M.P. Belaieff

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Immerse yourself in the powerful world of Russian opera with the famous "Song of the Varangian Guest" (At the Cliffs) from Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's opera Sadko. This dramatic masterpiece in D minor i...

Stravinsky composed these songs during his honeymoon in 1906, and dedicated his settings of Alexander Pushkin's erotic and pastoral poems (which were based on works by Vicomte de Parni) to his young w...

The choir sings: 'There exists in a distant land / On the opposite shore / What we see in dreams / But is given to the foe.' The Song is dedicated to the composer Alexander Raskatov, who had just emig...

The work was composed for the celebrations marking the millennium of the Christianization of Russia, and makes use of 16th-century Russian Orthodox texts. The first performance in Moscow on 26 Decembe...

Being the composer of sacred large-scale choral works (liturgies, masses), Alexander Gretchaninoff (1864-1956) is known to many people, also outside Russia. His early Four Chants Op. 4 for 4-8-part mi...

The works in this volume are arranged in chronological order and to some extent on the basis of their stylistic character. Five Pieces (1961), Triad (1962) and Elegy (1967), which Silvestrov retrospec...