Musorgsky's favorite work

[Alban Berg]

Khovanshina is awesome

OK Martin. We've got the measure of your attitude about Mussorgsky.

And as this is a "what is your favorite?" thread, your attitude is slightly off the mark. Repeating it over and over again is way off the mark.

What good does it do, anyway? Does it help anyone appreciate Mussorgsky? Obviously not. Is it a worthwhile activity to discourage anyone from listening to Mussorgsky? (Not that you have that power!) Probably not.

I think I might give Khovanshchina another listen today. I might even drink a glass of wine or two, or some vodka, while I do so.

Hey Martin! Maybe your posts did do some good!! (I'm kidding, of course. I can listen to Khovanshchina--not the Rimsky-Korsakov version*--and drink wine and vodka any day, without any "encouragement".)

*the Abbado performance is the one I favor....

with or without R-K help....It helps to have some vodka listening to it...you'll have the same spirit than Mussorgsky...LOL
But this is for me his best opera....even better than Boris...

Martin

 

[Alban Berg]

Mephistopheles...is good...

Hi Martin,

Hey, you pickin' on my bro Modest??? :grin::grin::grin:

Seriously, his vocal works stand the test of time very well - Check out "Mephistopheles Song of the Flea" sung by Martti Talvela. Despite his often being in a drunken stupor he still wrote much that will live on long after I am pushing up daisies

Cheers,


CD :tiphat::tiphat::tiphat::tiphat:

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and nice humour....but the Songs and dances of death is very dark...

Martin

 

[Contratrombone64]

And to answer the question exactly: how could we possibly know, Mussorgsky's been dead for years?? (Musorgsky's favorite work)

 

[Alban Berg]

Reading helps

And to answer the question exactly: how could we possibly know, Mussorgsky's been dead for years?? (Musorgsky's favorite work)

I read my musical life by Rimsky-Korsakov and a short biography and both say the same...Mussorgsky was always helped by somebody! Borodin also was...But he was a Chemical engineer, I think...Music for him was a hobby...
I respect Mussorgsky anyhow. He was a much better musician than myself! LOL


Martin, respectful

 

[some guy]

I DO Have Sorochinsky's market opera (do you?) and the Night of the Bald mountain is part of the opera

Yes, I do. And Night on Bald Mountain was first a standalone piece, and then revised for an opera project, and then rerevised for inclusion in Sorochinsky Fair. You do understand the difference between "The bald mountain is not a work itself but a little part of his opera: Sorotchinskaya Iarmarka (The market of Sorotchinsky" and "Night on Bald Mountain was an orchestral piece that Mussorgsky wrote in 1867, seven years before [reusing it in Sorochinsky Fair]" don't you?

 

[Alban Berg]

To be honest

Yes, I do. And Night on Bald Mountain was first a standalone piece, and then revised for an opera project, and then rerevised for inclusion in Sorochinsky Fair. You do understand the difference between "The bald mountain is not a work itself but a little part of his opera: Sorotchinskaya Iarmarka (The market of Sorotchinsky" and "Night on Bald Mountain was an orchestral piece that Mussorgsky wrote in 1867, seven years before [reusing it in Sorochinsky Fair]" don't you?

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I am absolutely convinced you're right...I am not enough interested in M.M to have the knowledge you seem to have. Io sono nulo...LOL

Martin