Mussorgsky / Baranovic, Kresimir: Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina
Mussorgsky / Baranovic, Kresimir: Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina
Format: CD
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Artist: Mussorgsky / Baranovic, Kresimir
Label: Eloquence Australia
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 028948268931
Genre: Classical, Opera/Operetta
A first release on CD for the first recording in stereo (and entirely complete) of Mussorgsky's tragic chronicle of faith, rebellion and repression in 17th-century Russia. With this and six companion issues to be released during the course of 2018, Eloquence makes available for the first time on CD the seven complete Russian operas recorded in 1955 by Decca with the company of the Belgrade Opera. Fresh from a successful tour of Boris Godunov in Switzerland the previous year, the Belgrade Opera in 1955 was keen to make an impression on an international public. At the same time, the Decca company perceived a cost-effective but artistically assured opportunity to expand both it's small but rapidly growing stereo catalogue and it's opera discography with classics of the Russian opera repertoire which it had previously not been possible to record in the original language. In the event, the stereo versions were held back for the US market. They were only released in Europe in the 1960s, by which time the Belgrade Opera had acquired an international reputation for excellence thanks both to the mono issues and to the company's tours of the major European operatic centres. The role of Prince Ivan Khovansky on this recording is taken by Žarko Cvejic (1907-1994), a longstanding member of the Belgrade Opera who also sung the role at the company's Edinburgh Festival residency in 1962. Cvejic is joined by other Belgrade stalwarts such as Melanija Bugarinovic, who also won acclaim as Erda at Bayreuth around this time, and Miroslav Cangalovic, an acclaimed Boris of his day, as the dignified leader of the Old Believers, Dosifey. The booklet for this newly remastered release prints both a synopsis and an essay by Peter Quantrill giving full historical context to the Belgrade opera recordings.
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