SACD, Mussorgsky (composer)
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Special offer. Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov (1869 Version)
Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Boris), Maxim Paster (Shuisky), Mika Kares (Pimen), Sergei Skorokhodov (Grigory), Okka von der Damerau (The Innkeeper), Alexey Tikhomirov (Varlaam), Hanna Husáhr (Xenia), Johanna Rudström (Feodor)
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Kent Nagano
...this performance is excellent, beautifully sung and cogently paced. The cast is mostly Russophone, which ensures mostly accurate pronunciation...this version is in any case indispensable... —
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Record Review, 28th September 2019, Disc of the Week
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Opera
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Special offer. Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 & Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
London Symphony Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda
Mariss Jansons’s Oslo Philharmonic recording of Musorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition emerged as the lead recommendation some years back, but I’m certain that LSO/Noseda would be the one now —
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2019, Orchestral Choice
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Special offer. Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6
Mussorgsky: Prelude To Khovanshchina
London Symphony Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda
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Special offer. Highlights from Russian Opera - Volume 2
Bolshoi Theatre Moscow, Alexander Vedernikov
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you sense, right from the opening Promenade of Pictures, that Gerstein has considered everything: textures are rethought, phrasing pondered, while tempi are fluid and oft-changing...I can't... —
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For fans of the contemporary virtuoso, this disc is not only stupendously recorded, but a sign that standards these days are extraordinarily high in this area. —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2008, Editor's Choice
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Rheinberger & Mussorgsky: Arrangements for 2 Organs & Percussion Vol. 1
Jorg Endebrock (organ), Susanne Rohn (organ), Konrad Graf (percussion)
Heard on headphones, Hd-Klassik’s 3D Binaural Series offers a more involving, if not altogether immersive sonic experience. Jörg Endebrock’s arrangement of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition... —
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Special offer. Mephistopheles And Other Bad Guys
Kevin Short (bass-baritone)
Orchestre Philharmonique de Marseille, Lawrence Foster
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It’s the second half of this disc that surely justifies the epithet ‘Russian spectacular’. I doubt whether you’d hear a more pulsating and brilliantly executed performance of the Lyapunov orchestration... —
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The excellent notes reveal a powerful intellectual and emotional understanding of Guillou’s œuvre, and it will be interesting to see how this series evolves. —
