ID: AQVR177-2 CDs: 3 Type: CD |
Collection: Opera Collection Subcollection: Voices and OrchestraMusical Drama in 4 acts and prologue
Libretto by M.Mussorgsky after drama of Alexander Pushkin and the chronicle of Nikolai Karamzin
Version revised by N.Rimsky-Korsakov
Boris Godounoff . . . . . . . . . . . . Mark REIZEN, bass
Ksenia, his daughter. . . . . . . . . . . Elizaveta SHUMSKAYA, soprano
Tsarievitch Fiodor Borissovich . . . . . . Bronislava ZLATOGOROVA, contralto
Ksenia's nurse . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yevgenia VERBITZKAYA, contralto
Boyar Vassily Shuisky . . . . . . . . . Nikandr KHANAEV, tenor
Tschelkalov, clerk of Duma . . . . . . . Ilya BOGDANOV, baryton
Pimen, chronicler, hermit . . . . . . . . Maxim MIKHAILOV, bass
Gregory Otrepiev, false-Dimitri. . . . . . . . Georgy NELEPP, tenor
Marina Mniszek, daugter of Sandomir's Voievode . . Maria MAKSAKOVA, mezzo-soprano
Varlaam, pilgrim . . . . . . . . . . . . Vassily LOUBENTZOV, bass
Missail, pilgrim . . . . . . . . . . . . Vassily YAKOUSHENKO, tenor
Hostess of a tavern . . . . . . . . . Alexandra TOURTCHINA, mezzo-soprano
Yurodivy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ivan KOZLOVSKY, tenor
Police-officer . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sergei KRASSOVSKY, bass
Khroustschov, boyar of Duma. . . . . . . Alexander PEREGOUDOV, tenor
Mitioukha, peasant . . . . . . . . . . . Ivan SYPAEV, baryton-bass
Chorus & orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow
Conductor: Nikolai GOLOVANOV
Recorded in Moscow, March 1948.
BONUS TRACKS:
Mark REIZEN in scenes of Pimen and Varlaam
Varlaam- M. REIZEN, bass / Hostess -Y. VERBITZKAYA, contralto / Missail- V. SHEVTZOV, tenor / Gregory -G. NELEPP, tenor / Police Officer- S. KRASSOVSKY, bass / Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra - Vasily NEBOLSIN (1951)
ACT 1 Scene 1. The Monastery cell of Pimen near Moscow
Pimen: M.REIZEN, bass /Gregory - G. NELEPP, tenor /Choir & orchestra of Bolshoi Theatre - Vasily NEBOLSIN (1953)
Pavel JOURAVLENKO, Varlaam
ACT 1 Scene 2. Scene at the Inn, at Lithuanian frontier
Varlaam - Pavel JOURAVLENKO, bass / Hostess - Ksenia KOMISSAROVA, mezzo-soprano / Missail - Alexander GONTAREV, tenor / Gregory - Mikhail KROUTYAKOV, tenor / Police Officer - Andrew ATLANTOV, bass / Theatre S.Kirov’s Orchestra - Edouard GRYGOROV (1947) |