Willem G. Vijvers <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >Paul MacKay wrote on Beethoven's birthday: > >>I'd like to have some comments on Gergiev's recording of Boris Godounov by >>Philips. > >I have bought this recording, but only sampled it, having not yet found the >time to compare it to other recordings. Boris is only boring, when you >have not done your homework properly (the same applies to some other >works). I thought I'd done my homework (although, admittedly, I wasn't aware that there were 1869 and 1872 versions that were conflated. I *was* aware that there was a multiplicity of "Boris" scenes, not all of which were included in all productions. And of course, that there was a Rimsky bowdlerization and a revision by Shostakovich, possibly among others. I didn't find the opera boring; just a bit excruciating. Walter (who has just returned from vacation).