Musorgsky

Life of Musorgsky

Modest Musorgsky is Russia's greatest musical dramatist. When he died in 1881 in St Petersburg at the age of forty-two, in poverty and relative obscurity, he was known for a single opera, Boris Godunov and a handful of eccentric 'realistic' songs set to prosaic Russian texts. He had no institutional...

Musorgsky, Sämtliche Werke

Musorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition

The piano cycle Pictures at an Exhibition is perhaps the most widely known of Musorgsky's compositions, especially as orchestrated by Ravel. This informative and wide-ranging guide places the original piano work in the context of Russian cultural life, considering in particular the work of the artis...

Musorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition

The piano cycle Pictures at an Exhibition is perhaps the most widely known of Musorgsky's compositions, especially as orchestrated by Ravel. This informative and wide-ranging guide places the original piano work in the context of Russian cultural life, considering in particular the work of the artis...

BORODIN. MUSORGSKIJ. LJADOV Orchestrální skladby. Jevgenij Světlanov MUSORGSKY LYADOV (5CD) (BORODIN. MUSSORGSKY. LYADOV: Orchestral works. Evgeny Svetlanov (5CD))

CD 1 [76:04]Borodin:Symphony No. 1 in E flat major (1862-67) [35:02]Symphony No. 2 in B minor 'Heroic' (1869-76) [31:35]In the Steppes of Central Asia (1880) [9:16]CD 2 [76:22]Borodin:Symphony No. 3 in A minor (unfinished) (posthumous) [19:41]Petite Suite (1885) [29:40]Prince Igor Overture (1869 188...

MARIA YUDINA Legacy Vol.13 (CD) (VISTA VERA)

The Legacy of Maria Yudina Vol 13 Modest Musorgsky. 1. Meditation. Album Leaf. Three pieces on the themes from the opera Boris Godunov: № 1. The Holy Fool. №2. The Bell Ringing. №3. Glory Nikolai Medtner . Sonata-Triad, ор.11 Sergei Prokofiev. Romeo and Juliet Before Parting. No 10 of Concert Transc...

NIKOLAI GOLOVANOV: Great Russian Conductors vol.9 (CD) (VISTA VERA)

Modest Musorgsky (1839-1881) 1 The Night on Bald Mountain, Fantasia for the symphony orchestra 11.04 2 Gopak from the opera Sorochinskaya Fair 1.45 3 Dawn at the Moscow River. Introduction to the opera Khovanschina 6.12 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) 4 March of the Princes from the opera "Mlada...

Theory of Musical Semiotics (Eero Tarasti)(Pevná)

"A Theory of Musical Semiotics" analyzes musical works through the theoretical frameworks of narratology and French structural semiotics, especially that of A. J. Greimas. It also views theories from the 'classical' semiotic tradition, from Saussure to Peirce to Lotman, as possible foundations of mu...

Musorgsky

Musorgsky

"It is [a] fully illuminated story that Richard Taruskin, in the path-breaking essays collected here, unfolds around Modest Musorgsky, Russia's greatest national composer.... [Taruskin's] tour de force comes with a frontal attack on all the Soviet-bred truisms that for a century have refashioned Mus...