Penguin Rosettes, Mussorgsky (composer)
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Mussorgsky-Stokowski: Pictures at an Exhibition
RecommendedBournemouth Symphony Orchestra, José Serebrier
Serebrier's own imposing, heavyweight style yields different results to the volatile Knussen… but it's always absorbing. Something of the Stokowski sound is filtered through the refined texturing... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2005, Disc of the Month
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Pletnev dazzles in the Mussorgsky, caressing its sublime poetry with a velvet-gloved sensitivity while throttling its chilling angularities into piano-shattering submission. His Tchaikovsky... —
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Building a Library, January 2010, First Choice
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Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov (highlights)
RecommendedJohn Tomlinson (Boris), Stuart Kale (Prince Shuisky), Clive Bayley (Varlaam), Joan Rodgers (Xenia), Susan Parry (Feodor), Yvonne Howard (Old Nurse), Matthew Best (Pimen)
Opera North Chorus, English Northern Philharmonia, Paul Daniel
John Tomlinson has made the part of Boris his own, and this generous, 75-minute selection of excerpts from Boris Godunov is highly recommendable, even when compared with current Russian versions... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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A sizzling account of Borodin's Polovtsian Dances is the centrepiece here. Glinka's Ruslan and Lyudmila Overture is equally electrifying, yet there is tenderness, too, in Musorgsky's Khovanshchina... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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