This page lists all recordings of Ivan Susanin (A Life for the Tsar), by Mikhail Glinka (1804-57) on CD, DVD & download (MP3 & FLAC). Generally, more recent releases are listed first, but with priority given to those that are in stock. |
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Boris Christoff (Ivan Susanin), Virginia Zeani (Antonida), Giuseppe Campora (Bogdan Sobinin), Anna Maria Rota (Vanya), Eraldo Coda (Sigizmund King of Poland), Guglielmo Fazzini (Polish Messenger) Orchestra Sinfonica e Coro di Milano della Rai, Alfredo Simonetto This performance was recorded in Milan on 9th November 1954. This version was arranged and edited by Rimsky-Korsakov and Glazunov. | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Glinka: Ivan Susanin (A Life for the Tsar)Sung in Italian; recorded in Milan December 1954
Boris Christoff (Ivan Susanin), Virginia Zeani (Antonida), Giuseppe Campora (Bogdan Sobinin), Anna Maria Rota (Vanya), Eraldo Coda (Sigizmund King of Poland), Guglielmo Fazzini (Polish Messenger) Orchestra and Chorus of the RAI Milano, Alfredo Simonetto Boris Christoff leads this great cast in Glinka’s opera “Ivan Susanin” widely known to western audiences as “A Life for the Tsar.” The name was reverted after the breakup of the Soviet Union. There are also bonus tracks on this release of “Prince Igor” featuring Igor Gorin in the title role from a performance given in Chicago in 1962. | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Orchestra and Chorus of the Bolshoi Opera | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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Recorded live in Milan, 1954 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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recorded in 1947 and first issued on 22 shellac discs | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Glinka: Ivan Susanin (A Life for the Tsar)studio recording, 1986
Nicola Ghiuselev (Ivan Susanin), Elena Stoyanova (Antonida), Roumen Doikov (Bogdan Sobinin), Cristina Anghelakova (Vanya) Sofia National Opera Chorus and Orchestra, Ivan Marinov ‘I could not become an Italian composer and, remembering my homeland with nostalgia, I gradually began to think of composing like a Russian’ wrote Glinka in his memoirs. From 1830-4 he had traveled throughout Germany, Switzerland and Italy, and A Life for the Tsar is the result of all the western musical influences Glinka had absorbed during his travels combining with Russian musical culture. At the successful premiere in St Petersburg in 1836 in the presence of the Tsar who gave the signal to applaud the public, embraced the work. Glinka had composed the first Russian opera, the progenitor of the operas to follow by Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Mussorgsky, Borodin, Stravinsky, Prokofiev and Shostakovich. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Glinka: Ivan Susanin (A Life for the Tsar)Recorded 1972
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Miro Changalovich (Ivan Susanin), Maria Glavachevich (Antonida), Militza Miladinovich (Vanya), Ivan Murgashki (Russian soldier), Drago Startz (Bogdan Sobinin), Bogolub Grubach (Polish messenger), Vladeta Dimitrievich (Sigizmund King of Poland) Yugoslav Army Chorus, Belgrade National Opera Orchestra, Oskar Danon | |
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