(BALIEFF'S) CHAUVE-SOURIS (1923)

Composer: Alexei Archangelsky
Lyricist: Various

Opened: September 3, 1923, Jolson’s Theatre, N.Y.C.
Performances: 32

Chastoushki (Russian Workspeople’s Ditties):

1. From Russia With Love, CD/Moscow Nights (Moscow Nights) (unverified)


Katinka (L: Fizchok Czarovich) (previously used in CHAUVE-SOURIS (1922) and subsequently used in CHAUVE-SOURIS (1925)):

1. 78/Victor 18979 (International Novelty Orchestra)


A Musical Snuff-Box (M: Liadoff):

1. 78/Decca 25317 (Moriz Rosenthal, piano)
2. 78/Brunswick 8458 (Brunswick Salon Orchestra)
3. 78/Melotone 193/194 (Florence Foster Jenkins with Cosme McMoon, piano) [reissued on The Glory (????) Of The Human Voice, CD/RCA Victor 2RG-61175]
4. 78/Victor 9798 (London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Albert Coates)
5. 45/Columbia A-1831 (Andre Kostelanetz and His Orchestra)
6. Russian And Trepak, CD/Classical Accordion CD #lips1 (Friedrich Lips)
7. 120 Melodies That Will Live Forever, CD/Reader’s Digest Music (London Promenade Orchestra)
8. Musical Fun & Games, CD/ASV/Living Era 257 (unknown performer)
Unverified radio transcriptions performed by the All Roth Orchestra, the Rosario Bourdon Symphony and the Leo Erdody Orchestra are also known to exist.


The Parade Of The Wooden Soldiers (M/L: Leon Jessel; Victor Olivier):

I have not attempted to compile discographical information for this standard.


Trepak (M: Pyotor Ilyich Tchaikovsky) (from the ballet THE NUTCRACKER):

I have not attempted to compile discographical information for this ballet standard.


Unrecorded Material:

The Chorus Of The Brothers Zaitzeff
Duet From The Sleeping Beauty (M: Pyotor Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
El Ekhnem  (The Famous Volga Boat Song) (L: Dailey Paskman)
La Grande Opera Italiana
La Grande Opera Italiana
The Minuet
A Night At Yard’s, Moscow, 1840 (Gypsy Songs)
The Night Idyll (L: Dailey Paskman)
The See Saw (Porcelaine de Meissen)
Songs Of Sentiment
The Sudden Death of A Horse, Or The Greatness Of The Russian Soul
U Prikazulka Vorot