Boris Godunov

This is masterly on almost every count, musical and visual, and would now be the outright choice for this work in all the media. Front stage, as it were, are some of the best of the current generation of Russian singers, not a dud among them. Gergiev is another of the recording's heroes. Seldom, if ever. Has the score sounded so hauntingly beautiful and apt for this huge panorama of seventeenth-century Russia. Don's miss this riveting experience.