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The Coronation Scene from Modest Musorgsky's Boris Godunov in Rimsky-Korsakov's Edition. The group of Russian composers who began to assemble after 1857, consisting of Mily Balakirev, César Cui, Modest Musorgsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, and Alexander Borodin, came to be known as the moguchaia kuchka (literally, "the mighty little heap ...
Boris Godunov (Russian: Борис Годунов, romanized: Borís Godunóvlisten ⓘ) is an opera by Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881). The work was composed between 1868 and 1873 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is Mussorgsky's only completed opera and is considered his masterpiece.
The famous "Coronation Scene" (Scene Two) presents a triumphant Boris emerging into the magnificent Cathedral Square, inside the Kremlin walls. The cathedral bells peal raucously, and the people glorify their new tsar by comparing him to the radiant sun.
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov (original 1869 version) (scene 2: The Coronation Scene) With Bryn Terfel (Boris) and the ROH Chorus and Orchestra conducted by Antonio...
