Mussorgsky - Complete Operas and Fragments | Haenssler Profil PH21002

Mussorgsky - Complete Operas and Fragments

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Label: Haenssler Profil

Cat No: PH21002

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 17

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 30th July 2021

Contents

Artists

Feodor Chaliapin
Alexey Ivanov
Nikandr Khanayev
Yevgenij Kibkalo
Ivan Kozlovsky
Alexei Krivchenia
Maria Maksakova
Aleksej Maslennikov
Maxim Mikhailov
Georgy Nelepp
Vladimir Petrov
Mark Reizen
Natalia Rozhdestvenskaya
Elizaveta Shumskaya
Evgenia Verbitskaya
Glafira Zhukovskaya
Bronislava Zlatogorova
Kira Leonova
Zara Dolukhanova
Boris Shtokolov
Boris Christoff
Dmitry Usunov
Era Krayushkina
Vsevolod Puchkov
Mikhail Chernozhukov
Lavrentiy Yaroshenko
Chorus and Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre

Conductors

Nikolai Golovanov
Boris Khaikin
Alexei Kovalev
Alexander Melik-Pashaev
Vasily Nebolsin
Samuel Samosud
Lev Steinberg
Evgeny Svetlanov
Sergey Yeltsyn
Vincenzo Bellezza
Andre Cluytens
Samo Hubad
Walter Susskind

Works

Mussorgsky, Modest

Boris Godunov
Khovanshchina
Mlada
Salammbo
Sorochintsy Fair
The Marriage (Zhenitba)

Artists

Feodor Chaliapin
Alexey Ivanov
Nikandr Khanayev
Yevgenij Kibkalo
Ivan Kozlovsky
Alexei Krivchenia
Maria Maksakova
Aleksej Maslennikov
Maxim Mikhailov
Georgy Nelepp
Vladimir Petrov
Mark Reizen
Natalia Rozhdestvenskaya
Elizaveta Shumskaya
Evgenia Verbitskaya
Glafira Zhukovskaya
Bronislava Zlatogorova
Kira Leonova
Zara Dolukhanova
Boris Shtokolov
Boris Christoff
Dmitry Usunov
Era Krayushkina
Vsevolod Puchkov
Mikhail Chernozhukov
Lavrentiy Yaroshenko
Chorus and Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre

Conductors

Nikolai Golovanov
Boris Khaikin
Alexei Kovalev
Alexander Melik-Pashaev
Vasily Nebolsin
Samuel Samosud
Lev Steinberg
Evgeny Svetlanov
Sergey Yeltsyn
Vincenzo Bellezza
Andre Cluytens
Samo Hubad
Walter Susskind

About

Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky was born - according to the Julian calender - on 9 March (Gregorian calender: 21 March), 1839 in Karevo in the Russian district of Pskov. When he died on 16 (28) March 1881 at the age of just 43 years old in St Petersburg, he had lived an artistically rich, gregarious yet tragic life, ending his days in poverty and alcohol-dependent.

His career as a composer is closely associated with a group of artists known in the world of music as the "Mighty Handful" or simply The Five. Mily Balakirev (1837-1910), who was something like the chief ideologue and artistic mastermind of "The Five", rallied around him a group of like-minded composers with whom he consolidated and publicised his ideas about a form of Russian music that should not be "corrupted" by "Western" influences nor regulated by academic training.

Only after Glinka in the second half of the nineteenth century did Russian opera really come to the fore. Mussorgsky was a key player in promoting this trend - as we can see in the light of his posthumous fame. In accordance with his slogan of "off to new horizons!" he took a radical and highly unconventional approach unparalleled by any of his contemporaries. And, sadly, in keeping with his disposition and his addiction, he did it in more entirely random ways than anyone else. Literally not one of his stage works has come down to us in a finished, let alone authorised, version.

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