PETER TCHAIKOVSKY (1840-1893): Cherevichki.

Description: True collector's material here: one of Tchaikovsky's least-known operas performed by some of the USSR's least-known (today anyway) singers in a recording made by a highly regarded conductor only three years after the end of World War II. 2 CDs. No libretto. Georgi Nelepp (tenor), Andrei Ivanov (baritone), Elena Kruglikova (soprano), Elizaveta Antonova (contralto), Chorus and Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre; Alexander Melik-Pashayev (rec. 1948).