Mussorgsky - "Coronation scene", Golovanov!! 1947,The best!!

From "Boris Godunov".
LISTEN TO IT!!!
The performence from the Bolshoy Theater, Moscow.
Great historical performence of a Ginios Mussorgsky conductor, N.S.Golovanov (died in 1953, the recording is from 1947).
Boris Godunov- A.Pirogov
So realistic performence!

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• golovanov
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[tzar2007]

this is the original version, before it was reworked by Rimsky-Korsakov.

[RADAMES1983]

@tzar2007

No, this is the Korsakov version.

The original you can fing in my visios with the Mariinsky thater, cunducted by Gergiev.

[HoGraz]

I found this on an old record at an antique store in Cookeville, Tennessee.

[RADAMES1983]

Hehe! I have the fool opera with Golovanov on old Russian records as well. (Also have it on mp3, restored.

R your records are Russian?

[RADAMES1983]

@RADAMES1983

Yes.

Have the fool version in Russian records and the mp3 restored version.

[PercyAGrainger]

There is a great deal of Golovanov availible on LP and CD, including all of the Liszt Tone Poems, Mozart's Requiem, Rachmaninoff Symphonies 2 & 3, Tchaikovsky's Symphony No.6 and other PIT works, the Beethoven Symphony No 1, Rimsky's Scheherazade and several of his operas, the complete Scriabin Symphonies and many other works, all performed with the same power and energy as the Mussorgsky. All worth looking for and listening to in detail -Good hunting to you!

[RADAMES1983]

thank you for the comment! I've never heard that he recorded Mozart's Requiem! Where can I find it?!?!

I have the Mussirgsky's Pictures in the exhibition with him, it is adorable!

[P1B1U1H1]

@lehtorja Mussorgsky and everyone else knew he began the institution of serfdom.

[lehtorja]

@P1B1U1H1 I don't see the opera prtraying Boris as esceptionally bad - more lika as a controversial figure, as human beings are. His sin was that he supposedly had their heir to the throne killed to gain the throne for himself. That would probably count as a morally evil deed for most.

[Strefanasha]

I must admit i find the original mussorgsky rather boring. The Rimsky version is much more colourful, and of course the coronation scene is a favourite of mine.

i love the evocation of byzantine mystery, particulartly as I view the God of Hosts as Tsar and Autocrat of heaven

[Jsrysmoya56]

If Golovanov had recorded the original Mussorgsky version...

[Spiritakis]

I have listened to it. Golovanov is amazingly powerful and original, as always. But Pirogov is simply pathetic. After Boris Christoff - by far the finest Boris Godunov on record I've yet heard - the best I can say about Pirogov is that he sounds like a fairly talented student who, however, needs to work quite a lot on his voice and interpretation.

[P1B1U1H1]

@fatas412 Ah. The joke told me was that someone played Schoenberg to his baby every day for five years, and the kid grew up to become a serial killer.

[fatas412]

@P1B1U1H1 I was going more based off the music alone, if you listen to Mozart's symphonies there very structured and bright (on the whole) if you listen to Mussorgsky his symphonies are dark, very dissonant at times

[P1B1U1H1]

@fatas412 What's wrong with Boris, morally speaking? He repents at the end and goes to heaven, unlike the rest of us sinners, almost all of whom will rot in Hell.

[deramr]

One remark, the Boris picture that appears at 4:40 is Mark Reizen, not Pirogov.

[fatas412]

They say if you play mozart to your child in the womb he becomes smarter, if you play Mussorgsky does he become a serial killer?