Christmas Bells
Sheet Music

SKU: NX.MELCD1002357

By Anastasia Leonova, Anna Aglatova, Eleonora Gvozdkova, Maksim Paster, Margarita Petrosian, Maria Krushevskaya, The Children's Choir of the Bolshoi Theatre, and Yulia Molchanova. By Benjamin Britten, Cesar Auguste Franck, Franz Xaver Gruber, James Lord Pierpont, Linda Spevacek, Luigi Denza, Thoinot Arbeau, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Country of Origin: Russia. Classical. Listening CD (1 disc). Published by Melodiya (NX.MELCD1002357).

The Children's Choir of the Bolshoi Theatre was founded one hundred years ago and has taken part in numerous opera and ballet productions, successfully combining theatre performances with it's own concert activities. The unique sound of the voices of the Bolshoi's young artists has been heard at many venues of Mowcow, Russia and other countries. The choir has collaborated with well-known Russian orchestras such as the Russian National Orchestra, the Tchaikovsky Big Symphony Orhcestra, the Moscow Symphony Orchestra Russian Philharmonia and the Osipov National Academic Orchestra of Folk Instruments. Many of the former artists and soloists of the choir have been prize winners of vocal competitions and sing in the leading opera houses of this country and abroad. Yulia Molchanova, a graduate of teh choral conducting faculty of the Moscow Conservatory where she studied under professor Boris Kulikov, started her career in the Children's Choir of the Bolshoi Theatre. She has been at the helm of the collective since 2004.

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