Britten: War Requiem (2006) more music like this

performed by Benjamin Britten (spoken word), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Galina Vishnevskaya (spoken word), Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano), John Culshaw (spoken word), Melos Ensemble of London, Peter Pears (tenor), Peter Pears (spoken word)
composed by Benjamin Britten

What can be said about Britten's War Requiem that hasn't already been said? That it is brilliantly composed, endlessly fascinating, and profoundly affecting? That it is lyrically heartrending, musically heartbreaking, and emotionally devastating? That it is the single most persuasive setting of the Requiem text of the twentieth century? That is ...

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Eugene Onegin (1999) more music like this

performed by Andrei Sokolov (vocals), Eugene Belov (vocals), Galina Vishnevskaya (vocals), Georgy Pankov (vocals), Igor Mikhailov (vocals), Ivan Petrov (vocals), Larissa Avdeyeva (vocals), Nikolai Timchenko (vocals), Sergei Lemeshev (vocals)
composed by Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky

This recording made by Melodiya in 1955 captures a remarkable performance of Eugene Onegin with performers from the Bolshoi Opera during one of its golden ages. The Bolshoi had been performing the opera for nearly three quarters of a century, and the singers and instrumentalists had the spirit of Tchaikovsky in their blood. This performance ...

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Opera Obsession! Act IV (2007) more music like this

performed by Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo-soprano), Cecilia Fusco (vocals), Claire Watson (soprano), Eberhard Wächter (baritone), Elizabeth Harwood (soprano), Franco Corelli (tenor), Fritz Wunderlich (tenor), Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano), Giuseppe di Stefano (tenor)
composed by Antonin Dvorák, Camille Saint-Saëns, Francesco Cilea, Franco Alfano, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Giacomo Puccini, Gioachino Rossini, Giuseppe Verdi, Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky, Richard Strauss, Richard Wagner, Umberto Giordano, Vincenzo Bellini

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Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth Of Mtsensk (1993) more music like this

performed by Aage Haugland (bass), Alan Byers (vocals), Alexander Malta (vocals), Birgit Finnila (vocals), Colin Appleton (vocals), David Beavan (vocals), Dimiter Petkov (vocals), Edgar Fleet (vocals), Galina Vishnevskaya (vocals), James Lewington (vocals)
composed by Dmitry Shostakovich

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Lebendige Vergangenheit: Galina Vishnevskaya more music like this

performed by Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano), Bolshoi Theater Orchestra
composed by Arrigo Boito, Charles Gounod, Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Verdi, Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky, Richard Wagner, Vincenzo Bellini

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Pie Jesu (1995) more music like this

performed by Ambrosian Singers (singer), English Chamber Orchestra (chamber ensemble), Erszebet Komlossy (contralto), Felicity Palmer (vocals), Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano), James Lancelot (organ), Joan Sutherland (soprano), Jonathan Bond (treble)
composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Antonin Dvorák, Benjamin Britten, Charles Gounod, Franz Schubert, Gabriel Fauré, Giuseppe Verdi, Hector Berlioz, Jules Massenet, Maurice Duruflé, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Galina Vishnevskaya Sings Shostakovich & Mussorgsky (2004) more music like this

performed by Dimiter Petkov (bass), Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano), Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Mstislav Rostropovich (piano), Nicolai Gedda (tenor), Ulf Hoelscher (violin), Vasso Devetzi (piano), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Mstislav Rostropovich (conductor)
composed by Dmitry Shostakovich, Modest Mussorgsky

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Russian Opera: Masterworks [Box Set] (2007) more music like this

performed by Alexander Baturin (vocals), Alexander Pirogov (vocals), Alexandra Turtshina (vocals), Alexei Ghelieva (vocals), Andrei Ivanov (vocals), Andrei Sokolov (vocals), Bronislava Zlatogorova (vocals), Eugene Belov (vocals), Evgeniya Smolenskaya (vocals)
composed by Alexander Borodin, Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky

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Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov (2006) more music like this

performed by Alexei Maslennikov (vocals), Anton Diakov (vocals), Biserka Cvejic (vocals), Galina Vishnevskaya (vocals), Gregor Radev (vocals), Leo Heppe (vocals), Ludovic Spiess (vocals), Margarita Lilova (vocals), Martti Talvela (vocals), Milen Paounov (vocals)
composed by Modest Mussorgsky

Any listener with the simple desire to hear a recording of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov is inevitably confronted with a maze of musicological dilemmas that can be baffling to navigate. The composer himself created two versions that vary widely in both tone and musical and dramatic content. Rimsky-Korsakov undertook a complete re-orchestration of ...

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Panorama: Modest Mussorgsky more music like this

performed by Alexei Maslennikov (vocals), Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo-soprano), Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano), Nicolai Ghiaurov (vocals), Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
composed by Modest Mussorgsky

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Opera Obsession! - Opera d'Oro's Greatest Hits (2002) more music like this

performed by Alfredo Kraus (vocals), Anna Pedrotti (vocals), Beverly Sills (vocals), Birgit Nilsson (vocals), Carlo Bergonzi (vocals), Dimiter Petkov (vocals), Enrique Serra (vocals), Ettore Bastianini (vocals), Fernando Corena (vocals), Fiorenza Cossotto (vocals)
composed by Alfredo Catalani, Arrigo Boito, Gaetano Donizetti, Georges Bizet, Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Verdi, Hector Berlioz, Jules Massenet, Richard Strauss, Richard Wagner, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Legendary Performances of Corelli [Box Set] (2007) more music like this

performed by Alfredo Giacomotti (vocals), Angelo Mercuriali (vocals), Antonio Cassinelli (vocals), Birgit Nilsson (soprano), Carlo Forti (vocals), David Tree (vocals), Edmund Hurshell (vocals), Elisabeth Höngen (vocals), Ettore Bastianini (vocals)
composed by Gaetano Donizetti, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Verdi, Ruggero Leoncavallo, Umberto Giordano

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Puccini: Turandot (2004) more music like this

performed by Angelo Mercuriali (vocals), Birgit Nilsson (vocals), Franco Corelli (vocals), Franco Ricciardi (vocals), Galina Vishnevskaya (vocals), Nicola Zaccaria (vocals), Piero de Palma (vocals), Renato Capecchi (vocals), La Scala Theater Chorus (choir, chorus)
composed by Giacomo Puccini

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Mussorgsky, Rimsky Korsakov, Tchaikovsky: Songs and Opera Arias (2003) more music like this

performed by Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano), Mstislav Rostropovich (piano), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Mstislav Rostropovich (conductor)
composed by Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky

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Legendary Performances of Franco Corelli [Box Set] (2006) more music like this

performed by Angelo Mercuriali (vocals), Antonio Cassinelli (vocals), Birgit Nilsson (vocals), Carlo Forti (vocals), David Tree (vocals), Edmund Hurshell (vocals), Elisabeth Höngen (vocals), Ettore Bastianini (vocals), Fiorenza Cossotto (vocals)
composed by Gaetano Donizetti, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Verdi, Ruggero Leoncavallo, Umberto Giordano

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Songs and Opera Arias (2006) more music like this

performed by Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano), Mstislav Rostropovich (violoncello), Mstislav Rostropovich (piano), Ulf Hoelscher (violin), Vasso Devetzi (piano), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Mstislav Rostropovich (conductor)
composed by Dmitry Shostakovich, Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky, Sergey Prokofiev

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Prokofiev: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition (Box Set) more music like this

performed by Alexei Sultanov (piano), Anton Barakhovsky (violin), Anton Diakov (bass), Arto Noras (cello), Berliner Solisten, Boris Berezovsky (piano), Carolyn Watkinson (mezzo-soprano), Catherine Ciesinski (mezzo-soprano), Catherine Dubosc (soprano)
composed by Alexander Scriabin, Modest Mussorgsky, Sergey Prokofiev, Sergey Rachmaninov, Spoken Word

Anyone who loves Prokofiev will probably stay far away from Warner Bros.' Fiftieth Anniversary Edition, a collection of mostly mediocre-to-rotten performances. But anyone who loves Prokofiev will probably at least want to hear the bonus disc included in the edition because it features Prokofiev himself as a performer. That Prokofiev was one of the ...

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Puccini: Turandot (1998) more music like this

performed by Angelo Mercuriali (vocals), Birgit Nilsson (vocals), Franco Corelli (vocals), Franco Ricciardi (vocals), Galina Vishnevskaya (vocals), Nicola Zaccaria (vocals), Renato Capecchi (vocals), Virgilio Carbonari (vocals)
composed by Giacomo Puccini

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Musicians for Armenia more music like this

performed by Andrei Gavrilov (piano), Barry Douglas (piano), Cho-Liang Lin (violin), Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano), James Galway (flute), Mstislav Rostropovich (piano), Yuri Bashmet (viola), English Chamber Orchestra, André Previn (conductor)
composed by Claude Debussy, Frédéric Chopin, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Ludwig van Beethoven, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Voices Behind the Iron Curtain: Soviet Singers of the Stalin Era more music like this

performed by Aleksandr Ognivtsev (bass), Aleksandr Peregudov (tenor), Aleksei Krivchenia (bass), Alexander Baturin (baritone), Alexander Pirogov (bass), Alexei Ivanov (baritone), Anatoli Orfionov (tenor), Andrei Ivanov (baritone), Artur Frinberg (tenor)
composed by Alexander Sergeyevich Dargomizhsky, Alexey Nikolayevich Verstovsky, Ambroise Thomas, Arrigo Boito, Camille Saint-Saëns, Charles Gounod, Daniel-François-Esprit Auber, Eugen d'Albert, Fromental Halévy, Gaetano Donizetti, Georges Bizet, Giacomo Meyerbeer

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Live Russian Recordings from the Sixties (1998) more music like this

performed by David Oistrakh (violin), Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano), Mieczyslaw Weinberg (piano), Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Mstislav Rostropovich (piano), Gorki State Philharmonic Orchestra, Mstislav Rostropovich (conductor)
composed by Dmitry Shostakovich, Modest Mussorgsky, Sergey Prokofiev

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Verdi: Aida (2005) more music like this

performed by Galina Vishnevskaya (vocals), Georgei Nelepp (vocals), Igor Mikhailov (vocals), Ivan Petrov (vocals), Natalia Sokolova (vocals), Pavel Lisitsian (vocals), Vera Davydova (vocals), Bolshoi Theater Chorus (choir, chorus), Bolshoi Theater Orchestra
composed by Giuseppe Verdi

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Beethoven: Fidelio (Sung in Russian) (2003) more music like this

performed by Alexei Ivanov (speech/speaker/speaking part), Alexei Ivanov (vocals), Galina Vishnevskaya (speech/speaker/speaking part), Galina Vishnevskaya (vocals), Georgei Nelepp (vocals), Georgei Nelepp (speech/speaker/speaking part)
composed by Jules Massenet, Ludwig van Beethoven

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Lieder by Rachmaninov & Glinka (1976) more music like this

performed by Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano), Mstislav Rostropovich (piano)
composed by Mikhail Glinka, Sergey Rachmaninov

Don't start with the first track. You'll never make it through Night is mournful. And don't start with the second track, either. "Do not sing, my beauty" will kill you, kill you dead. Start with the fifth track. It's not that Vocalise is any less emotionally annihilating; it's that it at least has the virtue of not having words, so its meaning is ...

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Great Artists of the Century: 25 Launch Releases (2004) more music like this

performed by Alban Berg Quartet, Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Dinu Lipatti (piano), Galina Vishnevskaya (vocals), Geraint Jones (organ), Gerald Moore (piano), György Cziffra (piano)
composed by Anton Bruckner, Antonin Dvorák, Benjamin Britten, Claude Debussy, Franz Liszt, Franz Schubert, Frédéric Chopin, Giacomo Puccini, Gioachino Rossini, Giuseppe Verdi, Hector Berlioz, Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Brahms, Ludwig van Beethoven

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