tracks

Introduction - Well, What's Got Into You? (Police Officer, Chorus)
Who Are You Abandoning Us To, Father? (Chorus)
Orthodox People! The Boyar Is Implacable - Glory Be To Thee (Shchelkalov, Chorus)
Did You Hear What The Godly People Said? (Mityukha, Police Officer, Chorus)
Long Live Tsar Boris Fyodorovich! (Shuisky, Chorus)
My Soul Grieves! (Boris, Shuisky, Chorus)
One Last Narration (Pimen)
Strong And Just Lord (Chorus, Grigory, Pimen)
You Have Been Writing All The Time (Grigory, Pimen)
Oh, I Remember! - Then I Was Sent To Uglich (Pimen, Grigory)
They Are Ringing For Matins (Chorus, Pimen) - Boris! Everyone Trembles Before You (Grigory)
I've Caught A Smoky-blue Drake (Hostess)
Christian Folk, Honest, Godly Folk (Varlaam, Missail, Grigory, Hostess)
Oh, In The Town Of Kazan (Varlaam)
Counsel! (Varlaam, Grigory, Hostess)
Who Are You? - Humble Fathers, Honest Monks (Police Officer, Varlaam, Missail, Grigory, Hostess)
What Are You Doing! Accursed Rogues! (Varlaam, Missail, Police Officer)
Where Are You, My Betrothed? (Xenia, Fyodor)
Oh, That Will Do, My Dear Tsarevna! - A Gnat Was Chopping Wood (Nurse)
Oh, Nurse, Dear Nurse, What A Story To Tell! - Clapping Game (Nurse, Fyodor)
What's Happening? (Fyodor, Boris, Xenia)
How Splendid, My Son! (Boris)
Hey, Shoo, Shoo! - What's Going On? (Chorus, Boris, Boyar, Fyodor)
It's All Our Parrot's Fault (Fyodor, Boris)
My Son, My Very Own Child! (Boris, Shuisky, Fyodor)
Tsarevich, Obey! (Boris, Shuisky)
Why, You Do Not Believe Me? (Shuisky)
Enough! Oh, I Can Hardly Breathe! (Boris)
On The Azure Vistula (Chorus, Marina)
Enough! (Marina)
I Do Not Need You Today, Rusya (Marina)
Ah! It Is You, My Father! (Marina, Rangoni)
At Midnight... In The Garden... By The Fountain... (Grigory, Rangoni)
Think Again, Tsarevich - Polonaise (Marina, Chorus) - And Quickly We Shall Capture The Domain Of Muscovy! (Chorus)
It Is Her! Marina! (Grigory, Marina)
Well, Is The Mass Over? (Chorus, Mityukha)
Trrr, Trrr, Trrr (Chorus, Simpleton)
Ah! Ah! Boris! Boris! They've Offended God's Fool! (Simpleton, Boris, Shuisky)
Most Honorable Boyars! (Shchelkalov)
Well? Let Us Pass Sentence, Boyars (Chorus, Shuisky)
Oh, What Are You Saying, Boyars! (Shuisky, Chorus)
Keep Away! Away! (Boris, Shuisky, Chorus)
Gracious Sovereign! - My Story Will Be Simple And Short (Shuisky, Boris, Pimen)
I Can't Breathe! - Lord! Look Down, I Beseech Thee (Boris)
Weep, People (Chorus, Boris, Fyodor)
Bring Him Down Here! (Chorus)
Trrr... Iron Cap (Chorus, Simpleton)
The Sun And Moon Have Grown Dim (Missail, Varlaam, Chorus)
Come Away! Youthful Vigour Runs Wild (Chorus, Varlaam, Missail)
Domine, Salvum Fac Regem (Lavitsky, Chernikovsky, Chorus)
What The Deuce Brings Them Here? (Chorus, Lavitsky, Chernikovsky, Missail, Varlaam, Grigory, Krushchov, Simpleton)

notes

Recorded in July 1987 at John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C. 20566

credits

Adapted By – David Lloyd-Jones
Bass Vocals [Pimen] – Paul Plishka
Bass Vocals [Varlaam] – Romuald Tesarowicz
Bass-Baritone Vocals [Boris Godunov] – Ruggero Raimondi
Chorus – Choral Arts Society of Washington, The Chevy Chase Elementary School Chorus, The Oratorio Society Of Washington,
Composed By – Modest Mussorgsky
Conductor – Mstislav Rostropovich
Orchestra – National Symphony Orchestra
Other [Based On The Play By] – Alexander Pushkin*
Producer – Michel Garcin
Soprano Vocals [Princess Marina Mnishek / The Hostess] – Galina Vichnievskaia,
Tenor Vocals [Grigory] – Vyacheslav Polozov
Tenor Vocals [Prince Shuisky] – Kenneth Riegel
Tenor Vocals [Simpleton] – Nicolaï Gedda,

companies

Phonographic Copyright (p) – Erato Disques
Copyright (c) – Parlophone Records Ltd.
Recorded At – John F. Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts

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