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Boris Godounov (1869 & 1872 Versions)
by: Andrei Karabanov, Grigory Karasev, Yuri Laptev, Olga Borodina, Vladimir Galusin
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0028946223024
Format: Box set
Label: Philips
Manufacturer: Philips
Number Of Discs: 5
Publisher: Philips
Release Date: January 12, 1999
Studio: Philips
Sales Rank: 17249
MPN: 462230
Disc 1:- Part 1: Orchestral Introduction - "Well, what are you waiting for?"
- Part 1: "For whom dost thou forsake us?"
- Part 1: "People of the Orthodox faith"
- Part 1: "Glory to thee, our Lord"
- Part 2, scene 2: Orchestral Introduction - "Long live Tsar Boris Feodorovich"
- Part 2, scene 2: "My soul is sad"
- Part 2, scene 2: "Glory! Glory! Glory!"
- Part 2, scene 1: "Just one more final tale"
- Part 2, scene 1: "Lord, our Heavenly Father - That same dream again"
- Part 2, scene 1: "You have gone on writing"
- Part 2, scene 1: "Holy father, for a long time"
- Part 2, scene 1: "Boris! Boris!"
- Part 2, scene 2: Orchestral Introduction - "Can I bring you anything, reverent fathers?"
- Part 2, scene 2: "It all happened in the town of Kazan"
- Part 2, scene 2: "Why don't you join in the singing?"
- Part 2, scene 2: "There he goes - What sort of people are you?"
- Part 2, scene 2: "I can read"
Disc 2:- Part 3: "My dear husband"
- Part 3: "That's enough now, my precious tsarevich"
- Part 3: "I have achieved supreme power"
- Part 3: "Yesterday evening, Pushkin's servant..."
- Part 3: "No! Wait, wait, Shuisky"
- Part 3: "It is not execution that I fear"
- Part 4, scene 1: Orchestral Introduction - "What? Is mass over?"
- Part 4, scene 1: "Trrr, trrr, tin hat - The moon is on its travels"
- Part 4, scene 1: "What is he weeping about?"
- Part 4, scene 2: "Boyars of noble rank"
- Part 4, scene 2: "What? Let us vote, boyars"
- Part 4, scene 2: "Get away... get away!"
- Part 4, scene 2: "A humble monk"
- Part 4, scene 2: "Once in a deep sleep"
- Part 4, scene 2: "Leave us! All of you, go!"
- Part 4, scene 2: "O Lord! Look down"
Disc 3:- Prologue, scene 1: Orchestral Introduction - "Well, what are you waiting for?"
- Prologue, scene 1: "For whom dost thou forsake us?"
- Prologue, scene 1: "People of the Orthodox faith"
- Prologue, scene 1: "Glory to thee, our Lord"
- Prologue, scene 2: Orchestral Introduction - "Long live Tsar Boris Feodorovich"
- Prologue, scene 2: "My soul is sad"
- Prologue, scene 2: "Glory! Glory! Glory!"
- Act 1, scene 1: "Just one more final tale"
- Act 1, scene 1: "Lord, our Heavenly Father - That same dream again"
- Act 1, scene 1: "You have gone on writing"
- Act 1, scene 1: "Holy father, for a long time"
- Act 1, scene 1: "It is the bell for matins"
- Act 1, scene 2: "I caught a grey drake"
- Act 1, scene 2: "It all happened in the town of Kazan"
- Act 1, scene 2: "Why don't you join in the singing?"
- Act 1, scene 2: "There he goes - What sort of people are you?"
- Act 1, scene 2: "I can read"
Disc 4:- Act 2: "Where are you, my dear husband?"
- Act 2: "Ah! That's enough now"
- Act 2: "So the gnat was chopping some firewood"
- Act 2: "Ah, nurse, nanny"
- Act 2: "Ah! - What? Has a wild beast..."
- Act 2: "I have achieved supreme power"
- Act 2: "How heavily weighs the right hand of the fearful judge"
- Act 2: "Ah, shoo!"
- Act 2: "Our little parrot was sitting"
- Act 2: "My son, my own dear child!"
- Act 2: "Ah, the most illustrious orator"
- Act 2: "Take measures immediately"
- Act 2: "At the cathedral in Uglich"
- Act 3, scene 1: "On the azure Vistula"
- Act 3, scene 1: "Enough!"
- Act 3, scene 1: "Ruzya, I do not need you today - How tediously..."
- Act 3, scene 1: "Ah! It's you, my father!"
- Act 3, scene 1: "Captivate the Pretender with your beauty!"
- Act 3, scene 1: "Your eyes have started to sparkle with a hellish flame"
- Act 3, scene 2: "At midnight... in the garden... near the fountain"
- Act 3, scene 2: "Tsarevich!"
- Act 3, scene 2: "A humble, sinful pilgrim"
- Act 3, scene 2: "Tsarevich, conceal yourself!"
- Act 3, scene 2: "That crafty Jesuit"
- Act 3, scene 2: "The wife of that toothless debauchee"
- Act 3, scene 2: "It is she! Marina!"
- Act 3, scene 2: "But is it not for amourous conversations"
- Act 3, scene 2: "You alone, Marina I worship"
- Act 3, scene 2: "Leaders from all corners of Russia"
- Act 3, scene 2: "O, tsarevich, I beg you, do nor curse me"
Disc 5:- Act 4, scene 1: "Boyars of noble rank"
- Act 4, scene 1: "What? Let us vote, boyars"
- Act 4, scene 1: "It's a pity that Prince Shuisky isn't here"
- Act 4, scene 1: "Get away... get away!"
- Act 4, scene 1: "A humble monk"
- Act 4, scene 1: "Once in a deep sleep"
- Act 4, scene 1: "Leave us! All of you, go!"
- Act 4, scene 1: "O Lord! Look down"
- Act 4, scene 2: "Over here! Sit him down on the stump!"
- Act 4, scene 2: "Trrr, trrr, tin hat! - The moon is on its travels"
- Act 4, scene 2: "The sun and the moon have faded"
- Act 4, scene 2: "Hurrah! Daring boldness has broken free"
- Act 4, scene 2: "Domine, salvum fac Regem"
- Act 4, scene 2: "Glory to you, tsarevich!"
- Act 4, scene 2: "We, Dmitry Ivanovich"
- Act 4, scene 2: "Flow, flow bitter tears!"
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com essential recording:
Besides being one of the best modern recordings of this masterpiece about a Macbeth-like czar who murders his way to the top, this five-disc set (sold for the cost of three) presents the opera both in its original 1869 version and in its 1872 revision, side by side. The former is clearly not finished: it needs more scenes (key characters have little stage time), and the ones that do exist don't always make their full dramatic impact. However, there's much brilliance even in nascent form, particularly with the composer's discreet breaks with traditional, functional harmony a full 30 years before Debussy. Even passages that sound inept do so eloquently, thanks to Valery Gergiev's seemingly telepathic rapport with Moussorgsky's psychologically penetrating dramaturgy. Key roles are often double cast, which gives vocal and interpretive variety and shows off just how rich the Kirov Opera is in bass voices. I prefer the earlier Boris (the lighter-voiced, more nuanced Nikolai Putilin) to the beefier Vladimir Vaneev in the later version. The later Grigory, Vladimir Galusin, shouts a bit but in a text-attentive way; besides, his character (the pretend czar) is likely to go for bombast. Borodina's Marina is relentlessly imperious and not sufficiently seductive--the one minor problem in this fine, studio-recorded set that signals a great sonic improvement over Kirov's more fatiguing outings in the Mariinsky Theatre. --David Patrick Stearns
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I can not compare this version with others it's the first "Boris" I have ever listened to. I enjoyed the performance very much. It was good to have both versions for the price of one. What I don't understand is why the libretto has the russian rendered in cyrillic. Why not a phonetic Russian that none Russian speakers can follow? But do not let this small quibble put you off a fine recording.
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Since it appeared in 1998, this two-for-one Boris Godunov has been widely acclaimed. I'd just like to praise the original 1869 version, which is harsher, more compact, and more visceral than all its successors. Here is the Gramophone's brief account of the opera's evolution:
"Mussorgsky composed seven scenes: outside the Novedevichy Monastery, Coronation outside the Kremlin, Pimen's Cell, the Inn, the Tsar's rooms in the Kremlin, outside St Basil's Cathedral, Boris's Death in the Kremlin. When these were rejected by the Imperial Theatres in 1872, he made various revisions. To meet objections about the lack of female roles, he added the two scenes with the Polish princess Marina Mniszek; he also substituted the final Kromy Forest ... Read More:
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Boris Godunov is really one of the most important operas of all times. With L'Orfeo (Monteverdi) ,Don Giovanni, Tristan, Pelleas , Wozzeck , we are with this opera at a very high level . Fortunately , after 1975 we normally hear this opera as the author wrote , not with the modifications of Korsakow , that aren't one "orchestration " but one important change in Harmony, rhythms, and sequence of the scenes . Maybe we can consider the work of Korsakow important in a time when the modernity of the music was really incomprehensible( Napravnick , the conductor of the premiere was a very bad musician as he conducted but acted against the work and after the death of Mussorgsky he did the same thing with Khowantscina : he refused the last opera Mussorgsky ... Read More:
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3 versions, what for! Bad versions, bad singers. You have Fedoseyev (original), Ermler and Melik Pashayev...It sounds much better. Great singers and orchestration
Martin
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This is a great recording in the chorus section, main casting is less effective vs the Abbado recording. Also this set offers M's "origianl score" which is the 1st 2 cds here. Makes no sense to include the bare sketch of the opera when Rimsky finished the opera. M's original is dull in comparison to Rimsky's. So actually the opera 's authorship is misleading. The opera's ture author's are Mussorgsky-RIMSKY KOR SAKOV. . Lets get this fact straight after all these years of misleading info.
Abbado is really the only one you need, but this recording offers the libretto...One last note I am more than confident that Shostakovich's finished Boris from M, is superior to Rimsky's. But since the russian authorities have Shosty's under lock and key, never ... Read More:
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