The Guardian, in its guide to the definitive recordings of classical works, calls the Pokrovsky Ensemble's pairing of Stravinsky's famous 1923 cantata about a peasant wedding "with powerful performances of a group of Russian folk songs related to the poems Stravinsky used ... a fascinating exercise in historical musicology."
The CD of this album is available to purchase at ArkivMusic.
The Guardian, in its guide to the definitive recordings of classical works, calls the Pokrovsky Ensemble's pairing of Stravinsky's famous 1923 cantata about a peasant wedding "with powerful performances of a group of Russian folk songs related to the poems Stravinsky used ... a fascinating exercise in historical musicology."
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Produced by Abigail Adams
Arrangements of traditional music by Dmitri Pokrovsky
Recording Engineers: Victor Babushkin, Mosfilm Studio, Moscow (Les Noces); Rafael Ragimov, Russian Disc Studio, Moscow (Village Wedding Music)
Computer programming: Dmitri Pokrovsky, Alexander Gordyenko
Mixed and edited by Tom Bates, Blue Jay Studio, Carlisle, Massachusetts
Mastered by Robert C. Ludwig at Gateway Mastering, Portland, Maine
Les Noces liner notes by Theodore Levin; translations by Theodore Levin and Dmitri Pokrovsky; libretto annotations by Abigail Adams, Maria Nefiodova, Dmitri Pokrovsky
Village Wedding Music liner notes and translations by Abigail Adams and Dmitri Pokrovsky
Editorial consultant: Maria Nefiodova
Art direction and design: John William Costa
Cover illustration by Anthony Russo
Executive Producers: Theodore Levin and Robert Hurwitz
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MUSICIANS
The Pokrovsky Ensemble:
Alexander Danilov
Svetlana Dorokhova
Dmitri Fokin*
Alexander Gordyenko
Alexander Kondurin
Valentina Kozlova
Maria Nefiodova
Galena Parinova
Dmitri Pokrovsky*
Elena Sergeyeva
Irina Shiskina
Tamara Smyslova*
Olga Uketcheva
Evgenny Vedernikox*
Sergei Zhirkov
Tatyana Kazanskaya, Mikhail Korzin, violins
Alexander Danilov, vargan
Sergei Zhirkov, gusly
Victor Shubinsky, percussion
Katerina Zorina, village lamenter (19)
Ramiz Akhundov, rehearsal pianist
Tamara Smyslova, Choirmaster
Dmitri Pokrovsky, Artistic Director and Conductor
*principal soloist
