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In the Thread: Opera “Boris Godunov”
Post Subject: Boris Suites by Stokowski?Posted by Romy the Cat on: 4/27/2015
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 steverino wrote:
I always thought that Stokowski was very attuned to Mussorgsky. I think he was the first conductor of the original Boris Godunov version by Mussorgsky as opposed to the R-K orchestration. His Boris Suites are a good "synthesis" of the Boris opera musical highlights in the manner of Wagner Ring syntheses.  I also think Stokoski's orchestration of Pictures At an Exhibition is much more Russian than the Ravel orchestration which basically makes it another Ravel composition.
Perhaps, I do not know. I personally do not feel that Stokowski has any interesting conception to Mussorgsky. I would say that among the western musicians Claudio Abbado during his younger age but he never did any good Boris. I do not think that I even hear the Stokowski’s Boris Suites if it out there then I am for sure have to listen it. I heard his Symphonic Synthesis, that is what you refer as Boris Suites?

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