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Большой Хор Всесоюзного Радио
real name Большой хор Всесоюзного радио и Центрального телевидения
Большой Хор Всесоюзного Радио is credited on 784 pressings across 179 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1951–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
784
Credits
179
Albums
8
Decades active
3
In collections
Biography
Soviet / Russian Moscow Radio & TV choir based in Moscow.
Choir was established by Alexander Sveshnikov in 1928. Vocal ensemble of 12 singers rather soon became a full-grown choir - Large Choir of USSR Radio = Большой Хор Всесоюзного Радио.
Also known:
Академический Большой хор Всесоюзного радио.
All-Union Radio and Central Television Large Chorus
Большой хор ВР.
Большой хор Гостелерадио СССР.
Großer Chor des Sowjetischen Rund- und Fernsehfunks.
Академический Большой хор Центрального телевидения и Всесоюзного радио.
Since 2005 it has been called the Academic Grand Choir “Masters of Choral Singing” = Академический Большой Хор «Мастера Хорового Пения».
For the related Moscow Radio orchestra, please use: Большой Симфонический Оркестр Всесоюзного Радио
For women's group of the choir please use:
For men's group of the choir please use:.
For unspecified group of the choir please use: Группа Большого Хора Всесоюзного Радио.
Conductors and art directors:
1928-1936 - Alexander Sveshnikov = Александр Свешников
1936-1952 - Ivan Kuvykin =
1952-1983 - Klavdiy Ptitsa = Клавдий Птица
1983-2005 - Lyudmila Yermakova = Людмила Ермакова
Since 2005 - Lev Kontorovich =
Bio from Discogs
Credited work
784 releases · 179 albums · active 1951–2025
- Other credits · 819
- Performance · 14
Studios: Grand Hall Of The Moscow Conservatoire · Всесоюзная Студия Грамзаписи · Всесоюзное Радио · Mosfilm Studio, Moscow
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- O. Taktakishvili
- Prokofiev
- Tchaikovsky
- P. Tchaikovsky
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
- Sergei Prokofiev
- Ravel
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