Svetlana Perevalova (soloist), Albina Shaikhieva (soloist), Diliza Nadyrova (soloist), Vladimir Ryzhkov (soloist), Maria Romina (soloist), Andrey Bilenko (soloist), Dmitry Khrapov (soloist)

Yekaterinburg Philharmonic Choir, Andrei Petrenko

The Yekaterinburg Philharmonic Choir (artistic director and conductor Andrei Petrenko) presents Great Music of Small Forms, an album of works by Russian composers of the 19th and 20th centuries. These include works by Varlamov and Glinka as representatives of the St. Petersburg school, by Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, Balakirev and Cui (The Mighty Handful), and by Arensky, Anton Rubinstein and Tchaikovsky. Whilst these composers were primarily known for their large-scale compositions, here they reveal themselves as consummate masters of the choral miniature, finding their inspiration in the masterpieces of Russian poetry, in folk songs and in salon romances. Listeners will here discover not only world-famous works by these composers but also original choral arrangements of their music that were made especially for this recording.

Michael Glinka (1804-1857) , Alexander Dargomyschsky (1813-1869) , Nikolai Rimsky-Korssakoff (1844-1908) , Alexander Varlamov (1801-1848) , Anton Rubinstein (1829-1894) , Alexander Borodin (1833-1887) , Mily Balakireff (1837-1910) , Cesar Cui (1835-1918) , Wissarion Schebalin (1902-1963) , Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky (1840-1893) , Viktor Kalinnikov (1870-1927) , Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881) a.o.

• Mikhail Glinka: Venetian Night
  +Alexander Dargomyzhsky: Petersburg Serenade Nr. 11 "A Storm shrouds the Sky"
  +Nikolai Rimsky-Korssakoff: The Tatar Captivity op. 18 Nr. 2
  +Alexander Varlamov: Why must I life and grieve
  +Anton Rubinstein: Mountain Peaks op. 48 Nr. 5
  +Alexander Borodin: In a Monastery
  +Mila Balakierev: The Silver Moon has risen
  +Cesar Cui: Nocturne op. 53 Nr. 4
  +Wissarion Schebalin: The Winter Road op. 42 Nr. 2
  +Anatoly Novikov: A Merry Feast
  +Erast Abaza: A Foggy Morning
  +Peter Tschaikowsky: A Golden Cloud spent the Night; In Church op. 39 Nr. 24
  +Victor Kalinnikov: Elegy
  +Modest Mussorgsky: Prayer
  +Anton Arensky: Serenade op. 57 Nr. 1
  +Anonymus: Vanyushka sas making a Path; Here comes the Troika dashing; The little Bell