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Piotr Ilyich TCHAIKOVSKY (1840-1893) Pique Dame, (Queen of Spades) - opera in three Acts. Extracts from Pushkin’s poem read by Alla Demidova with brief interspersed scenes from the opera The Countess, Irina Arkhipova (m. sop); Yeletsky, Dmitri Hvorostovsky (bar); Surin, Alexander Vedernikov (bass); Hermann, Vitaly Tarashchenko (ten); Count Tomsky, Grigory Gritsuk (bar); Lisa, Natalia Datsko (sop); Pauline, Nina Romanova (cont); Vesna Children’s Choir The Yurlov State Academic Russian Choir Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio/Vladimir Fedoseyev The opera; recorded live in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory on December 25th 1989. The readings, and extracts, also recorded live at the ‘Pushkin Concert’ celebrating the poet’s 200th birthday on May 24th 1999 also from the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory