Gerard McBurney: "Ploughing the Black Earth: how Mussorgsky created "Khovanshchina"

Recording of Gerard McBurney's seminar: "Ploughing the Black Earth:
how Mussorgsky created "Khovanshchina" - part of "Kirill Gerstein invites" hosted by Kronberg Academy. 09.02.2022.
Gerard McBurney discussed the unique and intricate world of Mussorgsky's "Khovanshchina"; its folk and literary roots; dramaturgy and questions of staging; the differing and competing versions contained in the extant sketches; the dilemma of the incomplete ending and the various efforts to complete the opera. Gerard's encyclopaedic knowledge and his story-telling abilities threw light on Mussorgsky's world and on much beyond it.
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