(14CD) MUSSORGSKY EDITION

Παρουσίαση

Mussorgsky, an "amateur" composer, was a great innovator of Russian music. He created an essential Russian musical language, in which folklore, Russian legends and fairytales played an important role. He wanted to free himself from Western classical and romantic traditions, and found a bold, raw, unpolished and passionate tone in his music, which speaks directly to the heart in its deep human emotions.
This is the most complete set ever assembled of music by one of the most original composers in the Western canon, whose bold synthesis of native musical and dramatic traditions with an entirely personal grasp of harmony and timing made him influential way beyond the slender size of his eccentrically proportioned and editorially complex surviving output, which took on huge importance for figures as diverse as Olivier Messiaen, Igor Stravinsky and Harrison Birtwistle.
The works which captured the public's imagination for their pictorial brilliance, such as Night on Bare Mountain and Pictures at an Exhibition, and in performances of authentically hard-headed brilliance, directed by Igor Markevitch. So too is his masterpiece, Boris Godunov, and in a legendary recording featuring perhaps the most renowned interpreter of the doomed and haunted eponymous tsar, Boris Christoff. But in many ways the songs lie at the heart of Mussorgsky's output, not least because they are our purest access to the composer's imagination, the larger-scale pieces sometimes needing and in any case receiving extensive intervention from later admirers and composers such as Rimsky-Korsakov and Shostakovich, who wanted Mussorgsky's music to survive way beyond his drunken and chaotic life.

Other information:
- Mussorgsky left many of his works unfinished, or even destroyed them. Several of his works were finished by fellow composers, who also took care of them in "improving" or "cleaning" the sometimes too original (for their taste..) writing.
- This set contains the three surviving operas: Boris Godunow, Khovantchina, Sorochinsky Fair, the complete songs, the piano music (of course the original version of Pictures of an Exhibition), orchestral music (the Rimsky-Korsakov orchestration of the Pictures).
- Excellent, mostly Russian performances by great singers like Boris Christoff (Boris Godunow), Nikolai Gedda, Sergei Leiferkus (songs), conductor Igor Markevich, pianist Alexander Warenberg (magnificent Pictures) and others.
- The largest survey of Mussorgsky's music on CD, the only Edition on the market!
- A worthy successor to the Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov and Borodin Editions.
- Newly written liner notes in the booklet.
- Booklet contains introduction to Mussorgsky and his music by Malcolm Macdonald.

Περιεχόμενα

[CD1]
PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION (orch. Maurice Ravel)
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Igor Markevitch
[CD2]
PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION
Alexander Warenberg piano
11 From Memories of a Childhood - Nurse and I
12 Ein Kinderscherz
13 Impromptu passionne
14 Scherzo in B flat
15 Une larme
16 On the Southern Shore of the Crimea
17 Meditation
18 Au village (Quasi fantasia)
19 Sorochintsi Fair - Gopak of joyful fellows (arr. for piano)
20 Sorochintsi Fair - The Market Scene (arr. for piano)
21 Near the Southern Shore of the Crimea
22 Intermezzo in modo classico
Nino Gvetadze piano (11-20) - Vovka Ashkenazy piano (21, 22)
[CD 3-4-5]
BORIS GODUNOV
Choeurs Russes de France, Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Francaise, Issay Dobrowen
[CD 6-7-8]
KHOVANSHCHINA
Bulgarian National Choir 'Svetoslav Obretenov', Georgi Robev chorus master
Sofia National Opera Orchestra, Atanas Margaritov
[CD 9-10]
SOROCHINTSI FAIR
Chorus and Orchestra of Yekaterinburg State Academic Opera, Theatre of Russia
Vera Davydova chorus master, Evgeny Brazhnik
[CD11]
PESNI I PLYASKI SMERTI (Golenishchev-Kutuzov)
DETSKAYA (Mussorgsky)
Sergei Leiferkus baritone, Semyon Skigin piano
[CD12 ]
1 Nadgrabnoye pis'mo (Epitaph) (Mussorgsky)
2 Neponyatnaya (The Misunderstood One) (Mussorgsky)
3 Ne bozhim gromom udarilo (Not like thunder, trouble struck) (Tolstoy)
4 Gornimi tikho letela dusha nebesami (Softly the spirit flew up to heaven) (Tolstoy)
5 Spes' (Pride) (Tolstoy)
6 Oy, chest'li to molodtsu len pryasti? (Is spinning man's work?) (Tolstoy)
7 Ya videl noch (The Vision) (Golenishchev-Kutuzov)
8 Rassevayetsya, rasstupayetsya (It scatters and breaks) (Tolstoy)
9 Pesn' Yaremi 'Na Dnepre' (Yarema's Song 'On the Dnieper') (Shevchenko, trans. Mey)
10 Kolibel'naya Eryomushki (Eremushka's Lullaby) (Nekrasov)
11 Pirushka (The Feast) (Kol'tsov)
12 Klassik (The Classicist) (Mussorgsky)
13 Iz slyoz moikh (From my tears) (Heine, trans. Mikhaylov) 2'28
Bez solntsa (Sunless) (Golenishchev-Kutuzov)
14 I. V chetiryokh stenakh (Within four walls)
15 II. Menya ti v tolpe ne uznala (You did not know me in the crowd)
16 III. Okonchen prazdniy, shumniy den' (The useless, noisy day is ended)
17 IV. Skuchay (Be bored)
18 V. Elegiya (Elegy)
19 VI. Nad rekoy (On the River)
Sergei Leiferkus baritone, Semyon Skigin piano
[CD13 ]
1 Gde ti, zvezdochka? (Where art thou, little star?) (Grekov)
2 Vesyoliy chas (The Joyous Hour) (Kol'tsov)
3 List'ya shumeli unilo (The leaves rustled sadly) (Pleshcheyev)
4 Mnogo yest' u menya teremov i sadov (I have many palaces and gardens) (Kol'tsov)
5 Molitva (Prayer) (Lermontov)
6 Otchego, skazhi (Tell me why) (Pleshcheyev)
7 Chto vam slova lyubvi? (What are words of love to you?) (Ammosov)
8 Duyut vetri, vetri buyniye (The winds blow, the wild winds) (Kol'tsov)
9 No yesli bi s toboyu ya vstretit'sya mogla (But if I could meet thee again) (Kurochkin)
10 Malyutka: akh, zachem tvoy glazki poroyu? (Dear one, why are thine eyes sometimes so cold?) (Pleshcheyev)
11 Pesn' startsa: stanu skromno u poroga (Old Man's Song) (Goethe, trans. ?Mussorgsky)
12 Tsar' Saul (King Saul) (Byron, trans. Kozlov)
13 Noch' (Night) (Pushkin)
14 Kalistratushka (Little Kalistrat) (Nekrasov)
15 Otverzhennaya: opit rechitativa (The Outcast: Essay in Recitative) (Holz-Miller)
16 Kolibel'naya pesnya (Cradle Song) (from Ostrovsky's Voyevoda)
17 Salammbo - Pesn baleartsa (Balearic Song) (Mussorgsky)
Sergei Leiferkus baritone, Semyon Skigin piano
[CD14]
1 Gde ti, zvezdochka? (Where art thou, little star?) (Grekov)
2 Noch' (Night) (Pushkin)
3 Gopak (Hopak) (Shevchenko, trans. Mey)
4 Krapivnaya gora (The nettle mountain) (Mussorgsky)
5 Akh ti, p'yanaya teterya! (You drunken sot!) (Mussorgsky)
6 Sirotka (The Orphan) (Mussorgsky)
7 Strekotun'ya beloboka (The Magpie) (Pushkin)
8 Detskaya pesenka (Child's Song) (Mey)
9 Ozornik (The Ragamuffin) (Mussorgsky)
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