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The following list contains all major audio and video recordings of Modest Mussorgsky's opera Boris Godunov. Recordings. 1869 version
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 ...
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
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 Feodorovich Godunov (/ ˈ ɡ ɒ d ən ɒ f, ˈ ɡ ʊ d ən ɒ f /; [1] Russian: Борис Фёдорович Годунов; 12 August [O.S. 2 August] 1552 [2] – 23 April [O.S. 13 April] 1605) [3] [4] was the de facto regent of Russia from 1585 to 1598 and then tsar from 1598 to 1605 following the death of Feodor I, the last of the ...
The Songs and Dances of Death have been recorded by numerous vocalists, including Vladimir Rosing, George London, [2] Ferruccio Furlanetto, [3] Nicolai Ghiaurov, Boris Christoff, [4] Kim Borg, [5] Martti Talvela (twice: once with piano accompaniment [6] and once with full orchestra [7]), Matti Salminen, [8] Anatoly Kotcherga, [9] Paata Burchuladze, Aage Haugland, [10] Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Ewa ...
Khovanshchina (Russian: Хованщина, IPA: [xɐˈvanʲɕːɪnə] ⓘ, sometimes rendered The Khovansky Affair) is an opera (subtitled a 'national music drama') in five acts by Modest Mussorgsky.
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 ...