Biography
Big Children's Choir of the USSR National Radio Service and USSR Central Television Networks (Russian: Большой детский хор Всесоюзного радио и Центрального телевидения (БДХ)) is one of the most popular children's choirs from the former USSR.
The choir was founded in 1970 and based in Moscow. Its chief conductor was professor Victor Popov (1934-2008), People's Artist of the USSR.
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The choir had a very big repertoire that contained more than thousands of different musical compositions, including short songs, cantatas, classical music, and soviet patriotic songs. The choir had the widest popularity in soviet and post-soviet society because of its repertoire for children including songs from children's and teenagers' films.
The repertoire of the choir contains compositions written by composers such as Mikhail Glinka, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Sergei Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, Johann Sebastian Bach, Aleksandra Pakhmutova, Vladimir Shainsky, Eugeny Krylatov, Jury Chichkov etc.
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