tracks 1 to 3 choir The USSR Ministry Of Culture Chamber Choir
tracks 6 to 8 composed by Gaetano Donizetti
tracks 9, 10 composed by Pietro Mascagni
tracks 11, 12 composed by Ruggiero Leoncavallo
tracks 1 to 5 composed by Vincenzo Bellini
tracks 12 conductor Algis Žiūraitis
tracks 11 conductor Arvid Jansons
tracks 6 conductor Boris Khaikin
tracks 1 to 5, 9 conductor Mark Ermler
tracks 8 conductor Odysseas Dimitriadis
tracks 10 conductor Yuri Simonov
tracks 1 to 3 conductor [choir] Valery Polyansky
design Ильдар Крюков
tracks 9, 10 engineer Igor Veprintsev
tracks 11 engineer Mikhail Kustov
tracks 12 engineer Natan Shtilman
tracks 1 to 3 engineer Vitaly Ivanov
tracks 6 to 8 engineer Валентин Скобло
tracks 4, 5 engineer Михаил Пахтер
tracks 7 harp Vera Dulova
layout Мария Касьян
liner notes [editor] O. Demchenko
liner notes [editor] Татьяна Казарновская
tracks 8 mezzo-soprano vocals Elena Obraztsova
tracks 9 mezzo-soprano vocals Ирина Архипова
tracks 1 to 6, 8, 9, 12 orchestra Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra
tracks 11 orchestra Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra
tracks 10 orchestra Большой Симфонический Оркестр Всесоюзного Радио
painting Gaetano Donizetti
painting Giuseppe Cammarano
painting [cover] Alexandre Nikolaïevitch Benois
photography by E. Bieber
remastered by Максим Пилипов
tracks 4, 5 soprano vocals Елена Зименко
tracks 1 to 3 soprano vocals Мария Биешу
tracks 6 tenor vocals Анатолій Солов'яненко
tracks 12 tenor vocals Артур Айдинян
tracks 10 tenor vocals Владислав Пьявко
Copyright (c) ЗАО Издательский Дом Комсомольская Правда
Copyright (c) РАО
Phonographic Copyright (p) ФГУП Фирма Мелодия
Manufactured By ООО Диск Про
Printed By SIA Preses Nams Baltic
Sold with an issue of Комсомольская Правда newspaper. Not to be sold separately.
This CD is the 13th release of the [l491339] 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 Alexander Benois's painting «Итальянская комедия» (Italian comedy) (1905).

Ⓒ ЗАО «Издательский Дом «Комсомольская Правда», 2010
Ⓟ ФГУП «Фирма Мелодия», 2010

Recorded in 1960 (11); 1961 (12); 1965 (8); 1971 (6, 9, 10); 1976 (7); 1986 (1–3); 1987 (4, 5).

Total time: 63:40
Barcode: 4 600317 017720
Matrix / Runout: Mel CD 10 01772
Matrix / Runout: ООО ДИСК ПРО Лицензия Росохранкультуры серия ВАФ No 77-226 (On Mould Region)
Mould SID Code: IFPI ACT05
Other: 978-5-74750057-0 (ISBN)