Special offer. Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov

Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Boris), Yulia Sokolik (Fyodor), Eri Nakamura (Xenia), Heike Grötzinger (Nurse), Gerhard Siegel (Schuisky), Markus Eiche (Andrey), Anatoli Kotscherga (Pimen), Sergey Skorokhodov (Grigory), Vladimir Matorin (Varlaam) Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Kent Nagano, Calixto Bieito

the updating seems neither modish nor forced, and is carried out with economy and intelligence...There's no dip in commitment anywhere in the cast. Tsymbalyuk's Boris, sung in a pleasingly smooth,... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2014 More…

Release Date: 10th Feb 2014
Catalogue No: BAC402
Label: Bel Air Classiques

Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov

Opera in four parts and seven scenes, First version (1868/1869) Libretto: Modest Mussorgsky after Alexander Pushkin & Nikolai Karamsins
Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Boris Godunov), Yulia Sokolik (Fyodor), Eri Nakamura (Xenia), Heike Grötzinger (Xenia’s nurse), Gerhard Siegel (Schuisky), Markus Eiche (Andrey Chelkalov), Anatoli Kotscherga (Pimen), Sergey Skorokhodov (Grigory Otropyev), Vladimir Matorin (Varlaam), Ulrich Reß (Missail), Kevin Conners (Simpleton) & Goran Juric (Nikititch)
Chor der Bayerischen Staatsoper & Bayerisches Staatsorchester
Kent Nagano (conductor) & Calixto Bieito (stage director)

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Composer Guides, Modest Mussorgsky

James chooses some outstanding recordings of music by the Russian composer, Modest Mussorgsky.

HD recording: Bavarian State Opera, Munich, February 2013

Set design: Rebecca Ringst

Costume design: Ingo Krügler Lighting: Michael Bauer

Dramaturgy: Andrea Schönhofer

Child murder, scheming monks and a Tsar lapsing into madness – Modest Mussorgsky spread the thematic arc wide in his choral opera, which he began to work on from 1868, and with which he attempted to awaken an awareness of his own time through the indirect route of a historic story.

As an artist of the 19th century, he was driven by the psychology of the masses. Thus, in 'Boris Godunov', alongside the hero of the title, the main role is actually taken primarily by the Russian people, rejoicing, starving, demanding and questioning.

In conjuction with conductor Kent Nagano, Spanish stage director Calixto Bieito proposes an original reading of this brilliant work. The cast is led by Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Boris), with associates Gerhard Siegel (Schuisky), Markus Eiche (Chelkalov) and Anatoli Kotscherga (Pimen).

Running time: 139 min.

Booklet: FR / Eng / Ger; Subtitles: FR / Eng / Ger

Image: HD, Colour, 16/9, NTSC

Sound: PCM Stereo, DTS HD Master Audio 5.1

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May 2014

the updating seems neither modish nor forced, and is carried out with economy and intelligence...There's no dip in commitment anywhere in the cast. Tsymbalyuk's Boris, sung in a pleasingly smooth, well-regulated bass, is excellent...Nagano achieves thrillingly focused results...Highly recommended.

11th April 2014

With thrilling stagecraft and theatrical clarity, Bieito unapologetically updates Pushkin’s tragedy to a brutal modern world of dictatorship, surveillance, resistance and riot police: the politics...are all too relevant to events and personalities in eastern Europe today...Nagano’s conducting homing in on the score’s nervous intensity, this is an electrifying performance of overwhelming power

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