Historical Melodiyas - Sadko

NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV (1844-1908): Sadko.

Description: Three years older than the Onegin above, the sound here is only slightly more constricted but strikingly better than on previous issues from various "pirate opera" labels. The conducting of Golovanov and, in a fine example of luxury casting, the use of Mark Reizen, Ivan Kozlovsky and Pavel Lisitsian for the Varangian, Indian and Venetian Guests in Scene 4, are part of the riches to be encountered here. 3 CDs for the price of 2. No libretto. Elizaveta Shumskaya (soprano), Elizaveta Antonova (contralto), Pavel Lisitsian (baritone), Ivan Kozlovsky (tenor), Georgi Nelepp, Mark Reizen (basses), Choir and Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre; Nikolai Golovanov. Rec. 1952.