Mussorgsky 'Night on the Bare Mountain' (Choral Version) - Rozhdestvensky conducts

[@sea7kenp]

In my opinion, it's best with a Chorus. Awesome performance!

[@MelancoliaI]

Absolutely! With this music it's like I have a ringside seat at the Witches' Sabbath. Truly fearsome stuff here.

[@radiorexandy]

Spectacular! Modest Mussorgsky's masterpiece finally sees the light of day. Truly awesome!

[@roymoss8514]

One word brilliant

[@susanmaslak]

wonderful........

[@kira-dk2mx]

This is beyond beast.

[@lednew2010]

Truly fascinating to hear. Yes, it's obvious that R-K based his version on this version and so, those "fanfares" he is credited (and criticised) for adding were actually Mussorgsky's in the first place! This version is as far from the original as Rimsky's, or Stokowski's. Amazing however that the strength of the original ideas manages to work in all these versions we now have access to!

[@Boccaccio1811]

Yeah that's pretty interesting... I wonder if those who criticize Rimsky-Korsakov for adding in certain sections change their opinion when they find out it was actually Mussorgsky

[@lhadzyan7300]

actually this choral version was totally done by Rimsky-Korsakov as the most popular non-singed version of this piece, as Mussorgsky had died before finishing the scores of his other least famous operas, Fair of Sorochinsty (where this piece goes interpolated as an optional scene) and Khovanshina, so his friend had to finish and redone most of the unfinished work (he only acheived to complete one opera, scoring it twice, the famous Boris Godunov). Mussorgsky original work doesn´t sound in all like this or the popular non-choral version, and it´s pretty much messy and hard to tune with it, so Rimsky-Korsakov actually did a great work for this and the non-choral version of that.

[@MabookaMabooka]

IMHO, the orchestral version (R-K) overall sounds darker and scarier (which should go as a compliment to the Maestro:) )

[@ВладимирШуберт-й6е]

@@lhadzyan7300 Вы ошибаетесь.Это оригинальное произведение Мусоргского (музыка из незаконченной оперы "Сорочинская ярмарка" в оркестровке Шебалина). Римский-Корсаков к этой версии никакого отношения не имеет, он написал свою знаменитую инструментальную редакцию "Ночи", основываясь на 3 версиях Мусоргского - для фортепьяно с оркестром (она была утеряна), инструментальной, о которой Вы по видимому и пишите, и главным образом вот этой, из оперы.

[@davidjohnson9796]

@@lhadzyan7300 You are not correct. This version is based on Mussorski's original piano score. This NOT Rimsky-Korsakov. Of course the scoring is based on the original Mussorski from 1867. So what we have is [pretty much all MM.

[@carlpowell0]

great piece. I really like it. holds and sustains intensity very well

[@corvus6865]

Mussorgsky has a beautiful voice

[@BlakkAxe99]

lol what

[@toprak3479]

Bruh...

[@kevinherbert9708]

He was a composer of little technique

[@redbrian3655]

Now that's cool!!!! Any idea what they are saying? The tenors and sopranos sure have to sing high. BRIAN

[@Laurentio313]

Mush mush!

[@Manu.Bravo.Valenzuela]

the Sinister Doctor Mortis

[@willschweitzer9784]

Doesn't sound as dark as the other videos that play this song...

[@paleomiguel]

3:07 3:28

[@SemanticAmbiguity]

if you want the lyrics /watch?v=JDOCuvN-19Q Warning the audio is awfull