Modest Mussorgsky - Ivan Shishkin - Prelude to Khovanshchina

Ivan Shishkin is one of my beloved Russian landscape painters.
His paintings are looking like photos. Immense, huge photos. Even when you are close to the paintings it is incredible what you see as brushstrokes, so refined, so exactly precisely on the right place.
The Russian Soul is in it. Nature, combined with Russian music is even more explaining that what the Russian soul might be.
It is a touch, created by those who have it, had it.
It will never die.

Mussorgsky: 1836-1881
Shishkin: 1832 - 1898
Their art is eternal.

About the Russian Soul: it is also called the Slavic Soul, because Russia has been devided into many sovereign countries, all part once of Mother Russia, and so they are all a part from the famous Russian Soul. To neutralize the word it is now called more and more the Slavic Soul.

About the Russian Soul / Slavic Soul:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_soul
About Ivan Shishkin:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Shishkin
About Mussorgsky:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modest_Mussorgsky

About Khovanshchina:
Khovanshchina is an opera, composed by Modest Mussorgsky, between 1872 and 1880.
Prelude to Khovanshchina tells about the Sunrise on the Moscow River.

The music from this video is a copy from another one, and there were no adds about the name of the orchestra.
The conductor is Claudio Abbado.
It is a live concert, as you can hear on some moments, when sombody is coughing.
The reason that I chose this performance is the interpretation. There are some which are slower, on some moments faster, and Claudio Abbado's interpretation is the only one in which my feelings are in an intense harmony with that what I experience in the photos from the Sunrise above the Moscow River.
It is also very much similar to the wonderful interpretation from Zubin Mehta, conducting the Berlin Phil.
There is a video from that concert in the playlist which I created about the full opera Khovanshchina (Bolshoi Theater, Moscow):

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=9913B6A859FB8C42

Note: The video "Modest Mussorgsky ~ Ivan Shishkin" starts and ends with photos from the Sunrise on Moscow.

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Category:

Music

Tags:

• Mussorgsky
• Shishkin
• Prelude to Khovanshchina
• Russia
• Painters
• Russian Soul
• Russian Landscape
• Sunrise on the Moscow River

[veritiskaja]

Thanks again, painting 3:05 is the one from my childhood.....

Christ is risen!

[TheClassicalFun]

@veritiskaja Thank you, dearest friend, for visiting my video, sharing your soul with me......your words are very meaningful for me.....

[Dreamman08]

Yes, my good friend Kosta...

And with the eyes we view the soul of Russia and with the ears we hear the mantra of that Russian soul.

It is a very powerful combination and I am very privileged to have it.

Thank you again Kosta.

Don.

[TheClassicalFun]

Your words are beautifully refined and telling of the rich soul you are yourself. I experience them as the same Deep Respect for That What was/is in me when I created the video, heared the music and saw the paintings: Love, Deep felt Connection with the Soul in the Music and the Paintings, the Landscapes, Nature, Russia.

Thank you for your English translation...

[zeleko59]

Спасибо.Вы действительно отлично понимаете природу русской классики.--"Князь Андрей встал и подошёл к окну,чтобы отворить его.Ночь была свежая и неподвижно-светлая" (Лев Толстой."Война и мир").

[TheClassicalFun]

Спасибо!

Your words have a wonderful impact on me. They explain me that I really was one (creating the video) with that what I experience as Soul. Russian Soul.

[Dreamman08]

Да, мой хороший друг Kosta

И с глазами мы осматриваем душу России и с ушами мы слышим mantra той русской души.

Будет очень мощной комбинацией и я очень privileged для того чтобы иметь ее.

Вы снова Kosta.

Дон.

[SilviosAecios]

I want escape from the carnaval in my land. And Mussorgski help me.

[shanzozo]

this is so far more superior and surreal and fantastic than petty religion. sure love god. but i don't reckon.

[Rai06for]

G R E A T !!!!!!!

[CARLONCHO3333]

Oh interesting... 

[alspageddi]

Thanks for putting this video together. I'd never heard of Shishkin before this, and his works are breathtaking.

[WexReaper]

<3 Russia

[MeshMo]

beautiful soul

[aelredtheless]

Beatiful song, and beautiful images. They reminded me of the summer I spent in Russia, part in Moscow and part in the forest near Zvenigorod.

[ThankingHimDaily]

I have to say you cannot miss the opportunity to glorify the GOD who gave this man his talent. We in and of ourselves are incapable of producing beauty like this.

[BGSourgas]

what a beautiful explanation for this clip

the music is wonderful also

thank you so much for sharing something you obviously feel very deeply about