Re: [ARSCLIST] Bolshoi Russlan

[David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

And Lemeshev is kind of reaching for it as it is. I'm listening to the 
Westminster issue (complete with weird EQ change 7 seconds into the Overture, 
as if the tape had been mangled and they had to splice in a different 
beginning) and missing the distortion and muddiness I usually expect from early 
50s Russian recordings.

dl

Mike Richter wrote:
> David Lennick wrote:
> > Anyone know if the Bolshoi "Russlan" conducted by Kondrashin was 
> > recorded in 1952 or 1956, as has been suggested by one source? The 
> > sound is just too good for 1952.
>
> Ommer (and Steiger) give 1952. I tend to believe that date since by 1956 
> Lemeshev appears to have sung only Lensky (at the 500th performance in 
> the Bolshoi). K&R cites no later performance, not surprising for a lyric 
> tenor at 50 who had sung so much. There was a broadcast Fra Diavolo in 
> 1955, but I doubt that he was still up to Bayan that late.
>
> Mike