Highlights From Famous Operas - CD 6 - Mussorgsky, Borodin, Glinka, Rachmaninov, Verdi, Tchaikovsky / Brilliant Classics Audio CD 1994 / 280740

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Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (Russian: Модест Петрович Мусоргский, tr. Modést Petróvich Músorgskiy, IPA: [mɐˈdɛst pʲɪˈtrovʲɪtɕ ˈmusərkskʲɪj]; 21 March [O.S. 9 March] 1839 – 28 March [O.S. 16 March] 1881) was a Russian composer, one of the group known as "The Five". He was an innovator of Russian music in the Romantic period. He strove to achieve a uniquely Russian musical identity, often in deliberate defiance of the established conventions of Western music.

Many of his works were inspired by Russian history, Russian folklore, and other national themes. Such works include the opera Boris Godunov, the orchestral tone poem Night on Bald Mountain and the piano suite Pictures at an Exhibition.

For many years, Mussorgsky's works were mainly known in versions revised or completed by other composers. Many of his most important compositions have posthumously come into their own in their original forms, and some of the original scores are now also available.

Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin (Russian: Александр Порфирьевич Бородин, tr. Aleksandr Porfir’yevich Borodin, IPA: [ɐlʲɪkˈsandr pɐrˈfʲi rʲjɪvʲɪtɕ bərɐˈdʲin]; 12 November 1833 – 27 February 1887) was a Russian chemist and Romantic musical composer of Georgian ancestry. He was one of the prominent 19th-century composers known as "The Five", a group dedicated to producing a uniquely Russian kind of Classical music. Borodin is known best for his symphonies, his two string quartets, the symphonic poem In the Steppes of Central Asia and his opera Prince Igor.

A doctor and chemist by profession and training, Borodin made important early contributions to organic chemistry. Although he is presently known better as a composer, he regarded medicine and science as his primary occupations, only practicing music and composition in his spare time or when he was ill. As a chemist, Borodin is known best for his work concerning organic synthesis, including being among the first chemists to demonstrate nucleophilic substitution, as well as being the co-discoverer of the aldol reaction. Borodin was a promoter of education in Russia and founded the School of Medicine for Women in Saint Petersburg, where he taught until 1885.

Tracklist:

1.  M. P. Mussorgsky - Boris Godunov - Ostav Te Has? (Act IV)   10:02

2.  A. Borodin - Prince Igor - Zdorov - Li Knyaz? (Act II)   7:08

3.  M. Glinka - Ivan Susanin - Chuyut Pravdu (Act IV)   10:24

4.  P. Tchaikovsky - Eugen Onegin - Lyubvi Vsa (Act II)   5:18

5.  S. Rachmaninov - Aleko - Volshebnoi Sloi   5:13

6.  G. Verdi - Simon Boccanegra - Ah, Te El Estrano Addio (Prologue)   5:07

7.  G. Verdi - Ernani - Che Mai Vegg'io (Act I)    3:14

8.  G. Verdi - Macbeth - Studia Il Passo (Act II)   4:43

9.  G. Verdi - Luisa Miller - Ah, Tutto m'Arride (Act I)   4:46

10. G. Verdi - Don Carlos - Ella Giammei m'Amor (Act IV)   9:48