REINHOLD GLIERE
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Glière Conducts Glière: Ballet Suites Nos. 1 & 2 All-Union radio Orchestra, Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, Reinhold Gliere [ Consonance / CD - released 22/Feb/1995 ] Recorded in 1947 |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: The Golden Age (complete ballet recorded in 2016) BLU-RAY Bolshoi Ballet / Nina Kaptsova, Ruslan Skvortsov, Mikhail Lobukhin / Pavel Klinichev (cond) [ Bel Air Classiques Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Aug/2017 ] "picture and sound quality...as best as I've ever experienced, take you 'there', and you have a perfect sum of the parts. Literally and metaphorically, nobody puts a foot wrong." MusicWeb Recording of the Month |
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake (complete ballet recorded in 2015) BLU-RAY Bolshoi Ballet / Svetlana Zakharova, Denis Rodkin, Artemy Belyakov / Pavel Sorokin (conductor) [ Bel Air Classiques Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Feb/2016 ] At the palace, the royal family and their guests are gathered for Prince Siegfried's birthday celebrations. In a majestic ceremony, Siegfried is made a knight and young girls try to attract his attention, as he must choose a wife during the ball. |
MINKUS / AUBER / SHOSTAKOVICH / TCHAIKOVSKY
Great Ballets From The Bolshoi: La Bayadere, Marco Spada, Swan Lake, The Golden Age (2013-2015) BLU-RAY Bolshoi Ballet / Svetlana Zakharova, Denis Rodkin,Vladislav Lantratov, David Hallberg, Nina Kaptsova, Olga Smirnova, etc [ Bel Air Classiques Blu-Ray / 4 Blu-ray Disc - released 16/Dec/2018 ] This second volume of 'Great Ballets from the Bolshoi' features the Bolshoi Ballet's most recent successes : La Bayadère, Marco Spada, Swan Lake and The Golden Age. All performances were recorded in HD at the State Academic Bolshoi Ballet of Moscow. |
LUDWIG MINKUS
Minkus: La Bayadere (complete ballet recorded in 2013) (Blu-ray) Bolshoi Ballet / Svetlana Zakharova, Vladislav Lantratov, Maria Alexandrova / Pavel Sorokin (cond) [ Bel Air Classiques Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 1/Dec/2013 ] "Kitsch even by classical ballet standards, this Bolshoi production of the Marius Petipa-choreographed oriental fantasy wit bland music by Minkus boasts a celebrated Kingdom of Shades sequence." (BBC) |
TCHAIKOVSKY / ADAM / ASAFIEV
Great Ballets from the Bolshoi: Sleeping Beauty / Nutcracker / Giselle / Flames of Paris [complete ballets recorded 2010 & 2011] BLU-RAY Bolshoi Theatre / David Hallberg, Svetlana Zakharova, Nina Kaptsova, Artem Ovcharenko, Svetlana Lunkina, Ivan Vasiliev, etc [ Bel Air Classiques Blu-Ray / 4 Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Dec/2014 ] Four famous productions from the Bolshoi Ballet HD Collection in an exceptional 4 digistack-set: Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, Giselle & Flames of Paris by the greatest performers of the Bolshoi Ballet: Svetlana Zakharova, Natalia Osipova, Nina... |
ALEXANDER BORODIN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Borodin Edition [10 CD set includes Symphonies, Chamber Works & Prince Igor] Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra / Moscow Trio / Nikolai Okhotnikov (baritone) / Marco Rapetti (piano) / etc [ Brilliant Classics / 10 CD Box Set - released 20/Oct/2012 ] "This set remains uniquely valuable for letting us hear so much of the composer's music that is otherwise scarce or simply unobtainable. For that reason, and at Brilliant's price, these recordings are an essential acquisition" (MusicWeb) |
NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rimsky-Korsakov: The Tsar's Bride (complete opera) Ekaterina Kudriavchenko, Arkady Mishenkin, Vladislav Verestnikov / Sveshnikov Russian Academic Choir & Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, Andrey Chistiakov [ Brilliant Classics Opera Collection / 2 CD - released 1/Mar/2011 ] 100% Russian feast - An all-Russian cast in this very Russian opera of Rimsky-Korsakov, one of the finest Russian opera composers (and still neglected in this field). |
NINO ROTA
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Nino Rota Al Bolshoi rchestra Sinfonica del Teatro Bolshoi di Mosca / Solisti del Teatro Bolshoi di Mosca [ Concerto Fonit Cetra / CD - released 2/Aug/1992 ] Recorded in Moscow, Studio Gosteleradio, March 1992. I Tre Ballabili Da "Il Gattopardo" is dance music composed for the film Il Gattopardo. |
GLINKA / DARGOMIZHSKY / TCHAIKOVSKY / RACHMANINOV / BORODIN
The Bolshoi Experience: Highlights from Russian Operas - Volume 1 Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre Moscow, conducted by Alexander Vedernikov [ Pentatone SACD / SACD - released 5/Jul/2006 ] During the eighteenth century, especially at the time of Catherine the Great, Russia enjoyed a lively opera life; however, it was not until the nineteenth century that the national Russian opera was created. |