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Richard Todd:
>Here thought I knew Mussorgksky's work reasonably well and along comes
>a radio announcer announcing something called Sunrise over the Moscow
>River. To make matters worse, he claims that this exquisite little
>piece comes from Khovanchina, with which I thought I had some
>familiarity. Can anyone fill me in? Thanks.
I think it's the prelude to the opera, which is spelt in a number of
ways. The CD I have containing this work calls it Khovanshchina but
I've also seen Khovantschina which seems to be closer to the French and
German equivalent spellings - any Russian speakers among our number? It
appears to be the prelude to the opera and is variously known as
Dawn/Sunrise on/over the Moscow River which don't mean quite the same
thing. Mussorgsky left the opera unfinished and the orchestration of
the piece in question is usually heard in a version by Shostakovich,
whose Op 106 is, apparently, an orchestration of the whole opera. The
DG CD 439 892-2, Russian Overtures (Russian National Orch/Mikhail
Pletnev, 62:02), has the usual suspects and such rarities as Rimsky's
The Tsar's Bride, Glazunov's Ouverture Solennelle, and Tchaikovsky's
Overture in F.
Richard Pennycuick
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