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Mussorgsky - Khovanshchina | Euroarts 4272424

Mussorgsky - Khovanshchina

Label: Euroarts

Cat No: 4272424

Barcode: 0880242724243

Format: Blu-ray

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 12th July 2019

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Contents

Artists

Doris Soffel
Anatoly Kotscherga
Klaus Florian Vogt
John Daszak
Paata Burchuladze
Camilla Nylund
Bayerisches Staatsorchester

Conductor

Kent Nagano

Works

Mussorgsky, Modest

Khovanshchina

Artists

Doris Soffel
Anatoly Kotscherga
Klaus Florian Vogt
John Daszak
Paata Burchuladze
Camilla Nylund
Bayerisches Staatsorchester

Conductor

Kent Nagano

About

Kent Nagano superbly masters the challenges presented by this score, shapes the dynamics with subtle intensity, and casts the score in a mellow glow.

As Marfa, the spurned lover of Ivan Khovansky‘s son Andrei, Doris Soffel unfolds such a rich palette of sonorities, from the pathos of the lower ranges to shaded distant heights, that “one is tempted to speak of a Russian mezzo”. 

Fantastic cast: Anatoly Kotscherga portrays the religious leader Dosifei with fervor and bluster, Klaus Florian Vogt dazzles heroically as Andrey, John Daszak is a technically flawless Golitsin, and bass-baritone Paata Burchuladze gives a charismatic, forceful account of Prince Ivan Khovansky.

The final chorus, which Mussorgsky did not compose, is played in the orchestrally transparent version of Igor Stravinsky – the third great Russian composer who contributed to making “Khovanshchina“ a gripping stage work for all times.

With his stripped-down sets and historicizing costumes, director Dmitri Tcherniakov, one of the new voices of contemporary Russian theater, builds a bridge to the political present.

Staged, directed and designed by Dmitri Tcherniakov.

Recorded live at the Nationaltheater, Munich, 10 & 14 July 2007.

Picture format: 1080i Full HD 16:9
Sound formats: PCM 2.0, DTS-HD Master Audio Surround
Region code: All (worldwide)
Subtitles (Bonus): German English, French, Spanish
Booklet notes: English, German, French
Running time: 172 mins
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