Artist: Rafael Kubelik

Title: Boris Godunov: Christoff Veas

Condition:

Format: CD

Release Date: 2012

Label: Myto Records Italy

UPC: 801439903128

Genre: Classical Artists

Album Tracks

DISC 1:
1. Now Then! Have You Turned to Idols?
2. Russian People All!
3. Glory to Thee, Lord on Earth!
4. Long Live Tsar Boris Fydorovich!
5. My Soul Is Sad
6. Just One More, the Final Story
7. The Very Same Dream!
8. You Wrote and Took No Rest
9. When Was He Murdered?
10. I Caught a Lovely Duck
11. Woman! Peace Be to Your House
12. Thus It Was at the Town of Kazan
13. However, Friend
14. Well, Fathers, How Are We Doing
15. I Can Read

DISC 2:
1. Where Are You, Dearest?
2. What Is the Matter?
3. I Have Attained Supreme Power
4. Your Highness
5. Ah, Most Eloquent Traitor!
6. Ouf! I Suffocate!
7. By the Blue Waters of the Vistula
8. Enough! the Lovely Maiden Is Grateful
9. Ah, It Is You, My Father!
10. At Midnight, in the Garden
11. I Do Not Believe Your Vows
12. The Crafty Jesuit Has Caught Me
13. Dimitri! Tsarevich! Dimitri!
14. I Adore You, Marina
15. O Tsarevich, I Beg You

DISC 3:
1. What, Is Mass Finished Already?
2. TRRR, TRRR! Iron Cap, Iron Cap
3. Ah-Ah... Boris! Oh, Boris!
4. Exalted Boyars!
5. It's a Pity Shuisky Is Not Here
6. I Have Summoned You, Boyars
7. A Meek Old Monk
8. Oh! I Suffocate! Give Me Kight!
9. The Bell! the Passing-Bell!
10. Bring Him Over Here!
11. We, Dimitri Ivanovich, By the Grace

Questions of editions and orchestration aside, Modest Mussorgsky's penetrating, powerful and potent four-act Boris Godunov, arguably the greatest Russian opera of the 19th c., requires no less than a figure of towering stature to portray this late 16th - early 17th c. Russian Czar. This 1958 Covent Garden performance led by Czech conductor Rafael Kubelik, in his last year as the Royal Opera House music director, has such a figure in Boris Christoff, a bass of considerable vocal and acting talent. Josephine Veasey, Geraint Evans and Regina Resnik, among other cast members, prove no less formidable.