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Building a Library – Mussorgsky

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Pictures at an Exhibition (orchestrated by Ravel)

Reviewer: Stephen Walsh
Broadcast: 21 January 2012

Recommended

  • MUSSORGSKY: Pictures at an Exhibition (Ravel orchestration)
    c/w A Night on the Bare Mountain;The Destruction of Sennacherib; Salammbo - Chorus of Priestesses; Oedipus in Athens - Chorus of People in the Temple; Joshua
    Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Claudio Abbado (conductor)
    DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 4452382 (CD)

Boris Godunov

Reviewer: Stephen Walsh
Broadcast: 2nd October 2010

First Choice Recommendation:

  • Stephen Walsh recommends the performance conducted by Mstislav Rostropovich for the eloquent Boris of Ruggero Raimondi and for the conductor's instinctive pacing of this massive score.
  • Ruggero Raimondi / Paul Plishka / Kenneth Riegel / Nicolai Gedda / Galina Vishnevskaya / Choral Arts Society of Washington / National Symphony Orchestra of Washington / Mstislav Rostropovich
  • Erato 2292454182 (3CDs)

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