Olga Borodina
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Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame
RecommendedMaria Guleghina (Lisa), Gegam Grigorian (Hermann), Irina Arkhipova (Countess), Vladimir Chernov (Yeletsky), Nikolai Putilin (Tomsky), Olga Borodina (Polina), Vladimir Solodovnikov (Chekalinsky), Sergei Alexashkin (Surin), Evgeni Boitsov (Chaplitsky), Nikolai Gassiev (Major-Domo), Gennadi Bezzubenkov...
There are major problems with all the current sets of The Queen of Spades, but Valery Gergiev, one of the outstanding Tchaikovskians of the day, here coaxes from a thoroughly Western-sounding... — More…
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Building a Library, October 2011, First choice (single set)
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Verdi: Requiem
RecommendedBarbara Frittoli (soprano), Olga Borodina (mezzo), Mario Zeffiri (tenor), Ildar Abdrazakov (bass)
Chicago Symphony Chorus & Orchestra, Riccardo Muti
...much remains of the potency of [Muti's] classic 1979 recording...The Dies Irae, for instance, retains all his customary bite and fury...Frittoli's substantial soprano charts the emotions... — More…
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Grammy Awards, 53rd Awards (2010), Best Choral Performance
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Grammy Awards, 53rd Awards (2010), Classical Album of the Year
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Mahler: Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection'
RecommendedAnne Schwanewilms (soprano) & Olga Borodina (mezzo)
Münchner Philharmoniker & Munich Philharmonic Choir, Valery Gergiev
It reminds me a little of Karajan at his paradoxical best/worst: magnificently convincing in its artistic overview, rather less persuasive when it comes to what Henry James called the ‘sharpness... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th September 2016
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Rimsky Korsakov: The Tsar's Bride
(complete opera)
Marina Shaguch, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Evgeny Akimov, Olga Borodina
Kirov Opera & Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
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Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette, Op. 17
RecommendedOlga Borodina (mezzo-soprano), Kenneth Tarver (tenor), Evgeny Nikitin (bass)
London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus & Guildhall School Singers, Valery Gergiev
Gergiev, in this live account, inclines towards operatic fire and pace, occasionally headlong, but with a clarity and hushed, atmospheric pianissimo finely captured by the spacious SACD recording. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th July 2016
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Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky & Scythian Suite
Olga Borodina (mezzo)
Kirov Orchestra & Chorus of the Mariinsky Theatre, Valery Gergiev
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Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov
including Putilin, Vaneev & Borodina
Kirov Opera & Orchestra, St. Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
What we have here is, literally, two operas for the price of one. That's to say, the two discs containing Mussorgsky's first Boris Godunov and the three containing his second are available at... — More…
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Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov
Vladimir Vaneyev (Boris), Vladimir Galouzine (Grigory/False Dmitry), Olga Borodina (Marina), Nikolai Okhotnikov (Pimen), Fyodor Kuznetsov (Varlaam), Konstantin Pluzhnikov (Shuisky), Nikolai Gassiev (Missail), Evgeny Nikitin (Rangoni), Zlata Bulycheva (Fyodor), Olga Trifonova (Xenia), Liubov Sokolova...
Like Night on a Bare Mountain, Boris Godunov was subjected to a multitude of revisions by Rimsky-Korsakov and others. Valery Gergiev, conducting forces from the Kirov Opera, here restores Mussorgsky's... — More…
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Verdi: La forza del destino
Askar Abdrazakov (Il Marchese di Calatrava), Galina Gorchakova (Leonora di Vargas), Nikolai Putilin (Don Carlo), Gegam Grigorian (Don Alvaro), Olga Borodina (Preziosilla), Georgy Zastavny (Fra Melitone), Lia Shevtzova (Curra), Mikail Kit (Padre Guardiano), Nikolai Gassiev (Mastro Trabuco), Yuri Laptev...
Gorchakova is a creamy toned Leonora, Borodina a flirtatious Preziosilla, and Grigorian and Putilin magnificent as the Dons. — More…
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Rachmaninov: The Complete Works
Recommendedlimited edition
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano), Mikhail Pletnev (piano), Zoltán Kocsis (piano), Jorge Bolet (piano), Alexis Weissenberg (piano), André Previn (piano), Vovka Ashkenazy (piano), Nelson Freire (piano), Heinrich Schiff (cello), Elisabeth Leonskaja (piano), Lynn Harrell (cello), Peter Jablonski (piano), Dene...
Incredibly good value for money and - above all - the performances are of the highest quality from beginning to end. Nobody who loves Rachmaninov should be without this. — More…
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Building a Library, April 2017, Also Recommended
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