The Choir - Soviet Choral Music

Aled Jones explores how Soviet composers turned to choral music to meet the demands of their leaders for patriotic pieces. Including a complete performance of Prokofiev's Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution. Yury Aleksandrovich Shaporin: Chorus of Soldiers (Decembrists) Red Army Choir and Band Victor Feorov (conductor) Naxos 8553154, Tr 9 Georgy Sviridov: Three Choruses (Prayer - Tsar Feodor Ioannovich) The Moscow New Choir Elena Rastvorova (director) Olympia OCD541, Tr 1 Alexander Kastalsky: Brotherly Prayer for the Dead - 1917 (Wrath of Nemesis - My Sword) Radio Large Choir USSR Symphony Orchestra Yevgeny Svetlanov (conductor) Russian Disc RDCD10043, Tr 10 Shostakovich: Slava! (Song of the Forest) Sergei Kisseliev (tenor) Gennadi Bezzubenko (baritone) Boys' Choir of Glinka College St Petersburg Chorus St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra Yuri Temirkanov (conductor) RCA 09026688772, Tr 7 Alexandr Vasil'yevich Mosolov: Collective Farm Meadows; Spring Song (ladies only); Dance Song (Collective Farm Meadows - eight choruses) The Russian Song Chorus of the USSR TV and Radio Nikolai Kutuzov (conductor) Olympia OCD176 (Trs 16, 18, 19, 21) Prokofiev: Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution, Op 74 Gennady Rozhdestvensky (speaker) Philharmonia Chorus and Orchestra Neeme Jarvi (conductor) Chandos, CHAN9095, Trs 1-10.