Mussorgsky - Complete Songs (1989)

CD1
	1	Tell Me, Star, Where Art Thou?			
	2	Joyous Hour			
	3	Tell my why, O Maid			
	4	leaves were sadly rustling			
	5	I am Rich in Palaces			
	6	For You, the Words of Love			
	7	King Saul			
	8	Song of the Old Man			
	9	We Parted Proudly			
	10	Wind are Howling			
	11	Night			
	12	Calistratus			
	13	Balearic Song			
	14	Prayer			
	15	Cast-off Woman			
	16	Sleep, Son of Peasants			
	17	Mignonne

CD2
	1	Desire			
	2	Gopak			
	3	Savishna			
	4	Seminarist			
	5	Hebrew song			
	6	Magpie			
	7	Seeking Mushrooms			
	8	Piruchka (The Feast)			
	9	Street-Urchin			
	10	he-goat			
	11	By the River Don			
	12	Classic			
	13	Orphan			
	14	Children's Song			
	15	With Nursey			
	16	In the Corner			
	17	Beetle			
	18	With the Doll			
	19	Evening Prayer			
	20	Hobby-Horse			
	21	Cat 'Sailor'			
	22	Eriomushka's Cradle Song			
	23	Puppet-show			
	24	Evening Song			
	25	Forsaken One

CD3
1. Within Four Walls
2. Thine Eyes in the Crowd Ne'er Perceived Me
3. The Useless Day is Over
4. Ennui
5. Elegy
6. On the River
7. Trepak - Orch National de la Radiodiffusion Francaise/Georges Tzipine
8. Cradle Song - Orch National de la Radiodiffusion Francaise/Georges Tzipine
9. Serenade - Orch National de la Radiodiffusion Francaise/Georges Tzipine
10. The Warrior-Captain - Orch National de la Radiodiffusion Francaise/Georges Tzipine
11. Cruel Death
12. The Misunderstood One
13. Misfortune
14. The Spirit of Heaven
15. What Fellow is Fitted for Weaving or Spinning?
16. Trouble
17. A Vision
18. Master Haughty
19. The Wanderer
20. On the Dnieper
21. Song of Mephistopheles - Orch National de la Radiodiffusion Francaise/Georges Tzipine

Boris Christoff - Bass (Vocal)
ORTF National Orchestra
George Tzipine – conductor

Boris Christoff's set of the complete songs of Mussorgsky is one of the greatest monuments to a single composer's greatest body of works, one of the greatest monuments to the art of singing, and one of the greatest monuments to one of the great singers of the twentieth century. The only really comparable achievement is Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau's corpus of recordings of the songs of Schubert. And if Fischer-Dieskau's achievement is larger in scope, it is neither more profound nor more musical than Christoff's. Mussorgsky's songs are as central to his greatness as a composer as Schubert's were to his. In them, he went as deep into humanity and into his art as Schubert did in his songs. Not only the great cycles, The Songs and Dances of Death, Sunless, and The Nursery, but also many of the individual songs, are as great as any ever composed. The range is as wide, the aim is as high, and the level of achievement is almost always as great in the best moments of Boris Godunov, and Christoff is there for every moment. All three of his cycles are the best ever made, and every single one of the songs is sung with passionate intelligence and dedicated soulfulness. Songs like "Cruel Death" and "The Puppet Show" have been equaled but never surpassed. And his "Mephistopheles' Song of the Flea" is frighteningly funny. One could argue with some of the accompanists or complain of some of the orchestral arrangements by other composers, but anyone who loves Mussorgsky or the art of singing should by all means get this recording. ---James Leonard, Rovi

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