- Audio CD (19 May 2003)
- Number of Discs: 2
- Label: Warner Fonit
- ASIN: B000095K95
- Other Editions: Audio CD | MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 67,474 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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At last! Great effort from the hungarian composer and conductor Pesko to orchestrate the unfinished opera, or 6 scenes from Mussorgsky's first operetic attempt - opera Salammbo. One does not cease to wonder how a yongster at the age of 24, which was Mussorgsky in 1863, could compose a music of such an emotional an psichological depth and profoundness! Though one could desire singers and esspecially chorus be more fluent and with better articulation of russian, all the cast and especially Zoltan Pesko deserves greatest praises for revealing us yet surprisingly unknown treasures of music, composed by (in my humble opinion) the greatest of composers. Well, now four operas of Mussorgsky are available. I anticipate that the opera "Marriage" will soon see the light of day too.
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Mussorgsky was born in 1839.In 1863 ( 24 years old) he began to work in a opera based in a text of Flaubert : Salammbo.As always he wrote the libretto . Unfortunately he didn't complete the score. He used some material in Boris Godunov , and he orchestrated only one part of the music he composed.Zoltan Pesko did a very good job writing one edition of the work, and he recorded it in Italy in 1980. This CD is a rarity . I found it in Milan in 2005. If the orchestra isn't one first rate ensemble, the soloists are in general very good. I must say that Shemchuk portrays a fantastic Salammbo .
But lets speak of the music. It 's impressionable that one young man could write a music like that, so consistent and so beautiful. I really think that Mussorgsky was the greatest genius of the Russian composers of his century . And he was so modern for his time that everyone changed what he wrote.I would say Thank You for Zoltan Pesko. Because of him I discovered one impressionable work.
But lets speak of the music. It 's impressionable that one young man could write a music like that, so consistent and so beautiful. I really think that Mussorgsky was the greatest genius of the Russian composers of his century . And he was so modern for his time that everyone changed what he wrote.I would say Thank You for Zoltan Pesko. Because of him I discovered one impressionable work.
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