Track Listings (21) - Disc #1| All Artists: Mussorgsky, Christoff, Cluytens Title: Boris Godunov Members Wishing: 0 Total Copies: 0 Label: EMI Classics Original Release Date: 1/1/1962 Re-Release Date: 9/17/2002 Album Type: Original recording remastered Genre: Classical Style: Opera & Classical Vocal Number of Discs: 3 SwapaCD Credits: 3 UPC: 724356788121 |
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CD ReviewsChristoff Boris 12/19/2002 (5 out of 5 stars) "How I do love this recording! I got it on LP's eons ago. The CD re mastering is wonderful. Much more sonic detail. I realize that we're now supposed to eschew (or even detest) the Rimsky version of this opera (of which this recording is an example); but this Boris is still the one for me. Christoff (who sings three roles on this recording) is amazing as the tormented and guilt-ridden Czar. He floats the last few bars of the farewell to Feodor/prayer to a degree of breath-taking (No. Make that jaw-dropping) beauty I've not heard any other Boris do before or since this recording. Evelyn Lear is in sumptuous voice as Marina. The Dimitri and the rest of the cast are also admirable. If one is not totally dedicated to the detestation of the Rimsky edition (or even if one is so dedicated), this is a Boris not to be missed." Terrific performance and good sound Clark Anthony | Switzerland | 06/03/2007 (5 out of 5 stars) "If you are not preoccupied about exactly who wrote what notes in this version of the opera, this set will sweep you off your feet." Mussorgsky wrote. Korsakow "corrected" Osvaldo Colarusso | Curitiba, Paraná Brazil | 12/16/2007 (1 out of 5 stars) "The revision of Korsakow was unfortunately used in all the world until the 70s.Mussorgsky was so modern that no one could understand his rhythms, his harmony and his orchestration .Korsakow didn't corrected, as the majority of people think, only the orchestration. He changed rhythms, harmony and the order of the scenes. Now this revision is part of the past.No one serious theater in the world uses it now. If you yet insist in hear this masterpiece in these criminal "revision" by Korsakow , this is the recording.The singers are good and the conductor is excellent.But if you want to know Boris in the way the author wrote, you must hear the recordings of Gergiev, Abbado, Fedoseyev , Tchakarow....But hearing this "soft" version you will hear less than the half of one of the most important operas of all the times."
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