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Paata Burchuladze (Ivan Khovansky), Klaus Florian Vogt (Andrei Khovansky), John Daszak (Golitsin), Valery Alexejev (Shaklovity), Anatoly Kotcherga (Dosifey), Doris Soffel (Marfa), Ilrich Reß (Scrivener), Camila Nylund (Emma)

Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Kent Nagano

Release Date: 12th Jul 2019
Catalogue No: 8024272424
Label: EuroArts

International Classical Music Awards

2019

Nominee - Video Performance

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Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina

Paata Burchuladze (Prince Ivan Khovansky), Klaus Florian Vogt (Prince Andrei Khovansky), John Daszak (Prince Vasily Golitsin), Valery Alexejev (Shaklovity), Anatoly Kotcherga (Dosifey), Doris Soffel (Marfa), Helene Jungwirth, Lana Kos, Anaik Morel (Old Believers), Ilrich Reß (Scrivener), Camila Nylund (Emma)
Bayerisches Staatsorchester
Kent Nagano

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Kent Nagano superbly masters the challenges presented by this score, shapes the dynamics with subtle intensity, and casts the score in a mellow glow. As Marfa, the spurned lover of Ivan Khovansky‘s son Andrei, Doris Soffel unfolds such a rich palette of sonorities, from the pathos of the lower ranges to shaded discant heights, that “one is tempted to speak of a Russian mezzo”. The final chorus, which Mussorgsky did not compose, is played in the orchestrally transparent version of Igor Stravinsky – the third great Russian composer who contributed to making “Khovanshchina“ a timeless, gripping stage work. With his stripped-down sets and historicising costumes, director Dmitri Tcherniakov, one of the new voices of contemporary Russian theatre, builds a bridge to the political present. A lesson in history and music!

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