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