Modest Mussorgsky - Boris Godunov

Track Listings

CD1

01. (Prologue, Scene 1) Introduction
02. Well then, what's wrong with you
03. Who are you abandoning us to
04. Who are you abandoning us to
05. True believers! The boyar is implaccable
06. Glory to Thee, Creator on high
07. Did you hear what the holy pilgrims said
08. (Prologue, Scene 2) Introduction
09. Long live Tasr Boris Fyodorovich!
10. My soul is sad
11. Glory!
12. (Act 1, Scene 1) Introduction
13. Just one final story
14. O Lord, strong and righteous
15. Do not complain, brother
16. For a long time, honoured father
17. I arrived at night
18. How old was the murdered Tsarevich
19. They are ringing for matins
20. (Act 1, Scene 2) Introduction
21. I caught a grey drake
22. Give me some fun
23. Why are you so pensive comarde
24. Here's what happened at the town of Kazan
25. Why don't you sing along
26. We are humble elders, honest monks
27. What are you staring at me like that for
28. And his age ... and his age ...

CD2

01. (Act 2) Where are you, my betrothed
02. Oh, that's enough, princess, my dear!
03. A gnat was chopping wood
04. My little tale is about this and that
05. What's the matter
06. I have achieved absolute power
07. Hey, pss!
08. Our little parrot was with the nannies
09. Ah, it's you, glorious orator
10. In Uglich, in the cathedral, in front of all the people
11. Phew! I feel terrible!
12. (Act 3, Scene 1) By the sky-blue waters
13. Enough! The beautiful lady is grateful
14. Marina is bored. Oh, how bored
15. Ah! Oh, it's you, my father
16. With tender, ardent words of love
17. What ... You impudent liar!
18. (Act 3, Scene 2) At midnight, in the garden, by the fountain
19. Tsarevich!
20. Can a humble and sinful man
21. Tsarevich, hide!
22. I do not believe in your passion sir
23. That crafty Jesuit, he has got me firmly in the grip
24. How long and agonizing
25. O, Tsarevich, I beg you
26. My turtledoves!

CD3

01. (Act 4, Scene 1) Introduction
02. What, is mass finished already!
03. Trrr, trrr. Iron cap
04. Ah-ah-ah! Boris
05. (Act 4, Scene 1, 1874 version) Introdduction
06. Exalted boyars!
07. Well then. Let's go and vote, boyars
08. What a shame that prince Shuisky isn't here
09. He was whispering- keep away, keep away
10. Here, by the front entrance
11. A humble monk
12. Once, in the evening
13. The Tsarevich. quickly
14. Farewell, my son
15. A bell! A funeral knell!
16. (Act 4, Scene 2) Introduction
17. Bring him over here!
18. It's not the falcon flying in the heavens
19. The sun and the moon have grown dark
20. Hey ho!
21. Domine, Domine, salvum fac
22. March. Glory to you, Tsarevich
23. We, Dimitri Ivanovich
24. Flow, flow, bitter tears

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Boris Godunov (Russian: Борис Годунов, original orthography Борисъ Годуновъ, Borís Godunóv) is an opera by Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881). The work was composed between 1868 and 1874 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is Mussorgsky's only completed opera and is considered his masterpiece. Its subject is the Russian ruler Boris Godunov, who reigned as Tsar from 1598 to 1605. The libretto was written by the composer, and is based on the drama of the same name by Alexander Pushkin, and on Nikolay Karamzin's History of the Russian State. The composer created two distinct versions. The Original Version of 1869 was not approved for production. Mussorgsky completed a Revised Version in 1872, and this version eventually received its first performance in 1874. The music is written in a uniquely Russian style, drawing on his knowledge of Russian folk music and rejecting the influence of German and Italian opera.

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