This page lists all recordings of Boris Godunov (highlights), by Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (1839-81) on CD. Generally, more recent CDs are listed first, but with priority given to items that are in stock. |
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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov (highlights)
John Tomlinson, Stuart Kale, Clive Bayley Opera North Chorus, English Northern Philharmonia, Paul Daniel Sung in English | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| | Mussorgsky: | Pictures at an Exhibition Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini Boris Godunov (highlights) Sofia Festival Orchestra & National Opera Chorus, Emil Tchakarov |
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| |  | Opera Excerpts: Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky, Borodin & SmetanaSung in German
Elisabeth Grummer & Hans Hotter | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 6 working days. |
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| |  | Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov (highlights)
Hans Hotter, Hans Hopf, Martha Modl & Benno Kusche Eugen Jochum | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 6 working days. |
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| |  | Alexander KipnisVictor Recordings 1945/6
In the search for suitable and evocative words to
describe a particular vocal quality, usually, for the bass
voice one would expect of course adjectives like deep,
black, sonorous, cavernous, thundering, impressive or
even noble. Rarely is the word beautiful used.
However, in the case of Alexander Kipnis, it most
certainly applies.
Alexander Kipnis was born into a very poor family
in Zhitomir, Ukraine on l February 1891. They were
very proud of the extraordinary quality of his singing
voice, which attracted the attention of a visiting cantor
from Bessarabia, who heard him as a soloist in the local
synagogue choir. So taken was he by the boy’s natural
talent, that, with a promise of some payment, the
cantor persuaded Alexander’s mother to let him leave
home and become a chorister at his synagogue.
Alexander was befriended by one of the older singers
with whom he lodged and who taught him the
rudiments of music and also some Lieder. Kipnis then
won a scholarship to enter the Warsaw Conservatoire,
initially to study conducting, but of course he
continued to sing, his voice having broken and become
a bass. He decided to move to Berlin, undertaking
further vocal studies with the well-known teacher
Ernst Grenzebach.
This compilation is a tribute to one of the greatest
bass voices ever to have recorded. | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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| |  | Nicolai Gedda - The Early Records 1952 - 1956
Nicolai Gedda (tenor) Philharmonia, French Radio Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra Orchestra Louis de Froment, Alceo Galliera, Issay Dobrowen and Louis de Froment | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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Josef Krips, Horst Stein, Giuseppe Sinopoli & Miguel Gomez Martinez Chorus & Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera, Seiji Ozawa (recorded live 1969 - 1998) | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov (highlights)
Ruggero Raimondi (Boris Godunov), Paul Plishka (Pimen), Kenneth Riegel (Shuisky), Nicolai Gedda (Simpleton), Galina Vishneyevskaya (Marina), Catherine Dubosc (Xenia), Matthew Adam Fish (Feodor), Mira Zakai (Nurse), Vyacheslav Poloznov (Grigory), Misha Raitzin (Missail), Lajos Miller (Shchelkalov), Nikita Storozhev (Rangoni) & Romuald Tesarowicz (Varlaam) Oratorio Society of Washington,
Choral Arts Society of Washington & National Symphony Orchestra, Mstislav Rostropovich | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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| | Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov (highlights)
Feodor Chaliapin (Boris) Chorus & Orchestra of The Royal Opera Covent Garden, Vincenzo Bellezza (recorded 4 July 1928) | | | Usually despatched in 8 - 10 working days. |
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