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.

This piece is in fact the introduction to Khovanchina.  Both
Rimsky-Korsakoff and Shostakovich worked with the orchestration.
I have a Melodia disc (SUCD 10-00178) of Mussorgsky's Orchestral
Works with both versions, conducted by Svetlanov.

Jim Tobin