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Title: The more we listen to foreign recordings...
Review: The more we listen to foreign recordings, the more we understand, that the Bolshoi is was and always will be the one and only home of Russian opera. The history of Khovanstchina and the Shostakovich instrumentation of it is on my review of the Gergiev acount of the opera (under the name Moskvich). Since I recomend only the Rimskiy-Korsakov version, you should choose one of the three Bolshoi recordings made by Nebolsin, with Reizen, Krivchenia, Maksakova, Bolshakov and Khanayev (1952); Khaikin, with Ognivtsev, Krivchenia, Arkhipova, Piavko and Maslennikov (1974) or Ermler, Nesterenko, Eisen, Obraztsova, Lomonosov and Raikov (1988). If you still need the Shostakovich version, you should choose the soviet film (conductor Svetlanov).
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