Nicola GHYUSELEV, bass- Songs and Arias from MUSSORGSKY

Issued: 1995
Style: Classical music
Company: Balkanton
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"One of the greatest present-day basses, Nicola Ghiuselev, was born in Pavlikeni, Bulgaria, in 1936. In 1960 he had his debut at the Sofia National Opera, and, in the same year, was awarded the Gold Medal at the Prague Summer Festival. In the following year he was a laureate at the World Youth Festival in Helsinki, and in 1962 he was the winner at the highly-reputed International Singing Competition in Sofia. His extensive international tours started in 1963. Since then he sang in Paris, Barcelona, Napoli, etc., and in 1966 he gave a brilliant performance at the Metropolitan. He has been one of the world's leading basses ever since, a singer who dominates during famous opera performances, like those at the Covent Garden, at La Scala, at Vienna Staatsoper, at Bolshoi Theatre, at Rome Opera... His repertoire is unusually extensive and includes works composed by the classic, the romantic and the modern authors. Singing the roles which had been carried into perfection by famous Shaliapin like those of Philip (Verdi, Don Carlos), of Mephistopheles (Boito, Mephistopheles), of Boris (Moussorgsky, Boris Godunov) Ghiuselev manages a new approach and a new and successful interpretation." (Information found on the Internet)

Contents:
Songs and Dances of the Death (1875-1877)
Vocal Cycle For Voice and Orchestra To words By Golineshchev- Kutuzov
Orchestrated By e.Denissov

1. Lullaby
2. A Serenade
3. Trepak
4. A Military Commander

Op. Boris Godunov- Fragments
5. Aria of Shchelkalov (Prologue- Scene 1)
6. The Coronation of Boris Godunov (Scene 2)
7. Aria of Pimen (Act I- Scene 1)
8. Song of Varlaam (Act I- Scene 2)
9. Recitative and Aria of Boris Godunov (Act III)
10. The Story of Pimen And the Death of Boris Godunov (Act IV)

Recorded at Bulgaria Hall (1987)