Big Children's Choir
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Big Children's Choir of the USSR All-Union 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 and Russia.
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The choir was founded in 1970 and is based in Moscow. Its founding chief conductor was professor Victor Sergeevich Popov (1934-2008), People's Artist of the USSR.
The choir has a very big repertoire made of thousands of different musical compositions, including short songs, cantatas, classical music, and soviet patriotic songs. The choir had (and still has) the widest popularity in Soviet and post-Soviet society because of its repertoire for children including songs from children and teenage films, and even sang with well known singers and starred in its own television programs in the 1980s.
The choir's collection 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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