"Ashkenazy tells us in the notes with this CD (incidentally they are both extensive and interesting with excellent thumbnail descriptions of each picture - one day we shall, hopefully, get a record which includes reproductions) that he always thinks in terms of orchestral colour when at the keyboard, and that in making his own orchestration he has "been guided by the deeper undercurrents of this predominantly dark-coloured piece". To have his piano version and orchestration together is salutary, and the CD banding allows one to move back and forward at will. Interestingly, tempos in the orchestral performance, except for the opening "Promenade", are in all cases marginally slower...In the orchestral version he is very broad, and the scoring emphasizes the religious connotation of Mussorgsky's use of a Russian Orthodox chant...Ashkenazy's score corrects "a number of textual errors which probably resulted from his [Ravel's] use of a poor edition of the piano score." - Gramophone, [May, 1986]
Complete 1872-versie, gefilmd in het Mariinski Theater in 1990. Het betreft een door Gergjev gedirigeerde heropvoering van de zeven jaar eerder door de filmregisseur Andrei Tarkovsky geproduceerde enscenering.
De originele versie (voor piano solo) en de bekende orkestratie van Maurice Ravel.
Historische opname van de proloog, eerste en tweede akte van de opera 'Boris Godoenov' met de legendarische bas Boris Christoff, die in drie rollen te horen is. 'Anyone who doesnt own a Boris Christoff performance of Boris Godunov has a hole in his/her collection.' (Robert Levine, www.classicstoday.com)
Derde en vierde akte van 'Boris Godoenov' in een historische opname met de bas Boris Christoff in de titelrol.
Opname uit 1979. "Opera in 5 acts, completed and orchestrated by Rimsky-Korsakov. "The Khovansky Uprising" (as the title is often translated) is a sprawling tale of the struggle for power in Russia at the beginning of the reign of Peter The Great. This performance, taped at the Bolshoi Opera in 1979, stars the great Russian bass Yevgeni Nesterenko as Dosifei, the Old Believer at religious and psychological war with the new order, led by Prince Ivan Khovansky. The manipulative Khovansky is powerfully portrayed here by Alexander Vedernikov, another of the world's great basses, little known outside of the Soviet Union. Marfa, one of Dosifei's followers and a fortune teller, is sung by the legendary mezzo-soprano Irina Arkhipova in a performance of great authority and dignity. Russian opera at the Bolshoi is the genuine article, and a remainder of the cast is equally impressive, from the mistrusting Prince Galitsyn of Evgeny Raikov to the clever, informing Shaklovity of Vladislav Romanovsky." (Amazon)
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