CORONATION SCENE (Original 1869 Version) by Modest Mussorgsky (Audio + Sheet Music)

Performed by: Kirov Opera & Orchestra
Conducted by: Valery Gergiev
Boris Godunov (bass): Vladimir Vaneyev
Taken from the opera "Boris Godunov", which premiered in St Petersburg in 1874.

[@MrInterestingthings]

Amazing imagination Mussorgsky . Noone taught him the amazing things he came up with and few knew what he was doing ! Liszt and Rimsky knew ! Being a drunk didn't help though he was a sophisticated dandy early in life he gave that up - could have helped with St. petersburg society . This is fabulous music and the orchestration !WOW!!!

[@user-kz9sg2cx6]

Best Opera ever written.

[@TimondeNood]

Amazing work!!

[@mrtchaikovsky]

Mussorgsky was a genius of the first water and might as well have been the most talented 19th century Russian composer, with the possible exception of Glinka. (His technique and discipline on the other hand...)
A 30 years old military cadet with no musical training writing a 3 hour opera to his own libretto in 13 months, which remains the most popular Russian opera 150 years later, is most exceptional indeed.
I personally believe Boris Godunov to be the greatest Russian opera (my opinion, please don't be upset).
The opening of the coronation scene alone is decades ahead of its time, foreshadowing not only "Le Coq d'Or", but also the early Stravinsky.
How wonderful that we are presented here with Mussorgsky's originary vision; I have always preferred the original version of both Boris and the Bald Mountain over Rimsky's "revisions".
Incidentally, the orchestration of the first few bars was most likely in the back of Ravel's mind when he orchestrated the bell passage in the Great Gate of Kiev.

[@yp3424]

Indeed. No doubt, M.P. Mussorgsky was a very talented composer and "Boris Godunov" his masterpiece,admired even by Stalin. Shostakovich used the introduction theme (prologue), in the 2nd part (allegro),of his 10th symphony, as a hint. Though, we ought not to forget that the libretto was based, mainly on the work of Alexander Pushkin and on fragments from the "History of the Russian state" by Nikolai Karamzin. Otherwise, the reign (tsardom) of B. F. Godunov, would have been quite insignificant compared to these of Ivan IV, the terrible, Peter I the great or Catherine II. Apart from this, in the russian history of music, there are equally popular operas like, "Prince Igor", (Borodin), "E. Onegin","Dame Pique"(Tchaikovsky) and the various creations of N. R-Korsakov, a great master & teacher.

[@pedroenrique9613]

He did reciieve training. He studied major works at the piano with the group under Balakhirev.

[@Quotenwagnerianer]

If he only he would have had stayed away from liquor.

[@mrtchaikovsky]

@@Quotenwagnerianer I honestly don't understand why excessive alcohol consumption (or alcohol consumption in general) is as socially accepted as it is. So many brilliant (and not so brilliant) minds have been lost to it.

[@Quotenwagnerianer]

@@mrtchaikovsky Because alcohol is not equally destructive to everyone like other drugs.
Some people fall deep into a puddle of lost self-control others only ever drink it in mild doseages that ever so slightly loosens the spirits.
Why should those who are able to do that be forced to give it up, just because others can't do that?

[@user-kz9sg2cx6]

Mussorgsky is one the Greatest Composer in history of Music.

[@BsktImp]

Wow! Loved it.

[@declamatory]

I always get this ringing in my ears when I listen to this!

[@tomekkobialka]

It's not just you...

[@therealrealludwigvanbeethoven]

Mussorgsky and Tchaikovsky are by far my favourite composers; this scene, and the entire opera of which it is a part, constitute some of the greatest music of all time!

[@ValzainLumivix]

Ok.

[@davidreece6193]

Then Rimsky-Korsakov butchered his works after his death.

[@MuseDuCafe]

I'm pretty certain I wish Rimsky Korsakov had never put his hand to re-orchestrating Mussorgsky :-/

[@davidreece6193]

The song that the chorus is singing is a Russian folksong. Interestingly this tune appears in a choral work by Sydney Campbell called Praise to God in the Highest. The tune forms most of the work.

[@Artovna]

ALEXEI ALIVES

[@Tizohip]

beautifull music

[@MJStno]

ALEXEI LIVES

[@mikeblackstock]

Would anyone know who wrote out the score? Woe, that's an awesome amount of work!

[@mischag]

I coulda sworn it was Der Abscheid

[@pedroenrique9613]

ay

[@Bruhlicioustoes]

Verify your clock

[@Ivan_1791]

Lol, for a second I thought it was something about the Coronavirus.

[@tomekkobialka]

Haha, no! I had no special occasion in mind when publishing this video.

[@Ivan_1791]

@@tomekkobialka Yes, my mind just played a trick on me.