Modest Mussorgsky - Ivan Shishkin - Prelude to Khovanshchina

Ivan Shishkin is one of my beloved Russian landscape painters. His paintings are looking like photos. Immense, huge photos. Even when you are close to the paintings it is incredible what you see as brushstrokes, so refined, so exactly precisely on the right place. The Russian Soul is in it. Nature, combined with Russian music is even more explaining that what the Russian soul might be. It is a touch, created by those who have it, had it. It will never die. Mussorgsky: 1836-1881 Shishkin: 1832 - 1898 Their art is eternal. About the Russian Soul: it is also called the Slavic Soul, because Russia has been devided into many sovereign countries, all part once of Mother Russia, and so they are all a part from the famous Russian Soul. To neutralize the word it is now called more and more the Slavic Soul. About the Russian Soul / Slavic Soul: About Ivan Shishkin: About Mussorgsky: About Khovanshchina: Khovanshchina is an opera, composed by Modest Mussorgsky, between 1872 and 1880. Prelude to Khovanshchina tells about the Sunrise on the Moscow River. The music from this video is a copy from another one, and there were no adds about the name of the orchestra. The conductor is Claudio Abbado. It is a live concert, as you can hear on some moments, when sombody is coughing. The reason that I chose this performance is the interpretation. There are some which are slower, on some moments faster, and Claudio Abbado’s interpretation is the only one in which my feelings are in an intense harmony with that what I experience in the photos from the Sunrise above the Moscow River. It is also very much similar to the wonderful interpretation from Zubin Mehta, conducting the Berlin Phil. There is a video from that concert in the playlist which I created about the full opera Khovanshchina (Bolshoi Theater, Moscow): Note: The video “Modest Mussorgsky ~ Ivan Shishkin“ starts and ends with photos from the Sunrise on Moscow. ~