Well, if it's Godunov for Dave, then it's Godunov for me.
@davidaltschuler9687
Жыл бұрын
Wow, great pun! I wonder if anybody else ever thought of that one??
@grahamharfleet6026
Жыл бұрын
Brilliant!
@artoflatraille
Жыл бұрын
I remember wonderful moments when I'd get together with Ronald LoPresti, my composition professor at the ASU School of Music long ago in his office, and we'd sit at the piano with a piano and voice reduction score of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, and play through the music and discuss what he was doing compositionally, dramatically and philosophically.
@leestamm3187
Жыл бұрын
Pictures at an Exhibition. I think it's one of the most interesting and exciting pieces ever written for piano. Many great pianists have provided a variety of interpretations to suit any taste.
@petterw5318
Жыл бұрын
A screaming masterpiece. At the end it's about powerful people sending other people to die for their personal ambitions, so it couldn't be more relevant.
@melissaking6019
10 ай бұрын
The Coronation Scene from Boris Godunov is a masterpiece in the Rimsky-Korsakov version. In the recording by Cluytens and the Paris Conservatoire Orchestra brilliantly captures the menace of the opening theme: like a huge chiming, ticking clock spelling doom for Russia. Boris Christoff and the chorus sound magnificent, as do all the tolling church bells.
@robertdandre94101
Жыл бұрын
i have tree works by mussorgsky i like...1- boris godunov ( karajan ,vienna recording), 2- nigth of the bald montain ,original version ( abbado two recording,stokowski too)....and finally,picture at an exibition......with....tomita,i love this version....!
@edu21100
Жыл бұрын
the tomita version of picture at an exibition is incredible, one of my favoutites works of Tomita
@felixvandenberghe9131
Жыл бұрын
Yes! The Tomita interpretation is incredible
@marilynharris4118
Жыл бұрын
yes, but... if you "have to get past" the orchestration...!?! Pictures @ Exhibition for me! ❤ with or without orchestration, it's got undeniable INTEGRITY! 🎵🎶
@bbailey7818
Жыл бұрын
The greatest of all Russian operas and probably in the top ten of all operas, certainly the tragedies; and nothing else is as tragedy-drenched and significant than this one. How could this not be the one?
@steveschwartz8944
Жыл бұрын
One of my top 5 operas.
@barryguerrero6480
Жыл бұрын
The Coronation scene is like the greatest several moments in all of opera.
@toastonmitchell2636
Жыл бұрын
I'm working my way through the LP set I just got in the HPB clearance section. It's got George London in the title role. I can't wait to get to the end!!
@maximisaev6974
Жыл бұрын
It's a classic set. You're going to love it, especially George London in the title role. I envy you this new experience.
@HassoBenSoba
Жыл бұрын
Love the roughness of the original orchestration. Re: how we find ourselves having these discussions (your comments at 5:00) , I have two words: Cancrizans sucks. LR
@ippolit23
Жыл бұрын
Couldn't agree more. I like the original orchestration. Yet, by comparison, the original version of "Night at the Bare Mountain" is indeed a terrible mess. BTW: Mussorgsky called "The Hugenottes" "Gubi noti" (bad notes).
@vrixphillips
Жыл бұрын
i know he never finished it, but for me it's Khovanshchina. That ENDING! Amazing. Even though it's what, 98% Shostakovich? Mussorgsky still wrote [and iirc finished] the vocal score.
@bbailey7818
Жыл бұрын
But most performances choose the Stravinsky ending, even where the rest is Shostakovich. We don't get the Rimsky version very often now.
@Posturtle
Жыл бұрын
Since Mussorgsky is my 2nd favorite composer (after Mahler), the choice would be tough. Boris Godunov is a good choice. He cannibalized bits of his other pieces for newer ones, so if you like one bit it's hard to choose which one you like better.
@iankemp1131
Жыл бұрын
Politely avoiding the reason that Mussorgsky didn't finish many works (as Bernard Shore put it, he drank himself to death). Boris Godunov obviously a fantastic and historic piece. Pictures is amazing though - a canvas on which unparalleled numbers of other composers have painted their own pictures by orchestration in different forms, all sorts of exotic instruments, brass bands, even Emerson lake and Palmer.
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