List of Melodiya artists explained

List of recording artists performing on or signed to Melodiya at one time or another.

A

• ABBA (pop group)
• Alexander Alexeev (conductor)
• Karel Ančerl (conductor)
• Aria (Russian metal band)
• Vladimir Ashkenazy (pianist, conductor)

B

• Rudolf Barshai (violist)
• Dimitri Bashkirov (pianist)
• The Beatles (rock band)
• Black Sabbath^[1]
• Lazar Berman (pianist)
• Borodin String Quartet
• Mikhail Boyarsky (singer)

C

• Eric Clapton (song 'Cocaine' omitted from Slowhand album)
• Bing Crosby
• Creedence Clearwater Revival

D

• Dave Rave (Dave Rave Group)
• Deep Purple

F

• Vladimir Fedoseyev (conductor)

G

• Anna German (singer)
• Grigory Ginzburg (pianist)
• Emil Gilels (pianist)
• Dizzy Gillespie (jazz trumpeter)

I

• Julio Iglesias

J

• Mahalia Jackson

K

• Leonid Kogan (violinist)
• Kiril Kondrashin (conductor)
• Vladimir Krainev (pianist)
• Eduard Khil (singer)
• Eson Kandov (singer)
• Kino (post-punk band)

L

• Heli Lääts (mezzo-soprano)
• Valentina Levko (mezzo-soprano)
• Uno Loop
• John Lennon
• Led Zeppelin

M

• Mamas And Papas
• Muslim Magomayev (musician)
• Paul McCartney (musician)
• Tamara Milashkina (soprano)
• Mister Twister (band)
• Mashina Vremeni (band)
• Anatoliy Mokrenko (baritone)
• Yevgeny Mravinsky (conductor)

N

• Alexandre Naoumenko (tenor)
• Nautilus Pompilius (band)
• Tatiana Nikolayeva (pianist)
• Heinrich Neuhaus (pianist)
• Stanislav Neuhaus (pianist)

O

• David Oistrakh (violinist)

P

• Oscar Peterson (jazz pianist)
• Nikolai Petrov (pianist)
• Viktoria Postnikova (pianist)
• Alla Pugacheva (singer)
• Raimonds Pauls (pianist)
• Pink Floyd

R

• Sviatoslav Richter (pianist)
• Mstislav Rostropovich (cellist)
• Gennadi Rozhdestvensky (conductor)
• Sofia Rotaru (singer)
• Russya (Ukrainian pop star, one of the last acts to release an album on the Melodiya label)^[2]
• Cliff Richard
• Kenny Rogers

S

• Samuel Samosud (conductor)
• Kurt Sanderling (conductor)
• Daniil Shafran (cellist)
• Dmitri Shostakovich (pianist)
• Shostakovich Quartet
• Alexander Slobodyanik (pianist) aka Slobodyanik, Aleksander
• Vera Soukupova (mezzo-soprano)
• Soyol Erdene (rock band)
• Yevgeny Svetlanov (conductor, composer, and pianist)
• Henryk Szeryng (violinist)

T

• Taneyev Quartet
• Anahit Tsitsikian (violinist)
• Tsvety (rock band)^[3]
• The Second Half (progressive rock band)
• The Rolling Stones
• The Moody Blues
• Pete Townshend

V

• Vladimir Viardo (pianist)
• Eliso Virsaladze (pianist)
• Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano)
• Mikhail Voskresensky (pianist)
• Vladimir Vysotsky (singer/songwriter)

Y

• Vladimir Yampolsky (pianist)
• Yuri Antonov (singer)

Z

• Yakov Zak (pianist)
• Zodiaks/Zodiac

Notes and References

1. Web site: Find Music on Discogs Discogs . 2022-12-24 . www.discogs.com.
2. https://day.kyiv.ua/uk/article/kultura/prosto-rusya (in Ukrainian)
3. Web site: Firma Melodiya . Melody.su/en/ . 2020-04-14.