Tchaikovsky : The Voyevoda, Act I of the destroyed opera in three acts Op. 3 (1867-68)

Reconstructed by Pavel Lamm, Vissarion Shebalin and Boris Asafyev in the 1940s. Overture I. Chorus of Maidens - Scene II. Arioso - Marya Vlasyevna’s Song with Chorus - Scene III. Scene with Chorus IV. Recitatives - Bastryukov’s Aria V. Scene - Duet for Marya Vlasyevna and Bastryukov VI. Scene VII. Scene VIII. Quartet - Scene IX. Finale Performed by Vladimir Matorin (bass), Leonid Zimnenko (bass), Aleksandra Fatkina (soprano) Galina Kuznetsova (soprano), Lyudmila Bondarenko (soprano), Anatoly Mishchevsky (tenor), Oleg Klenov (baritone), Yulina Abramovskaya (mezzo), Vladimir Svistov (bass), Vyacheslav Voynarovsky (tenor), Nina Isakova (mezzo) with the Moscow Radio Large Chorus and USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra conducted by Volodymyr Kozhukhar. As noted by : No. 1. The opening chorus includes the folk-tune ’A Little Duckling Swan on the Sea’ , which Tchaikovsky later arranged as No. 23 of Fifty Rus