Immerse yourself in the rich, dramatic world of Modest Mussorgsky's "Boris Godunov," a monumental work in the classical music canon. Released on January 1, 1998, by Decca Music Group Ltd., this album presents both the 1869 and 1872 versions of Mussorgsky's opera, offering a comprehensive exploration of the composer's evolving vision.
Spanning an impressive three hours and four minutes, this orchestral masterpiece is a testament to Mussorgsky's genius, blending intricate compositions with a compelling narrative based on Alexander Pushkin's play and Nikolai Karamzin's history of Russia. The opera delves into the turbulent reign of Tsar Boris Godunov, a period marked by political intrigue, moral dilemmas, and historical upheaval.
The album features a meticulously crafted tracklist, divided into four parts, each brimming with powerful arias, choral pieces, and orchestral interludes. From the hauntingly beautiful "People of the Orthodox faith" to the intense and dramatic "Glory! Glory! Glory!", every track is a showcase of Mussorgsky's unique ability to convey deep emotion and complex characters through music.
"Boris Godunov" is not just an opera; it's a journey through the psyche of a tormented ruler and the society he governs. Mussorgsky's score is renowned for its realism and innovative use of Russian folk melodies, creating a sound that is both distinctly Russian and universally resonant.
This album is a must-listen for classical music enthusiasts and newcomers alike, offering a profound and engaging experience that highlights Mussorgsky's enduring influence on the world of classical music. Whether you're drawn to the intricate orchestrations, the compelling story, or the historical context, "Boris Godunov" promises a listening experience that is both enriching and unforgettable.
Tracks
Boris Godounov / Part 1 - Picture 1: Well, what are you waiting for?Modest Mussorgsky, Grigory Karassev, Evgeny Nikitin, Mariinsky Chorus, Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
Boris Godounov - Moussorgsky after Pushkin and Karamazin (Version 1869) - Part 1 - Picture 1: For whom dost thou forsake us?Modest Mussorgsky, Grigory Karassev, Mariinsky Chorus, Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
Boris Godounov - Moussorgsky after Pushkin and Karamazin (Version 1869) - Part 1 - Picture 1: People of the Orthodox faithModest Mussorgsky, Vassily Gerello, Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
Boris Godounov - Moussorgsky after Pushkin and Karamazin (Version 1869) - Part 1 - Picture 1: Glory to thee, our LordModest Mussorgsky, Grigory Karassev, Evgeny Nikitin, Mariinsky Chorus, Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
Boris Godounov - Moussorgsky after Pushkin and Karamazin (Version 1869) - Part 1 - Picture 2: Long live Tsar Boris FeodorovichModest Mussorgsky, Konstantin Pluzhnikov, Mariinsky Chorus, Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
Boris Godounov - Moussorgsky after Pushkin and Karamazin (Version 1869) - Part 1 - Picture 2: My soul is sadModest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Putilin, Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
Boris Godounov - Moussorgsky after Pushkin and Karamazin (Version 1869) - Part 1 - Picture 2: Glory! Glory! Glory!Modest Mussorgsky, Mariinsky Chorus, Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
Boris Godounov - Moussorgsky after Pushkin and Karamazin (Version 1869) - Part 2 - Picture 1: Just one more final taleModest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Ohotnikov, Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
Boris Godounov - Moussorgsky after Pushkin and Karamazin (Version 1869) - Part 2 - Picture 1: Lord, our Heav'nly Father-That same dream againModest Mussorgsky, Viktor Lutsiuk, Nikolai Ohotnikov, Mariinsky Chorus, Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
Boris Godounov - Moussorgsky after Pushkin and Karamazin (Version 1869) - Part 2 - Picture 1: You have gone on writingModest Mussorgsky, Viktor Lutsiuk, Nikolai Ohotnikov, Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
Boris Godounov - Moussorgsky after Pushkin and Karamazin (Version 1869) - Part 2 - Picture 1: Holy father, for a long timeModest Mussorgsky, Viktor Lutsiuk, Nikolai Ohotnikov, Mariinsky Chorus, Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
Boris Godounov - Moussorgsky after Pushkin and Karamazin (Version 1869) - Part 2 - Picture 1: Boris, Boris!Modest Mussorgsky, Viktor Lutsiuk, Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
Boris Godounov - Moussorgsky after Pushkin and Karamazin (Version 1869) - Part 2 - Picture 2: Can I bring you anything, reverent fathers?Modest Mussorgsky, Ljubov Sokolova, Nikolai Gassiev, Fyodor Kuznetsov, Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
Boris Godounov - Moussorgsky after Pushkin and Karamazin (Version 1869) - Part 2 - Picture 2: It all happened in the town of KazanModest Mussorgsky, Fyodor Kuznetsov, Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
Boris Godounov - Moussorgsky after Pushkin and Karamazin (Version 1869) - Part 1 - Picture 2: Why don't you join in the singing?Modest Mussorgsky, Ljubov Sokolova, Fyodor Kuznetsov, Viktor Lutsiuk, Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
Boris Godounov - Moussorgsky after Pushkin and Karamazin (Version 1869) - Part 2 - Picture 2: There he goes-What sort of people are you?Modest Mussorgsky, Ljubov Sokolova, Fyodor Kuznetsov, Grigory Karassev, Nikolai Gassiev, Viktor Lutsiuk, Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
Boris Godounov - Moussorgsky after Pushkin and Karamazin (Version 1869) - Part 2 - Picture 2: I can readModest Mussorgsky, Viktor Lutsiuk, Grigory Karassev, Fyodor Kuznetsov, Nikolai Gassiev, Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
Boris Godounov - Moussorgsky after Pushkin and Karamazin (Version 1869) - Part 3: My dear husbandModest Mussorgsky, Zlata Bulycheva, Olga Trifonova, Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
Boris Godounov - Moussorgsky after Pushkin and Karamazin (Version 1869) - Part 3: That's enough now, my precious tsarevitchModest Mussorgsky, Evgenya Gorochovskaya, Zlata Bulycheva, Olga Trifonova, Nikolai Putilin, Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
Boris Godounov - Moussorgsky after Pushkin and Karamazin (Version 1869) - Part 3: I have achieved supreme powerModest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Putilin, Yuri Laptev, Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
Boris Godounov - Moussorgsky after Pushkin and Karamazin (Version 1869) - Part 3: Yesterday evening, Pushkin's servant...Modest Mussorgsky, Yuri Laptev, Nikolai Putilin, Konstantin Pluzhnikov, Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
Boris Godounov - Moussorgsky after Pushkin and Karamazin (Version 1869) - Part 3: No! Wait, wait, ShuiskyModest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Putilin, Konstantin Pluzhnikov, Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
Boris Godounov - Moussorgsky after Pushkin and Karamazin (Version 1869) - Part 3: It is not execution that I fearModest Mussorgsky, Konstantin Pluzhnikov, Nikolai Putilin, Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
Boris Godounov - Moussorgsky after Pushkin and Karamazin (Version 1869) - Part 4 - Picture 1: What? Is mass over?Modest Mussorgsky, Evgeny Nikitin, Mariinsky Chorus, Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
Boris Godounov - Moussorgsky after Pushkin and Karamazin (Version 1869) - Part 4 - Picture 1: Trrr, trrr, tin that-The moon is on its travelsModest Mussorgsky, Evgeny Akimov, Mariinsky Chorus, Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
Boris Godounov - Moussorgsky after Pushkin and Karamazin (Version 1869) - Part 4 - Picture 1: What is he weeping about?Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Putilin, Konstantin Pluzhnikov, Evgeny Akimov, Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
Boris Godounov - Moussorgsky after Pushkin and Karamazin (Version 1869) - Part 4 - Picture 2: Boyars of noble rankModest Mussorgsky, Vassily Gerello, Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
Boris Godounov - Moussorgsky after Pushkin and Karamazin (Version 1869) - Part 4 - Picture 2: What? Let us vote, boyarsModest Mussorgsky, Konstantin Pluzhnikov, Mariinsky Chorus, Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
Boris Godounov - Moussorgsky after Pushkin and Karamazin (Version 1869) - Part 4 - Picture 2: It's a pity that Prince Shuisky isn't hereModest Mussorgsky, Konstantin Pluzhnikov, Mariinsky Chorus, Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
Boris Godounov - Moussorgsky after Pushkin and Karamazin (Version 1869) - Part 4 - Picture 2: Get away...get away!Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Putilin, Konstantin Pluzhnikov, Mariinsky Chorus, Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
Boris Godounov - Moussorgsky after Pushkin and Karamazin (Version 1869) - Part 4 - Picture 2: A humble monkModest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Ohotnikov, Nikolai Putilin, Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
Boris Godounov - Moussorgsky after Pushkin and Karamazin (Version 1869) - Part 4 - Picture 2: Once, in a deep sleepModest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Ohotnikov, Nikolai Putilin, Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
Boris Godounov - Moussorgsky after Pushkin and Karamazin (Version 1869) - Part 4 - Picture 2: Leave us! All of you, go!Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Putilin, Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
Boris Godounov - Moussorgsky after Pushkin and Karamazin (Version 1869) - Part 4 - Picture 2: O Lord! Look downModest Mussorgsky, Zlata Bulycheva, Nikolai Putilin, Mariinsky Chorus, Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
Boris Godounov - Moussorgsky after Pushkin and Karamazin/Version 1872 - Prologue - Picture 1: Well, what are you waiting for?Modest Mussorgsky, Grigory Karassev, Evgeny Nikitin, Mariinsky Chorus, Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
Boris Godounov - Moussorgsky after Pushkin and Karamazin/Version 1872 - Prologue - Picture 1: For whom dost thou forsake us?Modest Mussorgsky, Grigory Karassev, Mariinsky Chorus, Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
Boris Godounov - Moussorgsky after Pushkin and Karamazin/Version 1872 - Prologue - Picture 1: People of the Orthodox faithModest Mussorgsky, Vassily Gerello, Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
Boris Godounov - Moussorgsky after Pushkin and Karamazin/Version 1872 - Prologue - Picture 1: Glory to thee, our LordModest Mussorgsky, Evgeny Nikitin, Grigory Karassev, Mariinsky Chorus, Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
Boris Godounov - Moussorgsky after Pushkin and Karamazin/Version 1872 - Prologue - Picture 2: Long live Tsar Boris FeodorovichModest Mussorgsky, Konstantin Pluzhnikov, Mariinsky Chorus, Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
Boris Godounov - Moussorgsky after Pushkin and Karamazin/Version 1872 - Prologue - Picture 2: My soul is sadModest Mussorgsky, Vladimir Vaneev, Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
Boris Godounov - Moussorgsky after Pushkin and Karamazin/Version 1872 - Prologue - Picture 2: Glory! Glory! Glory!Modest Mussorgsky, Mariinsky Chorus, Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
Boris Godounov - Moussorgsky after Pushkin and Karamazin/Version 1872 - Act 1 - Picture 1: Just one more final taleModest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Ohotnikov, Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
Boris Godounov - Moussorgsky after Pushkin and Karamazin/Version 1872 - Act 1 - Picture 1: Lord, our Heavenly father-That same dream againModest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Ohotnikov, Vladimir Galusin, Mariinsky Chorus, Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
Boris Godounov - Moussorgsky after Pushkin and Karamazin/Version 1872 - Act 1 - Picture 1: You have gone on writingModest Mussorgsky, Vladimir Galusin, Nikolai Ohotnikov, Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
Boris Godounov - Moussorgsky after Pushkin and Karamazin/Version 1872 - Act 1 - Picture 1: Holy father, for a long timeModest Mussorgsky, Vladimir Galusin, Nikolai Ohotnikov, Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
Boris Godounov - Moussorgsky after Pushkin and Karamazin/Version 1872 - Act 1 - Picture 1: It is the bell for matinsModest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Ohotnikov, Vladimir Galusin, Mariinsky Chorus, Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
Boris Godounov - Moussorgsky after Pushkin and Karamazin/Version 1872 - Act 1 - Picture 2: I caught a grey drakeModest Mussorgsky, Ljubov Sokolova, Nikolai Gassiev, Fyodor Kuznetsov, Vladimir Galusin, Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
Boris Godounov - Moussorgsky after Pushkin and Karamazin/Version 1872 - Act 1 - Picture 2: It all happened in the town of KazanModest Mussorgsky, Fyodor Kuznetsov, Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
Boris Godounov - Moussorgsky after Pushkin and Karamazin/Version 1872 - Act 1 - Picture 2: Why don't you join in the singing?Modest Mussorgsky, Ljubov Sokolova, Fyodor Kuznetsov, Vladimir Galusin, Nikolai Gassiev, Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
Boris Godounov - Moussorgsky after Pushkin and Karamazin/Version 1872 - Act 1 - Picture 2: There he goes-What sort of people are you?Modest Mussorgsky, Ljubov Sokolova, Fyodor Kuznetsov, Grigory Karassev, Nikolai Gassiev, Vladimir Galusin, Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
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