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The following list contains all major audio and video recordings of Modest Mussorgsky's opera Boris Godunov. Recordings. 1869 version ... Music and Arts Cat: 867
Boris Godunov has often been subjected to cuts, recomposition, re-orchestration, transposition of scenes, or conflation of the original and revised versions. Several composers, chief among them Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov and Dmitri Shostakovich , have created new editions of the opera to "correct" perceived technical weaknesses in the composer's ...
Some of his performances at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in London were recorded live in the 1920s, including a haunting version of the "Death of Boris" from Boris Godunov. His last disc, made in Tokyo in 1936, was of the famous The Song of the Volga Boatmen. Many of his recordings were issued in the United States by RCA Victor.
Boris Godunov: 1868-10: 1869-12-15: Original version; based on the drama Boris Godunov (1825) by Alexander Pushkin: Bobïl: 1870: 1870: Projected; to be based on the drama Hans und Grete (1868) by Friedrich Spielhagen; Marfa's Divination from Khovanshchina derives from sketches for this work Boris Godunov: 1871: 1872
His complete songs by Mussorgsky are available, produced by EMI. He recorded the Verdi Requiem 3 times, once under Tullio Serafin in Rome 1959, once with Herbert von Karajan and once with Bruno Bartoletti. Two recordings of Boris Godunov are available with Christoff singing three roles: Boris, Pimen, and Father Varlaam.
He was to remain principal bass at the Met until 1974, adding roles such as Boris Godunov (in English) and Gurnemanz in Parsifal (in German), and singing all the major roles of the bass repertoire. His debut at the Royal Opera House , Covent Garden , was in 1950, and he appeared there regularly until the mid-1970s.
"Alexander Kipnis, Mussorgsky, Boris Godunov" contains excerpts from Boris recorded in 1945 by RCA and a selection of Russian arias and songs. album 60522-2-RG; Austrian Preiser Records issued several well-filled CD recitals devoted to Kipnis. German TIM AG, Die Zauberflöte, 2 CD's. Kipnis as Sarastro, Vienna Philharmonic (conducted by ...
Vishnevskaya made many recordings, including Eugene Onegin (1956 and 1970), Mussorgsky's Songs and Dances of Death (1961 and 1976), Britten's War Requiem (with Sir Peter Pears and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, conducted by the composer; 1963), The Poet's Echo (1968), Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov (1970 and 1987), Puccini's Tosca (1976), Tchaikovsky's ...