THE KEDROFF QUARTET:
Nicolas Kedroff ; Thimothee Kasakoff ; Jean Denissoff ; Constantin Chmatkoff -
Kaidanoff
HELEN PERKIN (pianoforte) QUARTET Sacred Music from the Services of the Eastern Orthodox Church
The Kedroff Vocal Quartet was founded by Nicolas Kedroff at St. Petersburg in 1897. The members of this ensemb!e have always been renowned singers. Since the date of the Quartet's first performance at the St. Petersburg Conservatoire, it has had, of course, changes of personnel. The two tenors and bass-Jean Denissoff, Thimothee Kasakoff. and Constantin Chmatkoff -Kaidanoff, respectively-are all of the Leningrad Opera, and the baritone, Nicolas Kedroff , is a professor at the Leningrad Conservatoire.