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LP record jacket — Bolshoi Theatre Violinists Ensemble (Ансамбль скрипачей Большого театра СССР), dir. Yuli Reyentovich (Melodiya)
Audio Recording
This compilation of performances by the Bolshoi Theatre Violinists Ensemble hosts ten pieces recorded in the Grand Hall of Moscow Conservatory between 1981 and 1982. Tracks 1-4 are on Side 1 and tracks 5-10 are on Side 2. Front of a printed paperboard LP jacket. A color photograph shows the ensemble — about twenty musicians in formal black, holding violins and bows — standing across a theater stage before tall draped curtains lit blue, with chandeliers. Title text appears top and bottom in two languages: English in white across the top ("BOLSHOI THEATRE VIOLINISTS ENSEMBLE / Artistic director Yuli Reyentovich") and Russian in blue/violet across the bottom ("АНСАМБЛЬ СКРИПАЧЕЙ БОЛЬШОГО ТЕАТРА СССР / Художественный руководитель Юлий Реентович"). The Melodiya logo and ministry line are at upper right.
2025.1.198
33 RPM Record
Instrumental
The Cabrera Arús family collection
Leopoldo Arús Gálvez collection
2025.1
Leopoldo Arús Gálvez
Yuli Reyentovich
Artistic Direction
Bolshoi Theatre Violinists Ensemble
Performer
George Karetnikov
Recording Engineer
Margarita Kozhukhova
Recording Engineer
Larissa Abelyan
Editor
S. Nelyubin
Designer
V. Pishchalnikov
Photographer
Irina Zaitseva
Pianist
Melodiya
Classical
circa 1983
Moscow
U.S.S.R.
Eastern Europe
Europe
The majority of pieces were recorded in 1981, although tracks 2 and 8 were recorded in 1982.
The front cover depicts 18 violinists standing on a grand stage with three chandeliers hanging from the ceiling. There are two candelabras behind the line of musicians. The album title and information is printed in English at the top in a white font; the same information in printed in Russian in purple ink at the bottom. The back cover provides the track information in both Russian and English.
Different sources provide different release dates for this album -- one cites that it was released in 1983 while another says it was released in 1987.
Passacaglia
George Frederic Handel
Composer
Grigory Zaborov
Orchestration
Poem for Violins and Violas, Op. 25
E. Ysaye
Composer
The Viola Group of the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra
Performer
Evgeny Svetlanov
Conductor
Variations of Caprice No. 24
Niccolo Paganini
Composer
Arnold Roitman
Navarra
Pablo de Sarasate
Composer
A. Gurfinkel
Orchestration
Aleksei Ogorodnikov
Percussionist
G. Butov
Percussionist
Irina Zaitseva
Pianist
a Spanish dance
Cordoba
Isaac Albeniz
Composer
Grigory Zaborov
Orchestration
Irina Zaitseva
Pianist
Vera Dulova
Harpist
Aleksei Ogorodnikov
Percussionist
G. Butov
Percussionist
Procession from "Peter and the Wolf", an orchestral fairy tale
Sergei Prokofiev
Composer
L. Feigin
Orchestration
Irina Zaitseva
Pianist
Waltz from "The War and Peace" opera
Sergei Prokofiev
Composer
A. Birchansky
Orchestration
Irina Zaitseva
Pianist
Aria
Evgeny Svetlanov
Composer
Evgeny Svetlanov
Pianist
Maidens' Dance from "The Path of Thunder" ballet
K. Karaev
Composer
Grigory Zaborov
Orchestration
Irina Zaitseva
Pianist
Aleksei Ogorodnikov
Percussionist
G. Butov
Percussionist
Note
Back cover
Pen
Underlining in blue pen under first words of English liner notes
English title block (top) and Russian title block (bottom) as transcribed above; Melodiya logo (stylized "М") with the firm's name and "Министерство культуры СССР" (Ministry of Culture of the USSR) at upper right. No catalog number, date, or tracklist visible on the front.
31 cm
31 cm
album cover, plastic sleeve, vinyl
Good
Leopoldo Arús Gálvez
owner
Melodiya
producer
Bolshoi Theatre Violinists Ensemble
artists
Havana
Cuba
Caribbean
Central America
acquisition, use
U.S.S.R.
Eastern Europe
Europe
production
The Bolshoi Theatre Violinists Ensemble was a popular Melodiya act, issuing many light-classical and operatic-transcription programs. Yuli Reyentovich was the ensemble's longtime artistic director, from its founding in the mid-1950s until the early 1980s.