in choral music, and up to high C in solo work. The low extreme for tenors is roughly B2...
soloist. With the Alexandrov Ensemble in the 1950s he recorded Smuglyanka duet with Ivan Abramov (music: Novikov; lyrics: Ya Shvedov), Dark Eyes (1956), Sweet Fruit, Nut-Brown Girl (1953, 1956), Nut Brown Maiden duet with N. Abramov (1956)
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Happy Girl, Near the Garden trio with I.S. Bukreev and E. Belyaev
Evgeny Belyaev
Evgeny Mikhailovich Belyaev, also written as Yevgeny Belyayev , was a Russian tenor soloist of the Alexandrov Ensemble under Boris Alexandrov...
, Bandura both as solo and as duet with V. Fedorov (1951/56)
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I Look Up at the Sky, Black Eyebrows (1956)
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Alexei Tikhonovich Sergeev
(See also: Russian Wikipedia article about A.T. Sergeev)See
a typical, jolly image.
Soloist of the Ensemble. (Russian
Russian language
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: Алексей Тихонович Сергеев). Born 24 January 1919 in Gerasimovka
Gerasimovka
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in the Tambov
Tambov
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region of Russia. People's Artist of the USSR
People's Artist of the USSR
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(1967), State Prize of the USSR. Graduated from Gnessin State Musical College
Gnessin State Musical College
The Gnessin State Musical College and Gnessin Russian Academy of Music is a prominent music school in Moscow, Russia...
. From 1940 to 1968 he was bass
Bass (voice type)
A bass is a type of male singing voice and possesses the lowest vocal range of all voice types. According to The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, a bass is typically classified as having a range extending from around the second E below middle C to the E above middle C...
singer with the Alexandrov Ensemble; promoted to soloist 1950. Performed in recitals from 1968.
Stenka Razin
Stepan Timofeyevich Razin Тимофеевич Разин, ; 1630 – ) was a Cossack leader who led a major uprising against the nobility and Tsar's bureaucracy in South Russia.-Early life:...
(1951/56/63)
,
Along Peterskaya Road/Street (trad; arr. Dmitri Oleg Yachinov) (1956/60/66)
,
Ah Nastasia (trad; arr. B. Alexandrov) (1968)
,
unknown operatic aria, Song of the Volga Boatmen, Ukrainian Poem (1956/60/63)
,
See the Village, unknown song, Under the Elm, Under the Oak (1963, 2007)
,
Can You Hear Me Brother, Marching Song, Cossack Cossack, Work Song (1956), Her Son-in-Law, Cheesecake, If I Had a Hammer
If I Had a Hammer
"If I Had a Hammer " is a song written by Pete Seeger and Lee Hays. It was written in 1949 in support of the progressive movement, and was first recorded by The Weavers, a folk music quartet composed of Seeger, Hays, Ronnie Gilbert and Fred Hellerman, and then by Peter, Paul and Mary.- Early...
(1956)
,
The Motto of the Struggle, Uncle (1951), Red Sun (1960), Rain, Bryansk Forest, Old Urals, Soldier's Farewell, Star, Song of the Poplar, Groove, Ballad of the Moscow Boy, The Little Bells, Night, Spend an Evening (1977), Lenin Lived Here, Story of Russia, Only Russia
. He is buried in Moscow, not far from his fellow soloist Evgeny Belyaev
Evgeny Belyaev
Evgeny Mikhailovich Belyaev, also written as Yevgeny Belyayev , was a Russian tenor soloist of the Alexandrov Ensemble under Boris Alexandrov...
, in a section of Novodevichy Cemetery
Novodevichy Cemetery
Novodevichy Cemetery is the most famous cemetery in Moscow, Russia. It is next to the 16th-century Novodevichy Convent, which is the city's third most popular tourist site. It should not be confused with the Novodevichy Cemetery in Saint Petersburg....
affiliated branch (Russian
Russian language
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: Новоде́вичье кла́дбище) located in Kuntsevo District
Kuntsevo District
Kuntsevo is a district of Western Administrative Okrug of Moscow, Russia. Population: -History:In the 18th century, a palace and a park were built; they were often visited by the Empress Catherine II. Kuntsevo is the site of the Church of Theotokos Orans. In the 19th century, Kuntsevo became a...
.
Boris G. Shapenko
Soloist of the Ensemble. (RussianRussian language
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: Борис Г. Шапенко), bass
Bass (voice type)
A bass is a type of male singing voice and possesses the lowest vocal range of all voice types. According to The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, a bass is typically classified as having a range extending from around the second E below middle C to the E above middle C...
soloist of the Bolshoi Theatre
Bolshoi Theatre
The Bolshoi Theatre is a historic theatre in Moscow, Russia, designed by architect Joseph Bové, which holds performances of ballet and opera. The Bolshoi Ballet and Bolshoi Opera are amongst the oldest and most renowned ballet and opera companies in the world...
. Honoured Artist of Russia. With the Alexandrov Ensemble in the 1960s he recorded It is the Soviet Navy (music: K. Sheets; lyrics: V. Guryan), Song of the Volga Boatmen (music: M. Fradkin)
,
The Long-Range Guns Are Silent (music: M. Blanter; lyrics: M. Matusovsky), Rodina (music: S. Tulika; lyrics: Yu Polukhin), Evening on the Road/Night on the Road (1980s) duet with E. Belyaev (music: V.Solovev-Sedoy; lyrics: A. Churkin), Eternal Glory duet with O.N. Razumovsky, Song of the Red Army Cavalry, Country, unknown opera aria, Spring in Berlin (1965), The Fun and Joy (1969), Song of Russia
.
Boris Shemyakov
(RussianRussian language
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: Борис Шемяков), bass-baritone
Bass (voice type)
A bass is a type of male singing voice and possesses the lowest vocal range of all voice types. According to The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, a bass is typically classified as having a range extending from around the second E below middle C to the E above middle C...
soloist from the 1970s onward. With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded: Sailors March duet with V. Shkaptsov, Spring 1945 duet with I.S. Bukreev, Hawks
.
Vladimir Shkaptsov
Soloist of the choir. (RussianRussian language
Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...
:Владимир Шкапцов), bass
Bass (voice type)
A bass is a type of male singing voice and possesses the lowest vocal range of all voice types. According to The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, a bass is typically classified as having a range extending from around the second E below middle C to the E above middle C...
soloist in the 1960s and 70s. In 1957 he graduated from Gnessin State Musical College
Gnessin State Musical College
The Gnessin State Musical College and Gnessin Russian Academy of Music is a prominent music school in Moscow, Russia...
. With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded: Regimental Band duet with Vadim Ruslanov (music: L. Lyadov; lyrics: G. Hodos), Sailors March duet with B. Shemyakov, Song of the March-Past duet with A.S. Sibirtsev, Hail to the Infantry! duet with V. Chernykh
.
Vasily Ivanovich Shtefutsa
Also spelled Chtefoutsa. (RussianRussian language
Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...
: Василий Иванович Штефуца), current tenor
Tenor
The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C in choral music, and up to high C in solo work. The low extreme for tenors is roughly B2...
soloist. People's Artist of the USSR
People's Artist of the USSR
People's Artist of the USSR, also sometimes translated as National Artist of the USSR, was an honorary title granted to citizens of the Soviet Union.- Nomenclature and significance :...
(1993). From a farming family in the Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
. He sang in the choir of the Uzhhorod
Uzhhorod
Uzhhorod or Uzhgorod is a city located in western Ukraine, at the border with Slovakia and near the border with Hungary. It is the administrative center of the Zakarpattia Oblast , as well as the administrative center of the surrounding Uzhhorodskyi Raion within the oblast...
School of Music, then attended Gnessin State Musical College
Gnessin State Musical College
The Gnessin State Musical College and Gnessin Russian Academy of Music is a prominent music school in Moscow, Russia...
, graduating in 1965. With the Alexandrov Ensemble he was at first in the choir, then as a soloist from 1970 he recorded You are One of Us (music: A. Doluhanyan; lyrics: M. Lisyansky), Moscow (music: D. Tuhmanov; lyrics: B. Dubrovin), Kalinka
and Korobelniki
(both trad.; arr. Dmitri Oleg Yachinov).
He won a prize in the Polish
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
song festival of 1972
.
Alexander Sergeievich Sibirtsev
Soloist of the choir. (b.1935). (RussianRussian language
Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...
: Александр Сергеевич Сибирцев), dramatic tenor
Tenor
The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C in choral music, and up to high C in solo work. The low extreme for tenors is roughly B2...
soloist. People's Artist of the USSR
People's Artist of the USSR
People's Artist of the USSR, also sometimes translated as National Artist of the USSR, was an honorary title granted to citizens of the Soviet Union.- Nomenclature and significance :...
. Studied at Gnessin State Musical College
Gnessin State Musical College
The Gnessin State Musical College and Gnessin Russian Academy of Music is a prominent music school in Moscow, Russia...
. From 1963 he was a soloist of the Opera and Ballet Theatre in Gorky. In 1964 he spent a year as a soloist of the Alexandrov Ensemble, then became soloist of Perm
Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre
The Perm Tchaikovsky Opera and Ballet Theatre is an opera and ballet theatre in the city of Perm in Russia. It is one of the oldest theatres in the country, and it has remained a major musical centre during its history, in which many significant art events have taken place...
and Samara Opera. With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded: My Friends duet with N.T. Gres, unknown song duet with N.T. Gres, Song of the March-Past with N.T. Shkaptsov
.
B. Slastnoi
With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded Bella CiaoBella ciao
"Bella ciao" is an Italian partisan song of World War II.-History:The song Bella Ciao was sung by the left-wing anti-fascist resistance movement in Italy, a movement composed of anarchists, communists, socialists and also by militant anti-fascist partisans...
duet with I. Bukreev (Italian partisan song; arr. B. Pogrebov)
Anatoly Borisovich Solovyanenko
See imagehere and
here.
Guest soloist. (b.Donetsk
Donetsk
Donetsk , is a large city in eastern Ukraine on the Kalmius river. Administratively, it is a center of Donetsk Oblast, while historically, it is the unofficial capital and largest city of the economic and cultural Donets Basin region...
, Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
September 25, 1932; d. 29 July 1999; ). People's Artist of the USSR
People's Artist of the USSR
People's Artist of the USSR, also sometimes translated as National Artist of the USSR, was an honorary title granted to citizens of the Soviet Union.- Nomenclature and significance :...
(before 1978), People's artist of Ukraine, State Taras Shevchenko prize-winner
.
He was born into a mining family, and graduated from Donetsk Polytechnic Institute in 1954, having taken singing lessons at Olexander Korobeichenko from 1950. He began his career in Donetsk
Donetsk
Donetsk , is a large city in eastern Ukraine on the Kalmius river. Administratively, it is a center of Donetsk Oblast, while historically, it is the unofficial capital and largest city of the economic and cultural Donets Basin region...
, where there is now a monument in his memory
. He did 12 performances at the Metropolitan Opera in Kiev
Kiev
Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300. However, higher numbers have been cited in the press....
, then graduated from Kiev Conservatory
Kiev Conservatory
The Tchaikovsky National Academy of Music is a Ukrainian state institution of higher music education. Its courses include postgraduate education.-History:...
in 1978. For 30 years he was soloist at the Taras Shevchenko National Opera and Ballet Theatre in Kiev
Kiev
Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300. However, higher numbers have been cited in the press....
, and performed at Expo 67
Expo 67
The 1967 International and Universal Exposition or Expo 67, as it was commonly known, was the general exhibition, Category One World's Fair held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, from April 27 to October 29, 1967. It is considered to be the most successful World's Fair of the 20th century, with the...
in Montreal
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
.
He performed as soloist for Alexandrov Ensemble during its UK tour 1988, singing Kalinka and others
. He recorded 18 LPs: arias, romances and songs
.
Ivan Stolyar
See image here. (b.Kostroma
Kostroma
Kostroma is a historic city and the administrative center of Kostroma Oblast, Russia. A part of the Golden Ring of Russian towns, it is located at the confluence of the Volga and Kostroma Rivers...
, 16 September 1977). Bass-baritone. Graduated from the A. Schnittke Moscow State Institute of Music in 2002. He was a soloist of the Tver Philharmonic from 1999 to 2000, then joined the Ensemble in 2005. As of 2010 he sings for the Ensemble as a guest soloist. With the Ensemble he has performed in various concerts including Quebec 2008, where he sang the song known in the west as Those Were the Days
Those Were the Days (song)
"Those Were the Days" is a song credited to Gene Raskin, who put English lyrics to the Russian song "Dorogoi dlinnoyu" , written by Boris Fomin with words by the poet Konstantin Podrevskii. It deals with reminiscence upon youth and romantic idealism...
, but which is a Russian song called Дорогой длинною or By the Long Road by Boris Fomin
Boris Fomin
Boris Ivanovitch Fomin born 1900 in Saint Petersburg and died in 1948 in Moscow) was a Russian composer of folk music. He was interred at the Vvedenskoye Cemetery in Moscow....
.
A. Syrovatko-Zolotarev
(RussianRussian language
Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...
: А.Сыроватко-Золотарёв), tenor
Tenor
The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C in choral music, and up to high C in solo work. The low extreme for tenors is roughly B2...
soloist. With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded I Am From Berlin (music: I. Dunaevsky; lyrics: L. Oshanin).
Barseg Tumanyan
See imagehere.
Guest soloist. (b.Yerevan 1958). Renowned Armenian bass
Bass (voice type)
A bass is a type of male singing voice and possesses the lowest vocal range of all voice types. According to The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, a bass is typically classified as having a range extending from around the second E below middle C to the E above middle C...
soloist. (Russian
Russian language
Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...
: Б.Р. Туманян) (People's Artist of Armenia, soloist of Yerevan Opera and the Metropolitan Opera
Metropolitan Opera
The Metropolitan Opera is an opera company, located in New York City. Originally founded in 1880, the company gave its first performance on October 22, 1883. The company is operated by the non-profit Metropolitan Opera Association, with Peter Gelb as general manager...
, the winner of the Tchaikovsky contest). With the Alexandrov Ensemble in ca.1960 he sang Granada
and the Toreador Song from Bizet's Carmen
Carmen
Carmen is a French opéra comique by Georges Bizet. The libretto is by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée, first published in 1845, itself possibly influenced by the narrative poem The Gypsies by Alexander Pushkin...
, and received a seemingly endless ovation
In 2008 he celebrated his 50th anniversary as a bass soloist with the Opera
. In 2007 Tumanyan was interviewed by M. Zatikyan
. His biography is
here.
Alexei Ivanovich Usmanov
See imagehere.
(b.Moscow 1916; d.1990). (Russian
Russian language
Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...
: Алексей Усманов), tenor
Tenor
The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C in choral music, and up to high C in solo work. The low extreme for tenors is roughly B2...
soloist. He began singing in the amateur choir of the Automobile Club before World War II. He wanted to join the choir of the All-Union Radio, but World War II began. As a soldier he fought bravely when an armoured personnel carrier
Armoured personnel carrier
An armoured personnel carrier is an armoured fighting vehicle designed to transport infantry to the battlefield.APCs are usually armed with only a machine gun although variants carry recoilless rifles, anti-tank guided missiles , or mortars...
was hit; for this he was awarded the Order of the Red Star
Order of the Red Star
Established on 6 April 1930, the Order of the Red Star was an order of the Soviet Union, given to Red Army and Soviet Navy personnel for "exceptional service in the cause of the defense of the Soviet Union in both war and peace". It was established by Resolution of the Presidium of the CEC of the...
. In the late 1940s he became a soloist of All-Union Radio, and in the early 1960s began to record duets with Victor Selivanov
.
With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded You Often Write Soldier (music: B. Terentiev; lyrics: S. Bencken). In 1954 he took part in a recording of The Enchantress by Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian: Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский ; often "Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky" in English. His names are also transliterated "Piotr" or "Petr"; "Ilitsch", "Il'ich" or "Illyich"; and "Tschaikowski", "Tschaikowsky", "Chajkovskij"...
with the Moscow Philharmonia State Orchestra and Radio USSR chorus.
Georgi Pavlovich Vinogradov
(Russian
Russian language
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: Г.П. Виноградов), tenor
Tenor
The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C in choral music, and up to high C in solo work. The low extreme for tenors is roughly B2...
soloist (b.Kazan
Kazan
Kazan is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. With a population of 1,143,546 , it is the eighth most populous city in Russia. Kazan lies at the confluence of the Volga and Kazanka Rivers in European Russia. In April 2009, the Russian Patent Office granted Kazan the...
16 November 1908; d.Moscow 11 November 1980). Honoured Artist of Russia (1949). From about 1937 he sang jazz, opera and Soviet lyric songs on Radio Moscow and in World War II he sang with the USSR Committee of Defense Model Orchestra. From 1943 to 1951 he was a soloist with the Alexandrov Ensemble; however in 1951 there was apparently a bar-room brawl which embarrassed the Soviet government, and finished his career
. See his own page
Georgi Pavlovich Vinogradov
Georgi Pavlovich Vinogradov , Honoured Artist of Russia, was a Russian tenor: a popular World War II singer on Radio Moscow, recording artist, and soloist with the Alexandrov Ensemble.- Musical training :...
for further information.
With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded Two Maxims (recorded 1943)
,
Oh the Road
,
In a Forest at the Front (recorded 1945), Nightingale (recorded 1950), Dark Night (recorded 1945)
. In the 1940s he also recorded Nightingale as a duet with the baritone Vladimir Bunchikov
, and The Bending Branch (or Luchina
)
as a solo with the Alexandrov Ensemble
Igor F. Volkov
(RussianRussian language
Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...
: И.Ф. Волков) (Bass
Bass (voice type)
A bass is a type of male singing voice and possesses the lowest vocal range of all voice types. According to The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, a bass is typically classified as having a range extending from around the second E below middle C to the E above middle C...
soloist of the Novosibirsk Opera House). He sang with the Alexandrov Ensemble in the 1970s and 80s, and performed Dark Eyes
Dark Eyes (song)
Dark Eyes is a Russian song.The lyrics of the song were written by a Ukrainian poet and writer Yevhen Hrebinka. The first publication of the poem was in Literaturnaya gazeta on 17 January 1843....
/Black Eyes (1978)
.
Boris Grigorievich Zhayvoronok
See image here. (b.1938) (RussianRussian language
Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...
: Борис Григорьевич Жайворонок) bass-baritone
Bass-baritone
A bass-baritone is a high-lying bass or low-lying "classical" baritone voice type which shares certain qualities with the true baritone voice. The term arose in the late 19th century to describe the particular type of voice required to sing three Wagnerian roles: the Dutchman in Der fliegende...
soloist. People's Artist of Russia
People's Artist of Russia
People's Artist of Russia, also sometimes translated as National Artist of Russia, is an honorary title granted to citizens of Russia.It succeeded both the all-Soviet union award People's Artist of the USSR , and more directly the local republic award, People's Artist of the RSFSR , after the...
and Honoured Artist of Ukraine (1972). In 1964 he graduated from the Kharkiv
Kharkiv
Kharkiv or Kharkov is the second-largest city in Ukraine.The city was founded in 1654 and was a major centre of Ukrainian culture in the Russian Empire. Kharkiv became the first city in Ukraine where the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was proclaimed in December 1917 and Soviet government was...
Institute of Arts. From 1965 he was soloist at the Kharkiv
Kharkiv
Kharkiv or Kharkov is the second-largest city in Ukraine.The city was founded in 1654 and was a major centre of Ukrainian culture in the Russian Empire. Kharkiv became the first city in Ukraine where the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was proclaimed in December 1917 and Soviet government was...
Opera and Ballet. He was with the Alexandrov Ensemble 1981-1998 and he recorded The Enemies of the Burned Home (music: M. Blanter; lyrics: M. Isakovsky), My Moscow (music: I.M. Dunaevsky; lyrics: S. Agranyan, M. Lisyansky), Ogonek (lyrics: M. Isakovsky), It is time to Take the Road (music: V.Solovev-Sedoy; lyrics: S. Fogelson), Farewell, Rocky Mountains (music: E. Zharkovsky; lyrics: A.N. Bukin), Troika and Granada
Granada (song)
"Granada" is a Mexican song written in 1932 by Agustín Lara. The song is about the Spanish city of Granada and has become a "standard" in music repertoire....
.
Other Soloists
Lev LeshchenkoLev Leshchenko
Lev Valerjanovich Leshchenko , is a renowned Russian singer, who was best known for his rendition of "Den Pobedy" and the 1980 Summer Olympics closing ceremony theme song "Do svidanja, Moskva".-Biography:...
(b.1942): a soloist with the Ensemble from 1962. With the Alexandrov ensemble he performed Den Pobedy
Den Pobedy
"Den' Pobedy" ranks among the most popular in the large corpus of Russian songs dedicated to World War II. The song refers to the Victory Day celebration and differs from most of these by its cheerful intonations of a marching song and by the fact that it was composed some thirty years after the...
on Soviet TV (1976).
A.I. Mischenko (Russian
Russian language
Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...
: А.И. Мищенко) (from GABTa).
Current Soloists
Valery Gavva. See imagehttp://209.85.227.132/translate_c?hl=en&langpair=ru|en&u=http://www.ensemble-aleksandrova.ru/index.php%3Fid%3D206&prev=/translate_s%3Fhl%3Den%26q%3D%25D0%25AD%25D0%25B4%25D1%2583%25D0%25B0%25D1%2580%25D0%25B4%2B%25D0%259C%25D0%25B0%25D0%25BA%25D1%2581%25D0%25BE%25D0%25B2%25D0%25B8%25D1%2587%2B%25D0%259B%25D0%25B0%25D0%25B1%25D0%25BA%25D0%25BE%25D0%25B2%25D1%2581%25D0%25BA%25D0%25B8%25D0%25B9%26sl%3Den%26tl%3Dru&usg=ALkJrhjdpe_Nc0h0_B88N7QtkYRe8rlgbAhere].
Vasily Ivanovich Shtefutsa. See image
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Edward Maxovich Labkovsky. See image
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S.V. Ivanov Honoured Artist of Russia. See image here.
P.D. Bogachev Honoured Artist of Russia. See image here.
V.P. Maystruk Honoured Artist of Russia
A.A. Gvozdetsky Honoured Artist of Russia
B.M. Mizyuk Honoured Artist of Russia
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Ensign Victor Sanin. See image
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Ensign Dmitry Bykov. See image
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Ensign Vadim Petrovich Ananyev. See image
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Tatiana Deryabkina Honoured Artist of Russia
Boris Diakov. See image
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See also
- Alexandrov Ensemble
- Alexandrov Ensemble choirAlexandrov Ensemble choirThe Alexandrov Ensemble choir is the choir of the Alexandrov Ensemble.It has for most of its history been a male-voice choir of tenors and basses, based in Moscow and directed and conducted by Alexander V. Alexandrov from 1926 to 1946, by his son Boris A. Alexandrov from 1946 to 1987, and by...
- Alexandrov Ensemble discographyAlexandrov Ensemble discographyThis is a list of recordings made by the Alexandrov Ensemble since 1928. Within each section they are in alphabetical order of record labels.- Facets: Leningrad Cowboys - Total Balalaika Show :...
External links
- Alexandrov Ensemble website: biography of Boris Alexandrov listing his soloists Translated Russian-English via Google Translation Tool.
- Translated Japanese webpage: List of Ensemble soloists with links to biographies and discographies
- Old photos of some of the earlier Ensemble soloists.
- Early and recent Ensemble soloists
- Wordpress: Alexandrov Ensemble blog
- Some recent choir members