Baritone Vocals – Муслим Магомаев (tracks: 11, 12, 16, 17)
Bass Vocals – Евгений Нестеренко* (tracks: 13, 14), Борис Гмыря* (tracks: 9)
Composed By – А.П. Бородин* (tracks: 9), А.Е. Варламов* (tracks: 6), М.И. Глинка* (tracks: 7, 8), Н.А. Римский-Корсаков* (tracks: 10), П.И. Чайковский* (tracks: 11 to 17), С.В. Рахманинов* (tracks: 18 to 21), А.А. Алябьев* (tracks: 1, 2), А.Л. Гурилёв* (tracks: 3 to 5)
Conductor – Захарий Кожарский (tracks: 1), Николай Некрасов (2) (tracks: 3)
Design – И. Крюков*
Engineer – А. Бахарев* (tracks: 2), Э. Шахназарян* (tracks: 7 to 10), И. Вепринцев* (tracks: 4 to 6, 13, 14, 18 to 21), Ю. Кокжаян* (tracks: 11, 12, 16, 17), А. Мелитонян* (tracks: 3), Г. Брагинский* (tracks: 15), Е. Бунеева* (tracks: 13, 14), Ю. Винник* (tracks: 1)
Layout – М. Касьян*
Liner Notes [Editor] – О. Демченко*
Lyrics By – Г. Гейне* (tracks: 16, 21), А. Пушкин* (tracks: 2, 7 to 10), А. Апухтин* (tracks: 15, 17), А. Толстой* (tracks: 11 to 13)
Mezzo-soprano Vocals – Елена Образцова* (tracks: 4 to 6), Ирина Архипова (tracks: 18 to 21)
Orchestra – Камерный Оркестр* (tracks: 1), Академический Оркестр Русских Народных Инструментов ВР И Т* (tracks: 3)
Painting – И. Е. Репин*, К. Брюллов*, К. А. Сомов*
Painting [Cover] – Исаак Левитан*
Painting [Lithography] – Р. Жуковский*
Piano – Игорь Жуков* (tracks: 8), Джон Вустман* (tracks: 18 to 21), Лия Могилевская* (tracks: 7), Татьяна Кандинская* (tracks: 2), Важа Чачава* (tracks: 4 to 6), Абрам Макаров (tracks: 10), Берта Козель (tracks: 15), Борис Абрамович (tracks: 11, 12, 16, 17), Евгений Шендерович (tracks: 13, 14), Лев Острин (tracks: 9)
Remastered By – Е. Барыкина*
Soprano Vocals – Евгения Шевелева* (tracks: 2), Бэла Руденко* (tracks: 3), Евгения Мирошниченко (tracks: 1)
Tenor Vocals – Николай Гедда* (tracks: 7), Константин Плужников (tracks: 8), Сергей Лемешев (tracks: 10, 15)
Translated By – А. Плещеев* (tracks: 21), Л. Мей* (tracks: 16)
Notes
Sold with an issue of Комсомольская Правда newspaper. Not to be sold separately.
This CD is the 16th release of the Великие Композиторы 2 series.
Comes in a printed cardboard sleeve glued inside the cover of the 44-paged CD-box sized book featuring the composers' biographies with color illustrations.
Front cover features Isaac Levitan's painting «Март» ("March") (1895).
Ⓒ ЗАО «Издательский Дом «Комсомольская Правда», 2010
Ⓟ ФГУП «Фирма Мелодия», 2010
Recorded in 1951–1985 (7–10); 1963 (15); 1970 (18–21); 1972 (11, 12, 16, 17); 1975 (1); 1978 (3);
запись по трансляции (live recording) 1982 (4–6); 1988 (2); 1991 (13, 14) .