Prima Voce: Boris Christoff

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Album Summary

Performers

• Boris Christoff (Bass)
• Gerald Moore (Piano)

Conductors

• Dobroven, Issay
• Fistoulari, Anatole
• Gui
• Karajan, Herbert von
• Malko
• Potorzhinski, Feodor
• Schuchter, Wilhelm

Ensemble

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Composers

• Mikhail Strokine (1832 - 1887)
• Lishkin (Composer)
• Antonio Caldara (1670 - 1736)
• Arrigo Boito (1842 - 1918)
• Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893)
• Russian Traditional
• Pavel Chesnokov (1877 - 1944)
• Vincenzo Bellini (1801 - 1835)
• Modest Mussorgsky (1839 - 1881)
• Alexander Borodin (1833 - 1887)
• Russian Orthodox Chant
• Alexander Grechaninov (1864 - 1956)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
• Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901)
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 - 1908)
• Alexander Nikolayevich Serov (1820 - 1871)

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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus : Don Giovanni :: Madamina! Il catalogo e questo

• Performer: Boris Christoff (Bass)
• Conductor: Anatole Fistoulari
• Running Time: 5 min. 35 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1787

Caldara, Antonio : La costanza in amor vince l'inganno

• Performers: Gerald Moore (Piano); Boris Christoff (Bass)
• Running Time: 3 min. 11 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Bellini, Vincenzo : Norma, opera :: Ite sul colle

• Performer: Boris Christoff (Bass)
• Conductor: Gui
• Running Time: 10 min. 13 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1831

Bellini, Vincenzo : La sonnambula, opera :: Il mulino! Il fonte!...Vi ravviso

• Performer: Boris Christoff (Bass)
• Conductor: Gui
• Running Time: 4 min. 59 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1831

Verdi, Giuseppe : Nabucco :: Sperate, o figli!...D'Egitto la sui lidi

• Performer: Boris Christoff (Bass)
• Conductor: Gui
• Running Time: 4 min. 57 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1842

Verdi, Giuseppe : Nabucco :: Oh chi piange?...Del futuro nel bujo discerno

• Performer: Boris Christoff (Bass)
• Conductor: Gui
• Running Time: 4 min. 46 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1842

Verdi, Giuseppe : La Forza del Destino :: Il santo nome di Dio

• Performer: Boris Christoff (Bass)
• Conductor: Gui
• Running Time: 6 min. 54 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1862

Verdi, Giuseppe : Simone Boccanegra :: A te l'estremo addio...Il lacerate spirito

• Performer: Boris Christoff (Bass)
• Conductor: Gui
• Running Time: 5 min. 52 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1857

Verdi, Giuseppe : Ernani :: Che mai veggio!...Infelice...L'offeso onor

• Performer: Boris Christoff (Bass)
• Conductor: Anatole Fistoulari
• Running Time: 6 min. 49 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1844

Verdi, Giuseppe : Don Carlo :: Ella giammai m'amo...Dormiro sol

• Performer: Boris Christoff (Bass)
• Conductor: Herbert Karajan
• Notes: Composition written: 1884.
• Running Time: 9 min. 14 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1884

Boito, Arrigo : Mefistofele :: Ave Signor!

• Performer: Boris Christoff (Bass)
• Conductor: Issay Dobroven
• Notes: Composition written: 1868-75.
• Running Time: 3 min. 55 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1868-1875

Boito, Arrigo : Mefistofele :: Son lo spirito che nega

• Performer: Boris Christoff (Bass)
• Conductor: Malko
• Notes: Composition written: 1868-75.
• Running Time: 3 min. 48 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1868-1875

Mussorgsky, Modest : Boris Godunov :: Prologue. Coronation Scene

• Performer: Boris Christoff (Bass)
• Conductor: Issay Dobroven
• Notes: 1949; 1952
• Running Time: 10 min. 53 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1868-1874

Mussorgsky, Modest : Boris Godunov :: Act 1. Pimen's monologue

• Performer: Boris Christoff (Bass)
• Conductor: Malko
• Notes: Composition written: 1868-74.
• Running Time: 5 min. 51 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1868-1874

Mussorgsky, Modest : Boris Godunov :: Act 1. Varlaam's song

• Performer: Boris Christoff (Bass)
• Conductor: Herbert Karajan
• Notes: Composition written: 1868-74.
• Running Time: 2 min. 33 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1868-1874

Mussorgsky, Modest : Boris Godunov :: Act 2. Boris's monologue

• Performer: Boris Christoff (Bass)
• Conductor: Issay Dobroven
• Notes: Composition written: 1868-74.
• Running Time: 6 min. 4 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1868-1874

Mussorgsky, Modest : Boris Godunov :: Act 2. Clock scene

• Performer: Boris Christoff (Bass)
• Conductor: Issay Dobroven
• Notes: Composition written: 1868-74.
• Running Time: 3 min. 58 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1868-1874

Mussorgsky, Modest : Boris Godunov :: Act 4. Farewell and Death of Boris

• Performer: Boris Christoff (Bass)
• Conductor: Issay Dobroven
• Notes: Composition written: 1868-74.
• Running Time: 11 min. 45 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1868-1874

Mussorgsky, Modest : Khovanshchina :: Dosifey's aria

• Performer: Boris Christoff (Bass)
• Conductor: Issay Dobroven
• Running Time: 6 min. 22 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1872-1880

Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai : Sadko :: Song of the Viking Merchant

• Performer: Boris Christoff (Bass)
• Conductor: Issay Dobroven
• Running Time: 3 min. 45 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1895-1896

Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai : The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh :: O vain illusion

• Performer: Boris Christoff (Bass)
• Conductor: Wilhelm Schuchter
• Running Time: 4 min. 26 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1907

Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich : Eugene Onegin :: Everyone knows love on earth

• Performer: Boris Christoff (Bass)
• Conductor: Wilhelm Schuchter
• Running Time: 4 min. 55 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1877-1878

Borodin, Alexander : Prince Igor :: Act 1. Prince Galitsky's aria

• Performer: Boris Christoff (Bass)
• Conductor: Issay Dobroven
• Running Time: 3 min. 52 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1869-1887

Borodin, Alexander : Prince Igor :: Polovtsian Dances

• Performer: Boris Christoff (Bass)
• Conductor: Issay Dobroven
• Running Time: 7 min. 23 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1869-1887

Se, Alexander Nikolayevich : Shrove Tuesday, for voice & chorus

• Performer: Boris Christoff (Bass)
• Conductor: Feodor Potorzhinski
• Running Time: 4 min. 39 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic

Traditional, Russian : Song of the Lumberjacks

• Performer: Boris Christoff (Bass)
• Conductor: Feodor Potorzhinski
• Running Time: 5 min. sec.

Traditional, Russian : The Bandore

• Performer: Boris Christoff (Bass)
• Conductor: Feodor Potorzhinski
• Running Time: 3 min. 28 sec.

Traditional, Russian : Down Peterskaya Street

• Performer: Boris Christoff (Bass)
• Conductor: Feodor Potorzhinski
• Running Time: 2 min. 13 sec.

Traditional, Russian : Kak na matushke na Nive-rike (Down the Volga)

• Performer: Boris Christoff (Bass)
• Conductor: Feodor Potorzhinski
• Running Time: 3 min. 39 sec.

Traditional, Russian : The Lonely Autumn Night

• Performer: Boris Christoff (Bass)
• Conductor: Feodor Potorzhinski
• Running Time: 5 min. 22 sec.

Russian Orthodox Chant : By the Rivers of Babylon

• Performer: Boris Christoff (Bass)
• Conductor: Feodor Potorzhinski
• Running Time: 5 min. 24 sec.
• Period Time: Medieval

Strokine, Mikhail : Prayer to St. Simeon, for voice & chorus

• Performer: Boris Christoff (Bass)
• Conductor: Feodor Potorzhinski
• Running Time: 2 min. 36 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic

Chesnokov, Pavel : Lord have mercy on our people

• Performer: Boris Christoff (Bass)
• Conductor: Feodor Potorzhinski
• Running Time: 4 min. sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Traditional, Russian : The song of the twelve robbers

• Performer: Boris Christoff (Bass)
• Conductor: Feodor Potorzhinski
• Running Time: 5 min. 55 sec.

Gretchaninov, Alexander : The Litany of Fervent Supplication

• Performer: Boris Christoff (Bass)
• Conductor: Feodor Potorzhinski
• Running Time: 6 min. 1 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic

Traditional, Russian : The Siberian Prisoner's Song

• Performers: Boris Christoff (Bass); Gerald Moore (Piano)
• Running Time: 4 min. 17 sec.

Mussorgsky, Modest : Songs and Dances of Death :: no 4. Field-Marshal Death

• Performers: Gerald Moore (Piano); Boris Christoff (Bass)
• Running Time: 4 min. 54 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Vocal
• Written: 1875-1877

Traditional, Russian : The Grave

• Performers: Boris Christoff (Bass); Gerald Moore (Piano)
• Running Time: 3 min. 44 sec.

Mussorgsky, Modest : Softly the spirit flew up to heaven

• Performers: Gerald Moore (Piano); Boris Christoff (Bass)
• Running Time: 3 min. 14 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1877

Lishkin : She mocked

• Performers: Boris Christoff (Bass); Gerald Moore (Piano)
• Running Time: 3 min. 32 sec.

Traditional, Russian : Eh, Ukhnyem (Song of the Volga Boatmen), folk song

• Performer: Boris Christoff (Bass)
• Conductor: Issay Dobroven
• Running Time: 4 min. 20 sec.
• Form: Vocal
• Written: by 1900