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Vedernikov is a conductor-researcher, and if in other qualities he has competitors in the conductor's workshop, including those to whom he is inferior, then perhaps not in this, at least among the conductors predominantly theatrical (although this is the first time I I heard him in concert, he was then still only a relatively young - 30-year-old - assistant conductor in the BSO). And his project "Boris Godunov" (and first of all, in fact, this is a performance by Vedernikov, not Sokurov) is not only a theatrical, but also a cultural phenomenon. From a historical and musical point of view, "Boris Godunov" is still an unsolved work, unsolved primarily in terms of music, and not even in terms of dramaturgy (although with Mussorgsky, like with none of the composers of the 19th century, music is inseparable from drama). 7 versions of the author's editions, orchestrations by Rimsky-Korsakov, Shostakovich and so on, plus a restored clavier, mutually exclusive episodes using the same musical fragments. The new production of the Bolshoi had scientific consultants Nadezhda Teterina and Evgeny Levashov, their work is huge and briefly but clearly described by them in a special article. <...>
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Vedernikov is a conductor-researcher, and if in other qualities he has competitors in the conductor's workshop, including those to whom he is inferior, then perhaps not in this, at least among the conductors predominantly theatrical (although this is the first time I I heard him in concert, he was then still only a relatively young - 30-year-old - assistant conductor in the BSO). And his project "Boris Godunov" (and first of all, in fact, this is a performance by Vedernikov, not Sokurov) is not only a theatrical, but also a cultural phenomenon. From a historical and musical point of view, "Boris Godunov" is still an unsolved work, unsolved primarily in terms of music, and not even in terms of dramaturgy (although with Mussorgsky, like with none of the composers of the 19th century, music is inseparable from drama). 7 versions of the author's editions, orchestrations by Rimsky-Korsakov, Shostakovich and so on, plus a restored clavier, mutually exclusive episodes using the same musical fragments. The new production of the Bolshoi had scientific consultants Nadezhda Teterina and Evgeny Levashov, their work is huge and briefly but clearly described by them in a special article. <...>
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Chur, child! ("Boris Godunov" by M. Mussorgsky at the Bolshoi Theatre)
Slava SHADRONOV,
April 28, 2007
April 28, 2007
