Aleksandr Porfir'evich Borodin
Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin (Russian: Александр Порфирьевич Бородин, tr. Aleksandr Porfiryevich Borodin, IPA: [ɐlʲɪkˈsandr pɐrˈfʲi rʲjɪvʲɪtɕ bərɐˈdʲin] (listen); 12 November 1833 – 27 February 1887) was a Romantic composer and chemist of Georgian-Russian extraction. He was one of the prominent 19th-century composers known as "The Five", a group dedicated to producing a "uniquely Russian" kind of classical music. Borodin is known best for his symphonies, his two string quartets, the symphonic poem In the Steppes of Central Asia and his opera Prince Igor. A doctor and chemist by profession and training, Borodin made important early contributions to organic chemistry. Although he is presently known better as a composer, he regarded medicine and science as his primary occupations, only practising music and composition in his spare time or when he was ill. As a chemist, Borodin is known best for his work concerning organic synthesis, including being among the first chemists to demonstrate nucleophilic substitution, as well as being the co-discoverer of the aldol reaction. Borodin was a promoter of education in Russia and founded the School of Medicine for Women in Saint Petersburg, where he taught until 1885. |
Birth and Death Data: Born 1833 (Saint Petersburg), Died February 27, 1887 (Saint Petersburg)
Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1915 - 1938
Roles Represented in DAHR: composer
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Recordings (Results 1-25 of 62 records)
Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
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Victor | B-20258 | 10-in. | 7/27/1917 | Coro di donne Tartare | Metropolitan Opera Chorus | Female vocal chorus, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | B-20259 | 10-in. | 7/27/1917 | Prince Igor : Coro e danza | Metropolitan Opera Chorus | Vocal chorus, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | B-24631 | 10-in. | 10/18/1920 | Polovetzki dances nos. 1 & 2 | Philadelphia Orchestra ; Leopold Stokowski | Orchestra | composer | |
Victor | C-25916 | 12-in. | 12/21/1921 | Nocturne | Flonzaley Quartet | String quartet | composer | |
Victor | C-26118 | 12-in. | 2/13/1922 | Polovetzki dances, no. 2 | Philadelphia Orchestra ; Leopold Stokowski | Orchestra | composer | |
Victor | B-27091 | 10-in. | 11/22/1922 | Recitative and air of Prince Galitsky | Fyodor Ivanovich Chaliapin | Bass vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | BVE-27091 | 10-in. | 3/16/1927 | Song of Prince Galitsky | Fyodor Ivanovich Chaliapin | Bass vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | CVE-32550 | 12-in. | 4/29/1925 | Polovetzki dance | Philadelphia Orchestra ; Leopold Stokowski | Orchestra | composer | |
Victor | CVE-43632 | 12-in. | 4/13/1928 | Hamlet's soliloquy | John Barrymore | Recitation, with string quartet and traps | composer | |
Victor | CVE-43726 | 12-in. | 4/12/1928 | Arioso of Yaroslavna | Nina Koshetz | Soprano vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | BS-98394 | 10-in. | 12/23/1935 | Scherzo | Sergei Rachmaninoff | Piano solo | composer | |
Victor | CS-06614 | 12-in. | 3/9/1937 | Dance of the Polovetzki maidens | Victor Babin ; Vitya Vronsky | Piano duet | composer | |
Victor | CS-06615 | 12-in. | 3/9/1937 | Dance of the Polovetzki maidens | Victor Babin ; Vitya Vronsky | Piano duet | composer | |
Victor | CS-07559 | 12-in. | 4/5/1937 | Dances of the Polovetzki maidens | Philadelphia Orchestra ; Leopold Stokowski | Orchestra | composer | |
Victor | CS-07560 | 12-in. | 4/5/1937 | Dances of the Polovetzki maidens | Philadelphia Orchestra ; Leopold Stokowski | Orchestra | composer | |
Victor | CS-07561 | 12-in. | 4/5/1937 | Dances of the Polovetzki maidens | Philadelphia Orchestra ; Leopold Stokowski | Orchestra | composer | |
Victor | CS-07562 | 12-in. | 4/5/1937 | Dances of the Polovetzki maidens | Philadelphia Orchestra ; Leopold Stokowski | Orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 48674 | 12-in. | 4/4/1916 | Polovetsian dance and ensemble | Harling Mixed Quartet | Mixed vocal quartet | composer | |
Columbia | 48739 | 12-in. | ca. 1916 | Prince Igor : March of the opera | Symphony Orcherstra [Columbia Records] | Orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 98024 | 12-in. | 4/14/1922 | Prince Igor | Metropolitan Opera Orchestra | Orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 98100 | 12-in. | 11/7/1923 | Quartet in D major : Nocturne | London String Quartet | String quartet | composer | |
Columbia | 6561 | 12-in. | approximately 1915 | Prince Igor | Beecham Symphony Orchestra | Orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 6562 | 12-in. | approximately 1915 | Prince Igor | Beecham Symphony Orchestra | Orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 6601 | 12-in. | approximately 1915 | Prince Igor | Beecham Symphony Orchestra ; Thomas Beecham | Orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 75217 | 12-in. | 11/13/1922 | Quartet in D major : Nocturne | Léner Quartet | String quartet | composer |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Borodin, Aleksandr Porfir'evich," accessed November 2, 2024, https://adpprod2.library.ucsb.edu/names/102921.
Borodin, Aleksandr Porfir'evich. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved November 2, 2024, from https://adpprod2.library.ucsb.edu/names/102921.
"Borodin, Aleksandr Porfir'evich." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 2 November 2024.
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