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The Oresteia

BBC Radio 3
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A musical trilogy after AESCHYLUS with text by A.A VENKSTERN and music by Sergey Taneyev (sung in Russian)
BYELORUSSIAN STATE OPERA CHORUS
AND ORCHESTRA/KOLOMITSE VA Records

Contributors

Music By:
Sergey Taneyev
Sentinel/Judge of the Areopagus:
Stanislav Frolov (bass)
Clytemnestra, Agamemnon's wife:
Lydia Galushkina (contralto)
Aegisthus, her lover and Agamemnon's cousin:
Anatoly Bokov (baritone)
Agamemnon, King of Argos:
Viktor Chernobayev (bass)
Cassandra, a Trojan prisoner:
Nelli Tkachenko (soprano)
Electra, daughter of Agamemnon:
Tamara Shimko (soprano)
Orestes, son of Agamemnon:
Ivan Dubrovin (tenor)
Slave:
Mikhail Pushkariev (bass)
Apollo:
Arkady Savchenko (baritone)
Pallas Athene:
Lyudmila Ganestova (soprano)
Source: Radio Times

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