Rostropovich,Mstislav Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov CD1. Boris Godunov, Prologue: "Well, What's Got Into You?" (Police Officer, Chorus) 2. Boris Godunov, Prologue: "Who Are You Abandoning Us to, Father?"...
Questions of editions and orchestration aside, Modest Mussorgsky's penetrating, powerful and potent four-act Boris Godunov, arguably the greatest Russian opera of the 19th c., requires no less than a...
Modest Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov stands out among the major works of the opera repertoire in having an extremely complex creative history. The original libretto, by the composer himself, was based...