Russian opera arias & songs / Mussorgsky ... [and others].

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

Christoff, Boris, singer.

Contributor:

Malko, Nicolai, 1883-1961, conductor.

Karajan, Herbert von, conductor.

Dobrowen, Issay, 1893-1953, conductor.

Schüchter, Wilhelm, conductor.

Moore, Gerald, 1899-1987, instrumentalist.

Royal Opera House (London, England). Chorus, performer.

Philharmonia Orchestra (London, England), performer.

Series:

Great recordings of the century

Naxos Music Library.

Language:

Russian

Subjects (All):

Operas--Excerpts.

Operas.

Songs (Low voice) with orchestra.

Songs (Low voice) with piano.

Songs, Russian.

Genre:

Sound recordings.

Excerpts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 audio file).

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : EMI Classics, [2007]

Language Note:

Sung in Russian.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Contents:

Boris Godunov. Pimen's monologue (5:45) ; Varlaam's drinking song (2:35) ; Boris's monologue (6:37) ; Boris's farewell and prayer (7:14) ; Death of Boris (4:38) / Modest Mussorgsky ; rev. Rimsky-Korsakov

Khovanschina. Dositheus's aria / Mussorgsky ; compl. Rimsky-Korsakov (6:26)

The flea / Mussorgsky ; orch. Rimsky-Korsakov (3:14)

Prince Igor. Prince Galitsky's aria (3:50) ; Khan Konchak's aria (7:24) / Borodin ; compl. Rimsky-Korsakov & Glazunov

Sadko. Song of the Viking guest (3:47) ; The legend of the invisible city of Kitezh and of the maiden Fevroniya. Prince Yuri's aria (4:25) / Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Eugene Onegin. Prince Gremin's aria / Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (4:54)

Song of the Volga boatmen (4:27) ; Siberian prisoner's song (4:18) / traditional

Songs and dances of death. No. 4, The field marshal (4:54) ; The spirit of heaven (3:18) / Mussorgsky.

Participant:

Boris Christoff, bass ; Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (in the Boris Godunov excerpts) ; Philharmonia Orchestra ; Nikolai Malko, Herbert von Karajan, Issay Dobrowen, Wilhelm Schüchter, conductors ; Gerald Moore, piano (in the last 2 works).

Notes:

Recorded 1949-1952, No. 1 and No. 3 Studios, Abbey Road, London, and Oct. 5, 1950, Kingsway Hall, London.

Biographical notes by John Steane and transliterated texts with English translations (23 p. : ports.) in container.

Description based on hard copy version record.

Contains:

Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich, 1839-1881. Boris Godunov (Rimsky-Korsakov). Selections

Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich, 1839-1881. Khovanshchina. Zdes, na ėtom meste svi︠a︡te

Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich, 1839-1881. Pesni͡a o blokhe; arranged.

Borodin, Aleksandr Porfirʹevich, 1833-1887. Kni︠a︡zʹ Igorʹ. Pesni︠a︡ Vladimira Galit︠s︡kogo

Borodin, Aleksandr Porfirʹevich, 1833-1887. Kni︠a︡zʹ Igorʹ. Arii︠a︡ khana Konchaka

Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay, 1844-1908. Sadko (Opera). Pesni︠a︡ vari︠a︡zhskogo gosti︠a︡

Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay, 1844-1908. Skazanie o nevidimom grade Kitezhe i deve Fevronii. O, slava, bogatstvo suetnoe!

Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893. Evgeniĭ Onegin. Arii︠a︡ kni︠a︡zi︠a︡

Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich, 1839-1881. Pesni i pli︠a︡ski smerti. Polkovodet︠s︡

Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich, 1839-1881. Gornimi tikho letela dusha nebesami.

Ėĭ ukhnem.

Siberian prisoner's song.

Other Format:

Source record: Christoff, Boris. Russian opera arias & songs.

OCLC:

840327892

Publisher Number:

0094639205257 EMI Classics

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.