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

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

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* Rudolf Barshai (violist) * Dimitri Bashkirov (pianist) * The Beatles (rock band) * Black Sabbath * Lazar Berman (pianist) * Borodin String Quartet * Mikhail Boyarsky (singer)

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Eric Clapton Eric Patrick Clapton (born 1945) is an English rock and blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He is often regarded as one of the most successful and influential guitarists in rock music. Clapton ranked second in ''Rolling Stone''s list of ...

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Slowhand ''Slowhand'' is the fifth full-length studio album by Eric Clapton. Released on 25 November 1977 by RSO Records, and titled after Clapton's nickname, it is one of his most commercially and critically successful studio albums. ''Slowhand'' produ ...

album) *

Bing Crosby Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr. (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an American singer, musician and actor. The first multimedia star, he was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century worldwide. He was a ...

Creedence Clearwater Revival Creedence Clearwater Revival, also referred to as Creedence and CCR, was an American rock band formed in El Cerrito, California. The band initially consisted of lead vocalist, lead guitarist, and primary songwriter John Fogerty; his brother, ...

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Dave Rave Dave "Rave" DesRoches is a Canadian rock musician from Hamilton, Ontario. To the general public, he is the sometime Teenage Head rhythm guitarist on the early recordings who graduated to lead singer during a Frankie Venom hiatus in 1985 and ...

(Dave Rave Group) *

Deep Purple Deep Purple are an English rock band formed in London in 1968. They are considered to be among the pioneers of heavy metal music, heavy metal and modern hard rock music, but their musical style has changed over the course of its existence. Ori ...

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* Vladimir Fedoseyev (conductor)

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* Anna German (singer) * Grigory Ginzburg (pianist) * Emil Gilels (pianist) *

Dizzy Gillespie John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (; October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, educator and singer. He was a trumpet virtuoso and improviser, building on the virtuosic style of Roy Eldridge but addi ...

(jazz trumpeter)

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* Julio Iglesias

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* Mahalia Jackson

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* Leonid Kogan (violinist) * Kiril Kondrashin (conductor) * Vladimir Krainev (pianist) * Eduard Khil (singer) *

Eson Kandov Eson Kandov (*October 31, 1941 in Tashkent) was an singer and musician from Uzbekistan with a successful career during the 1960-80s. He was awarded the distinction as Honored Artist of the Uzbek SSR in 1974 and is considered the first artist who ...

(singer) * Kino (post-punk band)

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* Heli Lääts (mezzo-soprano) * Valentina Levko (mezzo-soprano) *

Uno Loop Uno Loop (31 May 1930 – 8 September 2021) was an Estonian singer, musician, athlete, actor, and educator. Loop's career as a musician and singer began in the early 1950s. He performed with various ensembles and as a popular soloist beginning in ...

* John Lennon * Led Zeppelin

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* Mamas And Papas *

Muslim Magomayev (musician) Muslim Muhammad oghlu Magomayev ( az, Müslüm Məhəmməd oğlu Maqomayev / ) or Muslim Magometovich Magomayev (russian: Муслим Магометович Магомаев; 17 August 1942 – 25 October 2008), known simply as Muslim Magoma ...

* Paul McCartney (musician) *

Tamara Milashkina Tamara Andreyevna Milashkina (born 13 September 1934) is a Russian lyric and dramatic soprano. Born in Astrakhan, she studied with , and became a member of the Bolshoi Opera in 1958, where she remained one of the leading sopranos until 1989. Th ...

(soprano) * Mister Twister (band) *

Mashina Vremeni Mashina Vremeni () is a Russian rock band founded in 1969. Mashina Vremeni was a pioneer of Soviet rock music and remains one of the oldest still-active rock bands in Russia. The band's music incorporates elements of classic rock, blues, and b ...

(band) * Anatoliy Mokrenko (baritone) * Yevgeny Mravinsky (conductor)

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Alexandre Naoumenko Alexandre Grigoryevich Naoumenko (Russian: Александр Григорьевич Науменко) is a Russian operatic tenor, vocal coach and composer. Life and career Naoumenko was born in Lipetsk, Russia. After graduating from the Lip ...

(tenor) * Nautilus Pompilius (band) * Tatiana Nikolayeva (pianist) * Heinrich Neuhaus (pianist) *

Stanislav Neuhaus __NOTOC__ Stanislav Genrikhovich Neuhaus (Russian: Станислав Генрихович Нейгауз) (21 March 192724 January 1980) was a Soviet-Russian classical pianist, and son of the pianist and pedagogue Heinrich Neuhaus. Neuhaus was ...

(pianist)

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* David Oistrakh (violinist)

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* Oscar Peterson (jazz pianist) * Nikolai Petrov (pianist) * Viktoria Postnikova (pianist) * Alla Pugacheva (singer) * Raimonds Pauls (pianist) *

Pink Floyd Pink Floyd are an English rock band formed in London in 1965. Gaining an early following as one of the first British psychedelic music, psychedelic groups, they were distinguished by their extended compositions, sonic experimentation, philo ...

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* Sviatoslav Richter (pianist) *

Mstislav Rostropovich Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich, (27 March 192727 April 2007) was a Russian cellist and conductor. He is considered by many to be the greatest cellist of the 20th century. In addition to his interpretations and technique, he was wel ...

(cellist) * Gennadi Rozhdestvensky (conductor) * Sofia Rotaru (singer) *

Russya Irina Volodymyrivna "Russya" Poryvai ( uk, Руся; born June 9, 1968) is a Ukrainian singer, and musician. She released her first song ''Don't stand by my window'' in 1989. Russya had Top 10 hits on the Ukrainian charts in the late 1980s, and ...

(Ukrainian pop star, one of the last acts to release an album on the Melodiya label) * Cliff Richard * Kenny Rogers

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* Samuel Samosud (conductor) * Kurt Sanderling (conductor) * Daniil Shafran (cellist) *

Dmitri Shostakovich Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich, , group=n (9 August 1975) was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist who became internationally known after the premiere of his Symphony No. 1 (Shostakovich), First Symphony in 1926 and was regarded throug ...

(pianist) * Shostakovich Quartet * Alexander Slobodyanik (pianist) aka Slobodyanik, Aleksander * Vera Soukupova (mezzo-soprano) *

Soyol Erdene Soyol Erdene ( mn, Соёл Эрдэнэ, ) is the first rock band of Mongolia. Name "Soyol Erdene" is the name of a melodious popular song of 1920s which the band played on an electric guitar. The approximate meaning is "Cultural jewel". Hi ...

(rock band) * Yevgeny Svetlanov (conductor, composer, and pianist) * Henryk Szeryng (violinist)

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Taneyev Quartet The Taneyev Quartet made its first appearance in the Small Hall of the Leningrad Conservatory in the winter of 1946. Its members were students. The quartet played in particular the quartets of Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, and Taneiev but also included f ...

Anahit Tsitsikian Anahit Tsitsikian ( hy, Անահիտ Ցիցիկյան; born Leningrad, August 26, 1926; death Yerevan, May 2, 1999) was an Armenian female violinist. She toured around the world through more than 100 cities during the Soviet times; she taught ...

(violinist) * Tsvety (rock band) *

The Second Half ''The Second Half'' is an American sitcom television series created by Leo Benvenuti, Steve Rudnick and John Mendoza, that aired on NBC from September 7, 1993 to April 15, 1994. The series was executive-produced and co-created by its star, John M ...

(progressive rock band) * The Rolling Stones * The Moody Blues * Pete Townshend

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Vladimir Viardo Vladimir Viardo (born 1949 in Krasnaya Polyana, Soviet Union), is a Russian pianist. Career The first steps in music were taken with his mother, the classical singer, voice teacher and pianist Nathalia Viardo. Viardo studied with Irina Naumova ...

(pianist) *

Eliso Virsaladze Eliso Virsaladze ( ka, ელისო ვირსალაძე; born September 14, 1942) is a Georgia (country), Georgian pianist. Biography She was born in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR. Her father Constantine Virsaladze was a prominent doctor an ...

(pianist) * Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano) * Mikhail Voskresensky (pianist) * Vladimir Vysotsky (singer/songwriter)

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Vladimir Yampolsky Vladimir Yampolsky (1905–1965) was a Soviet pianist who served as David Oistrakh David Fyodorovich Oistrakh (; – 24 October 1974), was a Soviet classical violinist, violist and conductor. Oistrakh collaborated with major orchestras a ...

(pianist) *

Yuri Antonov Yuri Mikhailovich Antonov (russian: Юрий Михайлович Антонов; born 19 February 1945 in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union) is a Soviet and Russian composer, singer and musician, People's Artist of Russia (1997).

(singer)

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Yakov Zak Yakov Izrailevich Zak ( uk, Яків Ізраїлович Зак), (russian: link=no, Яков Израилевич Зак), ''Jiakov Israilevič Sak''; Odessa, – Moscow, 28 June 1976) was a Soviet and Russian pianist and pedagogue. People's ...

(pianist) * Zodiaks/Zodiac

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