List of Alexandrov Ensemble soloists

People in the West could read a few of their names on current Alexandrov Ensemble CDs and DVDs, and perhaps hear a few old 78rpm recordings on YouTube, but could not Google in English for their images or musical biographies.

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.

[20] Within the Bolshoi Theatre his recorded operatic arias include the following: as Prince Andrei Khovansky in Modest Mussorgsky's opera Khovanshchina (1979);[21][22] 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;[23] as Semyon in Semyon Kotko by Sergei Prokofiev.

Graduated from the Leningrad Conservatory (1963), worked as a soloist of the All-Russian touring association, the Red Banner Song and Dance Ensemble of the Soviet Army named after A.V.

B. Pogrebov) (ca.1966) ,[35] 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.

With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded Jet Pilot, Ballad of the Red Army, Loyalty duet with V. Azovtsev,[44] Hail to the Infantry!

[50] With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded Lights Black Sun (music: A. Doluhanyan; lyrics: M. Lisyansky), The Birch Tree (1956)[51][52] Snowflakes (1956)[51][52][53] The Hero Chapayev Roamed The Urals, Song of the 27th Division and I have travelled around the entire universe Viktor Konstantinovich Dmitriev,[54] (Russian: Виктор Константинович Дмитриев), bass soloist.

(Russian:Василий Елисеев), tenor with countertenor capability, i.e. with smooth transition to upper range, and good tone and projection throughout.

[89] With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded I was going back from Berlin (music: I. Dunaevsky; lyrics: L. Oshanin) (1966), The Birch Tree (1965) ,[90] 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,[91] the part of Sobinin in Ivan Susanin (Life of the Tsar) opera by Glinka.

However it is clearly a professional composition of a quality comparative to those of medieval Northern European composers of troubadour songs, such as Dufay and Binchois.

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.

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.

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.

[139] 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.

With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded The Fond Stone, Oh The Road ( Ekh, dorogi ) transmitted on Soviet All-Union radio in 1947,[39] Song of the Volga Boatmen (trad; arr.

[175] 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.

With the Alexandrov Ensemble in ca.1960 he sang Granada[200] and the Toreador Song from Bizet's Carmen, and received a seemingly endless ovation[201] In 2008 he celebrated his 50th anniversary as a bass soloist with the Opera.

[39] In the 1940s he also recorded Nightingale as a duet with the baritone Vladimir Bunchikov,[40] and The Bending Branch (Luchina) (То не ветер ветку клонит (Лучина)) as a solo with the Alexandrov Ensemble[209][210][1][103] (Russian: И.Ф.

Participant of the ensemble's tours in France, Czechoslovakia, Mongolia, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, the GDR, China, England and Yugoslavia.

And also writer of the lyrics of the song "Long live our power"[224][225] Lavrentiy Yaroshenko (Russian: Лаврентий Артемьевич Ярошенко) (1909 – 1975) was a bass soloist.

Before entering the operatic stage, he was a worker at the Taganrog plant, where he also played in an amateur drama club, then graduated from the Kharkov flight school (1935) and became a pilot instructor.

During the war, the singer served in the Red Banner Song and Dance Ensemble of Alexandrov, and in 1946 he joined the troupe of the Kirov (Mariinsky) Theater.

(1945) Nikolai Ustinov is one of the main tenors of the red banner ensemble who came along to entertain troops in frontline concerts along with Pyotr Tverdokhlebov, Stepan Tibaev, I. Stepanov, Viktor Nikitin and many others.

During the ensemble's tour in Italy in February–March 1964, he captivated the audiences of Milan, Bologna and Rome with a brilliant performance of Manrico's stretta from the opera Il Trovatore by G. Verdi.

So far the only source of him being a soloist is a picture of him performing There Is a good town in the north by T. Khrennikov (1942) with Pyotr Tverdokhlebov and Nikolai Ustinov[237] Just like Chetverikov, we may not know his first name.

He performed mainly in the Russian opera repertoire - the Prince (The Mermaid), Lykov, Herman, The Pretender, Boyan, Levko, Golitsyn; Vsevolod ( The Tale of the City of Kitezh ), Finn; Mikhail Tucha (The Maid of Pskov), Gvidon, Vladimir Igorevich; Andrei (Mazepa), Shuisky, Sinodal, Andrei Khovansky, Popovich, The Old Grandfather.

He repeatedly performed solo with the Song and Dance Ensemble of the Moscow Military District and sang under the direction of the All-Union Radio Orchestra.

Ivan Patorzhinsky was born on 3 March 1896 in village Petro-Svistunovo, Aleksandrovsk uyezd, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire [now Vilniansk Raion, Zaporizhia Oblast, Ukraine].

[256] With the ensemble he recorded a few songs, such as Roared and Groaned the Dnieper River (1943)[257] and Oh, in the meadow and also by the shore with Georgy Vinogradov (1943) (Russian: Георгий Михайлович Нэлепп) (20 April 1904 – 18 June 1957) Tenor Soloist and opera singer.

Nelepp's life trajectory from farmhand to celebrated opera singer was marked by two youthful choices—joining the Russian Revolution as a member of the Red Army and successfully auditioning for a place in the opera-singing course at the Leningrad Conservatory despite having no previous musical training.